Excerpts from PrintWeek India, Feb 14 2014:

The two-day Kodak India Kick Off meeting for 2014 in Mumbai's Waterstones Club saw 80 top ranking Kodak employees and top management attend it. On day two, PrintWeek India met Lois Lebegue, managing director, Asia Pacific region and Bhalchandra Nikumb, country business manager, India Cluster, Kodak India for a breakfast briefing. The duo outlined the progress, "the ailing company" in the past 24 months. The focus, as Lebegue said was "on technologies such as touch screens for smartphones and smart packaging embedded with sensors, as well as the company's ultra-fast commercial inkjet printer, the Prosper Press."

Lebegue was animated about the company's projects in development is a cheaper touch screen for smartphones and tablets. He added, "Kodak will deploy its print capabilities to lay out super-thin lines of metals like copper and silver, which can be more effective than indium and cheaper to obtain." This technology could also allow the screens to be flexible and foldable, and ensure it is installed on new objects.

He hoped, Kodak hopes to integrate this technology for smart packaging, which could include sensors that, for instance, tell consumers if a pharma product has been counterfeited or not