Green Bay Blue Scores With the Oce ColorWave 600 Printer

TRUMBULL, Conn., March 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Bay, Wisconsin-based reprographer Green Bay Blue knows that having the right equipment at your fingertips is crucial to delivering high-quality work, especially in fast turnaround time situations. In fact, the shop's recent investment in an Oce ColorWave® 600 large format color printer made it possible to create sixteen, 3-by-5 foot banners for the 2011 Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers in less than two hours on the Monday following the game. The banners where then affixed to eight buses, which carried the players on a celebratory route throughout the streets of Green Bay.

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"Thanks to the extraordinary speed of the Oce ColorWave 600 printer, we were able to provide great looking, customized banners in time to greet 50,000 screaming fans," said Paul Vidani, president of Green Bay Blue. "No other equipment could have provided this service in such a short amount of time."

Utilizing the Oce ColorWave 600 printer, Green Bay Blue was able to print the banners – which read "Go Pack Go", "Welcome Home", "Titletown USA®" and "America's Team" – on durable Tyvek® material, ensuring they would not tear during the 40-50 mph trip from the airport or on the parade route. The printer's exclusive solid toner-based Oce CrystalPoint® technology guaranteed the banners were instantly dry, water fast and the team's colors and logo were eye-catching and crisp.

Although Green Bay Blue primarily uses the Oce ColorWave 600 printer to address its customers' large format requests – like trade show graphics and construction blueprints printed on Tyvek - Vidani believes that this experience will open up new market opportunities for the company. "Not only can we provide short-term, attractive signage that's durable and affordable, we can also deliver it quickly within very tight time deadline situations," he commented. "Additionally, the ability to print on Tyvek and a broad range of materials means we can expand our use of the Oce ColorWave 600 printer to include many more applications."

To see photos of the banners created by Green Bay Blue, visit www.oceusa.com/GBBphotos.  

For more information on the Oce ColorWave 600 printer, please visit www.oceusa.com.

About Green Bay Blue

Green Bay Blue was started in 1918 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Its original name was "Green Bay Blueprint Company". Over the years it has specialized in servicing architects, engineers and general construction contractors of north east Wisconsin by providing the following services:

• Sales of Oce plotters and scanners
• Digital plotting for large and small format plans
• Plan distribution services
• Microfilm and aperture card scanning
• Large and small format color scanning
• Color copying, small and large format
• Large format mounting and laminating
• Signage services—construction site signs, real estate signs, banners, etc.
• Trade show graphics
• Conversion of old blueprints to vectorized AutoCad® files

Green Bay Blue is a privately held company currently located at 2240 Holmgren Way, Green Bay, Wisconsin. The website is http://www.greenbayblue.com.

About Oce

Oce is one of the leading providers of document management and printing for professionals. The Oce offering includes office printing and copying systems, high speed digital production printers and wide format printing systems for both technical documentation and color display graphics. Oce is also a foremost supplier of document management outsourcing. Many of the Fortune Global 500 companies and leading commercial printers are Oce customers. The company was founded in 1877. With headquarters in Venlo, The Netherlands, Oce is active in over 100 countries and employs more than 20,000 people worldwide. Total revenues in fiscal 2010 amounted to approximately euro 2.7 billion. Oce is listed on Euronext in Amsterdam. For more information, visit www.oce.com.

Oce North America is headquartered in Trumbull, CT, with additional business units in Chicago, IL and Boca Raton, FL.  North America represents over 37% of Oce's worldwide revenues, and employment is over 9,000.  For more information about Oce North America, visit www.oceusa.com.  Outside the U.S., consult http://global.oce.com.

Oce and Canon: Stronger together

In 2010 Oce joined the Canon Group of companies with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, to create the global leader in the printing industry. Canon develops, manufactures and markets a growing line-up of copying machines, printers, cameras, optical and other products that meet a diverse range of customer needs. Canon employs more than 170,000 people worldwide. Global revenues in 2010 were more than $45 billion. For more information, visit www.canon.com.

About Canon U.S.A., Inc.

Canon U.S.A., Inc., is a leading provider of consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. Its parent company, Canon Inc. (NYSE: CAJ), a top patent holder of technology, ranked fourth overall in the U.S. in 2010(1), with global revenues of more than US $45 billion and is listed as number six in the computer industry on Fortune Magazine's World's Most Admired Companies 2010 list.  Canon U.S.A. is committed to the highest levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty, providing 100 percent U.S.-based consumer service and support for all of the products it distributes. At Canon, we care because caring is essential to living together in harmony. Founded upon a corporate philosophy of Kyosei – "all people, regardless of race, religion or culture, harmoniously living and working together into the future" – Canon U.S.A. supports a number of social, youth, educational and other programs, including environmental and recycling initiatives. Additional information about these programs can be found at www.usa.canon.com/kyosei. To keep apprised of the latest news from Canon U.S.A., sign up for the Company's RSS news feed by visiting www.usa.canon.com/rss.

(1) Based on weekly patent counts issued by United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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