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Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com Table of Contents Introduction Introduction Océ History The Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer Printing With White Ink The Océ Family of Wide-Format Printer Systems Print The Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer ONYX ProductionHouse Océ Edition RIP Application Océ...
WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com Table of Contents (cont.) Accessibility Accessibility User Accessibility to Device Controls User Accessibility for Printed Media User Accessibility of Media Refilling User Accessibility of Media Jam Removal User Accessibility of Routine...
188 ft per hour (Roll Media Print Speed The Océ Arizona 350 GT printer also offers a new white ink option that can Option) help expand your revenue-producing opportunities. The entry price for the Océ Arizona 350 GT printer is $141,900 in the U.S.
The Océ Arizona 350 GT is a four color (CMYK) printer with an option for print. Since not all prints need to reach white ink. The UV flatbed inkjet printer is capable of producing large-format the maximum width of 98.4”, the printer’s...
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With a typical investment cost of close to $200,000 with options and typical billable printing hours of 3.25 hours per day, the payback time for an investment in the Océ Arizona 350 GT printer is only 1.5 months, making it a highly attractive investment.
THE OCÉ FAMILY OF WIDE-FORMAT PRINTER SYSTEMS The Océ Arizona 350 GT is the latest installment in the Océ Arizona series of printers. The Océ Arizona series is a group of four flatbed printers with increasingly higher productivity that includes Océ Arizona 200 GT, Océ...
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1 GBit Ethernet link. The ONYX ProductionHouse RIP is optional. Printing to the Océ Arizona 350 GT is a two- step procedure. First you submit the print job through the ONYX ProductionHouse RIP, which RIPs and sends the resulting data to the Océ...
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WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com WHAT WE LIKED • Print Features Summary We liked the Controller application that is intuitive and easy to use. • It’s easy to mount rigid media. • We liked the ability to print white ink as over, under, in-between, and spot...
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Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com ONYX ProductionHouse Océ Edition RIP Application The Océ Arizona 350 GT printer is available with the option of the ONYX ProductionHouse workflow software as the heart of the workflow procedures for the printer. The ONYX RIP is responsible for creating and buffering jobs to be printed on the Océ...
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WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com RIP has a preflight mode that brings up a dialog box for the print jobs, allowing for quick modification. The ONYX ProductionHouse RIP has countless print and job setting parameters that can be set and fine tuned to the print media.
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WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com WHAT WE LIKED • We liked the logical way all controls and dialog boxes are organized. • We liked the concept of an easy-to- use application for ordinary users with ample options and features for the professional as well.
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Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com commence, the correct ink temperature Océ Arizona 350 GT Console Application must be obtained and the UV lamps and vacuum must be started and ready to go. Furthermore you would have the option to The ONYX ProductionHouse RIP does not print directly to the Océ...
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WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com WHAT WE LIKED • like straightforward operations of the Controller console. • We like the failsafe features for preventing incorrect operation. • The layout was logical and easy to operate.
BERTL printed the 36” x 48” test pattern (shown on the right) with various lines, text, image gradations, and borders in all the available print modes. Text Océ Arizona 350 GT– Fine Art mode Times New Roman Font Negative...
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Smooth grayscale strip Accurate graduated grayscales The Océ Arizona 350 GT printer prints with a different dpi resolution for the three different modes: Fine Art, Quality, and Production mode. Given this variation, we expected to see a difference in the readable font size for the different quality modes.
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We ran the test in Ocè’s three standard quality print modes: Fine Art, Quality, and Production. Our test with the Océ Arizona 350 GT printer revealed that 112 line pairs were detectable in both Quality and Fine Art mode and 74 line pairs in Production mode.
WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com WHAT WE LIKED • We liked the line mode image quality in all printing modes. • We like the accurate color matching. WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE • We have no recommendations at this time.
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Production mode, 451 seconds for Quality mode, and 551 seconds for have calculated that the Océ Arizona 350 Fine Art mode. Finally after the print is done, it takes the Océ Arizona 350 GT GT printer can print around 235 ft...
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WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com WHAT WE LIKED • We liked that our theoretical print-only speed measured up to the speed posted by Océ. • We also like the realistic 169ft /hr from start to finish that we measured, which is a respectable amount for a flatbed printer.
Tracing paper and film are used for specialized application requirements, but are not typically used on a Cut Sheet Feed regular basis. Media for the Océ Arizona 350 GT printer can be found on Océ Capability http://www.mediaguide.oce.com newly announced online media guide at and includes nearly everything you can imagine.
WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com Loading and Unloading Media Rolls 9. Continually press on the right foot pedal, as required, to gradually advance Loading rolls of media is a step-by-step procedure that is not as simple as for the media for the next two steps.
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WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com WHAT WE LIKED 14. Tape the media onto the core. The media should have a clean straight edge prior to taping. First tape the center of the media to the core, and then •...
There is easy access to both the printed roll output and the rigid media on the flatbed table. WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE The Océ Arizona 350 GT printer has no output handling for rigid flatbed prints. • BERTL does...
The Océ Arizona 350 GT printer requires daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance as stated in the Océ user manual. The daily maintenance includes cleaning the print heads and underneath the carriage. The weekly maintenance includes swabbing the print heads and cleaning the UV lamp filter so it’s free from dust and dirt.
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Ink Container Cartridge bag to notify you, so you can correct the problem. Lastly the Océ Arizona 350 GT printer uses two UV lamps, one on each side Ink Yield Info not available of the carriage, to instantly cure the ink during printing. These UV lamps have an expected life of 500 hours and must be replaced by the user when they fail or can no longer cure the ink at maximum available power.
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WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com WHAT WE LIKED • The daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance procedures are well documented and can easily be performed by the local operator. WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE •...
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The media rolls are accessed at the front of the machine. User Accessibility for Media Jam Removal Since the Océ Arizona 350 GT printer is an open flatbed printer, we can’t see how media jam can occur unless the print heads crash with rigid media. Even in that case we think the automatic print head abortion feature will be sufficient to recover the media in most cases.
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ONYX ProductionHouse RIP and the print quality of the Océ Arizona 350 GT printer. We look like to see that the Océ Arizona 350 GT printer gets network and device management features. Overall, BERTL highly recommends the Océ Arizona 350 GT as a medium- production, 98.4”...
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WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com WHAT WE LIKED WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE • • We liked the Controller application, which is intuitive and easy to use. More optimized speeds would be beneficial for making smaller-sized •...
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WideFormat March 8, 2009 Océ Arizona 350 GT Printer www.bertl.com About BERTL The success of an organization depends on its ability to manage its information and assets. An effective workflow process requires the complex integration of information, devices, software, and people.
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