Zenographics Announces New Licensing Agreement with Minolta-QMS.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WRIE)--April 2, 2002 Zenographics SuperPrint(R) and Zj(TM) Once Again Endorsed by Minolta-QMS as the Preferred Technology for 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.). Laser Printing Products Zenographics, Inc. announced today an agreement with Minolta-QMS, Inc. (MQI MQI Message Queue Interface MQI MQseries Integrator MQI Quincy, Massachusetts MQI Manufacturing Quality Instruction ) to license Zenographics' SuperPrint and Zj imaging and driver technologies for use in the development of a soon-to-be-announced MQI high-performance laser printer. The recent introduction by major printer manufacturers of laser printers using SuperPrint and Zj reflects the growing value these manufacturers see in Zenographics' low-cost, high-performance raster-based technology. This MQI-Zenographics agreement further heightens the recognition of Zenographics' imaging technology as the preferred technology for the development of cost-effective, high-performance laser printing products. The agreement also demonstrates that MQI has again placed its confidence in Zenographics' printing technologies for its laser products, following the success of the highly acclaimed MQI magicolor 2200 DeskLaser - a top performance color laser printer A laser printer that prints in color using four toner cartridges (CMYK) of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The colors are applied one at a time to the drum and are then adhered to the paper. See printer. that incorporates Zenographics' imaging technologies. The magicolor 2200 DeskLaser was chosen by PC Magazine in May 2001 as the Editor's Choice for best value in color laser printers. "We are pleased that MQI has again selected Zenographics as its technology partner, and are confident that our imaging technologies will contribute to the success of the upcoming MQI laser printer," said Bob Romney, president of Zenographics. "Leveraging Zenographics' advanced imaging technologies, MQI will be able to create a new breed of high-performance, affordable laser products," Mr. Romney added. Under the agreement, Zenographics will license MQI its SuperPrint host-based raster image processor See RIP. Remember... try the acronym first! (application, printer) Raster Image Processor - (RIP) A device (usually hardware but can be software) that takes a Page Description Language description of a page and converts it into a bitmap for printing. and driver technology as well as Zj PC-based compression and controller-based engine control and page management 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. for the development of MQI's new high-performance, low-cost laser printer. About Zenographics: Zenographics is a privately-held, Southern California-based software and hardware development company located in the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Irvine (UCI UCI University of California, Irvine UCI Union Cycliste Internationale (International Cycling Union) UCI Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos UCI United Cinemas International (UK) ) Research Park. The company has been supplying innovative technologies to the 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 imaging and printing systems industry for over two decades. Zenographics provides high-performance, high-quality, low-cost digital output solutions -- including PC- and Mac-based printing, firmware, controller and wireless printing technologies -- to manufacturers of printers, MFPs and digital copiers worldwide. For more information about Zenographics, please visit the Company's website at www.zeno.com About SuperPrint and Zj: SuperPrint is a high-performance PC-based rasterization and driver technology that has been licensed to millions of users. Zj is a highly scalable raster-based controller architecture for low-cost, high-performance printing with over one million users. SuperPrint and Zj provide a complete system architecture for high-performance, high-quality, low-cost raster-based printing. SuperPrint and Zj are the result of a significant investment in R&D, including software, hardware and firmware engineering, for over a decade. This investment and experience base gives Zenographics an unparalleled level of expertise in Windows printing and positions the Company as the premier supplier of raster-based printing solutions. Zenographics targets its SuperPrint and Zj products at manufacturers developing printer, MFP (MultiFunction Printer, MultiFunction Peripheral) See all-in-one and MFD. and digital copier products for the SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. and office markets. For more information, see www.zeno.com Copyright(c)2002 Zenographics. All rights reserved. All trademarks are properties of their respective holders. |
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