CREO Color Servers Achieve Fogra Certification for Outstanding Color Performance

ROCHESTER, NY—Feb. 18, 2010—Committed to helping customers maximize their investments in meeting ever-increasing demands for high-quality color output, the Kodak Print On-Demand Solutions Group has announced receiving the prestigious FograCert Validation Printing System certification for its CREO Color Servers family of products.

Certification by the Fogra Graphic Technology Research Association recognizes the added value that CREO Color Server Technology brings to the printing industry by delivering consistent and predictable color results time after time. CREO Color Servers are known worldwide for their outstanding color and image quality, offering advanced handling of extended color gamut with up to 7-color separations to achieve excellent results in color rendition.

“This certification from Fogra is an important achievement for us and our customers,” said Hezy Rotman, General Manager, KODAK Printing Workflow Solutions. “Not only do digital printers require high-quality color—they need to be able to count on the color quality each and every time they execute a print job. Their livelihood depends on this level of color consistency and predictability.”

Furthermore, certification from Fogra recognizes CREO Color Servers’ outstanding color performance, managed by automated color management and image enhancement tools that provide a consistent, accurate reproduction of offset-oriented color gamuts from digital presses. The collaboration of CREO Color Server professional color management and industry-leading printing systems provide commercial printers the ability to predict and produce vibrant images consistently.

Fogra, based in Germany, promotes print engineering and its future-oriented technologies in the fields of research and development, and enables the printing industry to utilize the results of this activity. Fogra certification is awarded through participation in an elaborate and demanding test program. The concrete list of certified combinations can be found on the FograCert website (Fogra report number: 23652).

CREO Color Servers are a leading solution for print on-demand professionals. They provide superior connectivity to graphic arts workflows, automation, exceptional color and image quality, advanced Variable Data Printing (VDP) capabilities, and extensive document printing functionality to boost productivity. CREO Color Servers incorporate a robust technology platform to optimize the performance of digital production printers and presses, and increase efficiency and cost effectiveness over the entire print production cycle.

About Kodak’s Print On-Demand Solutions Group
Kodak’s Print On-Demand Solutions Group develops high-performance CREO Color Servers and workflow solutions for a wide range of digital production printers and presses. CREO Color Servers offer the digital printing industry leading workflow connectivity solutions. They utilize intelligent, JDF-enabled automation of all print-production steps to help drive business performance and profit.

The group supplies CREO Color Servers to industry leaders including Canon, Hewlett-Packard, Konica Minolta, Océ, Ricoh, and Xerox Corp.

This independent unit of Eastman Kodak Company continues to unlock the power of print on-demand to maximize customers' success in digital printing and workflow solutions.

For more information about CREO Color Servers, visit www.creoservers.com.