Océ Arizona 250 GT

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World’s highest quality UV flatbed printer

Océ Arizona 250 GT UV flatbed printer for rigid and flexible media

The Océ Arizona 250 GT is a UV curable flatbed printer with a flexible media option that produces near-photo image quality on rigid or flexible media. It has won major industry awards and is already a favourite of digital printers, photo labs, screen printers and sign makers because of the new revenue opportunities it offers.

Product presentation

UV flatbed printer delivers superior image quality, versatility and productivity

  • Océ VariaDot imaging technology delivers near-photographic quality display graphic prints
  • True large format UV flatbed printer:  print directly to a wide variety of rigid media
  • Print onto flexible media with the Roll Media Option
  • Production printing speed of 16 square metres per hour
  • Océ VariaDot imaging technology plus four-colour CMYK ink set reduces ink costs by up to 50% over six-colour printers

Expand services with high quality, large format digital printer

Take on work that is not possible with a lesser quality wide format inkjet printer. This remarkable UV  flatbed printer uses Océ VariaDot imaging technology to produce ink droplets from 6 to 42 picolitres, resulting in superb image detail, colour transitions and vivid, uniform solid colours. This new standard in image quality lets you add closely viewed point-of-purchase signage or even fine art reproduction to your list of display graphic services.

Print on virtually any media with a UV flatbed printer

This wide format digital printer lets you print on rigid panels up to 125 cm x 250 cm x 48 mm and flexible rolls up to 220 cm wide. You can even print on irregularly-shaped flat objects, by simply placing them on the flatbed printer table.

Several options are available for the Océ Arizona 250 GT printer:

Roll Media Option

The Roll Media Option offers new possibilities for all Océ Arizona 250 GT printer users.  Supporting flexible media rolls from 90 to 220 cm wide, it gives you the ability to print on almost any flexible media including banner vinyl, self-adhesive vinyl, paper, textiles, backlit films and more.

Static Suppression Option

Customers with very dry environments may experience excessive static electricity on hard plastics such as acrylic and polycarbonate rigid sheets. The Static Suppression Upgrade Kit provides the ability to print on sheets with excessive static without compromising image quality, or slowing the printer. 

User insights 

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Océ Arizona 250 GT at Beeline Blue

Océ Arizona 250 GT printers help Beeline + Blue increase revenue and customer satisfaction Beeline + Blue, located in Des Moines, IA, is a progressive large format digital service bureau offering a full range of services including scanning, blueprinting, brochures and display graphics, plus a professional photo lab and an online planroom. The company recently added two Océ Arizona 250 GT printers, which has resulted in a dual benefit: a favourable increase in revenue and extremely happy customers.

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Océ Arizona 250 GT Big Ink

Océ Arizona 250 GT helps BIG INK put its best foot forward. Since 1987, BIG INK Display Graphics has been serving the visual communications needs of its customers. Starting out as SIGNTIFIC, the company changed its name in 2004 when it moved into a new 12,000 squarefoot facility in Eagan, MN. BIG INK has always been on the forefront of emerging digital technologies. It has been 100% digital since its inception, first with digitally-cut vinyl, followed by aqueous printers, then solvent, and now dye-sublimation and UV curable. BIG INK has 18 employees and specialises in retail, trade show and event graphics for Fortune 1000® companies based primarily in the upper Midwest.

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Sydney Digital Graphics companies praise Arizona 250 GT

Océ Arizona 250 GT impresses high quality market . At the high end of the display graphics market quality is everything.
OSS Digital and Poster Graphics - two companies heavily involved in this area - talk about their reliance on the Océ Arizona 250 GT to provide the output they need.

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SwishPrint expand their capabilities with an Océ Arizona 250 GT

Technical improvements in digital wide format equipment are making an irresistible case for screen printers to consider expanding their equipment to embrace the technology. A case in point is the energetic trade printer SwishPrint whose gamble to go to Las Vegas to look at flatbed printers turned out to be a good bet.

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Palm Sign Systems are a firmly established family business with long-term experience of delivering graphic display, signage, and exhibition solutions

Following the decision by North Wales-based printer Palm Sign Systems Limited to adopt the UK's first Océ Arizona 250 GT flatbed printer, the company has witnessed a 100% increase in productivity; a reduction in manpower of 50%; and a significant improvement in profitability

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Phillips Digital Graphics has proved to be one of the so-called ‘early adopters’ of hi-end printing devices

As one of central London's most highly regarded visual communications providers, Phillips Digital Graphics has proved to be one of the so-called ‘early adopters' of hi-end printing devices. With the emergence of advanced flatbed printer technology combining drop dead quality and application versatility, Phillips immediately consulted Océ.

