Iomega Announces Digital Imaging Strategy, Offers Storage Solutions to Create, Enhance, Edit & Share Images.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 1999-- Pixel pixel in full picture element Smallest resolved unit of a video image that has specific luminescence and colour. Its proportions are determined by the number of lines making up the scanning raster (the pattern of dots that form the image) and the resolution Magic Imaging "Photo Ditto" Kiosks, Agfa Digital Cameras There were a number of digital cameras made by Agfa over the several years they were in the consumer digital camera market.
Kodak/Lexmark Printers Just Some of Iomega's New Consumer Applications On Display at COMDEX/Fall '99 Iomega (Iomega Corporation, San Diego, CA, www.iomega.com) A mass storage company founded in 1980 that offers a variety of optical, hard disk and proprietary disk storage devices. In the early 1980s, Iomega introduced the Bernoulli Box, which was the first high-capacity, removable disk for today announced its strategy to make removable storage a standard feature in the burgeoning digital imaging market. Iomega Corporation (company, storage) Iomega Corporation - A storage device manufacturer whose major products are the Zip and Jaz removable disk drives and Ditto tape drives. They became popular with an early product called the Bernoulli Box. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IOM IOM See: Index and Option Market ), a leader in smart, portable storage solutions with more than 30 million Zip(R) drives shipped, is demonstrating Pixel Magic Imaging's Photo Ditto v4.0 kiosks and other products from Iomega's digital imaging partners at COMDEX/Fall '99 in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. . Photo Ditto kiosks from Pixel Magic, a leader in digital imaging, offer innovative photo printing and editing capabilities in drug stores and retail outlets retail outlet n → punto de venta retail outlet n → point m de vente retail outlet retail n → across America and feature Zip 100MB drives as the primary storage and input solution for customers. "Zip and Clik! disks See PocketZip disk. are perfect companions for digital images because the disks are high capacity, low cost and easy to use," said Keith Slankard, director of Beyond-PC products, Iomega Corporation. "Our partners are building imaging products that use Zip and Clik! drives See PocketZip disk. because these storage solutions help consumers capture, enhance, store, print and share their images. Pixel Magic recognizes this and is able to offer a solution to its Photo Ditto customers that not only saves their newly-shot and edited images to a Zip disk A 3.5" removable disk drive from Iomega. Zip disks come in 100MB, 250MB and 750MB varieties, with the latter introduced in 2002 using USB and FireWire interfaces. The 250MB drives, introduced in 1998, also read and write 100MB disks. , but also takes shots from other photographic sources and creates a digital photo album." Photo Ditto kiosks are one-stop digital imaging workstations that have a nationwide presence in retail outlets including the Eckerd Drugs and Meijer chains, retail photo labs and specialty photo retailers across the U.S. The kiosks offer customers a wide variety of tools to use on their digital photos, allowing them to copy photos and film and load files; enhance photos by cropping images or removing red-eye; add text and create calendars or custom cards; even e-mail and upload See download. upload - /uhp'lohd/ To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral "client" system to a larger or central "host" one. Opposite: download. images to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . "With each enhancement of our Photo Ditto kiosks, we look to offer our customers the easiest ways to edit, share and store their digital photos," said Laura Oles, vice president of marketing for Pixel Magic Imaging. "Iomega's Zip drives See Zip disk. (hardware, storage) Zip Drive - A disk drive from Iomega Corporation which takes removable 100 megabyte hard disks. Both internal and external drives are manufactured, making the drive suitable for backup, mass storage or for moving files between computers. have been standard on the last two versions of the Photo Ditto. They fully support the input and output of our kiosks, and by allowing customers to save high quality/high resolution images on a single Zip disk, rather than multiple floppies, we feel it is one of the most cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. storage solutions we can offer." Removable Storage: It's Not Just For Computers Anymore As part of Iomega's "Beyond PC" program, Pixel Magic's Photo Ditto v4.0 and other products from Iomega's digital imaging partners will be on display at Iomega's booth (No. L5746) in the Convention Center at COMDEX/Fall '99 in Las Vegas, from November 15 - November 19. The Pixel Magic partnership is part of Iomega's larger effort to provide leading storage solutions to the digital imaging market. Iomega offers a wide range of solutions as part of its Beyond-PC program for enhancing the digital imaging market and allowing users to capture, enhance, print and share as well as store their images: -0-
CAPTURE: Removable 40MB Clik!(TM) disks are used
in Agfa's ePhoto CL30 Clik! digital cameras,
allowing users to store 10 times the number
of pictures as the average 4MB digital
camera. The Clik! disk's 40MB capacity
eliminates the hassle of viewing multiple
images one floppy at a time, and by
connecting the camera to a PC via the USB
port, all images can be viewed and edited
immediately.
