Xionics PS3, the Next Generation PostScript 3 Solution, Ships to Five Major OEMs; World's Best-Selling PostScript Solution Empowers Today's Connected Office.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 1999--Printing from a computer is about to get easier for millions of people who work in "the connected office" with the introduction of Xionics PS3(TM) by Xionics Document Technologies, Inc. (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 :XION). Designed to function on a wide range of computer peripherals, Xionics PS3 has recently shipped to five major OEMs for implementation in printers, digital copiers, and multifunction peripherals. Today's connected office requires that each printing device must be compatible across the extended enterprise. It also must accommodate the growing number and features of printing peripherals without compromising performance, quality, or reliability. "Whatever the task, today's office worker expects the printer to handle more-full-color spectrums, photo-quality output, and more complex Internet and presentation media," said Xionics President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Pete Simone. "Meeting this demand for consistent print capability whatever or wherever the device, was the reason we developed Xionics PS3." Xionics PS3, the newest module of the IPS/2000(TM) system, is a fully compatible PostScript(R) 3 solution that builds on Xionics' best-selling emulation of PostScript Level 2--Xionics PS2(TM). The popular IPS/2000 system features a fully integrated dual language system that can process the page description languages A high-level language for commanding a printer to print text and graphics on a page. The two major languages are Adobe's PostScript and HP's PCL, which are device independent and supported by most every printer. , PostScript and PCL (Printer Command Language) The page description language for HP LaserJet printers. It has become a de facto standard used in many printers and typesetters. PCL Level 5, introduced with the LaserJet III in 1990, also supports Compugraphic's Intellifont scalable fonts. , that are standard in today's office. This results in optimized code size and performance and ensures print compatibility of document peripherals in the connected office. Xionics currently has more printers with its PostScript-compatible solution shipping to the office marketplace than any other supplier. This puts the new Xionics PS3 in line to be the dominant page description language (PDL See page description language. 1. PDL - Page Description Language. 2. PDL - Program Design Language. 3. PDL - Push Down List. 4. PDL - Dave Lebling, one of the co-authors of Zork. ) for processing the millions of documents created in offices every day. "In developing Xionics PS3, we worked closely with our OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers to produce a PostScript 3-compatible solution that includes feature compatibility with Adobe PostScript 3," said Simone. "Ultimately, the consumer will benefit from a Xionics solution inside their peripherals." PS3 Shipping Xionics PS3 is now shipping to OEM manufacturers for implementation in a new generation of printers, digital copiers and multifunction peripherals. Xionics was the first to successfully launch a PostScript Level 1 emulation, and the company's PostScript Level 2 emulation is now the best selling PostScript-compatible product in the world. Manufacturers and partners who have implemented Xionics' PostScript 2 compatible printing technology include Hewlett-Packard, which is the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for office printing and holds over 50% of the printer market, Dataproducts, Panasonic, Samsung, Seiko Epson Seiko Epson Corporation (セイコーエプソン株式会社 , Sharp, and Xerox. Overall, Xionics supplies peripheral controller See control unit. technology to more than 40 OEMs representing 80% of the printing peripherals market. In developing its PS3 product, Xionics teamed up with two of the leading font suppliers in the industry, Agfa-Gevaert and Bitstream. Xionics PS3 incorporates Agfa's Universal Font Scaling Technology(R) 4.0, which provides OEMs with a faster time to market and real feature differentiation in their products. Xionics PS3 interpreter will support the feature sets most in demand by the mainstream office computing market. Highlights of the Xionics PS3 print technology include: -0-
-- Smooth Shading - streamlines host commands resulting in smoother
gradients and improved performance.
-- Functions - allows programs to share functions by recognizing a
new PostScript construct.
-- Masked Images - reduces rendering time for clipped images (e.g.:
web images).
-- Filters - aids image compression/decompression with the addition
of several filters.
-- IdiomSet - allows a Xionics PS3-enabled printer to recognize and
optimize PostScript Level 2 constructs.
-- Miscellaneous Graphics Operators - improves some graphics
processing and page output operations such as save and restore,
clippath and copypage.
-- Extended Font Sets - ensures compatibility with the resident font
sets for all leading desktop operating systems, including some
PCL fonts not supported by Adobe Systems' PostScript 3.
-0- For network connectivity, Xionics has partnered with NETsilicon's DPI (Dots Per Inch) The measurement of the resolution of display and printing systems. A typical CRT screen provides 96 dpi, which provides 9,216 dots per square inch (96x96). Flat panel displays from 110 to 200 dpi have also been developed. Imaging division, formerly known as Digital Product Inc., to provide customers award-winning technology that enables faxes, printers, scanners, copiers and multifunction peripherals to share data on Local Area Networks. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. Page Description Languages (PDL) provide a defined format in which data such as characters, lines and images is sent from a PC application (for example, Microsoft Word A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. or PowerPoint) to a printer. PDL interpreters are specialized software programs embedded in firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. on the printer's controller board that render the data to be printed into instructions that tell the print engine exactly where to mark the page. Xionics designs, develops and markets this embedded technology for computer printing systems. About Xionics Xionics is a leading developer of innovative software and silicon for printing, scanning, copying, processing and transmitting documents to computer peripherals. Xionics partners with the industry's leading OEMs, including Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , QMS (1) (Minolta-QMS, Inc., Mobile, AL) A manufacturer of laser printers founded in 1977 by Jim Busby. Initially involved with controllers for printing bar codes and labels, it entered the laser printer business in the mid-1980s and set numerous records. , Ricoh, Samsung, GCC GCC: see Gulf Cooperation Council. (compiler, programming) GCC - The GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj, etc). , Seiko Epson, Sharp, and Xerox, to develop peripherals that provide the performance, output quality and network connectivity for today's office computing market. The company's corporate headquarters is based in Burlington, Mass., with offices in Japan and Germany. For more information on Xionics and its products, visit the company on the World Wide Web at http://www.xionics.com. This release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about expected new product releases and functionality, anticipated third party products and intended implementation of expected new products. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested in the forward-looking statements include, among others, delays in or failure to complete the development of referenced new products or elements of functionality within the referenced new products, delays in availability or unavailability of referenced third-party products or elements of functionality within referenced third-party products and the uncertainty of implementation of the referenced new products in OEM customers devices. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements in the release. Xionics is a registered trademark of Xionics Document Technologies, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries. PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Incorporated, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Universal Font Scaling Technology is a registered trademark of Agfa-Gevaert Group. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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