The KODAK NEXPRESS SX Digital Production Color Platform with the long-sheet option has been honored with the German printing industry's prestigious Innovation Award 2011. The digital press scooped the coveted 'Most Innovative Technology' (Gold Award) in the Printing category. The awards are organized by the Deutscher Drucker Verlagsgesellschaft publishing house. The winners were chosen in an internet poll by readers of Deutscher Drucker and Grafische Palette, two leading German trade journals, and print.de, from a total of 30 technologies nominated by the publications' editors.
This latest award marks a hat trick of honors for Kodak. In 2009, the company won an Innovation Award for its unique KODAK NEXPRESS Dimensional Printing System, while last year Kodak walked away with two Innovation Awards—the first for its KODAK TRILLIAN SP Thermal Plate in the Prepress category and the second for its KODAK PROSPER 5000XL Press in the Printing category.
This year's awards ceremony was held on Nov. 10 at the PrintNight gala in Stuttgart, which was attended by hundreds of guests from the graphic communications world. Bernhard Niemela, Managing Director of Deutscher Drucker Verlagsgesellschaft and Editor in Chief of Deutscher Drucker, presented the awards to the proud winners.
"We're very honored to walk away with such a highly respected award for the third consecutive year," said Mark Clark, Regional General Manager & Vice President Digital Printing Solutions EAMER, Kodak. "The accolade is particularly satisfying because it was print professionals working on the frontline who voted for us. It underlines Kodak's track record of developing solutions that help print services providers overcome the challenges they face in the graphic communications industry."
The NEXPRESS SX Platform: top-quality digital printing with value-adding options
The NEXPRESS SX Platform offers superior print quality, excellent substrate flexibility, and numerous in-line coating and printing effects. The system helps print service providers across the world to differentiate their offering and drive revenue by enabling them to create unique, value-adding products.
New features of the NEXPRESS SX Platform include speeds of up to 131ppm, a longer sheet size (26"/660 mm), smaller ink particle size with the new KODAK NEXPRESS HD Dry Inks, new KODAK NEXPRESS Light Black HD Solution, and a new matte printing option. For an overview of the Spencer Lab Photographic Print Image Quality Study where Kodak captured highest rating, visit http://bit.ly/SpencerLabStudy.
The KODAK NEXPRESS Fifth Imaging Unit Solution offers a raft of options for value-added production, including watermarking, protection coating, glossing, MICR printing, gamut expansion, in-line Dimensional Printing that is unique in the industry, and red fluorescing ink for security and workflow applications.
About Kodak
As the world's foremost imaging innovator, Kodak helps consumers, businesses, and creative professionals unleash the power of images, information, and printing to enrich their lives. In the graphic communications industry, Kodak serves customers in the printing, publishing, packaging and enterprise markets with intelligent solutions for competitive advantage and greater return on investment. For more information, visit graphics.kodak.com.
