Kodak NexPress

Kodak NexPress Facts

Without question, Kodak NexPress is the world’s best digital color press and is preferred by discerning creatives and print producers. If your digital printing is done on anything but a NexPress, you’re getting less than the best.

NexPress was made to do high-impact commercial printing and has the look and feel of litho/offset printing—which is what people want.
Saturated, high-contrast color and crisp detail for better-than-lithographic photographic image reproduction on coated or (especially) uncoated paper.
NexPress seamlessly prints virtually any kind of paper—coated or uncoated, textured or smooth, from 50 lb. text to 130 lb. cover to 16 pt. C2S, including pressure-sensitive label, polyester, translucents, and metallic papers.
13.4 X 20.1 print area for oversize pages with full bleeds (larger than HP Indigo and all but the Xerox iGen).
Doesn’t need specially-coated papers that yellow over time (some digital presses need it!).
No cracking on folds.
No need to aqueous- or UV-coat printed sheets to achieve color vibrancy.
NexPresses are owner-maintained—so print quality is higher than those with lesser presses (who suffer under other manufacturers’ “click-charge” service models).
Larger 4-color gamut than litho, so NexPress gets closer to more PMS colors.
Expanded-gamut printing using Kodak’s Red, Green, or Blue 5th colors.
Kodak’s ClearCoat looks like satin aqueous coating and can be used as a spot varnish or flood coating.
Kodak’s Dimensional Clear Dry Ink prints amazing raised/textured surfaces that are similar to, but better than, thermography. It’s a simple, affordable way to add striking creative impact to digitally-printed materials.
NexQ Quality Control System for outstanding color consistency, sheet-to-sheet, day in and day out, so reprints match the initial printing.
Perfect for any type of booklet, printing up to three types/weights of paper in press-collated, ready-to-bind sets of covers and text pages.
NexPresses print 4,200+ full-size pages per hour — and we have 3 — for smoking-fast turnaround on projects too large for those with lesser equipment.
NexPress samples speak for themselves! Click here to receive a broad-range packet showing the creative options within your reach! [We’ll phone to follow up with you—but won’t pester you just because you asked for some samples.]

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Design Considerations

NexPress is 4-color process printing, so there are no metallic, fluorescent, or PMS color choices (though it matches the PMS library well enough to be Pantone-certified!).
Maximum print area is 13.4 X 20.1 inches (including bleeds).
NexPress printing isn’t suitable for imprinting on laser printers (think letterhead) because high laser fusing temperatures will damage NexPress printing.
As with any digital color press, NexPress’ greatest limitation is achieving uniform large-area solids of certain hues. Solids consisting of about 5-30% each of 2, 3, or 4 process colors may exhibit what’s known in our world as “streaking”, which is less a concern when printing stronger hues closer to 100% each of 2 or 3 process colors. We recommend adding a subtle pattern, or some Photoshop noise, to make large-area solids print their best. If you’re concerned about a certain color, we can tell you how well it’ll print and we’re glad to print a free test so you can see how well the color will print on a NexPress.

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