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Silkscreen Advertising is a traditional screen printer with 40 years experience, and is one of the best known trade printers in and around Mitcham in Surrey

Silkscreen Advertising is a traditional screen printer with 40 years experience, and is one of the best known trade printers in and around Mitcham in Surrey. It is also one of the first to embrace digital printing, and has found that digital can be complementary to the screen process. Silkscreen Advertising has partnered with Océ and operates the highly acclaimed Océ Arizona 250 GT flatbed digital press.

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As a pre-eminent manufacturer of full range architectural, design and visual signage projects, Vision Visual Solutions Ltd partners with many of the best known names in the retail, leisure, and commercial sectors

As a pre-eminent manufacturer of full range architectural, design and visual signage projects, Vision Visual Solutions Ltd partners with many of the best known names in the retail, leisure, and commercial sectors. In order to maintain its reputation for utilising the highest quality production techniques, Vision Visual Solutions came to Océ.

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Pebl Graphics Ltd

Digital print is recognised as the pre-eminent process for production in many sectors of the printing industry today. Traditional processes still dominate elsewhere, however, screen printers are amongst those specialists now adopting digital systems alongside existing traditional processes.

The screen printer pebl GRAPHICS chose Océ as its partner to plan the integration of a digital department based upon the award winning Océ Arizona 250 GT flatbed printer. The project raised a number of challenges, including integrating new skill sets, and combining business processes.

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Lookhere Sign Solutions

"Lookhere Sign Solutions have enjoyed close support from Océ, particularly during the crucial first few months of business. John Bane again: “Océ are a huge, recognised company, and the support we have received from day one has been outstanding.”

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Bigger Printing

“We had worked with Océ before and were impressed with their technical expertise and ability to deliver. We benchmarked a technology platform and proved to ourselves that it would be a worthwhile investment. I would not hesitate to recommend the Océ Arizona 250 GT - it’s the only serious print on demand flatbed press in town.”

Sebastian Stanley, Managing Director, The Bigger Printing Company

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Océ at Bigger Printing

“I would not hesitate to recommend the Océ Arizona 250 GT - it’s the only serious print-on-demand flatbed press in town”, saysSebastian Stanley, Managing Director of The Bigger Printing Company.

Bigger Printing started life using solvent-based inkjet technology. With the emergence of UV curable inkjet the company sought a strategic partner to implement its future business model. Océ was identified as the leading partner, given the breadth of its wide format portfolio, its R&D experience, and its imaging supplies range. Sebastian explains: “With Océ, I have ended up with a world class product, and a cost of ownership model supported by a low cost per print. It’s a great partnership. We were one of the first Arizona users to install the Roll Media Option. That has given us productivity of 16 sqm per hour. In addition, Océ always offers early adoption of all the latest Onyx software upgrades.”

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Océ at Lookhere

“Being a former service technician of colour printers, I certainly rate the Océ Arizona 250 GT very highly indeed”, says John Bane, Director of Lookhere Sign Solutions.

As one of Ireland’s youngest visual communications providers, Lookhere Sign Solutions is reaping the benefits from its investment in the world’s best selling flatbed printer. Combining stunning quality, fantastic application versatility, and very high productivity, the award winning Océ Arizona 250 GT has helped ensure a flying start for this new venture in County Clare.

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Océ at Reprographic Warehouse

“Our customers love it. It is only a matter of time before we get a second machine”, says John Snell, Managing Director of The Reprographic Warehouse

The Reprographic Warehouse is part of ARC (American Reprographics Company), the largest company of its kind in the world, having built a global network of over 300 document reproduction centres. The Reprographic Warehouse is justifiably proud to be the first ARC centre in the UK. It provides secure, confidential, and environmentally sensitive 24/7 print services to key clients in the City of London. Located within five minutes drive of the City, The Reprographic Warehouse occupies 8,000 square feet of modern warehouse, packed with state of the art digital technology.

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Océ at Alstercolor

“One of the reasons why the order was placed with us was that we could provide the required quality with the Océ Arizona 250 GT printer”, says Michael Kempf, Managing Director of Alstercolor.

A museum without explanatory text displays would be a fairly unfathomable collection of different objects: few people would be able to classify the exhibition pieces and understand the context. There is, therefore, a great deal to be printed when a new museum is built – hundreds of text boards and more than one thousand object descriptions were needed for the International Maritime Museum in Hamburg. And since only the best was good enough for printing, Alstercolor, the printing company responsible for creating the displays, decided to use the Océ Arizona 250 GT flatbed printer.

