Minolta Announces Pi7500 Print Controller For DiALTA Di750 Copier/Printer.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Seybold Publishing 2000 Booth No. 1324 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2000 The New Printer/Server Solution from Minolta Provides More than Enough Power and Control to Support Production-Level Printing Environment; Visit Minolta at Booth No. 1324 Minolta Corporation's Office Systems Division is demonstrating the Pi7500 print controller for the DiALTA Di750 copier/printer for the first time at the Seybold San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden 2000 Conference and Exposition held August 29-31. This new solution provides variable data printing capabilities, job management from any Java-enabled 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. , and seamless network integration with the throughput necessary to thrive in production-level environments. The Pi7500 is based on Electronics For Imaging Inc.'s (EFI See UEFI. EFI - Extensible Firmware Interface ) (Nasdaq:EFII EFII Electronics for Imaging Inc (Foster City, CA) ) Fiery(R) X3(TM) technology and was developed to Minolta's specifications. "The Di750 is a production-level system. With this in mind, the Pi7500 was built to deliver the power and tools to support high-volume printing applications," said Bud Murphy, senior vice president and general manager, Office Systems Sales and Marketing Division, Minolta Corporation. "The Pi7500 drives the Di750 at its full rated speed of 75 ppm for maximum productivity, supports variable data printing and document manipulation and includes a host of web-based management tools." Commenting on the new offering, Jim Vickers, vice president worldwide account sales, EFI, said, "As the fastest black and white print controller to date for Minolta, the new Fiery X3 platform provides the power and the feature sets that will help Minolta customers meet their production level productivity and workflow needs. We are proud to be able to partner with Minolta on its Di750/Pi7500 solution." Pi7500 Production Power With a 366 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Intel Celeron processor, the Pi7500 offers Di750 users unparalleled power in production-level environments. The Pi7500 uses the latest EFI custom ASICs A redundant reference to an ASIC chip. ASICs are already customized for a specific use. See ASIC. for up to four times the processing speed See MHz. of most current controllers. It is Minolta's fastest black and white print controller to date and drives the Di750 at its full rated speed of 75 pages per minute (ppm). Pi7500 Control Features -- Fiery DocBuilder(TM) enables users to manipulate previously RIPed jobs. This means that adding, deleting or merging pages between RIPed jobs is easy and does not require the documents to be RIPed again. DocBuilder also permits continuous print, which lets users print documents from start to finish without a pause in printing. This feature, RIP-While-Print(R), increases multiple-job throughput. DocBuilder also permits electronic collation COLLATION, descents. A term used in the laws of Louisiana. Collation -of goods is the supposed or real return to the mass of the succession, which an heir makes of the property he received in advance of his share or otherwise, in order that such property may be divided, together with the , reverse-order printing, and job merging and editing which allows users to merge pages from different documents, as well as add, delete or reorder re·or·der v. re·or·dered, re·or·der·ing, re·or·ders v.tr. 1. To order (the same goods) again. 2. To straighten out or put in order again. 3. To rearrange. v. pages within a document. -- Fiery WebTools(TM) enables users to manage and control their print jobs remotely, via a Java-enabled web browser. Fiery WebTools include Web Spooler See print spooler and spooling. (operating system, tool) spooler - Software or hardware to which data is spooled and which processes that data (e.g. prints it) in the background. (TM) for monitoring jobs as they spool, RIP and print, WebStatus(TM) for referencing job status and displaying basic job information, and WebLink(TM) for linking to a specific web page. -- Fiery Downloader(TM) enables users to send PostScript and EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. files directly to the controller without opening the original application that created the file. Printing PostScript and EPS files with Fiery Downloader is faster than printing these files from within an application and allows users to batch multiple files for unattended printing. -- Fiery NetWise(TM) 2 ensures fast, seamless network connectivity, meeting the plug-and-play connectivity needs of the IS manager. -- FreeForm free·form adj. 1. Having or characterized by a usually flowing asymmetrical shape or outline: freeform sculpture. 2. (TM) (Optional) enables users to print variable data projects on the Di750 by separating the data that does not change from the data that does. For example, Free Form can be used to make printing PowerPoint presentations faster by separating the slide background from the text on each page.
Pi7500 Specifications
Central Processing Unit: Intel Celeron Processor / 366 MHz
Memory: 64 MB RAM (expandable to 128 MB)
Hard Disk Drive: 8.4 GB Hard Disk Drive
Resolution: 600 x 600 dpi
Network Interface: 10/100BaseT Standard,
Token Ring (Optional)
Network Protocol: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, LPR/LPD, EtherTalk
Network Management: SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
Page Description Language: PCL, Adobe(R) PostScript(R) 3
Price and Availability The Pi7500 Print Controller will be available later this quarter from authorized Minolta dealers nationwide. The suggested retail price of the Pi7500 will be announced upon its release. Minolta Corporation Minolta's Business Products Group (BPG BPG Blocks Per Game (basketball statistic) BPG Bisphosphoglycerate BPG Bi-National Planning Group (NORADHQ) BPG Belgian Polymer Group BPG Binational Planning Group ), headquartered in Ramsey, N.J., was formed in 1996 to bring together 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. and Canadian marketing efforts on behalf of Minolta Corporation's digital and analog office equipment. Minolta's BPG products include black and white analog copiers, digital color and black and white printer/copiers, plain-paper laser facsimile machines, document imaging systems, electronic image and information management systems and computer peripheral products. Minolta Corporation's Consumer Products Group (CPG CPG central pattern generators. ) markets film cameras, digital cameras, binoculars, accessory lenses, photographic meters, 35mm and Advanced Photo System film scanners and other consumer products. Minolta is the exclusive distributor of Cokin filters. Minolta Corporation is the largest subsidiary of Minolta Co. Ltd. of Osaka, Japan. More information is available at Minolta's web site, www.minoltausa.com. Note to Editors: All brand names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies |
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