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KP Services, a joint venture between Kodak and Guiton Group, has secured printing contracts for UK national newspapers until May 2024
Based in Saint Saviour, Jersey, KP Services, which is a joint venture between Kodak and Guiton Group, will continue printing UK national newspapers until May 2024 due to a renewed deal.
The agreement will see the company print the newspapers belonging to News UK, The Daily Mail Group, Reach Plc, and the Jersey Evening Post titles. The latter will be distributed in Jersey and Guernsey with the portfolio amassing over 20 separate titles.
KP Services was founded in 2015 and began printing newspaper titles in the Channel Islands from May 2016.This meant that copies of national titles no longer needed to be flown into the islands and reduced the risk of delays or cancellation due to bad weather and other unforeseen issues.
The onshoring of the print work also meant that the printing of the local Jersey Evening Post title which was previously published by Guiton Group could be moved from a 40-year-old press to state-of-the-art digital printing technology; and from black and white and partial colour printing to full colour.
The technology used by KP Services includes two KODAK PROSPER 6000P presses which use KODAK Stream Continuous Inkjet Technology.
Designed specifically for publishing applications such as newspapers and books, the PROSPER 6000P inkjet web press prints CMYK at speeds of up to 300 metres per minute on standard newspaper print.
Offering short setup times, fast job changeovers, and minimum start-up waste, Kodak says the press is ideal for companies needing to print a large number of low-volume titles.The two presses have reliably printed the UK national newspaper titles and the Jersey Evening Post since they started six years ago.
Bill Paterson, managing director of KP Services (Jersey), says: “Day after day, our operation is proving that Kodak’s high-speed continuous inkjet technology is a perfect solution for flexible, short-run printing of newspapers and other publishing products.“At the same time, it shows that KODAK PROSPER presses are robust workhorses that meet the requirements of high-quality newspaper printing with frequent job changes and enable profitable production.”
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