Eastman Kodak Co.

Oscar Planas, Kodak VP of Marketing, Prepress Solutions, provides an overview of the technology that Kodak will showcase at IPEX.  Kodak's innovative prepress solutions bring greater efficiency, productivity and quality to the commercial print, publishing and packaging markets. At IPEX, Print service providers will experience exciting new technologies from Kodak that strike at the heart of some their toughest challenges. Innovation that will help customers maximize production efficiencies, improve return-on-marketing-investments, and grow and optimize their business.

GALLUP PRIDES itself on its reputation for delivering "relevant, timely and visionary research on what people around the world think." To deliver much of that information, the 75-year-old organization depends on its 32-employee in-plant facility in Omaha, Neb.

A few months ago, Tony Seaman was in charge of a 14-employee in-plant at the University of Mississippi. Today he is director of Brand Creative Services, a 25-employee operation that includes not just printing but designers, copywriters and brand account managers.

IT WAS a reunion well worth waiting for. Two years after its last conference in Florida, the Association of College and University Printers (ACUP) finally met again in April in Charlotte, N.C., bringing old friends and newcomers together for an enjoyable and enlightening event.

There are dozens of viable Web-to-print solutions, and trying to figure out which is the best fit for your shop can be a daunting task. The first step is to determine what you want to accomplish with a print e-commerce offering.

Don Sibley, Sibley Peteet Design; Donald Prust, Neiman Marcus; and Adrian Hasenbauer, Slingshot LLC, comment on the value of attending the Print Council’s "Print Delivers" event. Presenters shared the latest findings about print media effectiveness.  Sponsored by the Print Council and hosted by Williamson Printing, the event featured speakers from the U.S. Postal Service, Kodak, Heidelberg and Sappi.

The Ipex 2010 show, in Birmingham, UK, is in full swing right now. Many vendors are showing off new technology at the show, a lot of which uses ink-jet. For example, Xerox is previewing its high-speed production ink-jet technology, designed to produce high impact color on low cost papers. It is showing an ink-jet device using 56 durable piezo-electric, drop-on-demand print heads with more than 49,000 nozzles jetting nearly two billion ink drops per second. The printer produces more than 2,000 color images per minute.

Jeffrey W. Hayzlett will resign as its Chief Marketing Officer for Eastman Kodak Co., effective May 28, to pursue personal projects. According to a blog at Forbes.com, those projects may include television.

John Henderson, Director of Technology, The Bureau, shares his thoughts on the value of GUA and the benefits of being a Kodak customer. Includes comments on KODAK Unified Workflow Solutions and other prepress innovations from Kodak.

Kodak leaders provide an overview of the innovation and technology that will be on display at IPEX 2010. Kodak will feature new key market solutions based upon differentiating technology that will add value to customers- and helping them to grow their businesses. Quality, productivity, and delivering a consultancy are discussed, in addition to customer interviews.