The high-volume inkjet leviathan will be installed at the 50,000-staff corporation’s Toppan Forms business, Kodak’s largest Prosper user in Asia.

Toshiro Masuda, senior managing director at Toppan Forms, said the investment was driven by "a tremendous increase in both jobs and volumes".

"Our existing presses have been running at full production, and the addition of a fourth Prosper 5000XL press will enable us to continue our path of steady growth and best serve our customers across multiple markets," he said.

A team from Toppan Forms flew to Düsseldorf to sign for the fourth Prosper 5000XL.

Lois Lebegue, Kodak’s vice-president of commercial and?consumer sales, Asia Pacific, toasted the key customer as an "innovator".

"We look forward to partnering with Toppan Forms as it brings new applications that are best delivered by the Prosper 5000XL press to its customers," he said.

Lebegue told Drupa report daily that the sale to Toppan was a clear example of the way Kodak was getting closer to customers in both mature and developing markets in the region.

"It tells me our Asia-Pacific strategy is working," he said.

Kodak is also using drupa to launch the Prosper 6000XL, which ramps up speeds to 1,000 feet per minute, or the equivalent of 5,540 A4 pages – a leap from the 5000XL, which produced up to 3,600 A4 ppm.