Océ enables Swiss Post Solutions to create personalised colour services for customers

IT services provider upgrades transaction statement printing systems

Venlo, The Netherlands, 8 June 2010 - Océ, an international leader in document management, today announced that Swiss Post Solutions will deploy an Océ JetStream® 1000 full-colour inkjet printer to create personalised colour communications for business customers. The company sees significant growth opportunities in providing these transaction applications and intends to play an important role on the Swiss market.

Swiss Post Solutions services customers’ output management

Swiss Post Solutions, a division of Swiss Post, offers post-related services such as mailshots, customer cards, document digitalisation and scanning, inter-office mail, archiving, comprehensive e-business solutions and consulting. As part of its operations, Swiss Post Solutions takes on the complete output management process for customers, including data preparation, printing, packaging, cost-optimised postage and electronic distribution. Digital printing has been part of the Swiss Post Solutions’ core business for 30 years. Its portfolio of flexible individualised customer communication includes traditional transaction printing, TransPromo/white space marketing and multi-channel output management.

“Customers ready and waiting,” says Thomas Estermann of Dialog Solutions

Thomas Estermann, Director of Technology Services Dialog Solutions/Document Output Unit, notes: “The first Swiss Post Solutions customers are in the starting blocks, ready and waiting to use TransPromo printing for their company communications.”

Océ JetStream offers customers on-demand colour printing

With the Océ JetStream technology, Swiss Post Solutions plans to create the latest TransPromo applications for its customers, including invoices with colour advertisements and illustrations and customer documents using the appropriate corporate branding. The ability to provide on-demand colour printing will help the company eliminate preprinted offset inventories of forms and documents. Expensive warehousing will no longer be necessary, since digitally produced forms are always up to date, and paper usage goes down.

The Océ JetStream solution offered a number of advantages over competing systems. The system has the fastest inkjet printing heads in the industry, permitting monthly printing volume of up to 20 million pages or 1,010 DIN A4 pages per minute in duplex. Its power and versatility make it well suited to transaction, direct mail and TransPromo applications. It can also be upgraded with additional printing heads for six-colour printing. Award-winning Océ DigiDot™ inkjet technology lets users optimise output quality based on the needs of the job. A print width of 20.3" and a paper width of 20.5" support a wide range of full-colour production printing applications. The integrated Océ SRA MP controller enables fast, uninterrupted workflow for AFP/IPDS data streams which are often required in transaction and variable data environments.

Market enthusiastic about Océ technology

“Our decision to select Océ technology was preceded by extensive consultations with existing and new customers regarding the new solutions and associated orders for colour,” says Thomas Estermann. “Another important part of the evaluation process was the early integration of employees.”

Colour production starts this month

Colour production on the new high-performance Océ JetStream 1000 printing system in the Swiss Post Solutions production centre in Haerkingen (Switzerland) will commence in June 2010. A second installation is scheduled to follow within 12 months.

For further information, please contact:
Nick Gale
Manager Media Relations
Tel. T +31 77 359 56 28
e-mail nick.gale@oce.com

About Océ

Océ is one of the world's leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. The broad Océ offering includes office printing and copying systems, high speed digital production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display graphics. Océ is also a foremost supplier of document management outsourcing. Many of the world’s Fortune 500 companies and leading commercial printers are Océ customers. The company was founded in 1877. With headquarters in Venlo, The Netherlands, Océ is active in approximately 100 countries and employs some 22,000 people worldwide. Total revenues in 2009 amounted to € 2.6 billion. Océ is listed on Euronext in Amsterdam. For more information on Océ, visit www.oce.com.

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