Agfa Announces PrintCast Global Phase II, Expands Distribution & Print Network.WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 1998-- New Software Automates Communications and Delivery Systems Visit Agfa at On Demand Conference, Booth #726 Broadening its unique vision of on-demand and personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. digital printing to include a worldwide audience, Agfa today announced Global Phase II of its PrintCast initiative, extending the PrintCast Network to the global community of Chromapress users. As part of Global Phase II, Agfa also announced the development of two new software applications, PrintCast Manager - for back-office functionality - and PrintCast Remote - for network connectivity and communications - which together automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. the distribution and printing functions of the Network. PrintCast's Global Phase II enables internationally active companies to print high quality materials at any Chromapress location worldwide, in a very timely manner. The new software applications, PrintCast Manager and PrintCast Remote, are built to support an infrastructure that is critical to the operation of the network. PrintCast Manager - accessible only through a secured intranet - tracks an active database of customer capabilities, international exchange rates and job tracking schedules - estimates through delivery and billing. PrintCast Remote, which resides at the Chromapress user site, furnishes job alert notifications, generates job quotes, enables quick feedback on pricing estimates and provides communications services with the PrintCast Hub. "PrintCast Global Phase II makes it possible - for the first time - for the printing and publishing industry to have access to a global printing network, as well as the sophisticated features of variable data printing," said Philippe Duval, business manager, PrintCast, Agfa Division, Bayer Corporation. "Global Phase II also provides companies doing business around the world with a quick and easy means of delivering up-to-the-minute, printed information to customers anywhere in the world, while avoiding the cost and timing obstacles they would ordinarily or·di·nar·i·ly adv. 1. As a general rule; usually: ordinarily home by six. 2. In the commonplace or usual manner: ordinarily dressed pedestrians on the street. encounter when shipping business literature internationally." About PrintCast PrintCast is a service that manages and distributes digital files for remote printing to the worldwide Chromapress network. The PrintCast Network, composed of over 380 Chromapress users in more than 40 countries worldwide, makes it possible to utilize advanced printing capabilities anywhere in the world. Chromapress users participating in the Network can act in various capacities, for instance, as the site requesting the job, the PrintCast Print Seller (PPS (Packets Per Second) The measurement of activity in a local area network (LAN). In LANs such as Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI, as well as the Internet, data is broken up and transmitted in packets (frames), each with a source and destination address. ) or the PrintCast Print Provider (PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) The most popular method for transporting IP packets over a serial link between the user and the ISP. Developed in 1994 by the IETF and superseding the SLIP protocol, PPP establishes the session between the user's computer and the ISP using ) - the site performing the job. Agfa manages the PrintCast Hub and supports the coordination of all print jobs on the Network. The company also administers billing for all parties, providing payment and invoice statements in the local currencies of each country requesting the printing jobs and those providing the printing services. Agfa's Chromapress Chromapress is a digital printing system that creates high-quality, four-color printing directly from PostScript The de facto standard page description language (PDL) in the graphics arts industry as well as in commercial printing. Developed by Adobe, many printers and most imagesetters support PostScript by having a built-in PostScript interpreter. files. It provides a complete system for efficient digital printing - including powerful and productive front-end components, such as a full suite of software for workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. management, the IntelliServer press server, advanced PowerRIP, and the IntelliStream output manager. The award winning Chromapress 32i four-color print engine offers fast, full-duplex, 32-cm (12.7-inch) wide web-feed output. The new Chromapress Model 50i offers 50-cm (20-inch) wide output. With Agfa's exclusive Personalizer and Personalizer-X software, materials printed on Chromapress can be individually customized with variable text and images and printed on the fly - a key enabler of the emerging communications paradigm known as one-to-one marketing. With IntelliStream, up to 100 percent full color variable data printing is possible. For more information on Chromapress, visit http://www.chromapress.com on the World Wide Web. About Agfa The Agfa-Gevaert Group is a worldwide manufacturer of imaging products and systems, with annual worldwide sales of $4.5 billion. Agfa-Gevaert manufactures and markets products and systems for the electronic and photographic prepress, medical, and technical diagnostic and amateur and professional photographic markets. Headquartered in Europe, Agfa-Gevaert is wholly-owned by Bayer AG Bayer AG German chemical and pharmaceutical company. Founded in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer (1825–1880), it now operates plants in more than 30 countries. Bayer has originated scores of pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and synthetic materials; it was the first developer and . In the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Agfa operates as a division of Bayer Corporation, with headquarters in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey Ridgefield Park is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The population was 12,873 at the 2000 census. Out of 566 municipalities statewide, Ridgefield Park is only one of four villages in New Jersey, joining Loch Arbour, Ridgewood and South Orange. . Bayer, headquartered in Pittsburghogies. 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