The high speed capabilities of the s1220 Photo Scanning System allow Oregon Photo to offer more competitive pricing on its scanning services due to the lower price per scan and reduce the need for training. The digital images captured from scanned images are available to customers in the form of CDs, DVDs, photobooks, photo calendars, enlarged prints and other products.

"The built in software and image processing capabilities of the s1220 Photo Scanning System have taken the 'rocket science' out of digitizing photos and allow anyone to utilize these solutions, from entry level employees to digital imaging veterans," said Welch. "Kodak's combination of image capture hardware and software creates a high performance package that competes with more expensive solutions and can provide a quick return on investment."

Oregon Photo has customized its own software to utilize the scanner's duplex scanning capabilities, which enable photographs with information on both sides of a photo to be captured and recorded. The photo retailer also utilizes the optional A4 flatbed scanning extension, which enables the KODAK s1220 Photo Scanning System to capture prints up to 11 in. x 17 in. in size.

"The benefits of the s1220 Photo Scanning System extend beyond the consumer market," said Dennis Hutson, Business Development Manager, Document Imaging, Kodak's Graphic Communications Group. "The KODAK s1220 Photo Scanning System can serve a variety of industries that need to digitize photographs for record keeping or other services, including retailers, government agencies and insurance firms."

KODAK Products are backed by KODAK Service and Support.KODAK Service and Support is made up of more than 3,000 professionals reaching more than 120 countries. It is a leading multi-vendor integrated services provider, delivering consulting, installation, maintenance and support services for the commercial printing, graphic communications, document imaging and data storage industries. KODAK Service and Support professionals are uniquely qualified to provide services that control costs, maximize productivity, and minimize business risk.

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"Sustainability is just doing what comes natural to the Progress Printing culture and Kodak is helping us in this area," says David Williams, Prepress Leader, Progress Printing. "We've been very conscious and deliberate about environmental practices for a long time."

KODAK UPFRONT Production Planning Software helps to increase productivity and decrease costly production planning errors by offering a lean, digital workflow that automates the variety of manual tasks associated with production planning. UPFRONT Software enables users to automatically produce accurate job layouts, create imposition ready digital templates for prepress, and send JDF/CIP3 information to finishing equipment.

"UPFRONT offered us the opportunity to digitally plan the job and make crisp printouts of the layout," said Williams.

"Today, we're completely electronic and we don't print any job plans. They're all PDF files that we attach to electronic job tickets."

UPFRONT Production Planning Software is designed for commercial sheetfed/digital printers who produce point of sale items, booklets, flyers, and stationery; web printers who print glossy weekly magazines and giveaway catalogs; and book printers.

"Automating our front end workflow with UPFRONT Software has reduced our job to proof time from three days down to one day," added Williams. "More importantly, using KODAK UPFRONT Software boosted efficiency and reduced human error from misreads, typos and transposing. UPFRONT Software built integrity repeatability and predictability into our production[DEL: s :DEL] planning. We use thousands of plates a month and prepress plate spoilage has declined to less than 1 percent. We're also wasting less paper and ink on incorrect jobs."

With 247 team members, Progress Printing serves more than 700 steady customers in 50 states and 14 foreign countries. The company's prime focus is turnkey short to medium run business to business catalogs and premier publications, along with booklets, brochures, inserts and mailers.

KODAK Products are backed by KODAK Service and Support. KODAK Service and Support is made up of more than 3,000 professionals reaching more than 120 countries. It is a leading multi-vendor integrated services provider, delivering consulting, installation, maintenance and support services for the commercial printing, graphic communications, document imaging and data storage industries. KODAK Service and Support professionals are uniquely qualified to provide services that control costs, maximize productivity, and minimize business risk.

About Kodak

As the world's foremost imaging innovator, Kodak helps consumers, businesses, and creative professionals unleash the power of pictures and printing to enrich their lives. To learn more, visit http://www.kodak.com, and our blogs: 1000words.kodak.com, PluggedIn.kodak.com, and GrowYourBiz.kodak.com.

