Kodak Nexpress SX wins German printing award

The Kodak Nexpress SX digital press with the long-sheet option has been honored with the German printing industry’s Innovation Award 2011. The digital press scooped the coveted ‘Most Innovative Technology’ (Gold Award) in the printing category. The awards are organized by the Deutscher Drucker Verlagsgesellschaft publishing house. The winners were chosen in an internet poll by readers of Deutscher Drucker and Grafische Palette, two German trade journals, and print.de, from a total of 30 technologies nominated by the publications’ editors.

This year’s awards ceremony was held on November 10 at the PrintNight gala in Stuttgart, which was attended by hundreds of guests from the graphic communications world. Bernhard Niemela, managing director of Deutscher Drucker Verlagsgesellschaft and editor in chief of Deutscher Drucker, presented the awards to the winners.

New features of the Nexpress SX include speeds of up to 131ppm, a longer sheet size (26in/660 mm), smaller ink particle size with the new Nexpress HD dry inks, new Nexpress Light Black HD, and a new matte printing option. Click here for an overview of the Spencer Lab photographic print image quality study where Kodak captured highest rating.

The Kodak Nexpress Fifth Imaging Unit offers a raft of options for value-added production, including watermarking, protection coating, glossing, MICR printing, gamut expansion, in-line dimensional printing – claimed to be unique in the industry – and red fluorescing ink for security and workflow applications.  

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