Rotomail will install the same four-colour machine that Kodak will be running on its Ipex stand straight from the show.

Kevin Joyce, Kodak digital printing solutions sales and marketing vice-president, said: "Demand exceeds our ability to meet it. We're having to accelerate the launch of Prosper because our customers are demanding it."

Regional manager of Kodak EAMER, John O'Grady, added: "I've never seen such pent-up demand for a product. We're actively taking on more engineers and training our existing staff in preparation of a surge of orders in the next year. We're scaling up the entire organisation to meet demand."

Joyce claimed that Stream technology "delivered digital print without compromise". He said: "Before this, you picked one or two out of cost, productivity and quality, but not all three."

The Prosper 5000XL is a two-up machine that runs at 200m per minute and has a monthly duty cycle of 120m A4 pages.

It handles stock from 45-175gsm, both uncoated and coated, including glossy coated stocks, albeit those with a modified coating.

Kodak promised to reveal the details of its paper partners and their products suitable for Stream at the Birmingham show in May.

Joyce highlighted the ability for customers to scale up from the monochrome Prosper 1000 machine to colour as their applications evolve, although the firm won't be showing the 1000 at Ipex.

Pricing for the Prosper presses range between $1.5m-$4m (£1m-£2.7m), depending on the configuration, which can be a simplex monochrome machine up to a duplex colour system.