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Zenographics and Zoran Collaborate to Provide Color Raster Printing Solutions; Combined Products Target Color Laser Printers and MFPs.


IRVINE, Calif. -- Zenographics, Inc. and Zoran Corporation (Nasdaq:ZRAN) announced an agreement to collaborate on providing raster printing solutions for the desktop and workgroup color laser market.

The companies will integrate Zenographics' Zx PC-based rendering solution with Zoran's Integrated Print System (IPS) page description language interpreter solution and its Quatro family of processors. Under the agreement, Zenographics will focus on development of Zx and Zoran will provide marketing, sales, and customer support of the combined solutions to worldwide printer and multifunction peripheral (MFP) original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

Zenographics' Zx is a high-speed imaging subsystem that renders high-resolution data at hundreds of pages per minute utilizing an innovative compressed continuous tone A printing process that produces photographic-like output. In a continuous tone image, pixel patterns (individual dots) are either not visible or are barely visible under a magnifying glass. Various dye sublimation and laser technologies can provide up to 256 intensities of color and even blend the inks. See contone printer and dye sublimation printer. raster format. It is comprised of a Zx renderer that OEMs can integrate with any print driver See printer driver. platform and a Zx interpreter that is integrated with printer firmware.

IDC forecasts that worldwide shipments of color laser printers and MFPs will grow from 3.9 million units in 2005 to over 7 million units by 2009. "This rapidly growing market demands that OEMs continually improve performance, quality, and price," stated Bob Romney, president of Zenographics. "The solutions developed through the collaboration between Zenographics and Zoran will play a key role in helping OEMs compete by building fast color printers and MFPs that minimize controller costs."

"Zenographics' Zx is a complementary technology that will further strengthen Zoran's Quatro and IPS products. The combination of Zx and Quatro enables OEMs to minimize controller costs and improve the performance of both the PC and printer, when compared to conventional solutions," said Simon Dolan, senior vice president and general manager, Zoran's Imaging Division. "The integration of the Zx interpreter into Zoran's IPS solution enables OEMs to build color workgroup printers and MFPs that run at full engine speed without upgrading to a more costly CPU or sacrificing full PostScript, PCL and PDF compatibility."

The integrated solutions will be available in Q3 2006. For more information, please contact Lane Freestone at lanef@zeno.com or a Zoran sales representative at 781-638-7500.

About Zenographics, Inc.

Zenographics is a privately-held, Southern California-based software and firmware development company located in the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Research Park. The company has been supplying innovative technologies to the OEM imaging and printing systems industry for over 15 years. Zenographics provides low-cost, high-quality, high-performance digital output solutions, including PC- and Mac-based printing and firmware technologies, to manufacturers of printers, MFPs/AIOs and digital copiers worldwide. For more information about Zenographics, please visit the Company's website at www.zeno.com or the Zx website at http://zx.zeno.com.

About Zoran Corporation

Zoran Corporation, based in Sunnyvale, California, is a leading provider of digital solutions in the growing digital entertainment and digital imaging markets. With two decades of expertise developing and delivering digital signal processing technologies, Zoran has pioneered high-performance digital audio and video, imaging applications, and Connect and Share technologies for the digital home. Zoran's proficiency in integration delivers major benefits for OEM customers, including greater capabilities within each product generation, reduced system costs, and shorter time to market. Zoran-based DVD, digital camera, DTV, multimedia mobile phone, and multifunction printer See MFD. products have received recognition for excellence and are now in hundreds of millions of homes and offices worldwide. With headquarters in the U.S. and operations in Canada, China, England, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, Zoran may be contacted on the World Wide Web at www.zoran.com or at 408-523-6500.

Zx is a trademark of Zenographics, Inc. Zoran, the Zoran logo, Quatro, Integrated Print System and IPS are trademarks or registered trademarks of Zoran Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in the United States or other countries. All other names and brands may be claimed as property of others.
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