Océ to host AFP Consortium Conference
The Consortium’s first-ever meeting in Europe is to be held at Océ in Poing
Poing, 1 October 2007 - Océ Printing Systems will host the AFP Consortium in Poing near Munich on 8 – 10 October 2007 for the Consortium’s first-ever session to be held in Europe. The meeting aims to move AFP forward on issues such as color management, support of ICC DeviceLink profiles and processing of PDF containers.
Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™) is the standard data format for the high-speed transaction printing industry used for printing bills, statements and other customer communications in black and white, business color and full process color. As shown at GraphExpo in September 2007, several products using the AFP Consortium’s architecture definitions of recent years are now reaching the market, creating more advanced workflows for variable data printing. Being open and standardized, AFP is a good basis for protecting investment in new technologies such as color. For Océ customers, the Consortium’s work results in functionality that harmonizes with high volume production workflows and Océ printing equipment. Océ has been participating in the AFP Consortium since its start in 2004 supporting IBM’s initiative for a collaborative development of the AFP™ architecture as an open standard.
About Océ
Océ is a leading provider of digital document management technology and services. The company’s solutions are based on Océ’s advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the Internet to printing devices and archives – locally and around the world. Supporting the workflow solutions are Océ digital printers and scanners, considered the most reliable and productive in the world. Océ also offers a wide range of display graphics, consulting and outsourcing solutions.
Océ N.V., headquartered in The Netherlands, with a workforce of around 24,000 people and pro forma annual revenues of € 3.1 billion, active in nearly eighty countries, maintains research and manufacturing centers in the Netherlands, the United States, Germany, France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Romania.
For more information, please visit http://www.oce.com/en/
About the AFP Consortium
The AFP Consortium is a cross-industry effort to establish Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) as the premier presentation platform for variable data color production printing. The Consortium members represent virtually every aspect of the production print industry, addressing the full spectrum of technical specifications associated with production of color and black & white variable data printing. The current members, mostly worldwide players, include printer manufacturers such as IPS/Ricoh, Kodak , Lexmark, Océ, Xeikon and Xerox, as well as software manufacturers such as CDP, Compart Systemhaus, Crawford Technologies, Emtex, IBM, Intermate, LRS, MPI, Solimar Systems, Xenos Group, Cincom, COPI, DocPath , DocuCorp International, Document Sciences, Elixir Technologies, Exstream, GMC, Group 1, Invaris, Inventive Designers, ISIS-Papyrus, Metavante, PrintSoft and StreamServe.
For more information, please visit http://www.afpcolor.org/.
For more information, please contact:
Nick Gale
Manager Media Relations
Océ Technologies
Tel.: +31.77.359.5628
Email: nick.gale@oce.com