Kodak NexPress 2500

356mm x 520mm with Matt or Hi-gloss coating finishes

Whether you work for an advertising agency, design studio or as a freelance resource, you need to offer your customers high-value solutions and new ways of solving old problems. Digital print gives you and your client timelier, more effective ways of reaching and influencing customers.

The value of digital colour printing

Whether it’s invitations, customer information such as brochures and catalogs, or customised leaflets and posters, digital colour printing gives a new meaning to applications like quick turnaround, short runs, print-on-demand or 100% variable data printing. Digital printing offers the freedom to convey marketing messages in sophisticated, high-quality style in print media.

Digital printing offers freedom

Take advantage of our high-quality, full colour printing that delivers results you’ll be proud of. With digital printing, you can get sharp text and lines plus rich, detailed halftones. Moreover, digital printing supports an extremely wide range of paper sizes, stocks, weights and finishes (both coated and uncoated). Because paper cost is often less of a factor in short run printing, you’re more likely to have the flexibility to specify papers that have previously been out of reach.

Digital printing is fast

You always want to say ‘yes’ to clients, even when they come to you with ‘impossible’ deadlines for projects or updates. Our press can deliver high-quality printed pieces in hours and not days. This makes it a powerful tool for responding to rapidly changing markets with far less time allocated for printing, more of the time is yours, giving you a better opportunity to do work you’ll be proud of.

Large areas of solid colours, tints and blends

There are several design techniques you’ll want to learn to help improve the way large flat areas of solid colours or tints reproduce on a digital press. To maintain a smooth appearance, introduce a slight pattern to modulate the colour. The pattern can take the form of texture, subtle graphics or simple noise. Adding a pattern can also improve colour reproduction and eliminate banding. The same holds true for large areas of colour blends and gradients.

On a digital press, large areas of solid colour, tints or blends may show some unevenness or banding.

Adding a subtle pattern to the background or incorporating other design elements may increase the visual attractiveness of the piece and eliminate banding.

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Spot colours

The NexPress uses spot colour mapping and special look-up tables to automatically match Pantone colours using CMYK dry inks. That means that you do not have to alter or reformulate Pantone and other spot colours. In certain instances the press would utilize a ‘fifth’ colour as either R, G or B to better simulate your Pantone colour. The NexPress cannot however emulate luminous or metallic spot colours.