Printing at the Olympics

As the Olympics wrap up in Beijing, Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group (GCG) is preparing to power down the on-site production center (a.k.a. in-plant) it has operated throughout the event.

The Official Imaging Sponsor of the Olympic Games, Kodak’s GCG operated a NexPress S2500 Digital Production Color Press with a fifth imaging unit to print photobooks, postcards, newsletters and poster-sized photo prints of key images from the games for display purposes. The NexPress also produced a Kodak Olympic Picture of the Day poster. Kodak Unified Workflow Solutions enabled variable data and static jobs to move seamlessly through the production center.

Kodak technology also helped produce more than 1.2 million security badges and credentials. Applications were scanned with a Kodak i620 scanner using Capture Software. Badges were printed using Kodak Professional ML-500 or 9810 digital photo printers.

In other print-related Olympics news, EFI’s Jetrion 3025 ink-jet system was used by the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corp. to print 13 million tickets for the Olympics with radio-frequency identification (RFID) and variable data on every ticket.