Canon launches WebRecord Internet printing software, putting the power of the Web in print.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)--Feb. 3, 1997-- New software utility from top printer manufacturer offers unique fetching and formatting capabilities and optimizes printed "look" of Web sites Offering the ultimate solution for printing the World Wide Web, 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 ) Monday announced WebRecord, an Internet printing utility developed by Canon that works with any browser to put the power of the Web in print. Recognized as the leader in color Bubble Jet Canon's trade name for its thermal drop on demand inkjet printer technology. The ink is heated, which produces a bubble that expands and ejects the ink out of the nozzle. As the bubble cools, the vacuum created draws fresh ink back into the nozzle. printing, Canon continues to pioneer new ways to support its customers who want to print quickly and easily with amazing results. With WebRecord, users can gather and print colorful and intelligently formatted and referenced Web pages, making information on the Web more accessible and usable. Canon will include WebRecord free with its color Bubble Jet printer 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 , the BJC-4200 Photo color Bubble Jet printer, which offers photo-quality printing Photo quality printing is the ultra high resolution reproduction of digital artwork onto printable materials such as paper, vinyl, film, polyester, etc. Technical process right out of the box with unique Photo Inks and paper. Consumers can download a free demo version 1. demo version - An early, barely-functional version of a program which can be used for demonstration purposes as long as the operator uses *exactly* the right commands and skirts its numerous bugs, deficiencies, and unimplemented portions. 2. now offering five free prints, and by the end of February WebRecord can be purchased from CCSI's Web site at http://www.ccsi.canon.com . "Canon is committed to advancing new standards in image input and output. With WebRecord and our color Bubble Jet printers, users can achieve high-quality, photo-realistic output when printing low resolution images, Web page backgrounds and graphics," 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. , vice president of marketing and customer care of CCSI. "With millions of people surfing the Web, we're now giving them the ultimate tool to gather and print the information important to them." Canon Creative Web Solutions WebRecord is the central component of the Creative Web Solutions Internet software suite from Canon. Creative Web Solutions is a complete software solution for accessing, browsing, seeking information on and printing from the World Wide Web. With Creative Web Solutions, users are scheduled receive AT&T WorldNet Service, AT&T's value-added Internet access See how to access the Internet. software, which includes Microsoft Internet Explorer See Internet Explorer. 3.0, for accessing and browsing the World Wide Web. AT&T WorldNet Service offers directories and topical areas to help people find useful information, guided tours for newcomers, navigational aid A navigational aid or Navaid is any sort of marker which aids the traveler in navigation; the term is most commonly used to refer to nautical or aviation travel. Common types of such aids include lighthouses, buoys, fog signals, and daybeacons. for users of all skill levels, as well as electronic mail. Creative Web Solutions also includes Starfish Internet Utilities, providing several essential tools for using the Web; and Canon WebRecord for gathering information and printing the Web. Starfish Internet Utilities, 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 makers of Internet and Intranet solutions, provides a powerful collection of essential utilities to help Internet users be more productive on-line. QuickMarks provides a graphical bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. management tool for easier access to Web sites; Internet Meter visually monitors the progress and efficiency of your connection so that communication bottlenecks are easily identified; InternetClock lets you set alarms and reminders while synchronizing synchronizing, n a technique that a therapist uses to coordinate his or her breath with that of the client; builds trust and establishes relationship. your system clock with Internet time In the early days of the public Internet, Internet time referred to the breakneck speed with which companies scrambled to gain traffic and market share on the Web. A new business could come and go within a matter of weeks. servers; and QuickZip provides a fully integrated ZIP package to speed up file transfers and downloads. WebRecord Active Internet users, who need to 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. . With a unique feature unlike any other Web printing solution, WebRecord fetches a definable portion of a site or the entire site without the user ever visiting it to make gathering Web pages quick and easy. Users also will enjoy the software's ability to track and list sites visited while surfing. WebRecord also provides a complete organization of the titled Web pages visited with an automatic table of contents. Additionally, the software gives users an index of all linked pages, referencing internal and external Web links, and footnotes every link within the page. Improving upon the readability of printed Web pages, WebRecord features page formatting, giving users the choice of one to four columns