You can be more flexible in your approach to short runs, turning orders around faster than ever before. Remain profitable on orders from just a few dozen copies to well over a thousand. Accelerate your workflow with fast just-in-time production on end-to-end systems from Océ, and achieve same-day turnaround.: from the time the orders come in, through digital printing and finishing, right to the point at which the ready-finished books leave your plant. You can take on the small, interesting orders that offset-only printers routinely turn away, unable to compete on speed or price. And these small jobs make a big impression. When you're looking for new business, your expanded portfolio of products and services is impressive evidence of your position as a customer-centric service provider. And it will set you apart clearly from your less flexible rivals.

As well as delivering added value to your clients, digital book production is above all a strategic benefit for your image.Digital book production enables you to respond to burgeoning demand for short and medium-length runs. Existing and new customers will be impressed - and you will increase revenue and profits.

Digital book production gives you maximum flexibility

Digital book production with Océ systems gives you maximum flexibility for handling a variety of applications. There are turnkey solutions for a vast choice of high quality print products:

• Hard cover and soft cover books
• Technical documentation (user and service manuals)
• Training material
• Loose-leaf sets
• Patent documents, official gazettes
• Light weight paper applications

Digital book production systems open up a host of opportunities for printers. Offer your customers added value with a fascinating new choice of services. Create an additional revenue and profit stream alongside your usual business. Secure your competitive strength for the future!

Digital book production is a strategic selling point

Digital book production is a key selling point. It sets you clearly apart from your competitors and extends the strategic positioning of your enterprise in two ways.

As well as producing the conventional offset runs of books, you can also offer high quality digital products with ultra-fast delivery - short test runs, for instance, preliminary runs or reprints. On identical paper and in identical quality, with 8, 16, 24 or 32-page signatures. Perfect binding or thread-stitching. Never again will you need to turn down a job because you can't be profitable The rapid order turnaround also gives your clients the confidence that you are a competent provider - and well able to handle their offset orders.

Digital book production secures relationships with existing customers and helps you acquire new orders. Thanks to the digital warehouse, there's virtually no limit to what your print shop can deliver, making you a partner for the entire life cycle of every book product. Benefit from the increased revenue and profit of these new business opportunities.

Digital book production is your key to a whole new range of services that will expand your portfolio and bottom line. You can become a one-stop shop for the entire workflow:

• Digitizing
• Archiving
• E-business solution for order handling
• Printing of book blocks and covers
• Softcover and hardcover binding
• Finishing and delivery

Use the opportunities of the entire digital process chain. Océ is your provider for them all - so you can become a one-stop shop for your clients' needs. From Océ PRISMAweb, a reliable, robust order software designed specifically for book production, to the Océ VarioStream™ 7000 family of digital web presses and the Océ PRISMA™ family of architected software solutions, every element harmonizes to create a complete integrated solution for digital book production. Flanked, of course, by a full range of professional services to ensure you derive maximum benefit from the entire system.

As a partner we listen to your needs and create the right solution for your company, comprising our own hardware and software plus carefully selected system components made by best-in-class partner suppliers.

Efficient online order of reprinted titles - reducing transaction costs

As the entire value chain goes digital - from book production to the point of sale - this inevitably affects how orders for the digital production of books are placed. More business-to-business orders are now being submitted over the WEB. Which is where digital order entry and transactions come in. Digital orders enable you to reduce your transaction overhead and accelerate order turnaround. You can generate added value every single day with Océ PRISMAweb, the order-to-production solution that automates and integrates each step of the print buying process. Customers place their orders over the Internet, and the orders are processed and fulfilled completely automatically.

Océ PRISMAweb creates a digital warehouse for books which your customers can browse before placing their orders online. You can manage print capacity more efficiently, and improve your order throughput. Océ PRISMAweb is a reliable, robust order and job statusing solution designed specifically for book production. This helps keep your customers satisfied - and keeps them coming back for more. Océ PRISMAweb integrates with other existing systems. It's the ideal way to equip you for the WEB economy.

Océ PRISMAweb is the smart, simple solution for efficiently managing and ordering digitally produced books, delivering greater profitability for every stakeholder in the value chain.