Clays Announces Significant Investment in Kodak Digital Inkjet Printing Technology
Post on: 2011-11-02 By: admin
Leading company in book production installs a
KODAK PROSPER 1000 Press to increase digital output to 5 million books
U.K.-based Clays has announced the installation of a KODAK PROSPER 1000
Press as part of an integrated book production line. The line with the
PROSPER 1000 Press is up and running after a smooth installation period.
The company is the first choice supplier of leading U.K. publishing
“The KODAK PROSPER 1000 Press is ideal for printing short-run high
quality books,” said Erwin Busselot, Kodak’s Regional Marketing Director
Digital Printing. “Kodak has a strong partnership with Clays working to
support its drive to address online book ordering and increase
digital output. Clays' adoption of the PROSPER 1000 Press, based on
KODAK Stream Inkjet Technology, is a strategic step toward achieving
world leadership in book production.”
The PROSPER 1000 Press is an advanced monochrome digital inkjet press
that delivers high performance and offset-class quality. For some time,
Clays has researched and expanded its digital book production operation,
working closely with Kodak to achieve appropriate digital short run and
print-on-demand solutions at a competitive total cost of ownership,
providing publishers with digital print production without compromise.
Clays uses a range of Kodak equipment including three KODAK VLF
Platesetters and three KODAK LOTEM Platesetters for offset production.
The company is also in the final stages of installing a KODAK PRINERGY
Workflow System. Clays also utilizes a KODAK DIGIMASTER EX150 Digital
Production System with in-line finishing capability– to move from pdf to
finished book in minutes.
Clays is recognized as the leading book printer in the U.K., producing
about 170 million books per year. The company is increasing its digital
production levels to provide relevant solutions for publishers through
reduced inventory and waste.
According to Clays Managing Director Kate McFarlan, the focus of Clays
business strategy is to give publishers added value solutions aimed at a
more efficient and cost-effective supply chain.
“By taking digital book production to new levels of speed, quality and
capacity, we are in dialogue with our publishing house customers to
demonstrate the advantages that Clays can provide – through print
solutions for any run length from one to a million on the same paper
substrate and with no quality difference,” said McFarlan.
McFarlan believes that Clays is now perfectly placed to take advantage
of the ever increasing short run book printing market.
“The installation of the KODAK PROSPER 1000 Press establishes our
position and strengthens the digital production side of our business,”
she said. “Once again it sends a positive message to our customers that
we continue to build our business to their benefit. We strongly support
the publishing industry and consistently strive to improve our service
to them in a world of online ordering and on-demand printing. We are
working with companies such as Kodak as they sell solutions, not
machines. Our mantra will continue: ‘Clays sells Print and Delivers!’”
As the world's foremost imaging innovator, Kodak helps consumers,
businesses, and creative professionals unleash the power of pictures and
printing to enrich their lives.
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