Oce adds ColorSpan 72uv printer and sells it in Europe as the Oce CS7070 UV-cured ink printer

Unfortunately the nice Oce Arizona T220UV flatbed printer has been quietly sent into retirement. We had our first hint when someone we know tried to buy one. His order was accepted, but only then was he told that none was available. We kept our ears open, and several months later learned that the printer has been permanently withdrawn from the market.

Since the replacement for the entry-level Oce Arizona 60UV is not yet ready, Oce is offering the successful ColorSpan 72uv printer in Europe as the Oce CS7070.

Now both the Oce Arizona 60UV and Oce Arizona T220UV are both cancelled

The Oce Arizona 60UV surprised everyone with its price, $39,000, when most UV flatbed printers were selling for $399,000. We have inspected this at Graphics of the Americas trade show in January 2004 and had a long discussion with the product manager for this new printer.

But price comparisons are not everything: nine months with no delivery dimmed our expectations. This has given me pause and I have taken a more cautious look at the Oce 60UV at Photokina (where it was semi-abandoned in the otherwise bustling Oce booth). At the same time that we are reassessing the Oce Arizona 60UV, we are upgrading our comments on the T220UV.

When it first came out the Oce Arizona 220 was a solvent ink printer; then it became a UV-cured ink flatbed. Kind of the same metamorphosis happened with Vutek flatbed printers. And neither of the Vutek solvent ink flatbed printers wowed anyone here at FLAAR.

The next time that Oce comes out with a replacement for the model 60, we hope that we can have better access so that our reports can be available to our over a quarter of a million readers. If our readers can’t learn about one model, they quickly see that plenty of other UV-curable ink flatbed printers are available from Gandinnovations, Durst, Vutek and Inca.

So the Oce Arizona 250 GT has now been shown at SGIA. But it was not at Sign Madrid a week later, so instead we updated our reports on the printers that were at both SGIA and Sign Spain, such as DuPont Cromaprint 22UV, Dilli, Agfa :Anapurna XL and others.

Indeed FLAAR now offers over 50 reports on UV-cured inkjet printers. So now you can acquire everything you need to know about UV-curable ink flatbed printers from a single source: the FLAAR Reports, the de facto essential guides to wide format inkjet printers.

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Oce Arizona 60 UV at GoA 2004 TradeShow

Oce Arizona T220 UV at PMA 2004 TradeShow

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Most recently updated October 30, 2006.

Previously updated November 2, 2004, Nov 25, 2005, Dec 19, 2005.

First posted Feb. 17, 2004, after PMA trade show.