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Océ at Hanbuch Packaging

“I am totally convinced that digital printers such as the Océ Arizona Series will displace offset printing as far as small print runs are concerned”, says Andreas Hanbuch, Managing Director of Hanbuch Packaging.

Packaging, displays and display stands are omnipresent and usually have a fairly elaborate design – after all, they are supposed to encourage people to buy things. Because of the size of the print runs, printing for packaging and displays is normally carried out using the offset method. It is becoming increasingly clear that wide format digital flatbed printing can play an important role – be it for prototypes and samples, exclusive small print runs, regionalised products or even personalised products. Hanbuch Packaging GmbH from Pfungstadt in the state of Hesse is one of the pioneers in this growing area with an Océ Arizona 250 GT printer.

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Océ at Medienkraftwerk

“On the whole, the Océ Arizona range simply provides unrivalled good printing quality and ingeniously simple handling”, says Markus Maier-Schambeck, Managing Director of Medienkraftwerk

Standing still is an expression that is not in Markus Maier-Schambeck’s vocabulary. If his machine pool is being fully utilised or new potential applications arise, the Managing Director of Euskirchen-based Medienkraftwerk GmbH invests in new systems. After having acquired three wide format roll-based printers from Océ, in September 2007 his shopping list included an Océ Arizona® 250 GT model for printing on rigid media. And because performance limits are there to be pushed further and further by the former race driver, an Océ Arizona 350 XT printer with White Ink Option was added in April 2008 to deal with the really big jobs.

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The Océ Arizona 250 GT printer complies with all relevant health and safety directives including CE, UL, CSA, BG, CCC and others. It also complies with the European RoHS directives for heavy metal content.

The Océ Arizona 250 GT uses UV curable inks that do not contain volatile organic compounds and as a result the user needs only office-grade ventilation. No special ventilation systems are needed to extract or heat/cool large volumes of air from the printing environment resulting in substantial cost and energy savings.  The Océ Arizona 250 GT also consumes less than 16 Amps of electricity at 220/240 VAC, which is less than half that of many competitive systems.

The Océ Arizona 250 GT does not require an external source of compressed air, making the operational and energy costs even lower.

Océ Arizona 250 GT awards

 

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Readers' Choice Top Products 2009

Flatbed Printer Océ Arizona 250GT receives Wide-format imaging reader's choice top product award 2009.

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Product of the Year, Output Device Rigid Substrate UV Category

The Océ Arizona 250 GT won the Digital Printing & Imaging Association (DPI) 2007 Product of the Year Award in the category Output Device Rigid Substrate UV. DPI Product of the Year Awards compare output from competing devices using a common test file designed by DPI. The prints are reviewed by a panel of judges, each with a background and expertise in digital printing and imaging. The judges look for colour appeal, detail and tonality, and the output is also judged on how closely it matches the test print.

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'Top honours' from Digital Output Magazine 2008

The Océ Arizona 250 GT recently received top honours from Digital Output magazine. According to the magazine, “With our annual Readers’ Choice Top 50, we honour 50 companies as top innovators.  We do this by compiling the responses from our readers about all the products and services mentioned throughout the year. ... The most popular companies make our Readers’ Choice Top 50.” The product that put us ‘over the top’? The Océ Arizona 250 GT, of course!

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Gold Medal Award

The Océ Arizona 250 GT was awarded the Gold Medal of Poznan International Trade Fair, for its high quality and innovation.

Awarded at the International Trade Fair of Advertising Goods and Services Euro-Reklama Outdoor Expo 2008. 

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Viscom Innovation Award 2007

The Océ Arizona 250 GT flatbed UV printer was designated “a truly innovative product” when it won the Viscom Innovation Award 2007 in the Large Format Digital Printing category. The awards were announced during the Viscom 2007 International Trade Fair for Visual Communication, held in Düsseldorf, Germany in September 2007.

 

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'Top honours' from Digital Output Magazine

The Océ Arizona 250 GT received top honours from Digital Output magazine. According to the magazine, “With our annual Readers’ Choice Top 50, we honour 50 companies as top innovators.  We do this by compiling the responses from our readers about all the products and services mentioned throughout the year. ... The most popular companies make our Readers’ Choice Top 50.” The product that put us ‘over the top’? The Océ Arizona 250 GT, of course!

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DPI Vision Award

The Océ Arizona 250 GT won the Digital Printing & Imaging Association (DPI) Vision Award, which is given to an exhibiting manufacturer whose new product has the best chance of positively impacting the digital imaging industry.  The decision is based on the product’s relevance to the market, potential industry influence and prospective value to the product’s end users. The award was presented in September 2006.

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