Last week’s Wall Street Journal article contends that Kodak is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Kodak would not comment on what it considers rumors, and that’s fair given that the Journal’s story was based on unnamed sources, but last fall under similar circumstances Kodak put out a press release denying any intention to declare bankruptcy. This time around the rumors are looking like a distinct possibility.
At a press event for a dozen trade journalists and industry analysts in Chicago this week, Fujifilm showed off the J Press 720 and announced that Gilson Graphics in Grand Rapids, Michigan would be receiving the first one in the United States this fall.
The J Press 720 is a B2 format production color inkjet printer that was first unveiled at drupa 2008. The J Press 720’s road to market included stops last year at IPEX and Graph Expo, with one arriving at Fujifilm’s U.S. demo center in mid-May. Gilson Graphics will receive its J Press 720 this fall, probably in October. By that point there will be three beta sites in Japan.
Fujifilm J Press 720
Tags: Adobe, Dimatix, FujiFilm, Gilson Graphics, graph expo, Heidelberg, Inkjet, J Press, J Press 720, Kodak, manroland, offset, PDF Print Engine, Prinect, Prinergy, Prosper, Rampage, Samba, XMF
Last week I traveled to Rapid City, South Dakota to visit Fenske Media, a data-driven solutions provider that installed a Kodak Prosper 5000XL last December. Fenske Media is using the Prosper 5000XL for a range of full color mail applications on glossy paper. Glossy paper is the key to expanding high-speed inkjet printing into new applications at offset quality levels. As Dave Fenske, Partner at Fenske Media, concisely puts it “Printing is entertainment, and entertainment equals shine.”
Fenske Media, Rapid City, South Dakota
Tags: 5000XL, catalogs, coated paper, Color, commercial print, digital print, direct mail, direct marketing, Fenske Media, glossy paper, Heidelberg, Inkjet, Kodak, Kodak NexPress, magalogs, Magazines, NexPress, NexPress 3600, Prinergy, Prosper, Prosper 5000XL, Rapid City, South Dakota, Speedmaster, Versamark, Versamark VL2200, Xeikon, Xeikon 5000
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