Latest versions of tabloid color printers include suite of enhancements
that enable in-house, commercial-quality color printing


Mount Laurel, NJ – May 3, 2005 – Oki Data Americas, Inc., a leading provider of
innovative products, services, and solutions marketed under the OKI® Printing Solutions
brand, today introduced two new series of digital LED tabloid color printers: the
C9600/C9800 Series.

Serving as replacements to the C9300/C9500 Series, the C9600/C9800 Series digital
color printers provide in-house printing capabilities, allowing customers to eliminate
outsourcing, thereby saving time and money.

“Large workgroup environments demand high-volume printing solutions that offer
superior reliability, productivity, and efficiency, and the C9600/C9800 Series digital color
printers directly meet those needs on graphics-quality level,” said Candice Dobra,
Director, Printer Marketing for Oki Data Americas. “The impressive media-handling
capabilities and improved print quality catapult these products ahead of the competition,
reinforcing our dedication to color leadership.”

The C9600/9800 Series digital color printers deliver output at up to 36 pages per minute
(ppm) in color and 40 ppm in monochrome1 and print the widest variety of media in the
class, including cover stock up to 270 gsm and banners up to 12.9" x 47.24."
The C9800 Series digital color printers are designed to enable commercial print shop
performance, consistency and accuracy for color-centric workgroups. Powered by EFI®
Fiery® Technology, the C9800 Series provides print control and job management
functionality to optimize document workflow and ensure consistently exceptional results
through EFI Colorwise™ Pro tools and EFI Command Workstation™4. The estimated
street price of the C9800hn is $4649 while the C9800hdn has an estimated street price
of $4949. They will be available through OKI Printing Solutions authorized solution
providers.

The C9600 Series tabloid digital color printers are the ideal solutions for busy
workgroups that need flexibility in their printing requirements. When printing
presentations, reports, brochures, promotional materials or banners, the C9600 Series
printers perform efficiently and affordably. To ensure color consistency and accuracy of
output, the C9600 Series printers are available with color matching software from OKI
Printing Solutions. The estimated street price of the C9600n is $3399, while the
C9600hdn has an estimated street price of $4099. They will be available through OKI
Printing Solutions authorized solution providers.

A Closer Look at Key Enhancements

The C9600/C9800 Series represent a new milestone in excellence, enabling large
workgroups that require high-quality, high-volume color printing to benefit from
enhancements that include:
,br/> • The EFI controller advantage. For the C9800 Series, parent company Oki Data
Corporation partnered with EFI, the world leader in imaging solutions for network
printing, to boost performance of the C9800 Series. EFI’s expertise in color
printing combined with superior digital LED technology from OKI Printing
Solutions gives users fast, accurate color and exceptional document
management capabilities.

• Unmatched media flexibility. Printing capabilities have been dramatically
enhanced, with the C9800/C9600 Series allowing end-users to print on media up
to 270 gsm, an increase from 200 gsm on the C9300/C9500 Series. From card
stock to glossy media to banners, customers can print on a fuller range of media
than ever before.

• New, multi-level LED printing. Digital LED’s speed, compact size, lack of
moving parts, and ease of registration enables superior output quality, durability
and efficiency over laser printing. The new multi-level LED print-head technology
within the C9600/C9800 Series allows for better customer print quality, such as
sharper details and higher color fidelity.

• New toner formulation. The C9600/C9800 represents a switch from crushed
powder toner to chemical toner. This advancement gives customers improved
clarity and reduces graininess. Customers will realize a level of professionalquality
color output in-house, while realizing cost savings.

• RFID technology. Consumables now include RFID technology, which will
ensure that the appropriate branded toners and image drums are used with the
C9600/C9800 Series, thereby optimizing its performance and ensuring engine
reliability.

• Greater ease of use. An improved control panel with LCD display and a smaller
footprint make these printers even more user-friendly. A new image drum basket
on the C9600/C9800 Series allows for all four toner drums to be lifted in one
motion to access the transfer belt and fuser in case of a paper jam. These
improvements reduce downtime and support costs while increasing productivity.


“Across the board, the C9600/C9800 Series represents a new standard in tabloid color
printers,” said Dobra. “OKI Printing Solutions is proud to usher in a new era of color
excellence that makes professional graphics-quality color printing more accessible and
affordable.”

The launch of the C9600/C9800 Series today builds on parent company Oki Data
Corporation’s history of leadership and innovation in color printing. It is based on the 7th
generation of printing technologies advanced by Oki Data Corporation, such as digital
LED technology and Single Pass Color™.

Like all OKI Printing Solutions products, the C9600/C9800 Series digital color printers
are backed by total support from OKI Printing Solutions authorized solution providers. In
addition, OKI Printing Solutions provides live, toll-free technical support 24 hours a day,
7 days a week, 365 days a year, with agents based in North America.


C9800 Series specifications

Print Speed: up to 36 ppm color, up to 40 ppm monochrome1

Processor: 1 GHz

Print Resolution: 1200 x 1200 Multilevel LED technology

Duty Cycle: 150,000 pages per month

Connectivity: USB 2.0 high-speed, IEEE 1284 Bi-directional Parallel, 10/100-TX
Ethernet standard

Emulations: PCL® 5c, PCL 6, Adobe PostScript 3™ standard; Direct PDF Printing
(Windows environment only)

Color Control Utilities: EFI Colorwise Pro tools


C9600 Series specifications

Print Speed: up to 36 ppm color, up to 40 ppm monochrome1

Processor: 720 MHz

Print Resolution: 1200 x 600 Multilevel LED technology;

Duty Cycle: 150,000 pages per month
>br/> Connectivity: USB 2.0 high-speed, IEEE 1284 Bi-directional Parallel, 10/100-TX
Ethernet; Optional Wireless NIC

Emulations: PCL® 5c, PCL 6, Adobe PostScript 3™ standard; Direct PDF Printing
(Windows environment only)

Color Control Utilities: color matching software from OKI Printing Solutions

About Oki Data Americas:
Oki Data Americas, Inc., headquartered in Mount Laurel, N.J., and a subsidiary of Oki Data
Corporation of Japan, markets under the OKI Printing Solutions brand PC peripheral equipment
including digital color and monochrome printers, serial impact dot matrix printers, multifunction
products and facsimiles. Known for durable and reliable products, Oki Data Americas is ISO
9001:2000 certified and also offers a full line of options, accessories and consumables. Its entire
line of products complies with the EPA's Energy Star® Program. Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.,
parent company to Oki Data Corporation, is a $7.0 billion multinational corporation with
headquarters in Tokyo and is a world leader in information processing systems,
telecommunications and electronics.
For more information about Oki Data or OKI Printing Solutions products and services, and Single
Pass Color technology, visit the OKI Printing Solutions Web site: www.okiprintingsolutions.com


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Oki Data Corp., PCL, Reg. T.M., Hewlett-Packard Co., PostScript 3 T.M., Adobe Systems Inc., EFI, Fiery, Command
Workstation, ColorWise, and Spot-On are registered trademarks of Electronics For Imaging, Inc. in the U.S. Patent and
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1Published performance results are based on laboratory testing, individual results may vary.