The Kodak NexPress SX digital production colour platform with the long-sheet option has been honored with the German printing industry's prestigious Innovation Award 2011.

During the recently concluded Pamex 2011 exhibition show in New Delhi, Kodak India announced the sale of two NexPress SX 3300, one to be installed at Hyderabad-based photo finisher, Cutting Edge Photo Print (CEPP) and the other at Jaipur Printers.

The digital press scooped the coveted ‘Most Innovative Technology’ (Gold Award) in the Printing category. The awards are organised by the Deutscher Drucker Verlagsgesellschaft publishing house. The winners were chosen in an internet poll by readers of Deutscher Drucker and Grafische Palette, two leading German trade journals, and print.de, from a total of 30 technologies nominated by the publications’ editors.

This latest award marks a hat trick of honors for Kodak. In 2009, the company won an Innovation Award for its unique Kodak NexPress dimensional printing system, while last year Kodak walked away with two Innovation Awards—the first for its Kodak Trillian SP thermal plate in the pre-press category and the second for its Kodak Prosper 5000XL press in the printing category.

This year’s awards ceremony was held on 10 November at the PrintNight gala in Stuttgart, which was attended by hundreds of guests from the graphic communications world. Bernhard Niemela, Managing Director of Deutscher Drucker Verlagsgesellschaft and Editor in Chief of Deutscher Drucker, presented the awards to the proud winners.