ROCHESTER, NY , August 30 - Eastman Kodak Company’s i55 and i65 Scanners, i150 and i160 Scanners, and the entire KODAK i600 Series Scanners family earned Editor’s Choice ratings in the Better Buys for Business 2005 Scan-to-File Guide.

Better Buys for Business is the nation’s leading independent authority on document imaging equipment, including copiers, printers, faxes, and scanners. While the publication evaluates hundreds of models from all major manufacturers when selecting award recipients, only one or two from each category achieve “Editor’s Choice” status, a designation for those products that provide the best performance and represent the best value.

“Receiving recognition throughout Kodak’s broad portfolio of document scanners emphasizes our growing success at the workgroup level and reinforces our leadership within the production scanner market,” said Sue Cardot, US&C marketing director of Kodak’s document imaging business. “Kodak strives to meet the scanning needs of government and companies of all sizes as they capture, manage, archive, and deliver critical business information.”

The guide describes the KODAK i55 and i65 Scanners as “beefed-up, low-end scanners … at a moderate price.” The guide further credits the pair, launched in May, as being “far faster” than the KODAK i50 and KODAK i60 Scanners that they replace. The simplex i55 and duplex i65 both have built-in flatbeds and deliver up to 1,500 pages per day.

Moving up the line, Better Buys for Business cites the KODAK i150 and i160 Scanners as “strong new additions to Kodak’s comprehensive document scanner line.” The guide credits Kodak’s SurePath paper handling, the ability to scan ledger-size pages, ultrasonic double document detection, and an “extensive set of imaging tools” that includes autocrop, deskew, and color dropout for forms processing. The i150, a simplex scanner, captures documents at speeds up to 40 pages per minute (ppm), while its duplex counterpart, the i160 Scanner, captures both sides of documents at speeds up to 80 images per minute (ipm). Both models have a peak daily volume of 3,000 pages.

The entire KODAK i600 Series garnered praise for its “impressive features” and many “good design touches,” which allow these scanners to deliver productivity, versatility, and reliability. SurePath paper handling, Perfect Page Scanning with iThresholding, three independent ultrasonic multi-feed detection sensors, and automatic color detection make these a line of affordable, high-performance scanners, according to the guide.

Better Buys for Business noted that the i600 Series can handle ledger-sized pages, and have sizeable 500-sheet automatic document feeders, “a big advantage for serious scanning” over other mid- to high-range scanners that were considered for the award.

The Better Buys for Business 2005 Scan-to-File Guide is slated for publication in early September.

About Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images – for memories, for information, for business, and for entertainment. With sales of $13.5 billion in 2004, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on four businesses: Digital & Film Imaging Systems – providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; Health – supplying the medical and dental professions with traditional and digital imaging and information systems, IT solutions and services; Graphic Communications – providing customers with a range of solutions for prepress, traditional and digital printing, and document scanning and multi-vendor IT services; and Display & Components – supplying original equipment manufacturers with imaging sensors as well as intellectual property and materials for the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and LCD display industries.

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