Into The Great Wide Open

• Kodak Professional announced new display materials such as Duratrans, with a translucent base for creating backlit displays; Duraclear, a transparency material; and Duraflex, a tough material coated on nine-mil white-pigmented thick-base polyester.

Wide-format Demand Growing

According to I.T. Strategies, a research firm serving the digital printing market, there were 37,000 wide-format printers shipped in 1998, bringing the total of installations worldwide to 67,000 units. I.T. Strategies predicts that this figure will jump to over 293,000 printers installed by the end of 2003.