Kodak Nexpress Digital Production Color Presses are designed to revitalize and elevate the services offered by print providers and drive additional volume for new revenue opportunities and enhanced profit potential, and enable an almost limitless range of applications that include marketing collateral, direct mail, statements, photo products, and packaging.

With this Digital Production Color Press, the print provider keeps high value work in-house instead of outsourcing it, which not only drives page volume with new applications, but also yields an improved bottom line. A significant advantage offered by the Nexpress Digital Production Color Presses is the Kodak Nexpress Fifth Imaging Unit Solutions. It has powerful in-line capability that helps extend the application reach and flexibility of print providers by allowing them to offer new colors, finishes and printing effects. This is more and more important as print clients look for ways to distinguish their offerings in very competitive environments.

Kodak Dimensional Printing offers a raised or tactile printing effect that provides images with a dimensional feel that mimics the surface of the items in a photograph. This unique capability is only available on Kodak Nexpress Digital Production Color Presses and helps providers stand out from their competition with innovative solutions. The addition of the Nexpress Dimensional Clear Dry Ink places raised text of graphics on any project.

Xerox India Limited announced an important milestone in the digital printing industry with the installation of its “first” Xerox 700 Digital Color Press at Ankita Communications, New Delhi that specializes in prepress solutions. Production features for the Xerox 700 Digital Color Press include coated paper handling, heavyweight media support, and feeding and finishing options.

The Digital Color equipment delivers productivity, excellent print quality and flexibility to print providers looking to adopt digital technology or expand their digital printing businesses. Ankita Communications is very happy with the first installation of the Xerox 700 Digital Color Press. The Digital Color 700 highlights the company’s emphasis on innovation, sustainability and commitment to delivering the right technology, workflow and business model to customers in the present and in the future.

The market for entry-level digital color presses is continuing to grow as more businesses are benefiting from the quality and value of digital printing. A spokesman from Ankita Communications said that the equipment installed offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of digital color systems and delivers feature rich functionality at an affordable price.

UNIMAC is a sheetfed and web printer based in Carlstadt, New Jersey. They recently purchased a new fully automated KBA Rapida 106 41-inch six-color press with UV capability, perfecting after the second unit, board kit, and extended delivery. The press will be shipped to UNIMAC in October 2008.

The KBA Rapida 106 features an 18,000 sph output, ultra-fast makeready times, and cutting-edge automation. The press provides a wide choice of automation options: the KBA DriveTonic dedicated drives and simultaneous plat mounting system and the DriveTonic feeder with presetting capabilities. It also features the GATF InterTech Sidelay-feed, DriveTonic SIS. The substrate range runs from lightweight papers to heavyboard, from plastic films to corrugated – all without adjusting any grippers.

UNIMAC is also partnering with KBA’s new independent consulting company known as KBA Complete. UNIMAC sought them out to help the firm deliver ultra-high-level manufacturing efficiency and automation across prepress, press, and postpress systems. UNIMAC Graphics is also developing its own printing processes to help its customers and working with different groups to become more environmentally-friendly.

Xeikon is a division of Punch Graphix and legendary for pioneering the first digital color presses. They recently launched the Xeikon 3000, its latest digital label press. It joins the Xeikon 3300 and completes the company’s product portfolio for the label and packaging industry.

The Xeikon 3300 represents a massive leap in label print quality by offering true 1200 dpi at four bits per spot. It has a top speed of 63 feet per minute and is an extremely fast digital color label press, particularly suited for short to medium print runs and just-in-time jobs. The Xeikon 3000 represents the entry-level counterpart of the Xeikon 3300. It is an ideal fit for label converters eager to enter digital printing but do not need the high speed and productivity of the Xeikon 3300. It is also a perfect press for label converters wanting to focus on niche applications like paperboard packaging or textile transfer printing.

The Xeikon 3000 has a top speed of 31.5 feet per minute and allows label converters to master digital printing at a more leisurely pace. The 3000 can also be upgraded to the Xeikon 3300 once the user is ready for the next level. The Xeikon 3000 is identical to the 3300 in imaging quality, format flexibility of substrates or substrate weight flexibility. Both presses can also print the four process colors and a range of standard or custom spot colors.

University Lithoprinters is a 75-year-old printing company that plans to support a wide variety of digital printing applications and broaden its sustainability initiatives with its recent investment in Kodak solutions. Based in Michigan, this printer recently purchased the Kodak NexPress 2100 Plus Digital Production Color Press.

They also purchased the Kodak MarketMover, Business Development Services that deliver a wide range of innovative tools, resources, and support to enable customers to maximize their return on investment in new technologies and achieve dynamic business growth. MarketMover Service professionals work directly with customers in developing marketing plans, training senior management and sales representatives on new business opportunities, and supporting marketing and sales programs.

To extend the value of the MarketMover Targeted Sales Modules, customers can choose from several optional services available through Marketing Mentors, Inc. The Kodak NexPress 2100 Plus Digital Production Color Presses meet a variety of needs up to very high volume environments. Customers can upgrade presses as they grow their businesses with options to select desired paper capacity, increase processing capability, and add a fifth imaging unit for delivery of spot color, watermarking and protective coating. Kodak Service and Support is made up of more than 3,000 professionals, reaching more than 120 countries.