IPG Visits Canon, Oce Customer Experience Center in Boca Raton

By Bob Neubauer

Nearly two and a half years after Canon Inc. agreed to buy Océ NV, the integration of the two companies is well underway. Delisted from the NYSE Euronext in February, Océ is now fully a part of Canon.

One of the assets Océ brought to the deal was its 18,000-square-foot Customer Experience Center, in Boca Raton, Fla. Recently, Canon invited IPG and a few other industry analysts to visit the facility and learn more about its plans.

Senior Director Dennis Amorosano noted that, despite the tsunami that hit Japan a year ago and the floods in Thailand, both of which impacted Canon's production operations, 2011 revenues in the company's Business Imaging Solutions Group increased 4 percent over 2010 levels.

Francis McMahon, VP of Océ Production Print Systems, added that PPS revenue grew 15 percent overall, with some segments, like inkjet, growing 59 percent. He said that Océ devices printed 64.6 billion pages in 2011, which is more than 20 percent of all digital pages printed that year.

"And we expect to capture more," he predicted. The company sees big potential in the book printing market.

After a tour of the impressive Customer Experience Center, which featured both Océ and Canon digital hardware and software solutions, Canon officials showed off a brand new monochrome mid-production digital press, the Océ VarioPrint DP 135. It combines Océ's print technology, engine and PRISMAsync controller with Canon scanning and finishing solutions.

Product Manager Brian Meyers noted that DirectPress technology does not use light, high temperatures or electrical charges to create an image. The multiple process steps used in traditional electrophotographic technologies have been replaced with a single, digital, no-variable process resulting in highly stable and consistent quality output.

He noted that the DP line produces no ozone emissions and utilizes Océ Heat–Xchange technology to recycle heat and reduce energy consumption. It transfers heat used to fuse toner onto paper from printed pages to new sheets entering the print path.

"It's genious in its simplicity," remarked Meyers.

Also, he added, Océ EnergyLogic technology matches the power requirements of a print job with the available power in the system, allowing the system to start printing quickly after a cold start.

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Océ North America, Production Printing Systems

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.

Canon Shows Off Océ Facility, Debuts Monochrome Printer

Canon Shows Off Océ Facility,  Debuts Monochrome Printer