Eastman Kodak
March 1, 2011
Digital printing news from the PODi AppForum, Xerox, Kodak and Konica Minolta in Printing Impressions’ March 2011 edition.
February 25, 2011
ROCHESTER, NY—An expanded global distribution agreement between Kodak and Konica Minolta Business Technologies will provide their respective customers with access to a wider range of cut-sheet digital printing systems. Under the agreement, each company will offer digital production printing systems from the other’s portfolio, providing customers with more options based on their volume, applications and performance requirements.
February 24, 2011
Under the agreement, each company will offer digital production printing systems from the other’s portfolio. It capitalizes on Kodak’s expertise and solutions in the mid- to high-volume cut-sheet market and Konica Minolta’s strength in the light- to mid-production printer segment.
February 18, 2011
Beginning with a $110,000 grant from the Dow Jones Foundation, Manugraph DGM provided the four units added to the original press donated by Goss. Also donated were a Baldwin spray dampening system, Quad Tech register control and MEGTEC infeed and splicer.
February 3, 2011
Kodak expects that revenue in its core growth businesses will more than double in size by the end of 2013. Consumer Inkjet will achieve positive gross profit dollars during 2011, and the company’s Commercial Inkjet business will achieve profitability during 2012.
February 1, 2011
Chairwoman and CEO Lynne Alexander has positioned the 113-year-old firm well for the future, backed by a $7 million capital expenditure initiative that includes a six-color, 73″ manroland 900 XXL large-format sheetfed press with in-line aqueous coater as its centerpiece.
February 1, 2011
Hybrid print production, or the integration of digital and offset printing, can take multiple forms and be defined in different ways. Examples include digital imprinting of preprinted offset shells, running inkjet heads in-line with a web offset press or binding line, and building a common workflow for processing files output to a digital press and computer-to-plate system. (Includes Web-only sidebar and bonus video content.)
January 31, 2011
Held at the New York Public Library and hosted by Kodak, the roundtable brought together executives from book publishing, manufacturing, retailing and distribution companies, as well as an author. “Given the sea changes taking place in every facet of the book publishing market, the time was right to hear from a panel of experts about trends, issues, opportunities and predictions,” said Chris Verlander, director of Book Segment Marketing, Kodak.
January 29, 2011
The idea behind a photo book is relatively simple—reprint in book format a bunch of your digital photos for display, sharing and safe keeping. Now, a group of photo imaging industry companies and organizations, including a few business rivals, has formed a consortium to standardize the store experience when creating such photo tchotchkes and to promote the fact to consumers they can make such swag.
Membership in Innovations in Photo Imaging includes Kodak, Xerox, Fujifilm North America, Hewlett-Packard Co., Noritsu America Corp., Independent Photo Imagers Inc. and the Photo Marketing Association International.
January 27, 2011
If Eastman Kodak Co. focused just on packaging printing, inkjet printing and print industry workflow software, it might be healthy and growing. Those lines of business were among the few bright spots in what was otherwise a struggling 2010 for the photo and imaging company. Kodak plans to shed some of its less successful operations this year, CEO Antonio M. Perez said Wednesday.
“What you will see is a very aggressive strategy in abandoning segments that are not profitable and staying on the segments where we can make money,” Perez told Wall Street analysts in a conference call.
