The Jetstream, which is now commercially available, will produce print with a resolution of up to 600dpi, printing up to 2,700 A4 pages a minute, which equates to 162,000 an hour. Jetstream is available in five different versions, covering differing speed and duplex requirements.
Tim Saleeba, business unit manager at Oce Australia says, “Océ sees the future in inkjet, because it delivers the right quality at the right speed at the right cost.” Inket has no inherent quality or speed limitations.
In Australian the Jetstream potential customer base will be limited to the top five print companies, and the top three direct mail houses. There may also be opportunity in other sectors, such as regional newspaper publishing.
Océ also showed its new ColorStream 10000, based on its CS9000, and aimed at the high volume high quality colour sector, where it will compete with iGen, NexPress and Canon”s IP7000. It will print both monochrome and colour pages, at speeds of up to 800 pages a minute. ColorStream 10000 will be available in the second half of next year.
Completely new from Océ is ColorWave 600, a new wide format printer that uses a gel based ink system, named Crystal Point. Aimed initially at the technical drawing market ColorWave 600 ink technology, which is able to produce very fine line and text, with a 1200dpi resolution, it may transition to the commercial market in time, where its ability to produce print that resists water and sun will make it a likely success.
Oce also added a cutting table to its Arizona GT wide format printer range, which Saleeba says will enable wide format printers to bring in-house work they were previously sending out, and to go after new markets
