HELIOS PDF Handshake 2.0 offers Internet Printing.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Seybold Publishing 2000 Booth No. 3915 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2000 HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading provider of network and prepress software, will demo PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. Handshake Internet Printing, an innovative feature of its forthcoming release of PDF Handshake 2.0. PDF Handshake is a leading, server-based, PDF-based workflow that provides a complete prepress solution for Adobe(R) portable document format (file format) Portable Document Format - (PDF) The native file format for Adobe Systems' Acrobat. PDF is the file format for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. files -- from layout to output -- including ColorSync/ICC-based integrated color management and flexible output options including remote printing over the Internet. PDF Handshake's innovative Internet Printing feature supports the remote delivery and printing of PDF documents over the Internet allowing simple transfers and printing over the Internet using any web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . A simple web interface handles: user authorization, PDF job delivery, customizable print parameters, PDF pre-flight, remote notification, plus printing/archiving of PDF print jobs that can be used by every authorized Internet user Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f . User benefits With PDF Internet Printing, users gain easier, more affordable and faster access to reliable, professional output of PDF documents. With PDF Handshake's built-in ColorSync/ICC-based color management, font management and transformation, users can benefit from professional, high-quality printing of PDF documents whether they are separations, composites or even proof simulations. Business benefits Print houses and copy shops alike can give customers a no-hassle solution for remote delivery of their print jobs like color proofs, poster prints, forms or copy jobs. Easy to setup and use, HELIOS PDF Handshake Internet Printing provides e-mail notification that new documents have arrived. Based on a Perl script, the CGI program CGI program - Common Gateway Interface can be fully customizable enabling print houses and copy shops to brand the interface with banners, logos, advertisements as well as for custom order information, credit card, and legacy database connections. And, cost of entry is low, as an inexpensive PC-based Linux server running Apache and a 5-user EtherShare license and PDF Handshake are all that is required for a turnkey system that maximizes ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). (IP connection purchased separately). HELIOS PDF Handshake Internet Printing will be on display during Seybold Booth No. 3915 in the North Hall. HELIOS has also configured a test server available on the Internet to allow anyone to send a PDF print job to this server. These print jobs get processed via a Print Preview queue (limit 3 pages) and you can download the PDF bitmap preview to see how it works. In a customer environment the PDF job would be saved into a directory or printed to an EtherShare queue. The test URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. is: http://iprint.helios.de/cgi-bin/pdfweb.cgi CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. User: webuser Password: demo Smart Ideas for Better Networking HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers from Apple Computer, Data General, Compaq, Hewlett Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , and Sun, providing reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows, and UNIX-based clients. Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS software products are also available as part of 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 solutions by many major vendors in the prepress industry. For further editor information please contact: HELIOS Software GmbH attn: marketing Steinriede 3, D-30827 Garbsen, Germany; +49-5131-709320 (voice); +49 5131-709325 (fax); E-mail: marketing@helios.de; or Web access at http://www.helios.com. For U.S.-based sales information, contact: European Mikrograf Corporation, HELIOS Software GmbH.'s U.S. distributor, located at 269 Mt. Hermon Road, Suite 100, Scotts Valley, CA 95066; 831/461-6061 (voice); 831-461-6056 (fax); E-mail: info@ugraf.com, http://www.ugraf.com. |
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