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COLLINS INK CORPORATION About Our Company Collins Ink is in its 18th year of formulating, manufacturing and selling inkjet inks. Collins Ink is cooperating with Kodak Versamark, Inc. by having Kodak as the exclusive distributor of all the inks that Collins manufactures for use in Kodak Versamark continuous inkjet printers. In addition, Collins manufactures more than 80% of the KV brand inks. These inks are used in bindery line, lottery ticket and transactional printing applications where speed and performance are paramount. Collins operates out of an 83,000 square foot, state-of-the-art, technical development and manufacturing site in Cincinnati, Ohio. An authorized HP distribution partner for over three years, Collins Ink is one of a few ink companies being furnished NEW 45A cartridges into which Collins’ brand inks are ﬁlled. In addition to supplying a variety of black inks to suit most application parameters, Collins has developed many specialty inks for the direct mail market. Collins Ink provides spot color matching capability in both Kodak Versamark and HP type inks. New bulk systems (Bulk Supply Stations) are available for providing HP inks for large users at lower costs. Collins has also established signiﬁcant business supplying water-based, oil-based and solvent-based inks to printers utilizing Xaar and Spectra drop-on-demand printheads. In addition, solvent-based inkjet inks are supplied to customers utilizing Domino and Videojet CIJ technology. Collins has combined its research and development skills with very eﬃcient manufacturing. This has allowed Collins to gain market penetration through providing high-quality inks with value pricing and outstanding service. Lawrence Gamblin, President of Collins Ink Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been able to build Collins’ inkjet ink business on the model of a traditional ink company. He began with Kodak Versamark technology by developing inks that were darker and dried faster, which allowed increased placements of the KV equipment in bindery applications. At the request of these same customers, Collins then developed a similar variety of inks for the HP technology used in direct mail application. As with KV, this enabled more installations of HP mailing bases. Today, Collins Ink is a partner with both Kodak Versamark and HP SPS Division, and the industry is able to print on a much wider range of substrate stocks. The vision and determination of Lawrence Gamblin resulted in better direct mail address printing and phenomenal growth for Collins Ink. COLLINS INK CORPORATION 1201 Edison Drive Cincinnati OH 45216 Phone: 513-948-9000 Web: www.collinsink.com LAWRENCE GAMBLIN President WWW.MAILINGSYSTEMSTECHNOLOGY.COM | WHO’S WHO 2008 35 20 0 8 WH O’S WH O http://www.collinsink.com http://www.collinsink.com http://www.mailingsystemstechnology.com

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Mailing Systems Technology - July/August 2008 Contents Editor’s Note Peer to Peer The Economics of Inkjet Addressing Virtual Mailstream Management Guarding Your Internal Documents Top It Off With Training Implementing Digital Mail Saving You Money Kate’s Slate Products & Services Advertiser Index Sho Time Who’s Who Company Profiles BCC Software BÖWE BELL + HOWELL Collins Ink Corporation Datatech SmartSoft Endicia Hasler, Inc. Kern, Inc. Kirk-Rudy Mail Quip, Inc. MCS, Inc. Melissa Data MidSouth Technologies, a NPI Company Neopost NPI Parascript Pitney Bowes Inc. Rena Systems Satori Software, Inc.

Mailing Systems Technology - July/August 2008

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