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Repro Busek, with more than 40 years of experience in prepress and platemaking, recently installed a KODAK FLEXCEL NX System that helps the company match up to gravure quality, according to Reinhard Deim, Sales Manager and Board member.

Germany’s Reproservice Eurodigital GmbH has streamlined flexographic plate production and increased output after investing in the Kodak FLEXCEL NX Wide System.

Kodak will highlight its packaging solutions at the PLMA Private Label Trade Show in Chicago, November 13-15.

Eastman Kodak Company reported steady progress toward becoming a profitable and sustainable digital company as third-quarter digital earnings improved, excluding non-recurring patent licensing revenue in the prior-year period, and sales increased in its core digital growth businesses. Total company revenue declined largely because of lower sales of traditional products, a planned reduction in digital camera sales, and the absence, compared to the year-ago period, of significant non-recurring patent licensing revenue. Third-quarter sales were $1.462 billion, a 17 percent decrease from the year-ago quarter or only 5% when excluding the benefit of a $210 million non-recurring patent licensing transaction in

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including items on Avery Dennison and Gallus, AB Graphics, Montalvo upgrades for Mark Andy presses,  Multi-Plastics Extrusions' signing of the Hutchinson Miller Sales Company, Martin Automatic, TLMI and ALTANA.

North American Graphics (NAG) in Warren, Mich., added a KODAK FLEXCEL NX Wide System to its arsenal for digital platemaking. NAG, a digital prepress and platemaking specialist, becomes the first trade house in the United States to install Kodak’s FLEXCEL NX Wide System.

PMMI reports that with more than 26,000 attendees, 1,559 exhibitors, and nearly 630,000 net square feet, PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2011 broke its event records on these and several other counts.

DPLenticular, the European leader in the supply of Lenstar lenticular plastic sheets and rolls for the graphic arts industry, announces - together with Omet - the successful conclusion of printing trials with Lenstar lenticular roll material on the Omet X-Flex flexographic printing press. According to Gianluca Vitali from Omet Technical Dept., the results look very promising and will certainly create new possibilities and markets for many flexo printers. Samples from the print run were distributed at Omet’s stand 6H90 during Labelexpo Europe 2011 in Brussels. The trials were done on the Omet X-Flex press. This modular press has full

ROCHESTER, NY -- Kodak announced the KODAK SPOTLESS Flexographic Solution, a new system that helps flexographic trade service providers and printers maintain impactful product package appearance, cut costs and increase production efficiency through the reduced use of spot colors. The new software and measurement device package is an ideal companion to the award-winning KODAK FLEXCEL NX System. Users of FLEXCEL NX Plates enjoy better print stability, higher print densities and wider color gamut with four-color process printing than other digital flexo plates?features that are essential for successful substitution of spot colors with process color printing. The KODAK SPOTLESS Flexographic

Kodak announced the KODAK TRACELESS AD System for Antidiversion, a proprietary solution for manufacturers to defend against gray market activities, reported by Deloitte LLP to cost businesses billions of dollars in revenue each year. The system combines an invisible ink and proprietary detection system.