Best Graphics Acceleration Value gets Better; RasterOps-Truevision Bundles Fractal Design Painter(TM) 3.0 with its PaintBoard Prism(TM) GT; Prism GT and award-winning Painter 3.0 unmatched at $1,199.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1995-- RasterOps-Truevision (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ROPS ROPS Rollover Protective Structures ROPS Roll Over Protection System (Volvo) RoPS Rovaniemen Palloseura (Finland soccer group) ROPS Rollover Protective System ROPS Range Operations Squadron ), today announced that it will bundle Fractal Design Corporation's Painter 3.0, valued at $499, with its PaintBoard Prism GT high-speed graphics accelerator A display adapter that performs a specialized set of graphics functions to render an image on screen. Today, all display adapters provide basic rendering functions in hardware, but many have graphics processing units (GPUs) that are sophisticated computers. for the Macintosh(R) and Power Macintosh See Power Mac. (computer) Power Macintosh - Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Macintosh systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. (TM) platforms. RasterOps' Prism GT delivers workstation-level performance and is ideal for high-end color graphics The ability to display graphic images in colors. , page layout :For the Wikipedia policy about articles layout, see Wikipedia:Guide to layout. Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. , and desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, applications. Fractal Design's award-winning Painter is the most popular natural-media(R) paint and image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished application available. Combined, RasterOps' Prism GT and Fractal's Painter offer the absolute best value in a high-performing graphics package on the market today. PaintBoard Prism GT, introduced at MacWorld Expo in January, provides an excellent means to upgrade the graphics capabilities of the Power Macintosh 6100 and 7100 by giving users greater color depths and higher resolutions. Prism GT is also an excellent solution for owners of 68030- and 68040-based Macintosh systems for users who want to upgrade the graphics capabilities of their existing Macintosh systems. With the addition of Painter 3.0, Prism GT delivers value unmatched by competitive products. "While our competition continues to overprice o·ver·price tr.v. o·ver·priced, o·ver·pric·ing, o·ver·pric·es To put too high a price or value on. Verb 1. its graphics acceleration technology, RasterOps is adding even more value to its popular Prism GT line," said Didier Bredy, director of product marketing for RasterOps. "Now, users can purchase a complete graphics package at substantially less than what they would pay if they bought the software and a competing card separately. And because our bundled package is Fractal's Painter 3.0, our customers know automatically that their creativity and productivity will be significantly enhanced." "RasterOps has made a name for itself with products that deliver on their promise of performance and value," said Stephen Manousos, vice president of sales at Fractal Design Corporation. "Our relationship with RasterOps is a strategic partnership that will provide our customers with the hardware tools they need to take full advantage of the capabilities designed into our software." Prism GT Features For professional color graphics, PaintBoard Prism GT delivers 16.7 million colors (24-bits) at resolutions up to 1152x870 with 2X, 4X, and 8X hardware zoom capabilities for detailed image editing Changing or improving graphics images. It typically refers to bitmapped images rather than vector graphics drawings. Using an image editor, images can be modified by an artist using pen, brush, airbrush and other "painting" tools. . Prism GT is a 7" NuBus card and fits in all Quadra(TM) and Power Macintosh(TM) systems equipped with NuBus slots, making it a practical choice for a variety of users. Additionally, Prism GT provides high refresh rates for flicker-free images in all resolutions and bit-depths for viewer comfort and minimal eyestrain eyestrain /eye·strain/ (-stran) fatigue of the eye from overuse or from uncorrected defect in focus of the eye. eye·strain n. . "The critical factor in determining the value of a graphics card is how well it performs in real-world applications, not on low-level benchmark tests. These benchmarks loop through a particular operation hundreds or thousands of times, which doesn't make sense because people don't work that way in the real world," said Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Associates, an independent graphics consulting firm. "We tested the new RasterOps PaintBoard Prism GT versus competing products such as the Radius LeMans GT with the most popular page layout and graphics design applications. We found that, across the board, PaintBoard Prism GT outperformed the competition." Painter 3.0 Features Painter 3.0 offers a customizable interface and palettes which collapse and expand for selecting paper texture, media, colors, and brushes, giving users a clean, simplified workspace. Another new feature is Image Hose, a command in which streams of predefined images can be mixed in a single document, for customized borders and backgrounds with layered effects. Computer artists can rotate the on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. canvas to adapt to their individual drawing and painting styles. Painter 3.0 also adds built-in cel animation capabilities to add greater versatility to this highly functional painting application. Price and Availability PaintBoard Prism GT with Fractal Design Painter See Painter. 3.0 carries a suggested list price of $1,199 and is immediately available through the company's extensive network of dealers, distributors, and resellers. For product or dealer information, contact RasterOps at 1-800/SAY-COLOR. Company Background Fractal Design Corporation is a major force in multiple-platform graphics software, creating and marketing next-generation paint, photo-design and image-retouching software for Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers. All Fractal Design products are written to support the new Power Macintosh computers. Fractal Design develops and markets the award-winning natural-media paint and image processing applications Fractal Design Painter, Dabbler, ColorStudio & Shapes, and Fractal Design Sketcher. Fractal Design products are available through distributors including Ingram, Merisel and Tech Data, as well as superstores, major resellers and mail order. The company is headquartered at 335 Spreckels Drive, Aptos, Calif. 95003. Telephone: 408/688-5300, Fax 408/688-8836. RasterOps-Truevision is a worldwide leader in high-performance digital video, graphics acceleration, and display technologies for the desktop computing market. The company's products are designed to significantly increase creative capabilities and productivity for multimedia authoring, industrial and professional video production, color graphic design, imaging, business, and education users. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., RasterOps-Truevision is publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors ROPS. -0- RasterOps and Truevision are registered trademarks and PaintBoard Prism is a trademark of RasterOps Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Color photography is available upon request from The Benjamin Group Inc. CONTACT: RasterOps-Truevision Didier Bredy, 408/562-4200 or The Benjamin Group Inc. Andy Ramm/Anne Hohenberger, 408/559-6090 |
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