New Inkjet Printing Press Tops List of New Product Launches from Kodak (piworld.com)

Eastman Kodak is stepping up its comeback campaign with the launches of significant new products, including an inkjet press it describes as a potentially game-changing solution for commercial and publication print.

The announcements came in a virtual press conference with journalists and analysts on June 15, the third formal outreach that the company has made to the trade media this year. Again leading a team of Kodak executives was James V. Continenza, executive chairman, who continued to drive home a message that Kodak is a financially stable, customer-focused organization with a total commitment to all of the print markets it now serves.

The presentation spanned the entire Kodak portfolio, which also includes products for packaging despite the company’s exit from its flexography business.

The newest star of the lineup is the Kodak PROSPER ULTRA 520, a rollfed inkjet press that Randy Vandagriff, senior vice president, print, called “virtually indistinguishable” from offset lithography in print quality. He said closing the gap with the ULTRA 520 will hasten the migration of work from offset to digital, including jobs requiring heavy ink coverage.
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