Kodak

MONTREAL, Canada—At the FFTA’s Annual Forum and INFO*FLEX Exhibition in Montreal, Canada (May 6-9), Kodak announced that it will offer MacDermid Printing Solutions’ Digital MUST, Digital RAVE, and Digital EPIC printing plates to customers worldwide. This agreement is part of Kodak’s initiative to expand its package printing solutions portfolio to include digital flexographic plates, giving customers access to a full line of integrated prepress solutions from a single provider that includes workflow, proofing, digital plate imaging, and printing plates. “To grow revenue and increase profit, package printers are looking for consistent, stable, repeatable print that delivers high-impact results on the store shelf,” said Vic

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) upgraded its digital imaging lab with an equipment donation from Kodak that included a KODAK TRENDSETTER 800 III QUANTUM Platesetter and KODAK PRINERGY EVO Workflow System. “This is a major addition to our prepress laboratory capabilities. With the TRENDSETTER 800 III QUANTUM platesetter and PRINERGY EVO workflow system, our students are learning on the latest technology of its kind,” said Harvey Levenson, department head, graphic communication department, Cal Poly. “In addition, the processless capabilities of the TRENDSETTER platesetter support the continuing ‘greening’ of the graphic communications industry, a trend that we all welcome.” This latest donation of

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) upgraded its digital imaging lab with an equipment donation from Kodak that included a KODAK TRENDSETTER 800 III QUANTUM Platesetter and KODAK PRINERGY EVO Workflow System. “This is a major addition to our prepress laboratory capabilities. With the TRENDSETTER 800 III QUANTUM platesetter and PRINERGY EVO workflow system, our students are learning on the latest technology of its kind,” said Harvey Levenson, department head, graphic communication department, Cal Poly. “In addition, the processless capabilities of the TRENDSETTER platesetter support the continuing ‘greening’ of the graphic communications industry, a trend that we all welcome.” This latest donation of

By Dr Peter Harrop IDTechEx Nowadays, the term printed electronics is taken to include thin film electronics that will become printable. Most of the potential for printed electronics lies in what Toppan Forms calls Smart Media Products (SMP) which will be intelligent and mass producible yet often customisable as well. They will usually be used at the human interface or connected to networks and embedded ubiquitously into the environment. All this means that printed electronics will largely create new markets, such as tape around pipelines to detect leaks and impending leaks and signal that there is a problem. After all, leaks still occur in

ROCHESTER, N.Y.—A new Kodak Trendsetter 400 II Quantum Platesetter at Fox Valley Technical College (FVTC) will serve dual purposes, hands-on training for the next generation of graphic communications providers, and improved turnaround time for customers of the school’s in-plant print shop. “It was natural for us to expand our relationship with Kodak. As an industry leader, Kodak solutions allow us to give our students an education of the highest quality while providing local not for profits with affordable, high-quality print,” said Dale Drake, department chair, printing and publishing program. “In our eight-year relationship with Kodak, we have attracted some of the best students

GHENT, Belgium—The Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG), an international association that helps produce and exchange digital documents for the publishing workflow, announced the availability of new GWG Packaging Specifications, offering best practices for PDF file exchange in packaging applications. The specifications developed by the GWG’s packaging experts were tested in North America by Kraft Foods Inc., and in Europe by France’s Square. The new specifications are downloadable for free at www.gwg.org. GWG Packaging Specifications Reduce Time-to-Market According to GWG Packaging Subcommittee co-chairs, Steve Carter, director of technology, St. Louis Division of Southern Graphics Systems, and Christian Blaise, international sales account manager for Enfocus,

TORONTO, Ontario—The International Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress (CIP4) organization and Ryerson University announced a free “JDF Education Event” to be held at Ryerson University in Toronto on Tuesday, 20 February 2007. This one-day program will cover all aspects of print process automation, CIP4 and the Job Definition Format (JDF), and is hosted by Ryerson University’s School of Graphic Communications Management. This JDF 101 Education Event is the first of its kind in Canada. Speakers will identify the benefits of JDF-enabled process automation experienced by small and medium-sized commercial offset and digital printers, and will provide an introduction