Océ, a leader in digital document management and delivery, has announced the worldwide debut of the Océ ColorStream 10000 continuous feed Océ, a leader in digital document management and delivery, has announced the worldwide debut of the Océ ColorStream 10000 continuous feed, full-colour digital press at Graph Expo. Developed specifically for the graphic arts market, the new Océ ColorStream 10000 press delivers full-process colour with the quality levels required to meet virtually every colour requirement.

Demonstrating Océ digital colour leadership, the 172 images per minute (ipm) Océ ColorStream 10000 press can power through over five million full-colour, letter-size images a month, making it one of the world’s fastest toner-based full colour presses.

The heavy-duty continuous feed capacity can easily absorb the volume of multiple cut-sheet colour printers. As a result, operations can consolidate their resources into fewer but more productive colour devices with higher quality. With monochrome jobs running at 852 ipm and jobs that mix colour and monochrome pages, the duty cycle goes even higher, providing the flexibility customers require.

The toner-based Océ ColorStream 10000 is designed to deliver the high quality colour that graphic arts professionals expect. Further value comes from built-in Océ GraphicArts dot modulation for brilliantly sharp reproduction of both black and white and colour images. Applications are enriched with crisp graphics and smooth gradations for line art, illustrations and photos.

The imaging technique changes the dot size to achieve precise graphic arts quality. For completely controllable, customizable black and white output, Océ FlexiDark technology allows optical density to be adjusted according to the requirements of the application, while maintaining even coverage and perfect consistency. The tight continuous feed paper web ensures total media control and excellent registration on every printed document.

Representing a milestone in the evolution of the Océ colour strategy, the Océ ColorStream 10000 system extends the Océ Job Appropriate Color concept to include full-process colour for the graphic arts market.

The Océ ColorStream 10000 can easily handle jobs that weren’t previously affordable or even possible on one system, such as printing the first few pages of a document in colour and the next 50 pages in black and white. Professionals can now maximize their investment in colour devices by also generating revenue from top quality, cost-effective black and white and highlight colour jobs.

The system can print on almost any stock, from lightweight media to newspaper to heavy and glossy paper. Océ PRISMATM software complements the Océ ColorStream 10000 with pre-press capabilities, document design, interoperability, and output and job management for highly productive graphic arts workflow.

Early shipments of the Océ ColorStream 10000 are expected in the first quarter of 2008.

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