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Has Apple taken shine off Kodak's patents?

News that Kodak now hopes to fast-track its patent sell-off is super-significant for the future of one of the industry's major suppliers. Realising maximum value for the 1,100 patents under the hammer is vital for Kodak to be able to execute its transformation plans and successfully emerge from the...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 06-15-2012
High-speed inkjet is hot and happening

HP was holding its pre-Drupa press conference at the time of typing, with headline news including the much-anticipated launch of a new B2-format Indigo (this time around it seems rather more likely this product will come to market than with Indigo's previous B2 foray in 2000-2004). Exciting stuff...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 03-13-2012
Kodak looking for a new momentum

So. Kodak. It got to the point where it would have been more surprising if the firm hadn't filed for Chapter 11, such was the overwhelming inevitability of this move. The iconic nature of the Kodak brand, forever associated with film-based photography and that ‘Kodak moment' (now rewritten after...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 01-20-2012
Prosper prospects crucial for Kodak

Will the Prosper inkjet system "save" Kodak? Industry analyst Andrew Tribute believes it can. In this video posted on Kodak's B2B YouTube channel Andy asserts that Prosper and the associated technologies around it will change the Kodak business model: "Whatever's happening on the...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 11-14-2011
Hornby's the man to get Kodak out of a jam

Kodak is promising great things for its Prosper inkjet press. When it comes to the jam tomorrow assurances emanating from the company's management, Prosper is a high fruit content luxe strawberry preserve. Unfortunately, its Q2 results last week revealed that the company has experienced something...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 08-01-2011
Self-Publishing: eBooks & The London Book Fair

I sat on the tube this morning and read with great interest the headline story in the Metro titled Ebook piracy ‘is colossal threat’ – especially after my visit to the London Book Fair last week. During my visit to the Earls Court show, I took in a Self-Publishing Masterclass seminar, and the full extent...

Posted to The Unbearable Lightness of Being Published (Weblog) by Steven Scaffardi on 04-18-2011
Plaudits for Lettershop

It's always nice to have a cheery end to the week, and it comes in the shape of the story in today's issue of PrintWeek about Lettershop Group and its use of high-speed colour inkjet. It was my privilege to be among the delegation that visited Leeds to learn about a project that has involved...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 02-18-2011
HP prospering with head-start

Putting aside Communisis' results for a moment (in summary: horrible year, no surprise that Blundell et al have shoved everything possible into the last period that took place under Vaughan's watch), I did utter an audible "oooh" when I saw that the group has bought an HP inkjet web...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 02-26-2010
Aussies focusing on photo gift opportunity

Further musings on the photobooks and photo gifts market, and the opportunities therein, have been sparked by some news from down under involving HP. HP has scored something of a coup by displacing Kodak as the digital photo supplier to retailer Kmart . The new HP solution involves the installation of...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 08-19-2009
Clays' digi move is one to watch

Changes are afoot in the world of digital book printing here in the UK. For us print dweebs it's something of a disappointment that CPI's decision to install its first HP Inkjet Web in France means we won't get to crawl all over this intriguing press at a convenient UK location any time soon...

Posted to Printer’s Devil – it’s in the detail (Weblog) by Jo Francis on 07-13-2009

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