Themed “Growing to New Heights,” the annual Graphic Users Association meeting will take place on June 6-10, 2011, at the InterContinental Hotel in New Orleans. Kodak’s customers from the commercial printing, publishing and packaging industries will learn about new solutions, best practices and ways to maximize their current and future investments.
Attendees at EFI’s users’ conference, EFI Connect, will learn how real-time connectivity between KODAK PRINERGY Workflow and EFI Fiery Controllers can create a single workflow to serve blended production environments.
Through a reseller agreement with Online Print Solutions (OPS), Kodak is now an authorized reseller of OPS’s full range of Web-to-print and cross-media marketing tools. The OPS offerings allow Kodak to deliver customers personalized solutions via a hosted storefront.
Commercial printing industry news briefs for April 2011, including items on Competitive Folding and Gateway Printing & Office Supply.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ April 2011 edition.
Companies represented in the roundtable discussion and video include H.O.T. Printing & Graphics, DST Output, RT Associates and The Bureau. In discussing the process of diversifying their businesses, the participants agreed that a necessary first step involves thoroughly examining their operations and determining the resources and technologies they need to put in place to support their business plans.
ROCHESTER, NY—Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group will increase the worldwide prices of its digital and conventional plates as of May 1. The company cited the “sustained, universal rise” in costs for key raw materials and utilities used in the production of offset plates in announcing the new rates.
Investment Partners Asset Management suggested that Legg Mason Capital and Fidelity Management spearhead an effort to install turn-around specialists on Kodak’s management and board, or force Kodak to be sold. It asked these fiduciaries to recognize Kodak’s deteriorating financial condition and substantial diminution of shareholder value.
Increases for digital plates will be in the range of 5 to 10 percent, while the increase for conventional plates will be between 15 and 20 percent. This move is necessitated by the sustained, universal rise in costs for key raw materials and utilities used in the production of offset plates.
Differences in the inkjet imaging systems now being employed can have an impact—to varying degrees and relative to each other—on head cost, failure rate and cleaning/maintenance requirements; substrate flexibility; print resolution; color saturation; print width; and more. It doesn't quite rise to the level of an apples to oranges comparison, but the technology has very distinct flavors.
