Dubai-UAE, 23 October 2007- OKI Printing Solutions today unveiled the C9650 and C9650XF high end printing solutions - two different solutions built on the same print engine.  The OKI C9650, the latest in a line of award-winning A3 colour printers, is launched as part of the refreshed C9000 Series, enabling businesses to reduce outsourcing of printing by producing professional A3 colour and black and white documents in-house.  The all new C9650XF series are equipped with the highly advanced EFI XF RIP to produce new, ground breaking printing technology which is set to create new standards for speed, quality and performance in the Middle East graphic arts market.

"The new C9650 builds on and strengthens our range of affordable, high-quality A3 colour printers and meets all the printing needs of businesses requiring maximum flexibility, reliability and high performance at a reasonable price," said John Ross, general manager, OKI Printing Solutions. "Our partnership with EFI on the C9650XF range sets new standards in the graphic arts market and raises the bar of professionalism for toner based printers in photography, commercial printing and graphic arts in this region."

The C9650 allows businesses to consolidate their printing needs into one cost-effective and efficient device, providing them with the flexibility to carry out large volume print runs and produce creative documents in-house. Together with outstanding media support of up to 300gsm, 1.2m long banner printing capability and a flexible finishing option, the C9650 gives businesses the capacity to handle a wide range of printing needs to meet the demands of a busy office.

A high performing A3 colour printer, the C9650 has print speeds of up to 40 pages per minute, integrated A3 and A4 duplex printing and Graphic Pro colour management, allowing users to download colour profiles to the printer's hard disk for specific colour matching. The C9650 also benefits from OKI Printing Solutions' innovative High Definition toner, which provides a high level of detail, greater depth of colour and a high gloss feel for exceptional print results every time.

In addition, the C9650 offers essential print security with a range of in-box utilities such as Secure Erase, Data Encryption and Password Protection to protect confidential data and prevent unauthorised access. For added financial control, the C9650 includes Print Control for easy administration and monitoring of user access to colour printing over the network. It has an intuitive control panel and simple design. The printer consumables are simple to change and paper trays can be refilled whilst printing continues from a different tray. All these features are designed to provide greater reliability and productivity for demanding business environments.

C9650 key features summary:

> Models available: C9650n (networked), C9650dn (duplex and networked), C9650hdn (hard disk drive, duplex and networked), C9650hdtn (hard disk drive, duplex, 3 additional paper trays and networked)

> Media flexibility: prints on A6 - oversized A3 and up to 300gsm; paper capacity up to 2850 sheets

> Print speeds up to 36ppm for colour printing, 40ppm for mono, with a fast time to first print of 10.5 seconds for colour and 9 seconds for mono

> Integrated duplex printing for double-sided printing on paper up to 188gsm

> Controls to manage printing and protect document security, such as Secure Erase, Data Encryption, Password protection and Print Control

> User friendly, with an intuitive control panel and easy to change consumables

> OKI Printing Solutions innovative LED single-pass print technology to handle a range of media types

In addition to the standard set of specifications and solutions of the C9650 the C9650XF opens the door to a creative world for the graphics arts market from paper sizes such as A6 up to A3 Nobi.  To meet the demanding needs of this market segment the C9650XF is available in 3 different varieties

> C9650XF Pro Lite : C9650HDTN plus the unique Oki 5 bit output module for EFI XF

> C9650XF Pro : C9650HDTN, the full EFI XF software suite and the unique Oki 5 bit output module

> C9650XF : C9650DN, the full EFI XF software suite and the unique Oki 5 bit output module

"To ensure that we can offer a solution to all users we have decided on these three variants, the C9650XF for those who are really looking at proofing and photograph printing and do not have the EFI XF software, the C9650XF Pro Lite for those who have higher volume throughput, like short print production runs as well as proofing or photographs and do not have the EFI XF software and finally the C9650XF Pro Lite for those who already have the EFI XF software but want the benefits of the unique Oki 5 bit output module," said Ross, "This 5 bit module allows users to replicate continuous tone output on a non con tone device and is unique to Oki.  Because we have solid state digital LED technology with the ability to create variable intensity within each individual LED, and hence each individual dot, the Oki colour range produces clearer, sharper images then most competitors.  The 5 bit output module allows EFI XF users to address these variable intensities to get the best of both worlds, EFI XF quality output with Oki multi level intensity - a unique and unequalled solution for the graphics market"

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Notes to editors:
OKI Printing Solutions is the brand name of Oki Data Corporation.

Annual turnover for Oki Data Corporation is 187.1 billion yen (approx. $1.6bn, FY06).

OKI Printing Solutions' sales are divided between 50% EMEA, 24% Americas, 17% Asia and Oceania and 9% Others.

OKI Printing Solutions is represented in 120 countries worldwide.

Oki Electric, established in 1881, is a Japanese electronics manufacturer with an annual turnover of 718.8 billion yen (approx. $6.1bn, FY06).

Oki Electric employs approx. 21,380 people throughout the world with 6,975 employees outside Japan.

More details on Oki Electric can be found at www.oki.com

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