Seiko Instruments' New ColorWear Transfer Media and Dye-Diffusion Fabric Transfer Process Creates an Industry Breakthrough for the Specialty Imprinting Market; Exclusive Media and Continuous Tone Dye Diffusion Process Offers Specialty Printers and Business Owners a Cost-Effective, Short-Print-Run Solution to Transfer Photo-Realistic Images and Color Graphics Onto Cotton and Cotton-Blend Fabrics.LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 1997--Seiko Instruments USA Inc. today introduced ColorWear, a new exclusive color printing “colour separation” redirects here. For other uses, see colour-separation overlay. Color printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). transfer media that produces continuous tone, photo realistic images for transfer to 100% cotton and cotton-blend fabrics. ColorWear reduces production costs and vastly improves image quality. With ColorWear, every dot in a digital image can vary in color and intensity across the full spectrum, making graduated fills and shades of Noun 1. shades of - something that reminds you of someone or something; "aren't there shades of 1948 here?" reminder - an experience that causes you to remember something color possible, producing photo-realistic transfers. ColorWear is the industry's first one-step process. Digital images are down-loaded to a Seiko Instruments Seiko Instruments Inc. (セイコーインスツル株式会社 color printer A printer that prints in color using three (CMY) or four (CMYK) colors of ink, toner or dye. Four color ribbons have been used in dot matrix printers, but these are rare today. See color laser printer and printer. and the resulting image is pressed directly to fabric. This simplified process reduces labor costs by more than 50 percent over traditional screen printing. As a result, small business owners can now, for the first time ever, cost-effectively produce photo-realistic transfers in short-run quantities of 100 pieces or less. ColorWear is a Seiko Instruments exclusive. Traditional automated eight-color screen printers, that lack the capability to achieve photo-realistic quality, generally charge customers a flat fee of $15 per color for producing film positives for each color. Using Seiko Instruments' exclusive ColorWear eliminates media film charges and time consuming labor set-up costs, enabling businesses to transfer artwork and graphics onto fabrics inexpensively. Currently, 95 percent of the one billion dollar plus annual market for tee-shirt printing is done by screen printing. A key benefit of ColorWear and the dye diffusion See dye sublimation printer. process is its ability to produce continuous-tone, photo-realistic images using 16.7 million color combinations. Because of the vast number of colors not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color available, artwork and graphics can now be produced with an ultra-high quality to detail not previously available from the screen printing process. "More and more businesses today are seeking new alternatives to capture short run business they typically turn away because of the cost," said Tom Petz, product marketing manager for Seiko Instruments. "With the addition of our new exclusive ColorWear product, Seiko Instruments now offers a very well rounded solution for printing outstanding quality digital heat transfers onto 100 percent cotton blend fabrics." Pricing and Availability ColorWear is available now and works with all Seiko Instruments' color printer models, Specialty ColorPoint Colorpoint in cats, a light-colored body with darker pigmentation on the ears, face, legs and tail (points), as seen in Siamese cats from which this was genetically derived. It has been developed in shorthair and longhair varieties. 820 and Professional ColorPoint. Four sizes are available, legal (8.5" x 14"), A4 Super (9" x 15"), Tabloid (11" x 17") and B Super (12" x 19") with anticipated retail prices of $0.60, $0.68, $0.94, and $1.14 per sheet, respectively. ColorWear is available through Seiko Instruments' specialty resellers worldwide. For more information or product samples, resellers and users should call toll-free 800/888-0817. Seiko Instruments USA Seiko Instruments USA's Color Graphics The ability to display graphic images in colors. Group, headquartered in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif., markets a full line of high-quality, dual-technology color printers. The Specialty ColorPoint has incorporated the benefits of both thermal wax transfer and dye sublimation sublimation, in chemistry sublimation (sŭblĭmā`shən), change of a solid substance directly to a vapor without first passing through the liquid state. digital technologies into one print engine for maximum user flexibility, and cost effectiveness. PostScript, video and 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.). interface solutions are available on all models. Seiko Instruments USA is part of SeikoInstruments Inc., a worldwide research, development and manufacturing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. -0- Note to Editors: For additional information about Seiko Instruments' Color Graphics Group, please visit us on the World Wide Web at http://www.egg.seiko.com . CONTACT: Seiko Instruments USA Inc. Cheryl Landman, 408/922-5950 cheryl.landman@seikosj.com or The Benjamin Group Inc. Daniel McKean/Trisha Ristagno, 408/559-6090 dmckean@sv.tbgi.com trista@sv.tbgi.com |
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