Océ Customers Can Now Comprehensively Track and Recover Technical Document Production Costs with Sepialine Software

Solution Enables AEC Firms to Improve Their Bottom Line by Transforming Overhead Costs into Reimbursable Expenses

August 26, 2003, Chicago -- Océ (Nasdaq: OCENY), a leading supplier of digital document management and delivery technology, has announced an agreement in the U.S. with Sepialine, Inc. to deliver comprehensive tracking and accounting solutions for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. By combining the industry-leading, large format multifunction printing systems of Océ with Sepialine’s award-winning ArgosTM print tracking and integration software, design professionals and service providers have a complete, end-to-end solution for tracking and recovering the cost of technical document production printing.

"Océ continues to focus on providing solutions for our customers’ real business issues," said Joyce Virnich, Vice President of Marketing for the Océ-USA, Inc. Wide Format Printing Systems business unit. "The combination of Océ and Sepialine technology provides customers with a powerful tool to manage document output and recover printing costs."

Sepialine’s Argos print tracking software is designed to track network printing and then prompt users to assign their printing to valid projects. For many design professionals, the ability to capture reimbursable expenses and assign them to clients is a long-standing need. Recovering the cost of printing technical documents can transform what would otherwise be non-recoverable overhead into reimbursable expenses, possibly contributing thousands of dollars to the bottom line every month.

Compatible with the complete line of Océ TDS multifunction printing systems, Sepialine software works alongside popular AEC software products such as AutoCAD® 2004, Bentley Microstation®, Adobe® Photoshop® and Microsoft® Office. In addition to its core print tracking software, Sepialine offers a complete suite of integration products for Océ products, including the Océ Power Logic® controller, Océ Print ExecTM LT software and Océ Repro Desk software.

"Our Océ TDS600 system handles all of our wide-format printing needs. But before adopting Sepialine software, we had a huge hole in our reimbursables. We were spending thousands of dollars a month in printing supplies and were attempting to recover these costs by tracking them manually. More often than not, we simply had to dismiss these costs as overhead," said Brian Darrow, PE, IT Manager for Triad Associates, a Kirkland, WA-based land development consulting firm. "With Sepialine print tracking, we are able to recover a large portion of that printing cost. And with Sepialine integration with our Océ TDS600 scanner, the gap is completely closed. Sepialine software has been a huge boost to our bottom line."

About Sepialine, Inc.

Founded by practicing architects in 1998, Sepialine is an industry leader in cost recovery technology for the design industry. Emphasizing reprography, architecture and engineering, Sepialine creates solutions -- with excellent service and support -- to help companies gain insight into their expenses. By leveraging expense data, customers can realize increased profits and advanced business intelligence. Based in San Francisco, Sepialine offers a range of print, copy and scan tracking products built on its award-winning Argos cost recovery platform.

For more information on Sepialine products, contact a Sepialine reseller, call 800/404-9558, or visit www.sepialine.com.

About Océ

Océ is a leading supplier of digital document management and delivery technology. The company’s solutions are based on Océ’s advanced software applications that deliver documents and data over internal networks and the Internet to printing devices and archives -- locally and around the world. Supporting the workflow solutions are Océ digital printers and scanners, considered the most reliable and productive in the world. Océ also offers a wide range of display graphics, consulting, and outsourcing solutions.

Netherlands-based Océ N.V. (NASDAQ: OCENY), with a workforce of more than 23,000 people and 2002 revenues of $3.2 billion, maintains research and manufacturing centers in the Netherlands, the United States, Germany, France, Belgium, the Czech Republic, and Japan. Océ’s North American headquarters is located in Chicago with major business units in Chicago; New York City; Boca Raton, FL; San Jose, CA; Salt Lake City; and Coventry, RI. North American revenues were $1. 3 billion for fiscal 2002, and employment is currently 9,600. For more information about Océ, visit www.oceusa.com. Outside the U.S., consult www.oce.com.

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