Océ wins ON DEMAND Best of Show Award for Océ VarioStream® 9240 Printer

Award recognizes all-in-one full color, spot color and black digital press

Boston, USA, 17 April  2007 — Océ, a global leader in digital document management and delivery solutions, has been recognized for the second year in a row with a Best of Show award at the ON DEMAND Conference & Exposition. The Océ VarioStream 9240 printer was chosen as the winner in the category of Spot Color Digital Printing Equipment. The versatile Océ VarioStream 9240 printer also received honorable mention for Monochrome Digital Printing Equipment.

Winners were announced Tuesday, April 17 at the ON DEMAND Conference & Exposition. ON DEMAND is the world's leading digital printing conference and exposition, encompassing the technologies used to create, manage, personalize, print and deliver content. InfoTrends, Inc., a leading market research and consulting firm in the digital imaging and document solutions industry, partnered with ON DEMAND to produce the awards program.  

"To win this honor two years in a row is gratifying for Océ and for our customers who place their trust in our solutions. The Océ VarioPrint® 6250 printer won Best of Show in 2006, and we are proud that the Océ VarioStream 9240 system has been recognized for its breakthrough technology this year," said Joseph Skrzypczak, President and CEO, Océ North America, Inc. "The Best of Show award demonstrates that Océ continues to meet the commitments we make to deliver the most advanced digital printing solutions available." 
 
The full-color Océ VarioStream 9240 printer is the latest in the black and color-capable Océ VarioStream 9000 series. The four-color press offers single-pass duplexing at 170 A4 color pages per minute—one of the fastest digital, toner-based CMYK machines on the market. Designed to deliver Océ Job Appropriate Colorä results, the Océ VarioStream 9240 printer operates with maximum cost efficiency for black and white, one or two spot colors, or CMYK four-color printing. Users pay for only what they print.
 
The versatile Océ VarioStream 9240 system easily addresses the needs of both corporate and commercial printing markets doing on demand, transactional, trans-promo, book publishing and other applications. Even when fully configured as a four-color press, the system can still print monochrome documents at 800 A4 prints per minute, and two- and three-color documents at 353 and 231 prints per minute, respectively. This flexible approach lets customers run a wider range of jobs on just one system.

About InfoTrends

InfoTrends, Inc., a Questex Company, is the leading worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industry. InfoTrends provides research, analysis, forecasts, and advice to help clients understand market trends, identify opportunities, and develop strategies to grow their businesses.  

About Questex Media Group, Inc.

ON DEMAND is produced by Questex Media Group, Inc. (www.questex.com), a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media provider, headquartered in Newton, MA.  Questex serves multiple industries including technology, beauty, travel, hospitality, leisure, home entertainment, industrial and specialty services through a range of well-established, market-leading publications, events, interactive media and integrated marketing services.  The company's properties include 23 trade publications, 50 websites, and 25 conferences and tradeshows.  Questex has more than 400 employees in offices throughout North America, South America, Asia and Europe. 

For more information contact: 

Nick Gale
Manager Media Relations
Océ Technologies
Tel.: +31.77.359.5628
Email: nick.gale@oce.com