Lier, Belgium – March 10, 2008 – Celebrating a significant business win, Punch Graphix announces the confirmation of its strategic, long-term cooperation with Data One through the sale of an additional Xeikon 6000.

Data One, a branch of the French Group Diffusion Plus which delivers more than one billion packages a year through the French postal service, specializes in direct marketing, transactional documents and high-volume, full-colour variable printing. The company creates and manages personalised letters, commercial offers and invoices for its customers, providing a complete and integrated service entirely managed by a single partner. Data One maintains an advantage over competitors by offering its customers the best integrated document services available. Clients include European companies in multimedia, distribution, telecommunication, public and financial sector.

For full-colour statements and mailings Data One prefers working with the Xeikon 6000 to serve its high-profile customers. “We’ve been utilizing Xeikon’s digital printing presses for over a decade. As we were more than pleased with the results of the first Xeikon 6000 we bought last year, we decided to invest in a second machine to upgrade our production capacity. We initially chose the Xeikon 6000 for its ability to seamlessly integrate within our existing production workflow thanks to its X-800 IPDS digital front-end. In addition, this press is a highly productive and cost-saving solution without compromising on print quality,” explains William Mériel, Managing Director Group Diffusion Plus.

Reacting on the sale Siegfried Trinker, Chief Sales Officer Punch Graphix states: “Data One is a major European player in the field of direct marketing. Their decision to invest in another Xeikon 6000 based on their ever-increasing production volume requirements, demonstrates the competitive advantages of Xeikon technology. The additional Xeikon 6000 will further enhance Data One’s competitive advantage in high volume, variable data applications by broadening its array of digitally printed products.”

Targeting transactional printers as well as the on-demand market and direct marketers, the Xeikon 6000 digital colour press boasts a speed of 160 A4 colour pages per minute and a 4,000,000 page-per-month duty cycle. The roll-fed machine printing in 2-up runs a variety of substrates, stocks from 40 to 350 gsm, and widths from 320 mm to 508 mm. Its unique One-Pass-Duplex technology allows simultaneous double-sided printing which guarantees front-to-back data integrity. The Xeikon 6000 comes with an integrated X-800 digital front-end, creating a truly open, scalable and modular system. The IPDS controller receives and processes data streams directly without any conversions in-between and always at rated engine speed. In combination with the Xeikon 6000 the X-800 IPDS digital front-end makes for an extremely fast and responsive system, ideal for high-quality transactional printing.

About Data One
Created in 1999, Data One is a subsidiary of the French Group Diffusion Plus, a leading company in direct sales and marketing logistics. Data One stands out in industrial full-colour document management through high-tech technology choices. Data One’s production plant, 11 000 m2 (on two production sites) is dedicated to the production of transactional and direct marketing documents, allowing Data One to be a major player in the variable data processing field. Based on the ADF concept (Automated Document Factory), Data One pioneers in services that add significant values to industrialisation, traceability, integrity and high-volume production of full-colour documents. Autonomous and independent of European postal services, Data One is the leading French provider of digital colour printing services, continuously investing and technically growing. www.dataone.fr

About Punch Graphix
Punch Graphix provides innovative, competitive and environmentally friendly imaging and printing solutions for the global graphics industry. Under the Xeikon brand name, Punch Graphix designs, develops and delivers high-end digital color printing systems, software and consumables for the commercial, document printing and industrial markets. Under the basysPrint brand, Punch Graphix designs, develops and delivers mid to high-end imaging systems for the offset prepress commercial markets. With a clear-minded focus on R&D, Punch Graphix is dedicated to customer satisfaction and aims to deliver cost-effective graphic excellence that goes beyond all expectations.

More information
For more information, please contact Siegfried Trinker, Chief Sales Officer, Punch Graphix Belgium at +32 3 443 19 19, e-mail: siegfried.trinker@punchgraphix.com or visit www.punchgraphix.com

Pictures/Images
Picture material regarding this press release is available from Punch Graphix Marketing Communications at marcom@punchgraphix.com.