Kodak Continues to Grow in Digital Printing

There were many pioneers in the inkjet printing field. One of the earliest companies to see the potential for digital printing was the Eastman Kodak Company, who saw opportunities in the direct mail space. Today, Kodak has inkjet presses covering the gamut of printing, with award-winning inks to go with them. Looking back, Kodak’s history of innovation in inkjet goes back more than five decades. “Starting in 1967, Kodak produced dye-based inks for early generation CIJ and DOD printheads for narrow width formats for variable printing of transactional, direct mail, letter solicitation applications, printing at 300 meters per minute,” said Randy Vandagriff, SVP print for Kodak. “Kodak followed with breakthroughs in full-page, 4-color transactional printing in the 1990s; high speed full color book, newspaper, and direct mail printing with its third generation PROSPER technology, using nano particulate, water-based inks that deliver superb print quality, bri