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Barbara Kram, Editor | April 23, 2008
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - As Carestream Health, Inc., approaches its first year anniversary as an independent corporation, the company announced it has shipped its 50,000th KODAK DRYVIEW Laser Imaging System.
"Carestream Health's laser imagers have continuously exceeded expectations for reliability, while satisfying centralized and decentralized printing needs for healthcare providers worldwide," said Marco Bucci, President, Medical Films & Printing Solutions, Carestream Health. "Our design team has also pioneered remote diagnostics and service capabilities for this product family, along with other innovations that have been very well received by customers."
The company's 1998 acquisition of Imation's medical imaging business boosted it to the market-leading position in medical dry laser printing, enabling customers to print diagnostic images onto radiographic film with an efficient dry process that set new standards for image quality. Carestream Health continued to innovate its dry laser product portfolio and this technology is now a standard in the industry.
Carestream Health's laser imagers are available in four models that range from desktop systems designed for imaging centers, small hospitals and clinics to fully featured units designed for high volume, multi-modality output at hospitals of all sizes. These imagers offer output from PACS, CT, MRI, computed radiography and digital radiography systems, and other grayscale imaging applications.
Over the years, the company's laser imager portfolio has achieved numerous improvements in image quality, reliability and functionality, including output of 650 dot per inch resolution at full speed; daylight film cartridges that eliminate darkroom-based film loading; multi-bin film sorters; and the ability to output mammography images of 4.0 D-max at speeds up to 200 films per hour.
Carestream Health has licensed the KODAK brand for use with its own brands-such as CARESTREAM and DRYVIEW-across its portfolio of leading-edge medical imaging and healthcare IT products.
About Carestream Health, Inc.
Carestream Health, Inc., is a leading provider of dental and medical imaging systems and healthcare IT solutions; molecular imaging systems for the life science research and drug discovery/development market segments; and x-ray film and digital x-ray products for the non-destructive testing market. The company was formed in 2007 when Onex Corporation (TSX: OCX.TO) purchased Eastman Kodak Company's Health Group. For more information about Carestream Health, contact your Carestream Health representative or visit www.carestreamhealth.com/.
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