Canon, the Pioneer of Printer Software Strategy, Unveils its Third Generation of Canon Creative; Fully Integrated Software Solution Is Photo-Centric and Web-Aware.COSTA MESA Costa Mesa (kŏs`tə mā`sə), city (1990 pop. 96,357), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific south of Santa Ana; inc. 1953. It is a transportation, residential, and light industrial center. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1997--In 1995, Canon revolutionized the ink jet printer See inkjet printer. industry with its unique Canon Creative software strategy. Monday, Canon Computer Systems Inc. (CCSI CCSI Computer & Control Solutions, Inc CCSI Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (training qualification) CCSI Canadian Centre for Swine Improvement CCSI Contemporary Control Systems, Inc CCSI Channel Coding with Side Information ) introduced its Canon Creative 3, featuring full support of photos and image content in all applications for total photo-quality results and an integrated on-line component for easy Internet access See how to access the Internet. and printing, as well as on-line help and free downloadable program updates. The software also features a completely new interface designed to offer users three different ways to access the applications. Canon Creative 3 is a remarkable collection of easy-to-use software applications, including Canon's own Design Essentials and WebRecord that allow users to quickly produce photo-quality results, whether for a small business, home office or family. The new software ships with the BJC-250, BJC-4304 Photo, BJC-620 and BJC-7000 Color Bubble Jet printers Noun 1. bubble jet printer - a kind of ink-jet printer bubble-jet printer, bubblejet ink-jet printer - a printer that produces characters by projecting electrically charged droplets of ink and the MultiPASS C3000 Canon Convertible printer. Current owners of previous Canon Color Bubble Jet printers or MultiPASS models can purchase the most recent version of Canon Creative through Canon's Special Offer Hotline at 1-800/385-2155 for $49.99 (a) (plus applicable tax, shipping and handling). The software will be available to anyone via CCSI's Web site later this year. "Canon Creative is probably the best example of how Canon really understands and listens to its printer customers," said Peter Bergman This article is about the soap opera actor. For the Firesign Theatre member, see Peter Bergman (comedian). Peter Bergman (born June 11, 1953) is a three time Emmy Award-winning American soap opera actor. , CCSI vice president of marketing and customer care. "Two years ago we understood that it wasn't about speeds and feeds, but what you could do with your printer, and so we created the Canon Creative concept. Today's version not only offers the best photo-based applications, but incorporates customer feedback for a new interface and more Internet utilities." Full Photo Support All the applications in Canon Creative 3 provide full support of photos and other image content from manipulation with an image editor and enhancer to integration with complete drag-and-drop capabilities. The software also supports the FlashPix image format standard. The new Canon Creative features the ImageStrip which allows users to view and share images within Canon Creative or between any Windows 95 application by just dragging and dropping the desired images. The ImageStrip can be detached and docked to any side of the screen so that images can be easily accessed and used with a favorite application. It offers quick access to available images through a visual explorer of ColorDesk Photo and an instant connection to a scanner or digital camera for image input. It also provides various image capabilities including view, edit, copy and create. "We feel Canon Creative is uniquely different from other printer companies' software bundles," continued Bergman. "Canon Creative is not a bundle. It is a fully integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package. tool that offers cross-compatible applications, innovative customer support and content upgrades while you're on-line." Integrated On-line Component Canon Creative 3 also offers a completely integrated on-line component, which allows consumers to access the Internet directly from the application, automatically download program updates and additional free content and obtain helpful customer support through an onscreen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. help manual. The Canon Creative interface senses when users are connected to the Web or offers to connect them; notifies the user of updates to the drivers, program or onscreen documentation; and automatically downloads and installs them. The interface also notifies users when there is additional free content or other promotions available from Canon. In addition, throughout Canon Creative 3, users will find hyperlinks to helpful sites on the Web. Canon is the only printer company to have a comprehensive, Web-intelligent offering. New User Interface Canon Creative now offers users three options to access the applications and content to create their personalized output -- applications-based, results-based