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News Release from: Kodak Graphic Communications Group | Subject: Nexpress 2500
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 December 2006
Digital Press Provides Colour
Personalised Print
The Digital Bureau is a new digital print service of The Finishing Company, based in Witham, Essex (UK).
The Digital Bureau is a new digital print service of The Finishing Company, based in Witham, Essex (UK) A new division dedicated to pursuing the increasing possibilities available in the digital print arena, the company has made an investment of upwards of GBP0.5 million in equipment, which includes a Kodak Nexpress 2500 digital production colour press, designed to bring new opportunities within The Digital Bureau's reach
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 5 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ray Lesnik, managing director of The Finishing Company, commented: "Right from the outset we have been continuously diversifying our business and as we were already producing mono personalised carrier sheets, it seemed the obvious next step to offer a further service to customers in the form of colour personalised printing.
We are particularly interested in investigating bespoke front covers for publishers of small run publications and are already working on some examples of these where we have had very positive results.
I believe that this is an area where high quality digital printing can really offer some great opportunities." Kodak's Nexpress press was installed at the Witham site in July.
It is Kodak's new high-end model.
Stuart King, digital printing development manager for The Digital Bureau, explained: "We had considered a few different presses but from personal experience I already knew the advantages that the Kodak press could offer us.
The outstanding quality it provides and the range of colours that can be produced on the five colour model is outstanding.
However, before committing to anything we had also devised our own in-house colour test and trialed it on the different machines we had in mind.
The Nexpress press came out head and shoulders above the rest." He continued: "As well as the fantastic colour range and quality produced, one of the things we particularly like is the fact that litho, not just digital stock, can be used in the machine.
It's also extremely robust and provides exceptional uptime." Lesnik added: "My first experience of the Nexpress press was at Ipex and I have to say that I was very impressed by the quality of what I was shown.
For me it is proving a new learning curve against litho, which is where my background lies, but the potential is fantastic." The Digital Bureau was set up with Stuart King at the helm, using his experience in digital colour printing, which includes previous work with a Nexpress press as he had been part of the first ever Nexpress 2100 Plus digital colour press install in the UK.
He said: "As a previous user, I can only say that the various enhancements the Nexpress 2500 offers over the 2100 Plus, which include the sheet size, speed and weight, only serve to enhance what was already an excellent printing device.
Combining these with the additional upgrades to the Nexstation front end, with its new RIP and imposition tools, it really is a very powerful machine." And King continued: "I have always been very impressed with the training services provided by Kodak and the installation of the new model here in our specially designed facility in Witham was superb." The Digital Bureau is able to take in artwork of any description and using software it can manipulate variable data in to this to produce almost anything a customer requires, claimed the company.
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