Helios Print Preview Offers Tremendous Savings With Reliable and Accurate Previews of Print Jobs.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1998--Helios Software GmbH, a leading vendor of network and prepress server software, announced its new Helios 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. . By being able to look at the most accurate proof possible prior to burning film or going to press, publishers now have the opportunity to catch color or font miscues providing tremendous savings over current prepress workflows. To retail at apx. $2,600, Helios Print Preview is available immediately through authorized Helios distribution partners worldwide. Helios Print Preview offers convenient and reliable last minute production checks of print jobs prior to final output. Any PostScript job can easily be previewed as a PDF file See PDF. , and separated jobs can be viewed as color composites as well. The preview is based on the final output device's PPD (1) (Parallel Presence Detect) The method used by earlier SIMM memory modules to communicate their capacity to the computer. A binary number coming from a parallel set of pins was read by the system, with each pin representing one bit. Contrast with SPD. and is a true representation of the final job in all respects regarding completeness and accuracy of page elements, correct colors, typography, font usage, and page geometry. Previews are stored on the Helios server. They contain job ticket information and the final pages in composite and/or separation mode. They can be accessed and printed locally from any client with a 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. browser like Adobe Acrobat. On Apple Macintosh Apple Macintosh - Macintosh , the previews can also be opened by double clicking them in EtherShare Admin; the Macintosh user can quickly release the jobs for production which will automatically forward them to the destination spool queue. The previews are color matched according to LinoColor/ColorSync to accurately simulate the final colors on a monitor for a soft proof or on a proof printer for a hard copy proof. Even locally attached PC ink jet printers can be used for proofing purposes and will show exactly the colors which will eventually be printed -- be it on a newspaper press, a high quality magazine press, or a short run CTP CTP (cytidine triphosphate): see cytosine. (1) (Computer-To-Plate) The production of printing plates directly from the computer without requiring film as an intermediate step. system. The size of the previews depends on page format and chosen resolution. It is typically just a few hundred kilobytes. This allows not only fast job proofing on any local Macintosh or PC, but also remote proofing over modem, ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. , or the Internet. Helios Print Preview joins Helios PDF Handshake as the leading prepress workflow solutions incorporating Adobe's 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. (PDF). Helios PDF Handshake is an extension for the Helios EtherShare print spooler and/or the Helios EtherShare OPI (Open Prepress Interface) An extension to PostScript that provides color separations. It was developed by Aldus Corporation, which was later acquired by Adobe. servers. It allows users to print PDF documents with proper colors to any PostScript device and to use PDF as hi-res input format for the OPI workflow. PostScript Type 1 and 3 as well as TrueType fonts are supported. PDF Handshake comes with the standard PostScript fonts, 336 Berthold font faces, and apx. 30 MB highest quality ICC profiles. Users can print PDF documents with an Helios supplied Acrobat plug-in or a Unix tool. PDF Handshake files are separated for final print or matched for proof print to any PostScript device, incl. Level 1 RIPs, with optional merging of spot to process colors. Black overprinting, registration and 300 dpi hairlines are all supported. Smart Ideas for Better Networking Helios products run on powerful and scalable servers from Apple Computer, Data General, Digital, HP, 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) , Motorola, 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. Helios products are sold worldwide by distributors and value added resellers to 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 major vendors in the prepress industry. For further editor information please contact: HELIOS Software GmbH attn: marketing, Steinriede 3, D-30827 Garbsen, Germany fax +49 5131-70-93-25; Internet: marketing@helios.de; or by World-Wide-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; 408/461-6061 (voice); 408/461-6056 (fax); Internet: info@ugraf.com, http://www.ugraf.com. KEYWORD: APPLE DESKTOP PUBLISHING PREPRESS GRAPHICS
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