per page, page orientation Page orientation is the way in which a rectangular page is oriented for normal viewing. The two most common types of orientation are portrait and landscape. , font size and background, creating efficient, attractive and intelligently formatted output. Now, users can make use of the printed Web pages that previously were formatted poorly, wasted paper and did not provide any of the links available on the Web page. Canon's OpenPage Technology WebRecord uses Canon's exclusive OpenPage technology, which allows the software to optimize the printing of large graphics files with only a minimum of 8MB of RAM. With OpenPage, Canon has raised the standard of printed output providing higher resolution color images and elevates the quality of the final output as compared with what is being viewed onscreen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. . OpenPage is a high resolution color rasterization engine which digests a whole composition, analyzes it, optimizes it and compiles it into an instruction stream of successive scanlines. These scanlines are then sent individually to the printer, maximizing all available resources. The OpenPage technology allows the computer to process an image one line at a time, focusing its resources on the production of each scanline and maximizing the capabilities of the printer which only receives instructions for one line at a time. Canon's first software to use the OpenPage technology is Design Essentials included on the Canon Creative 2 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). set shipping with all of Canon's color Bubble Jet printers. Pricing and Availability A free demo version of WebRecord which allows users to print five times (as many pages the user wants each time) is now available from Canon's Web site (http://www.ccsi.canon.com). By the end of February, customers 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. can purchase the full version of WebRecord for $29.99. In addition, Canon's entire Creative Web Solutions software suite is included with Canon's BJC-4200 Photo color Bubble Jet printer, which provides customers with photo-quality printing out of the box for an estimated street price of $299 (a). With the BJC-4200 Photo, customers receive Photo Inks, special photo printing papers and Creative Web Solutions with WebRecord -- a $150 value -- all free. Canon's Software Leadership Canon pioneered the importance of software to optimize its hardware advancements in 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). with the first Canon Creative in 1995. Canon's strategy behind Canon Creative is to give its printer customers tools for personal and business printing which are the key to amazing results. Canon now offers its second generation of software applications, Canon Creative 2, including third party software programs as well as Canon-developed software, with its BJC-240, BJC-240 Photo, BJC-4200, BJC-4200 Photo, BJC-4550 and BJC-620 color Bubble Jet printers. With Canon Creative, CCSI became the first printer company to focus on home personal applications for their printers, such as greeting cards See e-card. and T-shirt transfers. To date, the company has shipped more than 3 million copies of Canon Creative, which makes CCSI one of the top 10 software companies in the United States. CCSI's research shows that more than 86 percent of Canon's color Bubble Jet printer customers use Canon Creative applications. In addition, Canon Creative output accounts for 45 percent of the pages generated on Bubble Jet printers and 60 percent of the ink consumption. Canon's customers also can take advantage of the lowest-priced Adobe PostScript, available for $99 (b), for any of Canon's color Bubble Jet printers to create accurate proofs prior to printing. In addition, Canon recently announced the availability of Xerox's TextBridge Classic OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. software free to its new Canon Convertible Printer customers which allows them to maximize scanning capabilities and enhance productivity. WebRecord is the most recent example of Canon's commitment to providing the latest software advancements to achieve the highest-quality output. 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 headquarters in Costa Mesa, was founded in 1992 to market Canon-branded computer peripheral products in the United States, including color Bubble Jet printers and Photo Inks, the MultiPASS line of Canon Convertible printers, FAXPHONE facsimile machines, PowerShot digital cameras, Canon Creative and 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 image input and output quality -- based on its technological heritage in optical imaging and color printing. Customers are reached via the mass market channel -- a network of computer dealers, superstores and mass merchants. Canon is recognized as the world's largest computer printer manufacturer, a leader in imaging technology and a top worldwide patent holder. For more information, customers can call 800/848-4123 or visit the CCSI Web site at http://www.ccsi.canon.com . -0- (a) Prices are estimates only. Actual prices are determined by individual dealers and may vary. (b) Price does not include shipping and handling. CONTACT: Canon Computer Systems Inc., Costa Mesa Sherri Snelling/Kristine Skrabski, 714/438-3075/3484 pr@ccsi.canon.com or Golin/Harris Communications, 213/623-4200 Genevieve Haldeman, ext. 708 Jennifer Boggs, ext. 769 ghaldeman@golinharris.com jboggs@golinharris.com |
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