After some serious thought about the future direction of his company, Henk DeJong of DeJong Printing "decided that in addition to our traditional services, we needed to be able to produce the best digital printing in town." He and his 15-member staff did their homework, and their research pointed in the direction of the Kodak NexPress SX2700 digital production colour press.

Kodak says that its NexPress SX platform can help printers drive more jobs per shift and more profit per page by consistently and reliably producing market-leading image quality from job to job and day to day. Its long-sheet option -- up to 26 inches -- allows printers to print six-page brochures or three-up letters.

The device's Fifth Imaging Unit makes it possible for DeJong to provide unique in-line dimensional coating, gloss and spot colour, in-line watermarking, or coating in a single pass.

"Our customer base is fairly heavily ad agency-oriented, and they are very excited about all the options the Fifth Imaging Unit Solutions give them," said DeJong. "They're particularly interested in the dimensional clear option, which prints a raised 3D image in clear ink instead of just a flat spot varnish -- and it does it right in the first pass. We can also offer RGB colour for the most accurate spot colour matching, in addition to the standard CMYK."

DeJong Printing purchased the press from Coast Paper, a division of PaperlinX Canada.