Kodak Announces the i80 Scanner, Expanding its Portfolio of Document Scanners for Low Volume Applications; Duplex Scanner Offers Improved Bitonal and Color Performance, Faster Scanning Speeds, Autocrop and De-skew.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 2003

Eastman Kodak Company today introduced the Kodak i80 Scanner, which digitizes paper documents at a rate 40% faster than previous models and expands the company's family of scanners for low volume office applications.

The duplex i80 Scanner is ideal for business or government departments that need to capture, publish and archive documents. It offers improved bitonal and color performance with the convenience of simultaneously capturing both sides of a document in a single pass, unlike simplex scanners, which scan just one side of a page. This makes the i80 Scanner twice as productive as a simplex scanner for dual-sided applications. Available in late summer at a suggested retail list price of $2,700, the i80 Scanner offers duplex scanning speed with color quality that rivals more expensive models.

Recommended for so-called departmental document imaging applications the i80 Scanner captures documents, photos and color graphics at speeds up to 35 pages per minute (ppm), with a duplex speed of 70 images per minute (ipm). Color images are captured at 20 ppm and 20 ipm at 150 dots per inch. De-skew, which automatically straightens skewed pages and autocrop, which automatically finds the borders of documents are features enabled with Kodak Capture Software. These features work with both dark and light document backgrounds for exceptional scans and improved Optical Character Recognition read rates. The i80 Scanner's document feeder handles up to 75 sheets at a time, in a wide range of sizes and weights, which eliminates the need for presorting. In addition, the scanner features a built-in flatbed for scanning documents of unconventional size.

The i80 Scanner is an expansion of Kodak's current line of lower volume scanners, which includes the i50 and i60 Scanner models introduced in 2001. While built on the same platform as the i50 and i60 Scanners, the i80 Scanner offers both duplex features and faster color and bitonal speeds, resulting in a 40 percent increase in product performance.

Each scanner model has an automatic document feeder that allows operators to load a mixed batch of documents and handles peak volumes up to 1,500 pages per day. In addition, the i50, i60, and i80 Scanners feature bundled ISIS(R) and TWAIN drivers as well as application software for document management, text recognition, and photo management.

"The new i80 Scanner demonstrates Kodak's commitment to innovation for business customers," said Susan Cardot, director, marketing and sales, U.S. and Canada, Kodak's Commercial Imaging Components group. "The i80 adds to Kodak's long history of producing leading-edge products that are easy to use and easy to own, backed by the company's award-winning global service and support team. With this latest scanner, we intend to expand our presence in this market."

About Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging

Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print and view images - for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in infoimaging, a $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and flat-panel displays), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). With sales of $12.8 billion in 2002, the company comprises several businesses: Photography, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Components, delivering optics and imaging sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Display, which designs and manufactures state-of-the-art organic light-emitting diode displays as well as other specialty materials.

Additional information is available at http://www.kodak.com/go/docimaging.

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