Eastman Kodak

Eastman Kodak Co. has begun a project that will give the Columbus (GA) plant the ability to manufacture advanced digital printing plates. The cost for construction, which began in mid-December, is $3.7 million, according to Columbus building permits. But the total expenditure will be higher, Chris Veronda, spokesman for Rochester, N.Y.-based Kodak, said today.

“That’s just for the building,” he said. “It’s certainly north of that for the total project because there’s going to be a substantial amount of equipment that goes in there, too.

High-speed inkjet presses are changing the book manufacturing game. That's the message we heard loud and clear at Offset Paperback Manufacturers’ (OPM) open house this past November in Laflin, PA.

OPM, an Arvato US Bertelsmann Co., has been cranking out books on its monochrome Kodak Prosper 1000 since July 2010. On the color side, the latest addition is a Kodak Prosper 5000XL. Muller Martini’s Sigmaline provides comprehensive inline finishing, ensuring that OPM can start with a PDF and end with a finished book in one seamless operation.

OPM’s publishing services are extensive—it can handle everything from digital photography to distribution/fulfillment. It produces

Commercial printing industry news from Printing Impressions’ January 2011 edition, featuring William Charles Printing.

Digital printing news, including coverage of MGI’s JETcard at the Cartes 2010 card show and the Media Evolved Conference, organized by Advertising Age, including Eastman Kodak’s participation.

Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ January 2011 edition, highlighting Innovationdays 2011.

Kodak was a double winner at this year's German Printing Industry Innovation Awards. The Kodak Trillian SP Thermal Plate won the second place for the ‘most innovative technology’ in the prepress category, while the Kodak Prosper 5000XL Press landed second place in the printing category.

RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ—Agfa Corp. and xpedx announced a joint decision to bring an end to their long-standing relationship. Effective Feb. 28, 2011, xpedx will cease its distribution of Agfa-branded graphics products in the United States.

Digital printing industry news for December 2010, including reports from Offset Paperback Manufacturers’ Prosper Press open house and Kodak’s 2010 Marketing Leadership Roundtable with innovative printers and marketers.

Elected were Michael Keene of John Roberts Co, chairman of the board; Laura Lawton-Forsyth of Lawton Printing, first vice chairman; Timothy J. Burton of Burton & Mayer Inc., second vice chairman; Jeff Ekstein of Willow Printing Group, secretary; and Hal Slager of Trico Graphics, treasurer.

Printers around the world increasingly are paying attention to reducing the environmental impact of their operations.