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On the plate front, Kodak's Thermal Direct Non-Process Plate is becoming commercially available at the show. With a reported 100 customers already using the product, the plate is targeted to small- to medium-size general commercial printers.

Also on display are Kodak Colorflow Custom Color Tools v3.1 software to optimize total color management and PDF Compare and PDF Merge Acrobat plug-ins for managing correction cycles within Prinergy and Prinergy Powerpack prepress workflows. Both products were also 2005 PIA/GATF InterTech Award recipients.