Kodak has spent the last six years shifting its focus from cameras and traditional film to digital printing systems and long-life photographic ink.
In an effort to extend its business from office printers to business publishing, Hewlett-Packard said yesterday that it would invest $100 million in Indigo, a Dutch maker of digital color printing systems.
The company, the world's leading maker of printers for personal computers, said today that it had agreed to acquire the remaining outstanding shares it did not already own in Indigo, a maker of high-end digital color printing systems.
The Eastman Kodak Company said yesterday that it had offered about $980 million to acquire Creo, a maker of software used by printers as well as digital printing and imaging systems.
For more than a year, though, Kodak has been changing from a consumer company with a handful of products it sells to businesses, to one whose primary customers will soon be other companies -- whether its medical imaging systems, digital printing presses or image-sensor chips.
His research projects in the past have also included digital print and enterprise system optimization, chip cooling using digital microfluidics, wireless sensor networks, and real-time embedded systems.
The Production Printing domain applies resources in the form of their own digital printing technology, broad product line and global support system.
The digital printing center is connected to the CPUB fulfillment system; a printing is triggered when an order puts a title in the program out of stock.
Recently there has been an increased demand for imaging systems in support of high-speed digital printing.
The printing has utilized a digital printing method, inkjet printing.
