NewGen Imaging Systems Announces WAM!NET Remote Digital Color Proofing Solution for the ChromaxPro.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 1997-- New Strategic Partnership Enables NewGen to Offer Secure Digital File Transfer Anywhere in the U.S. and Canada NewGen Imaging Systems now offers a digital delivery service to the prepress industry in collaboration with NetCo Communications Corporation and its WAM WAM - Intermediate language for compiled Prolog, used by the Warren Abstract Machine. "An Abstract Prolog Instruction Set", D.H.D. Warren, TR 309, SRI 1983. !NET technology, a high-speed remote wide area network system. The service allows customers to send large files anywhere in the U.S. and Canada in about an hour. A service called WAM!PROOF will provide customers with color calibrated cal·i·brate tr.v. cal·i·brat·ed, cal·i·brat·ing, cal·i·brates 1. To check, adjust, or determine by comparison with a standard (the graduations of a quantitative measuring instrument): digital proofs, using NewGen's ChroMATCH color proofing system technology at both ends of the data transfer connection. The ChromaxPro is the world's first dye-sublimation color proofing system to use ChroMATCH Spectral Color In computer graphics, the color of a single wavelength of light, starting with violet at the low end and proceeding through indigo, blue, green, yellow and orange and ending with red. Technology to deliver "the most accurate color we've ever seen on a desktop printer." - MacUser, March 1996. The WAM!NET/NewGen partnership offers customers maximum ease of use, security and file transfer speed combined with the exceptional color matching quality of NewGen's flagship digital proofing Preparing a sample of printed output on a computer printer before the job is printed on a commercial press. Contrast with Matchprint and soft proofing. system, the ChromaxPro. "Affordable, secure remote color proofing is a necessity in the digital workflow In print publishing, using the computer to lay out text and illustrations prior to creating film negatives for every page or going directly to plate. Prior to digital workflow, the typesetting and pre-press stages were far more time consuming and labor-intensive. environment," said LaDon Harrison, director of marketing for NewGen Imaging Systems. "The ChromaxPro's color matching accuracy combined with WAM!NET's time and money-saving features will revolutionize the file transfer process for graphic design and prepress. This alliance allows us to offer our ChromaxPro users access to a leading edge digital data delivery network." NewGen, a manufacturer of advanced digital color and monochrome proofers for the digital and prepress environment, has formed a strategic alliance with WAM!NET to offer a turnkey digital file transfer solution. The WAM!NET service provides graphic designers and prepress professionals a simple means of sending digitally accurate color proofs fast. By using WAM!PROOF, an optional remote proofing service, users can create digitally identical color proofs utilizing ChroMATCH color proofing technology at both ends of a network connection. WAM!PROOF allows network users to work from identical materials for approvals, retouching and press checks from thousands of miles away, enabling design teams to produce multiple same-day/same-shift proofs. WAM!NET offers volume-based pricing in increments of megabytes, similar to cellular phone service. 12-month pricing plans start at $250 per month and include complete training and the only hardware required: a network access device (NAD NAD: see coenzyme. ). The system was designed to circumvent the need to buy new equipment, lease costly T-1 or ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. lines or reconfigure networks. "Compatibility with the ChromaxPro enables our customers to access remote color proofing capabilities and benefits," said Mitch Prust, product manager, 3rd Party Integration at WAM!NET. "This certification is another positive step towards providing complete interoperable remote proofing through WAM!PROOF." 96MB RAM is now standard in the ChromaxPro. Other features include: -- Color Dye-Sublimation -- Full Bleed See bleed. 12" x 19.2" Paper Support -- ChroMATCH Color Technology -- 33MHz (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. AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. RISC Processor -- 60 PostScript Fonts -- PostScript Level 2 Language Compatible -- 1.2 GB Internal Hard Drive -- Built-In Print Spooler with FastQueue Technology -- Trap Proofing -- RasterJet Adobe Photoshop SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. Printing About NewGen Founded in 1988, NewGen is a high technology developer of advanced digital color and monochrome output devices for the printing and publishing markets. NewGen products are distributed internationally through a network of distributors, OEMs and dealers. The company, which is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California Costa Mesa is a suburban middle class city in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 108,724 at the 2000 census. Since its incorporation in 1953, the city has grown from a semi-rural farming community of 16,840 to a suburban city with an economy based on , is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Imaging Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ITEC ITEC Instituto de Tecnologia em Informática e Informação do Estado de Alagoas ITEC International Therapy Examination Council (UK) ITEC Internet Technology ITEC Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation ITEC Instructional Technologies ). News and information are available at the NewGen website on the Internet at http://www.newgen.com and at the ITEC corporate website at http://www.imagetechcorp.com . About WAM!NET The WAM!NET digital delivery network is a turnkey service that transports digital files from desktop to desktop electronically in minutes anywhere in the United States and Canada. The WAM!NET service includes all the hardware, software, phone lines and onsite installations. Those connections are managed 7 days a week 24 hours a day by WAM!NET. The service is priced by the megabyte and sold like a cell phone. Customers sign a 12-month service contract, pay a low monthly fee and get a block of megabytes to use each month. Additional megabytes cost just pennies apiece. WAM!NET, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NetCo Communications Corporation, a privately held, Minneapolis-based company that provides digital delivery services to the printing, prepress, advertising and graphic design industries. The company was incorporated in 1994. For more information about WAM!NET, please call 800-611-9006, access the Internet at http://www.wamnet.com or visit NewGen at booth number 3221 in the North Hall to sign up. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: WAM!NET is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NetCo Communications Corp. WAM!NET, NAD and WAM!PROOF are servicemarks of NetCo Communications Corp. NewGen, ChromaxPro and ChroMATCH are trademarks of NewGen Imaging Systems. All product names are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: NewGen Imaging Systems LaDon Harrison, 714/641-8600 Fax 714/641-2800 ladonh@newgen.com |
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