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KODAK i5000 Series Scanners Target Accuracy and Automation to Help Drive Down Costs of Document-Based Business Processes

Friday 04. March 2011 - The KODAK i5000 Series Scanners will help enterprise and service bureau organizations increase their production level capture performance through optimized accuracy and automated functionality—resulting in an impressive total cost of ownership.

Designed for the most diverse job streams within high-volume document environments, these new scanners provide more usable information in black and white, color or dual stream at rated speeds to digital mail rooms and document processing operations found within financial, insurance, legal and government organizations.
“The broad advantages of the i5000 Series Scanners directly support strategic business priorities. Each feature of the i5000 Series Scanners address specific needs as a result of customer research—to provide information capture up to 33 percent more accurate at up to $100,000 less to own over the course of five years than select competitive offerings—enabling users to process more data per dollar, more accurately, while helping drive their costs down,” said Budd Webster, Business Director, Scanners, Document Imaging, Kodak’s Business Solutions and Services Group.
The i5000 Series Scanners support key customer priorities to feed more accurate information and images into a business process for action or archiving at rated speeds. Greater automation is provided through programmable function keys for job customization, requiring less operator interaction with the host. The i5000 Series Scanners have advanced capabilities in equipment intelligence, including memory optimization for increased processing power and better optical resolution capture without sub-sampling or simple interpolation of dpi to better enable Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR) and improved data extraction. Overall, the scanners’ image processing and paper handling improvements, including streak filtering and controlled stacking, greatly reduce re-scans and sorting to provide enhanced productivity.
“From the cubicle to the corner office, document management will continue to play a critical role as businesses respond to change and prepare themselves for the future,” said Tony Barbeau, General Manager, Document Imaging, Kodak’s Business Solutions and Services Group. “Kodak’s design team for the i5000 Series Scanners examined the processes of high volume operations from start to finish, which enabled us to create a scanner that delivers greater processing performance, boosts capture accuracy where most needed and promotes the security of digital data.”
The i5200 Scanner and i5600 Scanner will largely benefit enterprise and top tier medium-to-large sized businesses and service bureaus’ production-scanning services and processes. The KODAK i5200 Scanner and the KODAK i5600 Scanner have rated speeds of 140 pages per minute (ppm) and 170 ppm, respectively, at 300 dots per inch (dpi) in color and dual stream modes with all imaging features enabled—both models have an unlimited recommended daily volume.
To meet the high-volume demands of these operations, the C-shape, duplex scanners come equipped with an automatic 750-sheet elevator design with four feed settings. Additional features of the i5000 Series Scanners include five individual multi-feed sensors with ignore zones for more flexible detection, resettable consumable counters for tracking and maintenance and new color dropout options of “multiple” and “predominant” in addition to red, green and blue to eliminate the need for job sorting by color.
The scanners use embedded logic algorithms in their digital architecture that automatically finds the fastest processing path for scanning. Software includes Kodak’s Perfect Page Image Processing Technology, a suite of built-in capabilities that automatically enhance the quality of digital images and corrects for streaks, color, brightness, contrast, readability, orientation and background, enabling more accurate and instantly usable scanned information within a business process. The i5000 Series Scanners also provide multiple interface support including TWAIN and ISIS Drivers utilizing USB connectivity.
The i5000 Series Scanners will be available for purchase through Kodak’s network of channel partners. The i5200 Scanner will be will be priced at $30,000 (in the U.S.) and the i5600 Scanner will be priced at $45,000 (in the U.S.).