Kodak Announces Intent to Acquire Design2Launch

D2L is led by the brother and sister team of Alison Malloy, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Ron Malloy, Chief Strategy Officer.

“D2L users can expect to receive the same high level of service and support we have always provided,” said Alison Malloy.

“In addition, our customers will also have the opportunity to capitalize on important new benefits,” added Ron Malloy. “We will leverage the worldwide strength of Kodak to increase local support for global brands, and further leverage Kodak’s expertise in workflow automation, color and image management to expand the breadth of our corporate solutions.”

Kodak’s Graphic Communications Group is the only graphic arts and printing industry supplier to provide both digital and conventional production solutions within a unified workflow. Kodak’s portfolio of workflow software solutions includes the industry leading Kodak Prinergy Workflow System, which has more than 40,000 installations at graphic communications service providers around the world.

Kodak announced in February that it would launch Kodak Colorflow Software at drupa 2008. The Colorflow System is a single software solution that delivers integrated color control across all devices in the production environment: monitors, scanner, halftone and ink-jet proofers, as well as digital and conventional presses.

Kodak’s unified workflow approach includes a wide range of portal products that use the Internet to facilitate e-commerce, collaboration, digital asset management, online job submission, and monitor proofing. Kodak also offers industry leading software tools for file creation and management in the production environment.

With expertise in visualization and workflow management for brand owners and their agencies, the addition of D2L to Kodak’s product portfolio helps Kodak to more tightly integrate brand owners, marketing services, and print service providers.

“It is expected that D2L solutions will have optimized interoperability with Kodak solutions, creating the opportunity to drive print volume to Kodak users,” said Faraci.