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Software Imaging Enables Printers to Take Advantage
of Windows Vista's Improved Color Capabilities
ColorCore™ 3 Provides Immediate Support
of the High Accuracy Color and Wider Color Gamut Available in Microsoft's
Windows Vista™
Oxford, United Kingdom - December 6, 2006 - Software
Imaging announced the availability of ColorCore™ 3, a set of advanced photo
imaging and rendering technologies which makes it easy for printer OEMs to immediately benefit
from the greater color accuracy of Windows Vista's XPS printing.
A key feature of XPS printing
is its ability to support printing in high accuracy color as well
as a wide gamut, which represents a real opportunity for manufacturers
to bring high-fidelity color output to market.
XPS printing
is a technology that most OEMs will want to quickly
adopt, but it also presents significant challenges. Driver developers
must use XPS printing
renderers (converters) that can render to a 16-bit/channel color
depth. In order to fully realize the benefits of XPS printing
within Windows Vista™ and avoid losing accuracy, developers
must fully support true 16-bit color and not simply reprocess it
to an 8-bit color depth.
ColorCore 3 makes this easy to do.
This latest version of the popular ColorCore SDK makes it easy for developers to
take advantage of Windows Vista's capabilities by offering high quality
halftoning of 16-bit per channel input. ColorCore 3 smoothly converts high
accuracy 16-bit/channel color data into individual color channels
to print ink or toner-based output that is truly faithful to the
original source image.
"Windows Vista removes long-standing operating system bottlenecks
that forced users to 'work around' color issues through the use
of application plug-ins and custom software," says Jon Williams,
Group Product Manager for Software Imaging. "OEMs can now take a Camera
Raw source through Windows Vista's XPS printing path and render 16-bit
color halftoned output that is high quality and color rich."
Software Imaging's PrintMagicXPS™ renderer and the Sorcerer™ driver
development toolkit combine with ColorCore 3 to deliver a comprehensive
solution with complete 16-bit color depth support. Developers can
use the PrintMagicXPS renderer to create quality rendered 16-bit
output that is then halftoned within the toolkit by ColorCore 3, resulting in greater color
accuracy and a tremendous quality improvement over 8-bit solutions.
"Companies choosing to release Vista solutions
that only offer 8-bit color depth are really missing an opportunity
to improve color output over legacy operating systems like Windows
2000 and XP," said Tony Harris, CTO for Software Imaging. "We
at Software Imaging have been preparing to take advantage of Windows
Vista for several years, and we think it's important that our customers
are able to take full advantage of its XPS printing
capabilities."
Customers who already license the Sorcerer DDK can immediately benefit from this
new capability. Sorcerer can be used to quickly augment their drivers
by simply adding an enhanced color mode to existing driver descriptions
and rebuilding. Companies who prefer to use their own internal driver
development tools can license ColorCore 3 and PrintMagicXPS from
Software Imaging separately.
ColorCore 3 is available today for OEMs wanting
software to drive accurate color output on their devices and for
integration into XPS or PDF/PostScript software RIPs.
For more information, visit softwareimaging.com/colorcore
About Software Imaging
Software Imaging is well respected as one of the most influential
and reliable technology providers in the print and imaging industry.
For over twenty years the company has been at the forefront of global
innovation in print and imaging software, delivering significant
time-to-market and cost advantages to customers through its Printer
Driver Technologies, Embedded Systems and Specialty Applications.
Software Imaging is the Microsoft development partner for Unidrv
and is actively working with Microsoft on Windows Vista and the new
XPS document format.
Headquartered in the UK with offices worldwide, Software Imaging
licenses technology to the world's largest suppliers of printers,
digital copiers, and print-related services.
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