or image/content-based. For example, if users know which application will work best, they can choose the "Start Programs" button to access that specific application. If they want to make a T-shirt but are not sure which application to use, they can choose the "Create Projects" button and pick their desired results. Finally, if they have a particular photograph they want to integrate into their creation or want to use an image from the "Select Images" catalogs provided, they can use the ImageStrip interface to drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. images into various applications. Applications Canon Creative 3 includes applications such as Canon's own WebRecord and Design Essentials, as well as third party applications such as the award-winning card creation program, American Greetings' CreataCard Special Edition from Micrografx; ColorDesk's ColorDesk Photo v2.0 for 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. and enhancement; DogByte Development's ColorStore v2.0 for stationery, stickers, labels and cards; and AT&T WorldNet Service, AT&T's value-added Internet access software, including Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. 3.0, for accessing and browsing the World Wide Web; Starfish Internet Utilities 97, a collection of essential tools for making the most of the Internet. Canon Creative also includes clip art A set of canned images used to illustrate word processing and desktop publishing documents. and image catalogs such as PhotoEssentials image library, offering a collection of photos to use within Canon Creative's applications. Design Essentials v2.0 -- Developed by Canon Information Systems Research, Australia, Design Essentials is a collection of more than 500 variations of 99 easy-to-use business-oriented templates created by professional graphic artists. It allows the small office user to produce high-quality brochures, newsletters, signs, menus, business cards and more. Design Essentials also now supports edge-to-edge printing, exclusively available on Canon's BJC-7000 Color Bubble Jet printer. CreataCard Special Edition -- Created by Micrografx and American Greetings American Greetings Corporation, Inc. NYSE: AM is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Cleveland, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products (such as wrapping papers and decorations), and electronic , CreataCard award-winning card design software allows users to conveniently make and deliver personalized greeting cards See e-card. . CreataCard offers more than 300 pre-designed greeting cards, invitations and announcements. Users can choose from verses and artwork from American Greetings or create their own special phrases to add a personal touch. Now users can also incorporate personal photos into their creations. ColorDesk Photo v2.0 -- From ColorDesk Inc., ColorDesk Photo makes it easy to produce great looking images quickly. With just one click, ColorDesk's AutoFinish technology can turn a bad image into a great one. ColorDesk's patented color matching system automatically delivers accurate color input , display and printing. ColorDesk also provides a link to the Picture Wall where users can place their images onto mousepads, mugs and even watch faces. Using images from a digital camera or color scanner, ColorDesk is a fast, simple solution for all image-enhancement needs. ColorStore v2.0 -- This improved version of DogByte Development's ColorStore allows users to choose from more than 1,000 templates to design and print comic strips
WebRecord -- Active Internet users, who collect and print information from the Web for business, school or personal use, can take advantage of WebRecord's unique printing and site gathering capabilities. The software, developed by Canon, enables users to print entire Web sites, including a table of contents, complex images and page backgrounds. Users can select specific pages to be printed and arrange them in any order. In addition, the software offers full print preview A software function that displays on screen the way a document will print on paper. Print preview eliminates wasting paper as corrections are made before the document is printed. In addition, network printers are not always close by and easily accessible. . Internet Utilities 97 -- This highly praised collection of Internet tools from Starfish Software Starfish was founded in 1994 by Philippe Kahn, best known for his invention of the camera phone and his most recent company Fullpower Technologies. The founding vision of Starfish was global synchronization and integration of wireless and wireline devices, which translated with the eliminates the usual frustrations of using the Web. Thanks to QuickMarks, QuickRoute and NetMeter, you won't have to worry about losing your bookmarks or putting up with slow Internet connections. QuickFTP also makes downloading files simple. QuickZip enables you to zip and un-zip documenting with ease. And you'll never again have trouble decoding files on newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. with News Decoder. AT&T WorldNet Service including Microsoft Internet Explorer -- Take advantage