Kodak's new market-focused business divisions—Print Systems; Enterprise Inkjet Systems; Micro 3D Printing and Packaging; Software and Solutions; and Consumer and Film—will be end-to-end operating units with responsibility and accountability for portfolio, product design, engineering, services, sales, purchasing and supply chain.
Commercial printing industry supplier company and personnel news from Printing Impressions’ December 2014 edition, including Eastman Kodak, Burgess Industries, Heidelberg USA, Canon Solutions America, GPA, SmartSoft, EFI, Polymeric Imaging and Kodak.
Recognized for their leadership and service to the industry, DJ Burgess, president of NPES, and Eastman Kodak received the Harold W. Gegenheimer Individual and Corporate Awards from NPES, respectively. The awards were presented at the NPES 2014 Annual Conference and PRIMIR Winter Meeting, held this week in Charleston, SC.
Continental Web Press, a commercial web offset printer specializing in catalogs, direct mail and inserts in Itasca, IL, has added a new Kodak Prosper S-Series System to provide its customers with greater customization capabilities, that will enable them to increase sales, shorten time to market and improve response rates for direct mail and other marketing campaigns.
When it was a photography and imaging giant, Eastman Kodak Co. routinely spent many hundreds of millions a year on research and development. Some of its scientists' discoveries became new products. Some ended up in a file cabinet.
Today a much smaller company, Kodak is looking at new ways of turning those mountains of unused patents into business, CEO Jeff Clarke said Wednesday.
Clarke in August announced a new business group, Kodak Technology Solutions, aimed at better commercializing its intellectual property.
Commercial Printing Industry News Briefs from Printing Impressions’ October 2014 edition, including ICV Partners (ICV) and OneTouchPoint (OTP), RR Donnelley, AlphaGraphics, Resolute Forest Products, Kodak and Bang Printing, Brandtjen & Kluge, Innovator Beryl Wolk, and Cascades.
Reynolds and Reynolds of Kettering, OH, is the 1,000th customer to adopt Kodak Sonora Process Free Plates that remove the plate processing step completely without sacrificing the quality or productivity of traditional mainstream processed plates.
Kodak’s new Single Cassette Unit feature will enable Kodak Trendsetter and Platesetter to run unmanaged for over seven hours.
At the 31st annual Toner Conference in Santa Barbara, CA, hosted by The Tiara Group, in conjunction with the Graphic Communication Institute (GrCI) at Cal Poly State University, Kodak's Dr. Tomas McHugh stunned delegates when he revealed that Kodak had achieved practically 100 percent biocontent in a chemical color toner that is planned to be in semi-works production this August and full-scale production by June 2015.
#1 Network, one of the largest distribution channels in the graphics industry, is now a Silver Reseller of Kodak Solutions in the United States and Canada, and is offering Kodak’s leading portfolio of digital plates, including Kodak Sonora XP Process Free Plates, Kodak Sonora News Process Free Plates, and Kodak Sword Excel Thermal Plates.
