Kodak Announces Multiple Innovations From Software to Digital Press
Giving his overall assessment of testing KODAK PRINERGY On Demand Access in a production environment, Tomblinson says, "As an old prepress guy, this gives me goosebumps frankly."
Further announcements include a new water-based varnish that can be jetted as an area or spot coat to printed packages using KODAK PROSPER S-Series or KODAK PROSPER Plus Imprinting Systems. The eco-friendly PROSPER Digital Varnish can be applied in register with design elements and creates a matte protective layer providing rub and water resistance to paper-based packaging applications. In a written statement that accompanied the conference, Kodak noted that its PROSPER Digital Varnish helps printers eliminate the costs, effort, waste and environmental impact associated with traditional post-coating methods because it is applied only where needed and doesn’t require plate making for spot coating. The KODAK PROSPER Digital Varnish will be available worldwide by the end of 2021.
As editor-in-chief of Packaging Impressions — the leading publication and online content provider for the printed packaging markets — Linda Casey leverages her experience in the packaging, branding, marketing, and printing industries to deliver content that label and package printers can use to improve their businesses and operations.
Prior to her role at Packaging Impressions, Casey was editor-in-chief of BXP: Brand Experience magazine, which celebrated brand design as a strategic business competence. Her body of work includes deep explorations into a range of branding, business, packaging, and printing topics.
Casey’s other passion, communications, has landed her on the staffs of a multitude of print publications, including Package Design, Converting, Packaging Digest, Instant & Small Commercial Printer, High Volume Printing, BXP: Brand Experience magazine, and more. Casey started her career more than three decades ago as news director for WJAM, a youth-oriented music-and-news counterpart to WGCI and part of the Chicago-based station’s AM band presence.
