KODAK Scan Station 100 earns Stevie and BLI Awards for its Innovative Design and Ease of Use

Document imaging and business experts continue to select the KODAK Scan Station 100 as one of the most impressive new products in 2007.

The Scan Station 100 earned a Stevie Award in the Best New Product or Service category at the 2007 American Business Awards. It also was cited as a spring 2007 Pick in the Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) inaugural review of network sheet fed workgroup scanners.

The Scan Station 100’s other recent honors include Best of Show at FOSE March 2006, “Best of the Best” recognition from Office Solutions magazine, and Better Buys for Business magazine Editor’s Choice Award in 2006.

“The Scan Station 100 exemplifies Kodak’s legacy of delivering innovative, customer focused products to businesses,” said Michael Gallagher, President, The Stevie Awards. Judges were impressed by the Scan Station 100’s ease of use and versatility for numerous business applications. “The teams that developed this product should be proud to receive one of the most coveted honors in the business world.”

The American Business Awards are the only national all encompassing awards program honoring outstanding achievements in business. Members of the Awards’ Board of Distinguished Judges and Advisors and their staff selected Kodak from more than a dozen finalists in the category “Best New Product or Service, All Other Industries.”

The Stevie Awards were presented in more than 40 categories including Best Overall Company, Best Executive, and Best Corporate Social Responsibility Program. More than 2,000 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration.

“We designed the Scan Station 100 to make workgroup scanning easier and more practical for companies, and these acknowledgements from such highly respected authorities on document imaging confirm that we have succeeded,” said Roger Markham, Product Marketing Manager for Kodak’s Distributed Capture and Integrated Imaging Products, US&C, Document Imaging, Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group. “The KODAK Scan Station 100’s recognition as a Stevie Award recipient and a BLI Pick of the Year is an important validation of the value this innovative product brings to customers.”

For more than 45 years, BLI has been the leading source for unbiased and reliable intelligence for the imaging industry. BLI remains the leading authority and provider of critical intelligence on the imaging industry and continually renews its commitment to provide the highest quality products and services to original equipment manufacturers, dealers and business consumers. This is the first time BLI has included document scanners in its product evaluation lineup.

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 Eastman Kodak Company
Kodak is the world’s foremost imaging innovator. With sales of $10.7 billion in 2006, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on helping people better use meaningful images and information in their life and work. Consumers use Kodak’s system of digital and traditional products and services to take, print and share their pictures anytime, anywhere; Businesses effectively communicate with customers worldwide using KODAK solutions for prepress, conventional and digital printing and document imaging; and Creative Professionals rely on KODAK technology to uniquely tell their story through moving or still images.

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