Kodak, PerfectPattern Announce Strategic Partnership to Enhance Prinergy Workflow

From right to left: Robert Meissner, managing director, head of marketing; Patrick Kerr, Kodak product manager; Martin Schottenloher, managing director, head of sales.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — June 16, 2016 — Today, Kodak and PerfectPattern announced a strategic partnership to provide advanced workflow capabilities for commercial and packaging customers. The companies will collaborate to deliver unique workflow functionality focused on productivity that will improve efficiency and streamline operations for Kodak Prinergy Workflow customers. These workflow tools will prove highly valuable to any professional printing organization world-wide. One of the first capabilities in joint development is a cloud-based sheet optimization functionality that will drive greater productivity for PSP’s. Technology demonstrations of this capability are available during drupa.

“The Unified Workflow Solutions team is excited about our new partnership with PerfectPattern,” said Allan Brown, VP and GM of Kodak's Unified Workflow Solutions group. “This partnership will enable Kodak to deliver new features that will help our customers become more efficient and reduce costs.”

Known for their mathematical expertise, PerfectPattern develops software technologies for process and production planning allowing for faster solutions to some of the most complex challenges facing the industry.

“By partnering with Kodak, PerfectPattern is helping to improve workflow the world over,” says Martin Schottenloher, managing director, PerfectPattern. “Combining our technology with Kodak’s powerful and far-reaching Prinergy Workflow solution means that together we can extend the reach of our most advanced technology.”

About PerfectPattern
PerfectPattern is a new company developing and marketing software technologies for process and production planning. It provides disruptive, branch-specific solutions enabling our customers to build dynamic production plans which reduce resources and costs enabling them to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage and leading to the realization of a smart factory. Its plans are calculated with mathematical precision and force.

About Kodak
Kodak is a technology company focused on imaging. It provides — directly and through partnerships with other innovative companies — hardware, software, consumables and services to customers in graphic arts, commercial print, publishing, packaging, electronic displays, entertainment and commercial films, and consumer products markets. With its world-class R&D capabilities, innovative solutions portfolio and highly trusted brand, Kodak is helping customers around the globe to# sustainably grow their own businesses and enjoy their lives.

Source: Kodak.