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News Release from: Komori UK | Subject: Lithrone S40 Japanese Prize
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 April 2004
Komori Lithrone S40 Wins Major
Technology Prize
The Komori Lithrone S40 has been selected by the technology prize selection committee of the Japan Federation of Printing Industries for the Printing Industry Technology Prize.
The Komori Lithrone S40 has been selected by the technology prize selection committee of the Japan Federation of Printing Industries for the Printing Industry Technology Prize The Lithrone S40 was judged to be comprehensively superior to its nearest rivals due its enormous marketability based on its current market performance
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 1 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Lithrone S40 was the recipient of one of only two technology prizes to be awarded this year.
With this prize, the Lithrone S40 has now won five design and technology prizes from three countries around the world.
The previous prizes include The Industrial Design Prize at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Awards, 2002 (Nikkan Kogyo Newspaper) and The Good Design Award, 2002 (Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization).
In addition, it has won the iF Design Award, 2002 (Industrie Forum Design, Hanover, Germany) and the InterTech Technology Award, 2003 (Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, GATF, United States).
The latest prizes are awarded to individuals or enterprises central to technological advancements that greatly contribute to the development of printing industries or the application of printing technologies to other industries.
The prizes are limited to projects that have achieved actual results and exclude fields that are still at a developmental stage.
The judges look for the originality of the technology, and its progressiveness.
They also consider its marketability in that the technology is creating a large market, or has the potential to do so and the potential development of the technology (I.e it might be extended to other applications). Request a free brochure from Komori UK ...
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