Kodak offers Stream Inkjet Technology

In addition to continuous and drop-on-demand inkjet systems, Kodak will feature its Stream Inkjet Technology, which "will serve as the cornerstone of our future inkjet product line," Isidre Rosello, general manager of Kodak Graphic Communications Group's Inkjet Printing Solutions and vice president of Eastman Kodak Co., said in a statement.

Kodak Stream Inkjet Technology is a continuous inkjet system that the company claims "enables offset class reliability, productivity, cost and quality with the full benefits of digital printing for high-volume commercial applications."

It will bring continuous inkjet printing into commercial printers that want the benefits of variable data, short run, personalization or versioning on jobs ordinarily printed on offset presses, according to Kodak.

While full-color continuous inkjet technology has limited users to printing on uncoated paper with dye/water-based inks or higher-cost inkjet coated substrates, Stream Inkjet Technology, says Kodak, will print on both clay-coated and uncoated papers.Developed from scratch for high volume, the Stream Concept Press is being demonstrated at a resolution above 600 dpi at high speeds.

The Stream Concept printhead can deliver monochrome offset-class variable-data-printing applications at up to 1,000 feet per minute, demonstrating the technology's "potential for hybrid printing," according to Kodak.

The first product with the new technology is to be an easily operated and serviced four-inch printhead designed to produce a deep black at 600 dpi on glossy substrates.