of the enhanced Web capabilities of Canon Creative with Internet access and browser capabilities provided by these industry leaders. Free Collection of Image Content and TrueType Fonts Canon Creative 3 also provides users with a free collection of image content which they can integrate into their creations. The collection features more than 200 clip art images, 100 decorative, assorted borders and 50 warm and traditional Victorian images. Curtis Publishing Co. also provides 50 memorable Norman Rockwell Noun 1. Norman Rockwell - United States illustrator whose works present a sentimental idealized view of everyday life (1894-1978) Rockwell Images from The Saturday Evening Post. Plus, Canon Creative is packed with more than 200 TrueType fonts for use with any Windows application A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows. . Canon's Software Leadership While many manufacturers bundle software, Canon was the first printer manufacturer to create a relevant, comprehensive compilation of software applications on a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). that opened the door to amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. results with Canon Creative, launched in 1995. With the original Canon Creative, Canon focused on "what customers could do" with Canon printers by offering greeting cards, quilting quilting, form of needlework, almost always created by women, most of them anonymous, in which two layers of fabric on either side of an interlining (batting) are sewn together, usually with a pattern of back or running (quilting) stitches that hold the layers , stickers and a children's crayon drawing the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawing made with crayons. See also: Crayon program -- all home personal applications to maximize the customer's printer purchase and capability. At that time, Computer Retail Week, an industry trade publication awarded CCSI the "Best Software/Hardware Promotion" for its Canon Creative strategy. In addition, printing industry newsletter Hard Copy Observer noted "Canon's bundled software (1) Applications that are included with new hardware. For example, a new PC often comes with several applications, many of which may be light versions or full versions with no limit on usage. Others may be only 60- or 90-day trial packages. See bundle. turns ink jets into creative toolkits. Never before has a printer manufacturer come out with color printers so strategically focused on enriching the entire family's creativity. When the software bundles from Canon, Hewlett-Packard, and Lexmark are compared in terms of `family enrichment,' Canon prevails over the other contenders." With the introduction of its second generation software, Canon conducted a study which showed that more than 86 percent of its printer customers used the Canon Creative applications. CCSI's research also showed that the Canon Creative output accounts for 45 percent of pages generated on the Bubble Jet printers. PC World noted in its June 1997 issue "Canon Creative 2 is still the best printer software bundle we've seen." About CCSI Canon Computer Systems Inc. (CCSI) is a subsidiary of both Canon USA Inc. (Lake Success, N.Y.) and Canon Inc. (Tokyo). The company, with headquarts in Costa Mesa, was founded in 1992 to market Canon-branded computer peripheral products 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. , including color Bubble Jet printers and Photo Inks, the MultiPASS line of Canon Convertible printers, FAXPHONE facsimile machines, PowerShot digital cameras, and Canon Creative which includes WebRecord (Internet printing software). CCSI is uniquely positioned to offer both home and small office consumers true PhotoRealism photorealism, international art movement of the late 1960s and 70s that stressed the precise rendering of subject matter, often taken from actual photographs or painted with the aid of slides. -- the new gold standard in computer input and output quality -- based on its technological heritage in optical imaging and color printing “colour separation” redirects here. For other uses, see colour-separation overlay. Color printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). . Customers are reached via the mass market channel -- a network of computer dealers, superstores and mass merchants. For more information, customers can call 1-800/848-4123 or visit the CCSI Web site at www.ccsi.canon.com. Canon will also unveil its latest Web site, photorealism.com in early August. Canon, celebrating its 60-year anniversary, is recognized as the world's largest computer printer manufacturer, a leader in imaging technology and a top worldwide patent holder. As a global technology leader, Canon achieved $22 billion in worldwide sales in 1996. -0- (a) Prices are estimates only. Actual prices are determined by individual dealers and may vary. CONTACT: Canon Computer Systems Inc., Costa Mesa Sherri Snelling/Kristine Skrabski, 1-714/438-3075/3484 pr@ccsi.canon.com or Golin/Harris Jennifer Boggs/Valencia Walker 1-213/623-4200 ext. 769/706 jboggs@golinharris.com vwalker@golinharris.com |
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