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Keypoint Intelligence announces winners of BLI Outstanding Innovation awards

Keypoint Intelligence has announced the recipients of its inaugural Buyers Lab (BLI) Outstanding Innovation awards in Production Print, recognizing achievements in production printing hardware, software and services.

“In the face of a challenging year for our industry, developers and engineers continued to deliver innovative products—and with in-person tradeshows having been cancelled or put on hold, we felt it was even more imperative to showcase these accomplishments,” said Aaron Hale, group director & chief analyst at Keypoint Intelligence. “The winners of our Outstanding Innovation awards feature technologies that improve output quality, enhance productivity, deliver workflow efficiencies, impact sustainability, and advance their product segments in meaningful ways.”

To determine the winners, Keypoint Intelligence enlisted expert production printing analysts, who among them have dozens of years of experience evaluating production-print products and analyzing market trends, to judge the entries on three key metrics: how ground-breaking or unique the product or innovation is, its’ likely impact on the market segment it addresses, and the expected timeline for availability in the market.

The winners of the BLI 2021 Outstanding Innovation awards in Production Print are:

CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING

• Canon Arizona 2300 Series
• Canon ProStream 1800
• Canon varioPRINT iX Series

CLOUDLAB SALES & MANAGEMENT GMBH

• CloudLab printQ 3D Packaging Design

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY

• KODAK PROSPER Plus Imprinting System
• KODAK PROSPER QD Packaging Inks and Film Optimizer Agent
• KODAK PROSPER ULTRA 520 Press

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY/UTECO CONVERTING S.P.A.

• Uteco Sapphire EVO M Press with Eastman Kodak STREAM Technology
• Uteco Sapphire EVO W Press with Eastman Kodak ULTRASTREAM Technology

GLOBAL GRAPHICS SOFTWARE LTD.

• Global Graphics Software Direct Software Platform

HIGHCON SYSTEMS LTD.

• Highcon Systems Beam 2C

HP INC.

• HP Auto Alert Agent 2.0 for Indigo 15K Digital Press
• HP Indigo 100K Digital Press
• HP Indigo V12 Digital Press

SOLIMAR SYSTEMS, INC.

• Solimar Systems ReadyPDF Prepress Server

TONEJET LTD.

• Tonejet Cyclone

XEROX CORPORATION

• Xerox Adaptive CMYK+ Kits