Digital Printing Observations — The Technology Race Is On

However, Kodak has been known for some time to be working on improved ink-jet image quality under the code name “Stream.” Kodak CEO Antonio Perez has indicated on several recent occasions that there will be some commercially available implementations of Stream technology available at Drupa, as well as technology demonstrations of the improved quality. Stream technology is expected to become commercially available sometime in 2009. He has described the Stream technology as incredibly fast, very low cost, variable data printing.