Editor's Note: Kodak corporate news releases are now offered via RSS feeds. To subscribe, visit www.kodak.com/go/RSS and look for the RSS symbol. In addition, Kodak podcasts are viewable at www.kodak.com/go/podcasts. Our podcasts may be downloaded for viewing on iTunes, Quicktime, or other PC-based media players. Users may also subscribe to Kodak podcasts via the iTunes application if already installed on your computer.

From the iTunes store, type "Kodak podcast" in the search field to view all of our podcast offerings.

For more information about Kodak's Graphic Communications Group, visit www.graphics.kodak.com. For downloading photos and videos from Kodak's image library, visit: http://graphics.kodak.com/gcgimages.

(Kodak and UpFront are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company.) 2008

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The Kodak Reseller Programme is being introduced with 10% cash-back off list price on Kodak i1300 and i1400 Series Scanners available on all sales until December 31, 2008 for both newly signed up and existing resellers. All products must be purchased through a Kodak Authorised Distributor.

These desktop scanners are compact, powerful and packed with features typically found in much larger models. The i1300 and i1400 series scanners have optional A4 and A3 tethered flatbeds and cater for volumes of between 3,000 and 10,000 pages per day at speeds of up to 75 pages per minute. Out of the box, the scanners featured as part of this new promotion come with bundled software so that organisations can get up and running quickly with a document management solution.

Kodak's Document Imaging business has been designing and manufacturing scanners for over 30 years and has the widest portfolio of products available in the market today. Last year, it launched 7 new products and won 20 industry and media awards - the most the business has ever done in its whole history. Year on year it is profitable, growing and part of Kodak'sGraphic Communications Group.

Martin Birch, General Manager EAMER, Kodak Document Imaging, Graphic Communications Group says, "As our business continues to expand, this is a great opportunity for more resellers to benefit from selling Kodak document scanners, software and service offerings, join a winning team and grow with Kodak. As people in the document management industry will know, 10% cash back is a very attractive offer."

The Kodak Reseller Club Programme was created in 2005 with Kodak working closely with specialist partners to build business in key territories and verticals by providing joint marketing funding, technical expertise and sales assistance.

Birch adds, "Club partners have been pivotal to the success of our document imaging business and the promotions are obviously open to them, as well as other companies who wish to join at a second tier level without the need to commit to sales targets."

Kodak continues to invest substantially in innovative technology that helps users to automate their business processes and workflows, crucial as research shows that 30% of knowledge workers' time involves non-productive retrieval tasks[1] and companies typically spend 10 to 15% of gross revenue on document related management[2] - three times the amount invested on research and development.[3]

According to analysts, InfoSource, over 300,000 scanners in total were shipped across the EMEA region in 2007, with compound annual growth rates expected to remain at 10% between now and 2012.

Birch says, "These numbers show that customers are increasingly seeking automated systems for faster information processing and retrieval, easier collaboration in the office among staff and a better way of retaining business critical information for day-to-day usage or regulatory purposes. Our solutions help them do this in an easy and fast way, and therefore present the channel with a superb revenue and margin opportunity."

Companies who sign up to the new Kodak Reseller Programme can also benefit from selling Kodak Service and Support contracts with its hardware and software. Kodak Service and Support is award winning and was hailed Best Support Organisation 2006' at the International Business Awards,the only global, all-encompassing award for excellent performance in the workplace, with votes made from companies worldwide.

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[1]Source: The high cost of not finding information, IDC

[2] Source: The cost of Business Communication: a look at the business document lifecycle, CAPV 2000

[3] Source: The expanding role of document accounting systems, IDC 2001; Xplor International

About Kodak

As the world's foremost imaging innovator, Kodak helps consumers, businesses, and creative professionals unleash the power of pictures and printing to enrich their lives.

To learn more, visitwww.kodak.com,and our blogs:http://1000words.kodak.com/, and 1000nerds.kodak.com.

Kodak corporate news releases are now offered via RSS feeds. To subscribe, visitwww.kodak.com/go/RSS and look for the RSS symbol. In addition, Kodak podcasts are viewable atwww.kodak.com/go/podcasts. Podcasts may be downloaded for viewing on iTunes, Quicktime, or other PC-based media players. Users may also subscribe to Kodak podcasts via the iTunes Store by typing "Kodak Close Up" in the search field at the top of the iTunes Store window. Kodak is a trademark of Eastman Kodak

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