Océ turns up the colour with Kaleidocéscope roadshow
The Kaleidocéscope roadshow introduced the graphic arts and corporate communities to the range of machines that will make up Océ portfolio for 2006, with a strong and confident focus on colour production.
The event was staged in both Sydney and Melbourne a week apart. It was hosted by TV personality Nicky Buckley (pictured right) who presented alongside an assortment of flamboyant and stunningly dressed 'Dancing With The Stars' style performers, who provided the crowd with entertainment for the evening.
Steve Wilson, business unit manager for Océ, says the company's current portfolio is tailored to address the growing demand for shorter print runs and extensive use of colour, and insists there is virtually no digital colour application that cannot be addressed by the company's machines.
“To that end, whether your job is a giant one-off retail poster, 100 copies of a corporate report or even a book with split black and white and colour pages, there's an Océ colour printer that can handle it,” says Wilson.
“Our product is designed to appeal to graphics arts professionals, corporate enterprises, design houses, advertising agencies, print rooms and document production centres. It complements the wide appeal of our black and white equipment that is already well known in these markets,” he says.
Two of the biggest stars of the Kaleidocéscope roadshow were the CPS900 and CPS800 production presses, which can achieve consistent colour without calibration on a diverse range of media choices on sizes as large as oversize A3.
The buzz around the CPS900/800 machines centres on their ability to achieve consistency on colour critical-jobs like corporate logos and brand reproduction, allowing operators the option of printing in different locations at different times while still locking down identical colours.
The Océ CS7070 is a wide-format inkjet printer that can print on roll-based media or flat substrates up to 185cm. It uses Océ IJC700 UV curable inks to produce vibrant output with durability of up to three years.
The Océ TCS500 can print, copy and scan all types of documents in monochrome or colour, from A4 up to A0 and up to 36” wide. Océ sees its market as being the traditional architecture, engineering and construction areas but has also found interest from on-demand print stores.
(L t R: Norbert Unterwurzacher, systems engineer at Océ; Jack Starnawski, systems consultant at Océ; Tim Saleeba, marketing manager at Océ).
A number of other machines were showcased at the event, including the VarioPrint 2110, the company's flagship black and white press, and the Duplo DocuCutter that performs finishing tasks on digital documents.
The Kaleidocéscope roadshow introduced the graphic arts and corporate communities to the range of machines that will make up Océ portfolio for 2006, with a strong and confident focus on colour production. 
“To that end, whether your job is a giant one-off retail poster, 100 copies of a corporate report or even a book with split black and white and colour pages, there's an Océ colour printer that can handle it,” says Wilson.
Two of the biggest stars of the Kaleidocéscope roadshow were the CPS900 and CPS800 production presses, which can achieve consistent colour without calibration on a diverse range of media choices on sizes as large as oversize A3.
The Océ CS7070 is a wide-format inkjet printer that can print on roll-based media or flat substrates up to 185cm. It uses Océ IJC700 UV curable inks to produce vibrant output with durability of up to three years.
(L t R: Norbert Unterwurzacher, systems engineer at Océ; Jack Starnawski, systems consultant at Océ; Tim Saleeba, marketing manager at Océ).