ProImage Announces NewsWay Version 2.5.OR-AKIVA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 1998--ProImage today announced the release of NewsWay software version 2.5, the latest and most advanced workflow management systems for prepress production. Amir Karby, Software Development Director of ProImage, commented: "NewsWay can best described as a prepress operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . Using NewsWay, the production environment is first planned, the system is instructed what to do (which products to produce), how to do (which logical workflows will be utilized) and finally which resources will be available. Production then automatically follows the prescribed plan while the system manages and balances the load on the available resources. The operator monitors the progress of production while always maintaining the ability to intervene and re-prioritize whenever necessary." The new features of NewsWay 2.5 focus on four areas of functionality -- load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them , RIPping, soft proofing Providing customers with a preview of printed output on screen rather than on paper. Soft proofing provides instant feedback and is useful when many color and content decisions still need to be finalized before a hard-copy proof is created. and raster imposition. "Load balancing is a natural outcome of NewsWay's truly distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. architecture," added Alex Parnes, President of ProImage America, Inc. "Production processes such as RIPping, proofing, imaging, etc. can run on various machines across a network under the supervision of the NewsWay Manager. Knowing the status of its available resources as well as the production plan the Manager assigns resources to logical workflows for optimum productivity", said Parnes. The NewsWay RIP embeds the Adobe Configurable PostScript Interpreter engine. It supports PostScript Language Level 3 as well as the input of PDF files in native format. In-RIP trapping is optionally available. As part of the NewsWay family of products, which runs in a web server environment, the NewsWay RIP incorporates ProImage's SoftView technology. Any authorized 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. client can view the output of the NewsWay RIP, or any raster file for that matter, in full color, and make judgements as to the availability of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color separations, positioning of page elements on a page or pages within a flat. A revolutionary "Loupe loupe (lldbomacp) [Fr.] a magnifying lens. loupe n. A small magnifying lens. loupe a magnifying lens. " feature enables viewing of printing dots within a separation or their color combination as if putting a magnifying glass magnifying glass: see microscope. magnifying glass traditional detective equipment; from its use by Sherlock Holmes. [Br. Lit.: Payton, 473] See : Sleuthing to the final product Karby was especially excited about NewsWay Impose, also part of the NewsWay 2.5 release. "NewsWay Impose is the industry's first automated raster stitcher. Pages can be RIPped once, proofed and forwarded to a NewsWay Impose server. Once all elements of a flat have arrived, a stitching operation is automatically executed and the flat imaged. Such workflow is typically faster and more reliable than any alternative deadline driven workflows. It is especially viable when late page replacement or shorter correction cycles are an absolute requirement. Another application of NewsWay Impose is the imposition of fractional page advertising with deadline editorial content. While fully automated, NewsWay Impose is capable of totally interactive operation using a web browser as the user interface," concluded Karby. Founded in 1995, ProImage is a solutions developer specializing in workflow management and page distribution systems in publishing production environments. Headquartered in Israel, the company has recently established operations in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Europe. NewsWay systems are installed and operational in publishing organizations in North America, Europe and Far East. For more information about NewsWay products visit ProImage's exhibit at 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 , booth number 324, or their website at http://www.newsway.com
CONTACT: ProImage America, Inc.
Alexander Parnes, 978/686-4333
alex@newsway.com
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Paul Thiel, 781/229-7781
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