Kodak inspires gifted engineering students by using KODAK NEXPRESS technology as an example of engineering achievement

ROCHESTER, N.Y., December 27 — Nazareth Academy, Rochester, N.Y., through a partnership with Kodak, recently received the Empire State Scholastic Press Association’s “Gold” award – the association’s highest honor – for its publication Spectrum 2005, a campus literary magazine that publishes student submissions of poetry, short stories and artistic illustration.

Nazareth Academy began its work with Kodak in the beginning of the 2003-04 school year.  Kodak hosted a seminar for the young women of Nazareth Academy interested in engineering careers, where Kodak engineers demonstrated how the KODAK NEXPRESS digital production color press worked, spoke about how it was manufactured and its applications for high-quality, short-run color publications. The students then applied their knowledge to create Spectrum 2005, a 140-page color book with full-color covers, which was printed on a NEXPRESS 2100 press.

“Kodak has been a key player in ensuring the continued success of the Spectrum,” said Lou Zona, Principal at Nazareth Academy High School.  “Our students were thrilled to have the opportunity to visit Kodak and learn about digital printing. Working with a school is quite different than working with a business, but Kodak did an excellent job of combining their work with businesses and translating that into a curriculum for our students to learn.”

Nazareth Academy took home multiple awards for the Spectrum publication at the Empire State School Press Association’s fall convention, held at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. This was the second year that the Spectrum was printed on the NEXPRESS press. Both Kodak and the students at Nazareth Academy are looking forward to a continued relationship in learning and publishing.

“We were excited to hear that Nazareth Academy took home the top award for its publication of the Spectrum.  Through their own interpretation and use of our product's capabilities these students also showed us some interesting and new things that have helped us learn more as well,” said Michael A. Tarcinale, Manager for Educational Services at Kodak.  “We enjoyed working with a group of students so motivated to learn about a career in engineering.  Next year our goal is to have some students work on printing the files and shadowing some of our engineers through part of their day.”

The NEXPRESS 2100 press is a unique printing solution, combining the power of a press with the flexibility of a printer. The 2100's power and reliability is a function of its rugged, heavy metal construction. It performs like an offset press, providing high uptime for maximum productivity and delivering consistent high-quality images. The ability to use mixed paper stock and to electronically collate enables the NEXPRESS 2100 to easily manage complex jobs. With that combination, it is made for new, higher-value digital services: on-demand and web-fulfillment printing, short runs, quick turnarounds, completely customized brochures, and production of full-color collated pages that are ready to be finished instantaneously.

About Nazareth Academy

Nazareth Academy is a private high school dedicated to the development of women. It is an outstanding high school where young women achieve their best in academics, the arts and athletics. It is a place where students can take risks, solve problems, explore ideas and develop self-respect. Located in the historic Maplewood District, the Academy is the oldest Catholic High School in Rochester, owned and operated by the Sisters of Saint Joseph.

About Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print, and view images – for memories, for information, for business, and for entertainment.  With sales of $13.5 billion in 2004, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on four businesses:  Digital & Film Imaging Systems – providing consumers, professionals, and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; Health – supplying the medical and dental professions with traditional and digital imaging and information systems, IT solutions, and services; Graphic Communications – providing customers with a range of solutions for prepress, traditional and digital printing, document scanning, and multi-vendor IT services; and Display & Components – supplying original equipment manufacturers with imaging sensors as well as intellectual property and materials for the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and LCD display industries.

(Kodak and Nexpress are trademarks of Kodak.)

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