This Week in Kodak "TWIK News"

- Kodak launched its first new products since it acquired the Bowe Bell & Howell scanner division. The Truper 3210 and 3610 offer:

- 3210 has both flat bed and a 200 sheet document feeder

- 3610 is rotary only scanner

- Both are actually made by Panasonic

- Up to 90 pages per minute in color or b/w

- Scans both sides of original at same time
- Up to 15,000 originals per day
- Up to 11.9” x 17”
- 3210 document feeder can read an original up to 100’ long
- Ultrasonic multi-feed detection
- Multi-feed Ignore feature for scanning envelopes
- Can scan originals with sticky notes or photos attached
- Optional pre-scan imprinter
- 600x600dpi
- Advanced Color Dropout Technology to remove up to 6 colors in a multicolor document for optimal OCR, ICR and barcode recognition
- Bundled with Kofax VRS 4.5 Professional software for image enhancement
- Auto color detect
- Auto blank page removal
- Auto orientation
- 3610 has MSRP of $6995
- 3210 has MSRP of $8495

- Kodak also shipping the new Scan Station 500 offering:
- Network port
- 3,000 scans per day max duty cycle
- Voice Attachment allows users to send personalized audio messages alongside the scanned images
- Perfect Page Image Processing Technology
- 8” color LCD touch screen control panel
- Optional keyboard
- Base MSRP of $2495
- Optional flatbed scanner
- Optional connector for NSi AutoStore software

- Kodak announced that it signed a new loan agreement with Citicorp and Banc of America giving it access to $200 million. With the new funds, it paid down $125 million in debt to other lenders.

- Kodak announced it sold a NexPress S3000 production color system to Maes Printing Solutions of Belgium (ironically, Belgium is home to Punch Xeikon production color presses, a competitor to Kodak)

- Kodak announced it sold a Versamark VL2200 production color inkjet system to Vertis Communications.

- Kodak’s CREO division announced that the print servers now support MS Windows 7 and MAC OS X v10.6.

- Kodak announced that it signed a multi-year contract with Ricoh. Details:
- Ricoh & IKON branches will now be authorized to sell both Kodak Digimaster production b/w systems and NexPress production color systems
- Contract also includes Kodak Document Imaging Solutions and Unified Workflow Solutions
- Includes CREO print servers and PRINERGY production print workflow solutions
- IKON and Ricoh will offer service contracts for Digimaster products, but only Kodak can service the NexPress product
- Kodak claims to have 3,000 service technicians total in 120 countries
- Unknown how many RBS or IKON locations will have these products on display


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