Agfa Monotype Licenses Fonts and Font Technologies to Samsung; Technologies to be Integrated in Samsung Printers and Multifunction Devices.Business/Technology Editors WILMINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 2002 Agfa Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging, Inc has announced a worldwide font licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics (SEC, Hangul:삼성전자; KSE: 005930, KSE: 005935, LSE: SMSN, LSE: SMSD) is a South Korean multinational corporation and the world's largest and leading electronics and information technology company. . Samsung has licensed several components for integration in its complete line of PostScript(R)-based printers and multifunction devices: Agfa Monotype's UFST UFST Universal Font Scaling Technology (R) (Universal Font Scaling Technology(TM)), a PostScript 3-compatible font package, a TrueType(R) font rasterizer See font scaler. and the company's patented MicroType(R) compression technology. "We needed a proven solution that would allow our products to quickly render high-quality text," said Mr. Jang Jae Lee, vice president of Samsung's Digital Printing Division. "Agfa Monotype monotype, type set by the Monotype machine. See printing. monotype or monoprint In art printmaking, a technique prized because of its unique textural qualities. clearly understood our needs, and we're now able to meet requirements for quality, speed, compatibility and small code size - without loss of font integrity." "We're pleased that Samsung has chosen to partner with us," said Doug Shaw, senior vice president of Agfa Monotype's OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and business unit. "Our font technology also assures Samsung of being compatible with industry font standards." UFST Agfa Monotype's UFST is a compact, highly efficient embedded font scaling subsystem used in more than 90 percent of laser printers shipped worldwide. UFST reads, interprets and processes hinted font data to rapidly generate scaled character bitmaps, graymaps or grid-aligned outlines. The technology offers OEMs a lower ROM cost than alternative font rendering systems, and UFST is the only subsystem that uses industry-standard trademarked font names and font metrics, ensuring true compatibility with printers based on font standards by Adobe and Hewlett-Packard. UFST works with all industry-standard font formats such as TrueType and PostScript, and the technology supports OpenType(R) CFF See Compensatory Financing Facility. (Compact Font Format), as well as Agfa Monotype's MicroType and ACT(TM) (Asian Compression for TrueType(TM)) font compression technologies. MicroType MicroType is Agfa Monotype's patented, lossless See lossless compression. (algorithm, compression) lossless - A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. font compression technology used within UFST for embedded applications. The technology generates characters of exceptionally high quality, without impeding size or performance. Just 1.3MB of ROM is required for Agfa Monotype's 136 PostScript 3-compatible fonts, much less than the 2MB required for alternative subsystems. PostScript 3-compatible Font Collection Each of Agfa Monotype's 136 PostScript 3-compatible fonts is fully compatible in design and metrics to their Adobe counterparts, and each includes the euro currency character and the Central European character set. Two Multiple Master(TM) fonts are provided in addition to the 136, allowing users to create thousands of font instances from a single file entry. About Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, and digital convergence In the days of the first computers, transaction and company data were the first types of information digitized. Then came text, opening the world to word processing, followed by audio CDs and finally video. technology. Samsung Electronics employs approximately 64,000 people in 89 offices in 47 countries. The company is the world's largest producer of memory chips, TFT-LCDs, CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. mobile phones, monitors and VCRs. Samsung Electronics consists of four main business units: Digital Media Network, Device Solution Network, Telecommunication Network and Digital Appliance Network Businesses. More information can be found at www.samsungelectronics.com. About Agfa Monotype Corporation Agfa Monotype Corporation is a major provider of digital content for graphics professionals. The company is a recognized leader in fonts and font technologies and an innovator in color and screening technologies. Agfa Monotype is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Agfa Corporation and is part of Agfa's Graphic Systems business unit. Agfa Corporation is part of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, one of the world's leading imaging companies, headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. Agfa develops, produces and markets analog and digital systems, primarily for the graphics, medical imaging, non-destructive testing and consumer imaging and photography markets. Worldwide, sales for 2000 were 5.26 billion euros. In the U.S., Agfa is headquartered in Ridgefield Park, N.J. and employs approximately 4,000 people. Additional information about Agfa Monotype and its products can be found on the company's Web sites at www.agfamonotype.com and www.fonts.com. |
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