Pixo Arts Corp. Showcases More Productive Workflow for Hewlett-Packard Wide Format Printers At Seybold Spring.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1999-- Benchmark Tests Prove Faster RIP Time for HP's 2000 and 3000 Series Color Plotters with Picaxo 2000 Software Pixo Arts Corp. today showcases a new, more productive workflow for owners of Hewlett-Packard wide format printers at Seybold Spring in Boston. Using benchmark testing with Pixo Arts' new Picaxo Bureau 2000 workstation software, high resolution photo and PostScript prints fly off the RIP almost three times faster on HP's 2000 and 3000 Color Plotters -- compared to those models purchased with embedded RIPs. The benchmark test involved 108 MB files comprised of three TIFF images and one 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. illustration, ripped by Picaxo 2000 in six minutes and 57 seconds versus 25 minutes and 32 seconds with HP's color plotter embedded PostScript RIP to an output size of 24" x 31". These performance gains are made possible with Pixo Arts' proprietary O'RIP(TM) (US patent pending) embedded in the Bureau 2000 software, which handles both PostScript and large high-resolution images much more efficiently through the product's backend support of Flashpix technology. Additionally, the Picaxo Designer 2000 software optimizes the workflow in the final layout and proofing process. This is achieved with just one software application rather than going back and forth with other design and layout applications. Ultimately, these features help users achieve a higher net yield from their HP 2000 or 3000 DesignJet printers. "Bureau 2000 offers the service bureau owner and users of HP printers a solid and affordable package by incorporating features needed for powerful manipulation of high res imaging with PostScript layout and control," said Dr. Clive Liu, president of Pixo Arts Corp. "Our process is seamless -- from image-in through the entire production cycle to image output. Additionally, our print control, page layout :For the Wikipedia policy about articles layout, see Wikipedia:Guide to layout. Page layout is the part of graphic design that deals in the arrangement and style treatment of elements (content) on a page. , and paneling features are first rate, enabling users to more quickly complete their designs, and go to RIP and print." Contained in the Picaxo Bureau 2000 Software application are wide format page layout and output control, mini-lab scanning and CD writing, and next-generation composition layout capabilities. This allows the service bureau to integrate the Bureau 2000 software into almost any existing workflow, or to build an entirely new workflow based on the full features of the software itself. By meeting PostScript Level II and III application requirements, Bureau 2000 also makes any Windows printer a PostScript output device without a dedicated hardware RIP See RIP. , and can print standard PostScript files from any of the leading design and layout applications marketplace today. Moreover, Bureau 2000 supports color management using ICC ICC See: International Chamber of Commerce color standards, which is 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): to ensure accurate, dependable color reproduction on every job. Additional professional features of Bureau 2000 include enhanced error diffusion Error diffusion is a type of halftoning in which the quantization residual is distributed to neighboring pixels which have not yet been processed. Its main use is to convert a multi-level image into a binary image, though it has other applications. screening, automatic color calibration The matching of colors to a base color, such as a Pantone color, or from one device to another. Color calibration is widely used in print publishing in order to display on screen an accurate representation of the colors that will be printed on paper. for both RGB (Red Green Blue) The computer's native color space, which is the color system for capturing and displaying images. RGB was derived from our own perception of color because human eyes are sensitive to red, green and blue (see trichromaticity). and CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK) The color space used for commercial printing and most color computer printers. In theory, cyan, magenta and yellow (CMY) can print all colors, but inks are not pure and black comes out muddy. colors, and variable print size including panel/tile and text overlay. Picaxo Designer 2000 comes in the box with Bureau 2000 -- and also serves as a stand-alone product that provides tremendous value to the final design of documents involving lots of p provider (who have the high resolution files ind proofing," said Dr. Liu. "It includes everythand proofing designs." Pixo Arts' O'RIP tmbedded images will automatically scale to the ptimized for HP is $3,495. Designer 2000 is $399. To order or receive a 30-day free trial version of ttary Object-based Raster The horizontal lines (scan lines) displayed on a TV or computer monitor. This is the origin of the term "raster graphics," which is the major category that all bitmapped images and video frames fall into (GIF, JPEG, MPEG, etc.). Image Processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished (O'RIP(TM)) Pixo Arts is developing answers to evolving requirements of the next wave of output solutions. Pixo Arts' solutions begin with the company's efficient process for PostScript printing, which outputs from business card to murals. Pixo Arts will expand this technology into distributed scalable printing via the Internet, Intranet and Extranet. Picaxo and O'RIP are trademarks of Pixo Arts Corp. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. NOTE TO EDITORS: Benchmark test results are available upon request. |
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