Oc has signed its largest single outsourcing contract with Rolls-Royce, worth 65m over 10 years.


It has taken over Rolls-Royces fleet of 700 Xerox machines at seven locations and absorbed 65 staff.


Oc predicted savings of 10m over the 10-year period. There is also the possibility of expanding the contract to Rolls-Royce locations overseas.


Oc UK managing director Mike Cornish said: "Rolls-Royce is a global company and so is Oc. I think that both sides see the potential in Europe and the US, but well make sure the relationship is rock solid before making any global predictions."


Rolls-Royce produces 96m copies and 20m technical drawings and archives over 30m drawings annually.


Oc has also announced an agreement with Creative Print Group subsidiary Stroma, based in west London, to produce the first remote copies of Swiss daily Neue Zricher Zietung (NZZ) this week.


Imports of the paper, which take 16 hours to arrive from the continent, will cease this week and all London copies will be produced digitally.


Oc business development manager Paul Krisson said: "Its produced on 48.8gsm newsprint and feels exactly like a newspaper."


Stromas DemandStream 8090 will print 400 copies of the 463x320mm 48pp newspaper per hour. Oc will eventually build up a network of 50 remote newspaper printing locations, including Copenhagen, New York, Johannesburg and Melbourne. It is in talks with the Financial Times, Kurier and Le Monde.


At Ocs open house, chief executive Rokus van Iperen said its 13% drop in first-quarter net income was partly due to Xeroxs under-performance. "When the market leader suffers, it has a negative influence on the industry. Investors tend to stay away."


Story by John Davies