NT workstations take the publishing plunge
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Intergraph Computer and DEC have aggressively entered the graphics workstation market with lines of Pentium II-based Windows NT workstations that are Macintosh friendly. Both companies have set up worldwide networks of publishing and prepress resellers for their products. The two companies have also established separate manufacturing divisions for publishers instead of retooling a generic workstation for the niche market. The product line from Intergraph consists of 300MHz, Pentium II-based ExtremeZ workstations offering 3D or 2D graphics. The computers come with software bundles that include QuarkXPress, Macromedia FreeHand, and Adobe Photoshop. DEC's line is called the Creation Studio, and comes in a 300MHz Pentium II model and a 500MHz Alpha processor version. The machine using the Alpha chip is especially conducive to expansion, with a capacity of 27 GB of memory and 1.5 GB of SDRAM.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1998
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Low-cost workstations and high-performance processors
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Power Computing's new PowerCenter Pro line of PowerPC-based systems are designed to provide superior performance to entry-level publishing and graphic arts applications. The $2,395 210MHz version and the $2,095 180MHz version each offer 2GB hard drives, 16x CD-ROM drives, internal fast SCSIs, 3D acceleration cards, 1MB of of Level 2 cache and 60MHz buses. Intel is releasing competitive Pentium II microprocessors with 233MHz and 266MHz processing rates intended for use in $3,000 workstations. The Pentium II's design locates all 57 MMX multimedia instructions directly onto the CPU for faster instruction execution, and it supports dual processing. AMD is also marketing its new AMD K6 MMX for use in low-cost technical workstations, and the K6 has an advantage over the Pentium II in that it is backward compatible with existing Pentium-based systems and 25% less expensive.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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Direct-imaging presses
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Heidelberg USA's $488,000 QuickMaster DI 46-4 and Omnitrade INdustrial's $540,000 Omni-Adast 725PC-DI hybrid offset-digital presses use digitally imaged printing plates and waterless offset inks to provide quality, cost-effective copies when producing at least 1,000 images. The QuickMaster includes a 233MHz-based DEC AlphaStation to run PostScript Level 2 RIP for digital plate processing, and the elimination of registration duties, plate exposure, film creation and stripping reduce overhead greatly. The QuickMaster provides 167 impressions per minute at resolution rates of between 1,270 and 2,540 dpi. The Omni-Adast provides two-color resolutions at a variety of dpi rates, and the direct-imaging press is capable of printing twice as many pages per minute as the QuickMaster, because it prints four letter-size pages per plate rather than two.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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