Eastman Kodak completes purchase of CREO

Eastman Kodak is expected to be the next big player in the graphics and copier industry.

Last Tuesday, Kodak completed its acquisition of Creo, the graphics communications company known primarily for the front end digital copier solutions that it produces. Kodak purchased all of the assets and operations of Creo for $988 million. Last Wednesday, Creo was delisted from the TSE (Canadian exchange) and NASDAQ after the market's close.

With the Kodak 9110 and Kodak 9150; Kodak is looking for a slice of the high volume, digital copier market. Kodak, Xerox, Canon, and Nexpress are all hoping to capture the fastest growing segment of the copier industry - color copies. Whether the Xerox 6060, Canon CLC 5000, or Nexpress 9110 is the winner will be determined by the market and consumers.

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Canon and Adobe: An imageRUNNER made in heaven?

An old parable encourages businesses to work smarter, not harder. The recent collaboration between Adobe and Canon looks to be a great example of how two solid products can be combined to form a terrific solution for commercial printers and corporations that are knee-deep in paperwork.

The joint effort between Canon and Adobe Systems Incorporated, announced earlier this month, will focus on developing paper-to-digital scanning, security, and print solutions for the imageRUNNER line, including the Canon imageRUNNER 105 (ir 105), imageRUNNER 110 (ir 110), and imageRUNNER 125 (ir 125).

The system will be based off Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) and in theory will help corporations running a Canon imageRUNNER 9070 for example, to convert from paper to digital workflows.

"Canon is focused on improving productivity in the office," said Masaki Nakaoka, Chief Executive of Office Imaging Products Operations at Canon Inc. in the recent press release.

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