Inkjet & Digital Printing
KODAK NEXPRESS S3000 Digital Production Color Press Helps HR Imaging Focus On Expanding its Business
Thursday 26. February 2009 - For HR Imaging Partners, a photographic company dedicated to serving educational markets in the Midwest, image is everything.
So when the Ottawa, Illinois school photography company needed a way to personalize and digitally print high quality school portraits and specialty photo products in house, on demand, it turned to Kodak.
With the installation of its new KODAK NEXPRESS S3000 Digital Production Color Press, HR Imaging has taken its digital photo printing capabilities to new heights, and its customersand businesslook better than ever. The Variable Data Printing capabilities of the NEXPRESS S3000 Press enable HR Imaging to create unique, custom photo items for its growing customer base, including student identification cards, complete with photo and bar code information.
“As a leading photo services provider, were always looking for ways to incorporate higher value, higher margin photo press products into our operations,” says Jerry Halterman, President of HR Imaging Partners. “The installation of our NEXPRESS Press allows us to do that and a whole lot more. Now we can print high quality photographic images, photobooks, cards and calendars, all in house, while adding a personalized touch that provides our customers with meaningful ways to commemorate their most special occasions.”
HR Imaging Partners, Inc. has grown by continually expanding and enhancing the products and services it provides to schools throughout the Midwest. As the company realized the tremendous revenue potential with photo press products, it reviewed extensively several digital press options before choosing the NEXPRESS S3000 Press.
“In addition to valuing Kodaks legacy in the professional photo market, we were impressed with the capabilities of the NEXPRESS Press to produce exceptional color quality day in and day out,” said Halterman. “The KODAK NEXPRESS Fifth Imaging Unit Solutions open up a range of creative applications. The workflow and environmental benefits of the NEXPRESS Press also were important factors.”
The NEXPRESS S3000 Press is a five-color, high end production press in the NEXPRESS Press platform that helps users provide the results photographers want using a more sustainable print process with no VOCs, de-inkable sheets suitable for recycling, and a number of recyclable parts. The NEXPRESS S3000 Press uses press profiling and standard inks to match up to 82 percent of the PANTONE spot color gamut with no custom mixing required, which adds application flexibility.
To make photo press products even more appealing to consumers and expand capabilities for photo service providers, NEXPRESS Presses add tactile effects to images using KODAK NEXPRESS Intelligent Dimensional Coating Solution and KODAK NEXPRESS Dimensional Clear Dry Ink that create raised printing. Enabled exclusively in conjunction with KODAK NEXPRESS Fifth Imaging Unit Solutions, Dimensional Printing gives images a look and feel that mimics the surface of the items in a photograph.
NEXPRESS Press users can tap into digital print production software used by professional photo labs with the KODAK NEXPRESS Photo Connectivity Module for DP2, which provides a seamless workflow between KODAK PROFESSIONAL Digital Print Production Software (DP2) and the NEXPRESS Press.