Solar & Backup Power for the Western Cape

Reduce Electricity costs and reliance on the grid with private power

Oxbow designs and installs commercial solar solutions that lower your energy costs, protect your operations during outages, and give your business the power reliability it needs to keep running, day in, day out.

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Automatic Load Shedding Protection

Battery storage & intelligent switching keep operations running through any stage of load shedding, without interruption.

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Designed Around Your Consumption

We assess your actual energy usage before specifying a system. Every installation is sized and configured specific to your site.

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Full-Service Installation and Support

From site survey to commissioning, Oxbow manages every stage of your solar project with accountability at every step.

Energy Independence for Western Cape Businesses

Load shedding has fundamentally changed the cost and complexity of running a business in South Africa. Unreliable grid power disrupts operations, damages equipment, and creates costs that compound quietly over time. Oxbow’s commercial solar solutions address this directly.

We assess your energy profile, design a system around your actual consumption, and install infrastructure built to deliver consistent, measurable performance. From solar panels and inverter systems to battery storage, every component is specified for your environment rather than drawn from a generic template. Our team handles the full process: site assessment, system design, installation, and ongoing support.

You get reliable power, lower electricity spend, and a clear picture of exactly what your system delivers.

Solar Panel Product Range

Transition to clean power with high-efficiency Tier 1 solar panels. Our PV solutions maximize energy harvest to reduce grid reliance and lower long-term operational costs. Engineered for the South African climate, they provide a high-yield energy environment that supports your sustainability goals.

Diesel Generators Product Range

Transition to clean power with high-efficiency Tier 1 solar panels. Our PV solutions maximize energy harvest to reduce grid reliance and lower long-term operational costs. Engineered for the South African climate, they provide a high-yield energy environment that supports your sustainability goals.

Portable Battery Generators Product Range

Transition to clean power with high-efficiency Tier 1 solar panels. Our PV solutions maximize energy harvest to reduce grid reliance and lower long-term operational costs. Engineered for the South African climate, they provide a high-yield energy environment that supports your sustainability goals.

Inverter and Batteries Product Range

Transition to clean power with high-efficiency Tier 1 solar panels. Our PV solutions maximize energy harvest to reduce grid reliance and lower long-term operational costs. Engineered for the South African climate, they provide a high-yield energy environment that supports your sustainability goals.

Brand Partnerships

Fujifilm Partner

Is It Time to Upgrade Your Office Printers?

Our in-house team of expert technicians has identified several key signals that it’s time to upgrade your office printer to a high-performance device:

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Approaching the 3–5 Year Limit

Most professional office printers have a reliable lifespan of 3 to 5 years. Over time, internal mechanisms - such as the fuser units and pickup rollers - wear down, leading to decreased print quality and frequent paper jams.

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Print Speed Is a Bottleneck

If your team is constantly "waiting in the queue" or if medium-sized print jobs take several minutes to complete, your current hardware is costing your business valuable productivity. Modern office printers offer much higher PPM (pages per minute) to keep your workflow moving.

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Lack of Cloud-Based Support

As hybrid work and digital workflows evolve, your office printer needs to do more than just print. Older devices often lack the seamless cloud integration and mobile printing capabilities required to scan directly to Google Drive, OneDrive, or Microsoft Teams.

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Rising Repair and Maintenance Costs

If your current device requires technician support more than twice a year, it has likely become a "money pit." Constant repairs on aging office equipment are often more expensive over time than investing in a new, energy-efficient model with a comprehensive service agreement.

Clients always ask

Is it better to buy or rent an office printer in South Africa?
A Managed Print Service is a contract arrangement where Oxbow takes full responsibility for your printing environment: hardware, consumables, maintenance, and support, all under one agreement. Instead of reactive repairs and toner orders, everything is monitored and managed proactively. The result is predictable monthly costs and a printing environment that runs without requiring internal resources to maintain it.
A printer outputs documents. An MFP prints, scans, copies, and in many cases, faxes all from one device. For most businesses, the MFP is the practical default: it consolidates hardware, reduces desk footprint, and integrates with cloud storage and document management platforms.
Production printers are built for use cases where output and quality need to exceed average use cases. The control over production printers is much more refined allowing for customised density, resolution, colour profiles and gloss as well as increased output quanity and finishing options (booklets, binders, banners, etc.). For frame of reference, Office Printers are capable of up to 70,000 prints per month, Production Printers are capable of millions per month.
Dots per inch (DPI) measures print resolution; higher values depict sharper and more defined images. Pages per minute (PPM) measures the output capacity of the printer per minute when warmed up under regular working conditions.
Yes, however, this is dependent on your specific network setup. In most cases, printing from mobile devices is easily possible, provided the network supports it.
Our dedicated support team will respond to any service queries within a maximum of 4 hours (during office hours), with a technician dispatched instantly should the query require on-site assistance. Just over 10% of queries can be solved remotely, while on-site support averages at X mins for a complete fix.
Your device’s touchscreen will show you exactly where the jam has occurred and guide you to the relevant panel, drawer, or lever. Follow the on-screen prompts. Do not pull paper forcefully, as this can tear fragments and cause secondary jams.
Confirm your printer is powered on and connected to the network: check the Ethernet LEDs on the rear port, then verify the IP address matches what’s configured in your print driver. If the IP has changed, update it via the control panel under Network Settings.
Your device will display a low toner warning on the control panel, typically showing a percentage remaining. Clients on an MPS contract will have toner automatically reordered.

Oxbow SA is conveniently located at Century Gate Business Park, Block 01, Century City, Cape Town, 7441, serving businesses across Century City, Milnerton, Montague Gardens, and the greater Cape Town area.

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