La Hulpe, Belgium - Kodak has maintained its tradition for landing top industry accolades after winning a coveted EDP Association Award.  The company scooped the "Best Production Cut-Sheet Colour (High Production) Award" for its KODAK NEXPRESS SE3600 Digital Color Production Press.

The KODAK NEXPRESS SE Digital Color Platform delivers market leading digital color productivity for commercial, photo and in-plant printers, and surpasses offset. It builds on the proven reputation of Kodak's NEXPRESS Product family, and represents the next generation in color quality, performance and reliability.

The NEXPRESS SE3600 Press is the only 5-color sheetfed digital production color press to offer 3,600 A3++ (356 x 520mm) sheets per hour and 120 ppm performance. The system enables print service providers to produce unique applications, helping them to differentiate themselves from their competitors and drive profits.

The EDP Association is a non-profit organization that recognizes the latest innovations in the digital print industry. The EDP Association Awards acknowledge best-in-class products across the digital print landscape. EDP Association accolades are awarded following a rigorous assessment by the organization's independent panel of digital print experts.

Gregory Gresock, Future Product Marketing Manager, Electrophotographic Printing Solutions at Kodak comments: "It's always a great honour to receive an accolade awarded by our peers in the print industry. The award underlines our commitment to research and development and to helping our customers improve the way they work.

"Our family of NEXPRESS Products delivers significant gains in performance, including outstanding flexibility, productivity and image quality. The system is particularly well suited to print service providers in the commercial printing and photo products markets, and enables them to boost print volume and grow their businesses."

The EDP Gala Awards 2010 were held at the NEC on Friday 21 May at 3pm.