Canon Production Printing

Canon Production Printing
FormerlyOcé N.V. (1927–2019)
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryManufacturing, technology
Founded1877 (1877)
FounderLodewijk van der Grinten
HeadquartersVenlo, Netherlands
Key people
  • Takanobu Nakamasu (chairman and CEO)
  • Charlie Probst (COO)
ProductsPrinters, scanners, plotters, copiers, printing software, consulting services
Revenue1240 million (2018)
Number of employees
3,010 (FTE, 2019)
ParentCanon Inc.
(2010–present)
Websitecpp.canon

Canon Production Printing, known as Océ until the end of 2019, is a Netherlands-based subset of Canon that develops, manufactures and sells printing and copying hardware and related software. The product line includes office printing and copying machinery, production printers, and wide-format printers for both technical documentation and color display graphics.

The history of Océ as a company can be traced back to 1877, although its printing-related activities did not begun until 1919.

The company has research, development, and production facilities in the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Czechia, Romania and the United States.

The acquisition of Océ by Canon Inc. of Japan took place in 2010.