The Lettershop Group Chooses Kodak’s Stream Printhead

Kodak’s Stream Printhead is a monochrome continuous inkjet solution for inline digital printing on high-speed web devices such as offset presses and inline finishing equipment.

Kodak’s Stream Printhead is a monochrome continuous inkjet solution for inline digital printing on high-speed web devices such as offset presses and inline finishing equipment.

“We can now complete a project in 30 hours that once took us a week, permitting us to fulfill quantities typically handled by screen printers and opening new opportunities with our regional markets.”

“There is no such thing as a typical job. We pride ourselves on printing on any digitally compatible stock that the customer specifies and we frequently print just a single copy of a book – in fact our average run length is just 1.7 books.”

“Using a Mutoh ValueJet 1614-64” printer, along with the Speedwrap System, cuts the application time in half, allowing a high volume of wraps and profit while keeping costs low,” shares Pate.

“We are always pushing our equipment to the limits, and the new 700 Print Manager will help us get the most productivity from our digital printing devices,” noted Tom Fenske, Controller, Fenske Media Corporation.

Tampa-based CCM Graphic Solutions is using Xerox technology and marketing knowhow to help their customers combat the effects of the economic downturn. Faced with slowing attendance and shrinking advertising dollars, NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning turned to CCM to produce full-color, customized photo books designed to attract and retain sponsors and suite holders. CCM was also tasked with helping to introduce and show the positive impact Superboat.com, which organizes regional boat racing series, could make to the Clearwater, Fla. Community by creating full-color photo books in a 24-hour turnaround.

“The XML schema underlying Digi-Shop has made it possible for us to use Web Services to integrate with a wide-range of web-to-print applications,” said Chris Huber, President & CEO, Virtual Systems.

June 12—Jeff Hayzlett, Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company, was awarded the prestigious G.D. Crain Jr. Award for Marketing Excellence at the Business Marketing Association’s (BMA) 2009 Annual Conference in Chicago on June 10. The award is named in honor of business marketing icon and pioneer G.D. Crain, founder of Crain Communications, [...]

New exciting feature stream includes Agfa Graphics’ own :Apogee Preflight, and an exquisite new print buyer web interface for page upload and approval. Most fascinating is the way multi-part jobs are handled through a strong user interface and a well balanced JDF implementation.

As the publishing industry continues to fragment, many of its best growth opportunities are in “small places,” with profits realized from efficient, low-cost processes.