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The Right Balance of Cost & Performance

No one can argue that print speed is important, but it isn't as simple as 'faster is better'. Unfortunately, faster is often more expensive as well.

The key to designing a winning product is finding the right balance.

Software Imaging's embedded solutions are capable of:

• Driving your device as fast as your mechanical system can support
• Producing photo quality output that rivals the Tier 1 printer manufacturers
• Offering a full range of standard and customized product features
• Meeting tight processor and memory/footprint constraints

Tell us what is important for your project, and we'll work with you to find the optimal balance to meet your specific needs.

Cross-Platform Consistency & One-Stop Driver Sourcing

There's more to designing a printer than getting the hardware right. Host-based drivers are a key component of the ‘whole product’ - one that has a great deal of visibility to your end-users. Even if you expect users to do most of their printing from a memory card, sub-standard host drivers will quickly lead to dissatisfied customers.

While some players in the embedded space offer host-based drivers to complement their SoC or embedded software suite, none can offer the quality, credibility, or security of Software Imaging. There are over 70 million host-based printer drivers in use today that are based on Software Imaging technology. In fact, we make the driver development tools that many top tier device manufacturers use to build their own drivers.

By sourcing both host and embedded solutions from Software Imaging and leveraging our ColorCore rendering engine, you can enjoy true cross-platform consistency. Your end-users will enjoy the same output quality, regardless of whether they print from their computer or from a memory card within the printer itself.

Flexible Solutions

Software Imaging has been around long enough to know that every project is different.

You may need to outsource an entire project in order to extend your capabilities and take advantage of an unexpected, but potentially valuable opportunity.

Perhaps you have the technology and development team to deliver on 90% of your product vision, but there's one feature you don't have the time or expertise to implement.

Or perhaps you're new to the market and are looking for a partner to take you through the process of designing your first device.

Software Imaging allows ours customers to pick and choose the products and services they need, instead of forcing them to take the whole solution (including items you don't want or need). This gives customers the freedom to optimize the use of their own resources, leading to a reduction in their overall costs and development time.

Our solutions are also easily ported to different hardware and software environments, ensuring customers with existing embedded expertise can continue to work with processors or RTOS that they are familiar with.

Imaging Expertise

Few independent players in the embedded space can say that they’re printing and imaging specialists, and back it up with almost 20 years of experience, a host of top-level OEM customers, and a history of bringing industry-changing technologies to market. Software Imaging can.

Our customers gain the benefit of hundreds of man-years of experience developing host and embedded printing solutions. This gives customers early access to new features and technological innovations that can translate into clearly differentiated features for their devices – a critical requirement in a market as competitive as our own.

What's more, we leverage our knowledge of the industry to help guide new entrants through those difficult (but essential) early product decisions, greatly reducing the risk associated with a new venture.

Peace of Mind

Software Imaging's solutions have been well-proven in the market - millions of units have shipped with our embedded technology.

Anyone who has dealt with hardware knows that reliability and stability are critical - hardware redesign redesigns can quickly erode margins. Reliability is a critical factor in software as well - support costs can add up when you're dealing with millions of unhappy consumers.

Whether you're an established printer manufacturer or a new entrant, the peace of mind that comes from working with an established partner should be clear. Software Imaging is a low-risk, high-value partner with an established record of delivering stable, high quality products on-time and on-budget.

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