French print company picks Kodak

ROCHESTER, NEW YORK: French print service provider Maugein Imprimeurs has entered the digital print market after investing in the KODAK NEXPRESS SE2500 Digital Production Color Press. The installation will complement the company’s wide- and small-format offering, and enable it to capitalize on the burgeoning short-run market. It began as a newspaper printer before moving into commercial printing. Today the company has a nationwide customer base, comprising large enterprises, public organizations and local businesses.

Maugein Imprimeurs operates two sites, at Tulle and at Malemort, for wide-format and small-format offset printing respectively. The company was an early adopter of in-house prepress equipment and has two CTP systems, as a press release adds.

“Our partnership with Kodak goes back a long way,” explains Jean-Paul Maugein, Director of the Malemort site. “We’ve been using KODAK Films for years, and KODAK Plates more recently. In 1999 we invested in KODAK LOTEM 400 and LOTEM 800 Platesetters controlled by two identically configured KODAK PRINERGY Workflow Systems.”

Jean-Paul and David Maugein started thinking about moving into digital printing in 2010. “We knew we were missing out on the short-run print market–from a few dozen to a hundred or so copies,” said Jean-Paul Maugein. “We’d been aware of the issue for three or four years. Yet we couldn’t consider investing in digital while the technology couldn’t rival offset.”