AHT And Minolta Business Solutions in Alliance to Provide OneRIP Connectivity; One Print Server Supports Color and Black-And-White Minolta Printers.Business Editors EL SEGUNDO El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2000 Advanced Hi-Tech Corporation (AHT AHT Animal Health Trust (Suffolk, England) AHT American Hairless Terrier (dog breed) AHT After Hours Trading AHT Animal Health Technician AHT Anchor Handling Tug ), a world leader in digital document management solutions, today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Minolta Business Solutions (MBS See Mb/sec. MBS - mobile broadband services ), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Minolta Corporation. The strategic alliance, which commenced on April 1, 2000, allowed New Jersey-based MBS to purchase and resell AHT's newly-launched OneRIP(TM) for Minolta print server. Using OneRIP, MBS customers will be able to simultaneously RIP and connect to any combination of Minolta color and black-and-white copiers, specifically the Minolta CF900 and CF910 color copiers/printers and Minolta Di520/620 and Di250/350 digital black-and-white printers. "OneRIP is the first product of its kind to drive multiple devices and support both color and black-and-white copier connectivity on the same server," said Mark Bradford Mark Bradford (born Los Angeles, California, 1961) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, located at Valencia, California, U.S., earning an MFA in 1997 and a BFA in 1995. , vice president of sales at MBS. "By offering the OneRIP solution to our customers, we can help make printing considerably easier, while improving both productivity and efficiency." Designed for true scalability, OneRIP will also enable MBS customers to expand their printing environment at any time, with any copier or printer, including other color copier brands and large-format printers. "MBS is now in the enviable position to offer Minolta users a complete printing solution," continued Bradford. "As our clients' businesses grow, we will simply grow with them and quickly satisfy their changing needs." OneRIP supports almost any network and provides drivers for Windows(R), Macintosh(R) and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (R) users. OneRIP is a powerful, enterprise-class server offering unique features essential for improved printing performance, such as Intelligent Scheduling(TM) for the automatic rerouting of jobs to the next available printer, and Electronic Collation COLLATION, descents. A term used in the laws of Louisiana. Collation -of goods is the supposed or real return to the mass of the succession, which an heir makes of the property he received in advance of his share or otherwise, in order that such property may be divided, together with the to collate col·late tr.v. col·lat·ed, col·lat·ing, col·lates 1. To examine and compare carefully in order to note points of disagreement. 2. To assemble in proper numerical or logical sequence. 3. a multi-page document, without an output sorter. Other key features include Scanback to turn a copier into a scanner; Clustering to enable multiple printers to act as one; Priority Printing to print jobs in their designated order and send urgent jobs to the top of the print queue Disk space that holds output designated for the printer until the printer can receive it. ; a Layout Tool for cropping, scaling and rotating images before printing; and a uniform, operator-friendly interface for each output device, making it easier to work with any kind of printer. AHT, based in El Segundo, specializes in digital printing technology. Founded in 1989, AHT is a market leader in the development and manufacture of solutions that maximize digital output capability. Major printer manufacturers, printing management companies, the Print on Demand industry, and large print customers, rely on AHT's printer controllers and related products to boost throughput, quality and functionality in document production. AHT's partners include Canon, Hewlett-Packard, Lexmark, Minolta, Mita, Oce, Pitney Bowes  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , Xerox, Sir Speedy, PIP Printing, American Speedy and Minuteman Press. AHT products include ColorFlare(R), OneRIP(TM), FIBRE Gateway(TM), Squadron(TM), and Image Manager(TM). All other products and/or company names are trademarks of their respective owners. |
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