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 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. 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 (MultiFunction Printer, MultiFunction Peripheral) See all-in-one and MFD. ) 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 raster format. It is comprised of a Zx renderer that OEMs can integrate with any print 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 CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. or sacrificing full PostScript, 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. and PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. compatibility." The integrated solutions will be available in Q3 2006. For more information, please contact Lane Freestone free·stone n. 1. A stone, such as limestone, that is soft enough to be cut easily without shattering or splitting. 2. A fruit, especially a peach, that has a stone that does not adhere to the pulp. See Regional Note at andiron. 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 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 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 See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). 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 DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , digital camera, DTV, multimedia mobile phone, and multifunction printer 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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