ENHANCE: Iomega and Adobe Systems Incorporated have
teamed up to provide Adobe(R)
ActiveShare(TM) software, a free download
at www.iomega.com. ActiveShare provides an
easy way for users to import photos to
their computer, organize, enhance and share
them in print or online. Iomega Zip(R),
Jaz(R) and Clik!(TM) disks provide a mobile
solution for ActiveShare customers,
allowing them to store, backup and view
their photos on Iomega disks.
PRINT: Zip(R) external 100MB and 250MB drives are
being used with the Kodak Personal Picture
Maker, a joint venture between the Eastman
Kodak Company and Lexmark International,
Inc. With a Zip drive, users can transfer
images from a digital camera's memory card
to a Zip disk without having to connect the
printer to a PC, freeing up the memory card
to take more pictures. Users can also print
pictures directly from a Zip disk, without
connecting the printer to a PC.
SHARE: Digital Intelligence, Inc.(TM) develops and
licenses digital imaging software that
advances the digital photo capabilities of
Web sites and consumer electronics devices.
Their Picture IQ(TM) software quickly
provides powerful, yet reliable,
easy-to-use digital photography features
such as photo fixing and enhancement,
sharing, organizing, and printing. In the
Iomega COMDEX booth, Digital Intelligence
will demonstrate a potential TV set-top
photo viewing appliance solution
incorporating Picture IQ software, a
built-in Zip(R) drive, and a simple remote
control.
About Pixel Magic Imaging, Inc. Pixel Magic Imaging was one of the first companies to introduce digital photography into the mainstream marketplace in 1992. The company has since expanded to providing a number of system and software solutions to photo retailers, chain stores, studio photographers, and photo entrepreneurs nationwide. Photo Ditto, a product that allows consumers to modify and create copies of prints instantly, has a national presence in numerous retail stores including Eckerd Drugs and Meijer. The privately-funded company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in San Marcos, Texas San Marcos is a city in Texas, USA. The population was 34,733 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Hays County.GR6 Texas State University-San Marcos (formerly Southwest Texas State University) is located in the city. . For more information about Pixel Magic, visit http://www.pxlmagic.com. About Iomega Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM) manufactures and markets the award-winning Zip(R), Jaz(R) and Clik!(TM) drives and disks and markets the ZipCD(TM) CD-RW (CD-ReWritable) The only rewritable CD technology. CD-RW disks look like other CD media, but with close inspection, they have a more polished surface with a very dark blue-gray cast. drives and discs that help people to organize, manage, create, exchange and share their important information. Used in homes, businesses, government, education and by creative professionals everywhere, Iomega storage solutions are the enabling technologies preferred by millions. The Company can be reached at 1-800-MY-STUFF (800-697-8833), or on the Web at http://www.iomega.com. Special note: Statements contained in this release relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Iomega's digital imaging strategy and making Iomega's storage solutions a standard feature in the digital imaging market are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . There are a number of important factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including market acceptance of, and demand for, the Iomega storage devices with digital imaging products, manufacturing issues, including component availability and pricing, development and distribution issues relating to use and integration of Iomega storage solutions in digital imaging products, product pricing and conformity to specifications, competition, intellectual property rights and other risks as identified in Iomega's Annual Report to Stockholders for 1998 on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. , filed March 26, 1999, and its most recent quarterly reports filed with the SEC. Copyright (c) 1999 Iomega Corporation. The following trademarks of Iomega Corporation are registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries: Iomega, Zip and Jaz. Some other marks which may be registered in some countries are: Zip 100, Zip 250, Clik! and ZipCD. Certain other product names, brand names and company names may be trademarks or designations of their respective owners. |
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