What about Oce? I just met with two reps from them last night and I am really stoked about the CPS900 - anyone with experience using that line - CPS 700 / 800 / 900 ?
The only downside I can tell is speed, but given the price is $150K retail, a pair of them quickly outpaces most other units and gives you redundancy. The major selling point is the "never calibrate, always precise" color reproduction. Anyone wanna crush my enthusiasm?
How about an Oce forum!
Full Version: Oce you say?
I have no hands on experience with Oce; however, we now have a forum for them. I am currious to hear others thoughts about there products.
Hi,
I am from India, using a Xerox 2045 since last 4 years. I had also been approached by Oce reps for 900s Platinum. Would appreciate some feedback (if any) on the product.
The case studies on their site seems encouraging.
Khitish
I am from India, using a Xerox 2045 since last 4 years. I had also been approached by Oce reps for 900s Platinum. Would appreciate some feedback (if any) on the product.
The case studies on their site seems encouraging.
Khitish
Wow, given the date of your post I'm sure this reply isn't relevent to your question. But I'd love to know what you ended up purchasing and what your experience was.
FWIW, I used to market and support CPS printers for Oce'. Net net, they're fine for general office use but not appropriate for graphic arts enviros. Yes the color can be great and the calibration thing is true. It'll also print onto a variety of textured stocks but the one thing it cannot do consistantly well is glossy. The streaks are terrible and as of a year ago at least they hadn't licked that problem. They also couldn't handle greater than 10 pt. stock. Not sure what your $150K price quote represented (a 2-fer?) but the lowest price I could quote was $80-100K, including Fiery. So between that and .04 per click, for 31ppm that's pretty expensive. Many of the commercial printers I spoke with just couldn't see themselves making any money with them. They also commented on the fact that the colors weren't particularly saturated; no pop. The output was more complimentary to offset color then xerographic color due to the Copy Press process being more like the offset process.
FWIW, I used to market and support CPS printers for Oce'. Net net, they're fine for general office use but not appropriate for graphic arts enviros. Yes the color can be great and the calibration thing is true. It'll also print onto a variety of textured stocks but the one thing it cannot do consistantly well is glossy. The streaks are terrible and as of a year ago at least they hadn't licked that problem. They also couldn't handle greater than 10 pt. stock. Not sure what your $150K price quote represented (a 2-fer?) but the lowest price I could quote was $80-100K, including Fiery. So between that and .04 per click, for 31ppm that's pretty expensive. Many of the commercial printers I spoke with just couldn't see themselves making any money with them. They also commented on the fact that the colors weren't particularly saturated; no pop. The output was more complimentary to offset color then xerographic color due to the Copy Press process being more like the offset process.
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