Oce VarioStream 6100 Printer Heading to End of Life; Adios to the VS6100!

Oce VS 6100

If your business uses the large Oce VarioStream VS 6100 flash fusing continuous feed printers to generate labels, correspondence, invoices, logistics forms or other documentation, get ready to change printer machines - and very possibly change printer vendors. Oce has sent notices to current users of the pending demise of all support and supplies for the VS 6100. After the crystal ball drops in Times Square this year, don't call Oce for any help or parts.

This heavy-duty, large beast of a printer could support monthly print volumes of up to 2.75 million images! The Oce VS6100 could generate 106 pages per minute of two-up (side-by-side) continuous forms pages of 8.5x11" pages, 53 ppm in one-up, or 68 ppm of single pages turned landscape as a 8.5" tall form. 

Oce 7120 / Oce 7160 with Prisma server/controller

Oce does have one flash fusion printer in two model speeds that will survive this action. They will present the Oce VarioStream 7120 and Oce VarioStream 7160 as the Oce migration alternative.

These Oce units have a lower monthly print volume rating than the VS 6100, are more expensive than the current industry standard printers and use the same print engine available through us from another printer vendor. Understand that these new engines are NOT created by Oce.

Oce requires a large external Prisma server/controller similar to the one required by the much higher volume production Oce IPDS language printer systems. 

IBM InfoPrint 4000 Duplex IPDS Printers

Those huge, hot-roller-fusing production laser printers from Oce and Ricoh/Old-IBM-InfoPrint-Solutions need IPDS and can run hundreds and even thousands of duplex pages per minute - and hundreds of thousands of dollars as well. If you jobs require IPDS, there are other printer options for you. If you don't need IPDS and can run PCL or IGP/PGL, buying the Prisma server/controller for a flash fusing printer requirement is a needless expense.

If you run a small number of IPDS print jobs, we can help you through your migration with easy design and generation of your print without IPDS.

The Oce VarioStream 6100 and migration alternatives from MicroPlex, Sato, and the refurbished IBM InfoPrint 75 can be reviewed on the GLM Group's Oce VarioStream 6100 review web page by clicking here.  

For more information on the Oce VS 6100 and upgrade options with other continuous forms laser printers, contact Warren Neeley. Reach him at 817-939-5614 or WNeeley@PCIprinters.com.