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Kodak and Ricoh Partnership

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Last week we had the fuss about the Wall Street Journal and their misunderstanding of the messages they were given in a briefing by Kodak Chairman and CEO Antonio Perez. In that the WSJ incorrectly reported that Kodak planned to divest itself of its Nexpress and Digimaster digital printing operations, ...

Is Screen to Introduce a Violet Technology Newspaper CtP Unit?

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

At risk of muddying the water in the eternal CtP debate about thermal and violet technologies, I would like to quote from an interview recently given by Kyohei Fujisawa, the President of Media and Precision Technology of Dainippon Screen Manufacturing Company. This quote is from an interview given to the ...

Kodak Must Look to the Long-Term

Monday, December 29th, 2008

As my next Tribute's Tuesday column is not until mid January I am putting this subject on the blog as I feel there are points to be made now. The majority of suppliers today are having a hard time and few are meeting the market projections they made around the ...

drupa Innovation Parc

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

This is my final blog entry covering drupa 2008 that finished just under one week ago. One of the most interesting areas at drupa was in Hall 7 and it was the drupa Innovation Parc (dip). This hall differed from every other hall at drupa in that it was one where ...

New Presses from Xerox

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

At drupa Xerox made a number of new product announcements but there were two of particular significance. These were the Xerox iGen4 press and the Xerox 700 Digital Color Press. I am writing about the new Xerox iGen4 as I feel that in announcing this product Xerox failed to really ...

Computer to Plate (CtP) at drupa

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

While CtP has been around a long time first appearing in the 1980s, it did not really come into the spotlight until drupa 1995. At that time it shared the overall spotlight of technological advance with digital printing. 1995 was when thermal CtP from Kodak and Creo burst onto the ...

Get Prinected – Real Integration

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

One of the real highlights of drupa is to be found in the Heidelberg halls, Hall 1 and 2. Here in a superb layout all the Heidelberg and Polar products are in operation. What may not be realized is that every one of these products is linked together in what ...