According to Kodak, the new Nexpress Red Fluorescing Dry Ink enables a wide range of security and inventory management applications, including certified documents, such as medical prescription pads, drivers’ licenses and event tickets.
Steve Fletcher, general manager, Electrophotographic Printing Solutions, Kodak says, “This innovative expansion of the Nexpress Fifth Imaging Unit Solutions allows digital print service providers to enter the lucrative and growing secure documents and track and trace markets.
“The amazing versatility of the family of Nexpress digital production colour Presses is designed to help print service providers stay on the forefront of a demanding, quickly changing marketplace.”
Kodak continues that this new ink allows clear bar codes to be printed inline and can encompass variable data printing, allowing each printed piece to be marked with distinctive information. The Nexpress Red Fluorescing Dry Ink can be easily exchanged with other Fifth Imaging Unit Solutions, allowing print service providers to efficiently move between various types of printing projects.
The new ink also creates opportunities for current Nexpress customers to offer new services to their existing customer bases and enter new markets, according to Kodak. It will allow commercial printers to expand their digital print operations into secure documents and other businesses, and will provide book printers with new ways to take advantage of inventory management and automation improvements.
Kodak worked with bar code reader pioneer InData Systems to develop a red fluorescing dry ink application that would be widely adaptable in the field, allowing it to be printed on a variety of backgrounds.
John Hattersley, president of InData Systems says, “This new ink from Kodak opens up a number of new markets for digital printing. It’s a huge breakthrough, because now one printing application can include both a pass/fail authentication system and include a significant amount of identifying information.”
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