Colorbus to offer Silicon Graphics Web Authoring and serving bundle with the Cyclone Imaging System.

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 1995--Colorbus Inc. Friday announced the availability of a Silicon Graphics Inc. WebFORCE(tm) bundle with the Cyclone Imaging System controller for color copiers and large format devices.

The SGI WebFORCE(tm) products enable the Cyclone to be used for World Wide Web authoring and serving in addition to generating four-color output from digital color copiers and large format devices.

The Cyclone Imaging System incorporates the Silicon Graphics Indy with a suite of Colorbus software to turn color copiers into printers. Also controlling large format devices, the Cyclone can drive 27 different output devices.

"Today, the Internet and its global applications clearly impact nearly every business," said Paul Peffer, president and CEO of Colorbus Inc. "With the Cyclone, businesses around the world can harness the powerful Silicon Graphics Web tools to be a part of the upsurge."

Combined with the WebFORCE(tm) tools, the Cyclone provides heterogeneous LAN connection to the Internet. Whether the client base is Unix systems, PCs or Macintosh computers, the Cyclone can operate as an external Web site, Web authoring station, internal Web server and Internet gateway.

In conjunction with Cyclone standard equipment which includes a powerful MIPS RISC R4600 133 megahertz processor with secondary cache, CD-ROM and a one gigabyte hard drive, the Silicon Graphics WebFORCE(tm) bundle include:

Netscape Communications Server(tm),

WebMagic Pro for producing HTML pages;

WebSpace Author for generating VRML worlds including 3D;

Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe Illustrator;

Digital Media Tools to edit media for the web;

MPEG and Cinepak(r) to compress video for your site;

Insignia SoftWindows(tm) to run Microsoft Windows(tm) applications.

"The Cyclone's new Web capabilities reinforce it's market position as an invaluable tool for bringing color back to the black and white world of business documents," added Peffer.

Other features of the Cyclone include:

o Adobe Configurable PostScript Interpreter Level 2; print spooling and filesharing via AppleTalk and TCP/IP that allows multiple users on the network to send print requests simultaneously;

o A five level queue management including a frozen queue for jobs that require special handling

o Job accounting to track jobs by user, RIP time, total jobs time and number of copies;

o Full color calibration capabilities including software to interface with a densitometer and CPSI Color Rendering Dictionaries for each copier manufacturer;

o A live "RIP" window unlike any other RIP product. This window displays the actual progress of the job as it is rendered into the page buffer.

Colorbus Inc., founded in 1989 with headquarters in Irvine, Calif., is a software and hardware developer specializing in networkable Adobe PostScript servers for digital color copiers and large format output devices. Colorbus products are sold throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan and Europe. For more information, call 800/RGB-CMYK (742-2695).

The Colorbus Web site is located at http://colorbus.com.

Note To Editors: Colorbus and Colorbus Cyclone Imaging System are registered trademarks of Colorbus Inc. This release also contains trademarks and trade names of companies other than Colorbus.

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