KODAK Scan Station 500 Earns High Achievements for Advancing Networked Scanning in Business, Government, and Healthcare
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 17 - The KODAK Scan Station 500 ranks as one of the most innovative business products in 2009. Buyers Laboratory, Inc. (BLI), an independent test center, awarded the Scan Station 500 with its Spring 2009 "Pick" for "Outstanding Network Scanner." BLI cites the scanner for a "superb overall feature set" offered with "competitive pricing." These combined capabilities help organizations more efficiently and affordably capture and share critical information from their paper-based documents.
The highly rated peripheral also contends for 'Best New Product or Service of the Year' in the American Business AwardsSM (ABA), part of the annual Stevie(TM) Awards Program. This marks Kodak's third consecutive year as a finalist in the Stevie Award's ABA program. Winners of the 2009 ABA program will be announced on June 22 in New York.
Introduced in early 2009, the KODAK Scan Station 500 provides users with advanced document capture performance, easy-to-use functionality and reliable task management. One-touch capabilities allow the scanner to quickly send and distribute scanned documents. Available locations include FTP sites, network drives, shared printers, email addresses, fax recipients or portable USB drives. The Scan Station 500 also offers Kodak's exclusive Voice Attachment feature, allowing voice recordings to accompany digital files.
"The productivity benefits of networked scanning provide virtually any organization with an immediate return on investment," said Roger Markham, Product and Channel Marketing Manager, Document Imaging, Business Solutions and Services, Eastman Kodak Company. "Our team of solution providers and resellers continue using the Scan Station 500 to develop easy-to-use, easy-to-implement document solutions for healthcare, government and insurance."
The Scan Station 500 continues the success of Kodak's first networked scanner, the KODAK Scan Station 100. In 2007, Kodak earned a Stevie Award for 'Best New Product or Service' and BLI's 'Pick' for 'Outstanding Network Sheet-fed Workgroup Scanner' in 2007 for its first networked scanner, the KODAK Scan Station 100.
KODAK Products are backed by KODAK Service and Support. KODAK Service and Support is made up of more than 3,000 professionals reaching more than 120 countries. It is a leading multi-vendor integrated services provider, delivering consulting, installation, maintenance and support services for the commercial printing, graphic communications, document imaging and data storage industries. KODAK Service and Support professionals are uniquely qualified to provide services that control costs, maximize productivity, and minimize business risk.
About Buyers Laboratory
For 48 years, Buyers Lab (BLI) has been the leading independent office-equipment testing lab and business consumer advocate. In addition to publishing the industry's most comprehensive and accurate test reports on office document imaging devices, each representing months of exhaustive hands-on testing in BLI's US and UK laboratories, the company has been the leading source of competitive intelligence for industry professionals on copiers, printers, fax machines, scanners, duplicators, wide-format devices and multifunctional products. The company's databases cover over 12,000 products globally and have a long-standing reputation for being the industry's most trustworthy and complete source for specifications and side-by-side comparisons, all of which are available as part of bliQ, BLI's web-based encyclopedic resource. Subscribers also have access to BLI's renowned Lab Test Reports, First Look Reports, Solutions Reports, Environmental Reports, news articles and a complete library of manufacturer's product literature, as well as valuable tools including a Product Configurator and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator.
Buyers Lab also provides business consumers with How-To Guides, a Needs Assessment Wizard and Free Vendor Quotes via its Buyers Lab Advisor website, as well as independent purchasing advice and consulting from its Buyers Alliance procurement experts. Business consumers and manufacturers can also select from a vast array of confidential for-hire private testing services that include document imaging device beta and pre-launch testing, performance certification testing, consumables testing (such as toner, ink and photoconductors) and software solutions and print media testing (including virgin and recycled papers).
For more information on Buyers Laboratory, business consumers should visit www.buyerslabadvisor.com. All others should visit www.buyerslab.com, call (201) 488-0404 or e-mail info@buyerslab.com.
About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, The Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring companies of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.
Supporting sponsors of The 2009 American Business Awards include High Performance Technologies Inc., John Hancock, Lifelock, RCN Corporation, Softpro, and Ultimate Software. Media sponsor is the Business TalkRadio Network. Localization partner of the 2009 Stevie Awards is Lionbridge.
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