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EFI acquired privately-held Alphagraph, provider of MIS solutions
NEW Alphagraph is a provider of MIS/ERP software products for the printing industry. It develops and sells products such as Prinance, Printy and Primus.
Océ adds JetStream 1900 to continuous feed portfolio
The new Océ JetStream 1900 system is capable of a printing speed of 127mpm in digital full colour. It is a high-volume duplex printer. The new system expands the JetStream range from two field upgradeable speed bands of 75 and 100, to 127mpm.
Review: CameraBag 2 Photo editing
CameraBag 2 is a collection of filters and effects for your photographs. It’s easy to use, comes with a huge collection of presets, and offers total control over styles, adjustments, and borders. Although it can be used by just selecting a preset or recipe, you can create your own recipes from scratch. The possibilities are endless.
Doxie Go + Wi-Fi bundle available
Apparent adds Wi-Fi to Doxie at Macworld | iWorld 2012. The Doxie Go document scanner now scans anywhere and syncs scans wirelessly to Mac, PC, iOS, and the cloud.
Zebra Label printers on Mac OS X “Lion”
How does a Zebra label printer run on a Lion machine? Without special drivers, until recently: not very good. The last driver update by Apple took care of that. Lion’s Zebra capabilities are exemplary now.
Review: Helicon Focus Pro x64
Helicon Focus is an application that allows you to create a completely focused image from several partially focused images by combining the areas in focus. Its main use is for macro photography and microscopic photography, but it does wonders to beat the diffraction problem on landscape photography as well.
Print media is not dead, bad content is
This morning, I read an article in the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle. The story was originally written by a contributor of Investopedia. Its title read: “Technology And The Death Of Print Media” — an over-simplified, haphazard article.
Uncompressed video via HDMI becomes popular again
A year ago, the Atomos Ninja and the Cinedeck Extreme field recorders were about the two only ones that could record video directly to a high-quality codec using a video camera’s HDMI output. Today, Black Magic has at least three devices that are capable of recording to Uncompressed the same way.
Avenza releases Geographic Imager 3.4 for Adobe Photoshop
Avenza Systems, developers of MAPublisher cartographic software for Adobe Illustrator and PDF Maps for Apple iOS, released Geographic Imager 3.4 for Adobe Photoshop. This release is fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop 12.1 in Adobe CS5.5, as well as Adobe Photoshop 12.0.4 in Adobe CS5.
Why a photo scanner doesn’t need white balance
Your digital camera needs to be white balanced — actually, grey balanced would be more accurate. The reason is that the camera’s whites, greys and blacks, should all be calibrated to a known neutral value. From there, the camera’s electronics can figure out how other colors should be rendered. Scanners don’t have that problem.
