Eastman Kodak Company
New Kodak Products Help Companies Comply With Increased Regulatory And Government Guidelines For Content Management
Corporations Can Create Reference Archives Of Critical Business Information
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 13 -- Eastman Kodak Company has launched a portfolio of new products designed to help companies meet the ever-increasing regulatory requirements for safekeeping and managing business information.
The new products, including digital-to-film writers and a film-to-digital scanner, enable companies to create Reference Archives that allow them to demonstrate responsible records management and reduce the costs of storing documents online.
The new products the Kodak i9600 Series Writers, the Kodak i7300 Scanner, Kodak Reference Archive Media and associated software let companies convert digital documents and data into archival microfilm and then reconvert the images from film to digital files for sharing and distribution. This process helps businesses to comply not only with new regulatory requirements such as those outlined in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 but also to meet stringent requirements for document production in lawsuits.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act outlines new requirements for the long-term retention of certain key corporate documents, and the courts have already handed out penalties to corporations for the mistaken destruction of records,said Randolph Kahn, an attorney specializing in the legal and policy issues of information technology and the founder and principal of Kahn Consulting Inc. companies have inadvertently recorded over data-storage tapes or have been unable to reproduce e-records because the software or hardware for accessing the records is no longer available. A digital-to-analog-to-digital solution has great merit by combining short-term reference capabilities with long-term archiving.
Government and certain industries, such as banking, pharmaceuticals and finance, have long relied on digital-to-analog-to-digital technologies to create Reference Archives of their documents and data. Kodak is now expanding its services to help other industries take advantage of the benefits of film to comply with new requirements for managing enterprise content.
has a rich history in helping companies manage risk by providing equipment, software and services to improve the efficiency and reliability of archiving documents,said Eric Bruening, worldwide marketing manager, Imagelink Products, Kodak Commercial Imaging Group. estimate that 1.2 million images per hour are written to Kodak Reference Archive Media via the hundreds of digital-to-film writers from Kodak that are in service today. Kodak is combining image science and information technology to help companies create Reference Archives that, as the name implies, marry the benefits of referencing and archiving.
To this end, Kodak is launching a series of new products, including:
Kodak i9600 Series Writers
These digital film writers, the i9610 and i9620, are powered by the Kodak i9600 Application Software. The devices accept digital files and write them to Kodak Reference Archive Media (microfilm) specifically designed to record digital images.
Kodak i7300 Scanner
The i7300 Scanner, along with its associated software, is a desktop accessory for the PC, requiring little space compared with existing microfilm-retrieval devices. The i7300 Scanner retrieves images from Kodak Reference Archive Media and legacy microfilm and reconverts them into digital files, which can then be printed, faxed, or e-mailed.
Kodak Reference Archive Media
This standards-compliant 16mm high-quality microfilm is ISO/ANSI-certified for a life expectancy of 500 years when properly processed and stored under controlled conditions.
The i9600 Series Writers are available now. The i7300 Scanner, Reference Archive Media and associated software will be available in March.
Eastman Kodak Company and infoimaging
Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, enhance, preserve, print and enjoy pictures—for memories, for information, for entertainment. The company is a major participant in infoimaging, $385 billion industry composed of devices (digital cameras and PDAs), infrastructure (online networks and delivery systems for images) and services & media (software, film and paper enabling people to access, analyze and print images). Kodak harnesses its technology, market reach and a host of industry partnerships to provide innovative products and services for customers who need the information-rich content that images contain. The company, with sales last year of $12.8 billion, is organized into four major businesses: Photography, providing consumers, professionals and cinematographers with digital and traditional products and services; Commercial Imaging, offering image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and government; Components, delivering flat-panel displays, optics and sensors to original equipment manufacturers; and Health, supplying the healthcare industry with traditional and digital image capture and output products and services.