{"id":15478,"date":"2015-12-01T11:09:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=15478"},"modified":"2015-12-01T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T16:09:32","slug":"global-graphics-and-software-imaging-announce-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2015\/12\/global-graphics-and-software-imaging-announce-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Graphics and Software Imaging Announce Cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cambridge, UK, December 1, 2015 \u2013<\/em> Global Graphics<\/a> and Software Imaging<\/a> announced today that they have signed a cooperation agreement which will allow both companies to offer a broader range of products and services to office printer manufacturers, and software companies working in the Managed Print Services market.\u00a0 Software Imaging provides printer driver technologies to the printer manufacturing and mobile device markets.\u00a0 Global Graphics is the developer of Harlequin<\/a>\u00ae Page Description Language software that is embedded on silicon chips inside devices.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of the agreement Software Imaging will recommend Global Graphics\u2019 Harlequin Embedded SDK as its preferred embedded software and Software Imaging will become Global Graphics preferred Printer Driver Partner.\u00a0 Software Imaging will also integrate Global Graphics\u2019 digital document software, which is branded gDoc, with its own PCL and PostScript\u00ae components, to provide printer vendors with document solutions within print-focussed applications and workflows.<\/p>\n

Justin Bailey, Global Graphics\u2019 VP of sales, says \u201cOur ability to provide office printer manufacturers with a combination of the Harlequin embedded RIP, fonts, since our acquisition of the URW++ font foundry in September, and now printer drivers from Software Imaging is a winning combination of performance and price.<\/p>\n

“Software Imaging\u2019s role as a gDoc Services partner will enable us both to meet the needs of software companies working in the Managed Print Services market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Lismer, Chief Executive of Software Imaging, says, \u201cI have enjoyed a close association with Global Graphics for 17 years. Both companies have been widely respected for 30 years by their customers for the quality of their technologies and services. Trends in the printer manufacturer market have definitely changed and Justin is quite correct in saying that together we can offer our customers a winning combination of performance and price.\u201d<\/p>\n

The embedded version of the Harlequin RIP provides manufacturers with high-performance PDL interpretation and rendering even with only a handful of RAM.\u00a0 Global Graphics licences its software directly to manufacturers of office printing devices to drive their single and multi-function printers, working alongside chip manufacturers such as Marvell.\u00a0\u00a0 In August 2015 Marvell announced that it had set a new performance standard with over 220 pages per minute PDL rendering on its 64-bit quad-core 88PA6270 using the Harlequin engine.<\/p>\n

Software Imaging’s printer drivers are also used on some of the fastest office multi-function printers in the world. In partnership with Global Graphics, the two companies will optimize the performance of their respective technologies to deliver the very best results.<\/p>\n

About Global Graphics<\/em><\/p>\n

Global Graphics (Euronext: GLOG) is a leading developer of software platforms on which our partners create solutions for digital printing, digital document and PDF applications. Customers include\u00a0HP, Corel, Quark, Kodak and Agfa<\/a>.\u00a0The roots of the company go back to 1986<\/a>\u00a0and to the iconic university town of Cambridge, and, today the majority of the R&D team is still based near here. There are also\u00a0offices near Boston, Massachusetts and in Tokyo<\/a>. \u00a0Additional information is available at http:\/\/www.globalgraphics.com<\/a><\/p>\n

About Software Imaging<\/em><\/p>\n

Software Imaging is a developer of advanced software solutions for the printer manufacturing and mobile device markets. Customers include Ricoh, Epson, Riso and Roland DG. We supply all types of printer drivers, but also known for our supply of advanced workflow solutions involving mobile, secure document archiving and cloud based services. Software Imaging is based in Oxford, England with partner offices in Tokyo and Osaka. Additional information is available at http:\/\/www.softwareimaging.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cambridge, UK, December 1, 2015 \u2013 Global Graphics and Software Imaging announced today that they have signed a cooperation agreement which will allow both companies to offer a broader range of products and services to office printer manufacturers, and software companies working in the Managed Print Services market.\u00a0 Software Imaging provides printer driver technologies to the printer manufacturing and mobile device markets.\u00a0 Global Graphics is the developer of Harlequin\u00ae Page Description Language software that is embedded on silicon chips inside devices. Under the terms of the agreement Software Imaging will recommend Global Graphics\u2019 Harlequin Embedded SDK as its preferred embedded software and Software Imaging will become Global Graphics preferred Printer Driver Partner.\u00a0 Software Imaging will also integrate Global Graphics\u2019 digital document software, which is branded gDoc, with its own PCL and PostScript\u00ae components, to provide printer vendors with document solutions within print-focussed applications and workflows. Justin Bailey, Global Graphics\u2019 VP of sales, says \u201cOur ability to provide office printer manufacturers with a combination of the Harlequin embedded RIP, fonts, since our acquisition of the URW++ font foundry in September, and now printer drivers from Software Imaging is a winning combination of performance and price. “Software Imaging\u2019s role as a gDoc Services partner will enable us both to meet the needs of software companies working in the Managed Print Services market.\u201d Peter Lismer, Chief Executive of Software Imaging, says, \u201cI have enjoyed a close association with Global Graphics for 17 years. Both companies have been widely respected for 30 years by their customers for the quality of their technologies and services. Trends in the printer manufacturer market have definitely changed and Justin is quite correct in saying that together we can offer our customers a winning combination of performance and price.\u201d The embedded version of the Harlequin RIP provides manufacturers with high-performance PDL interpretation and rendering even with only a handful of RAM.\u00a0 Global Graphics licences its software directly to manufacturers of office printing devices to drive their single and multi-function printers, working alongside chip manufacturers such as Marvell.\u00a0\u00a0 In August 2015 Marvell announced that it had set a new performance standard with over 220 pages per minute PDL rendering on its 64-bit quad-core 88PA6270 using the Harlequin engine. Software Imaging’s printer drivers are also used on some of the fastest office multi-function printers in the world. In partnership with Global Graphics, the two companies will optimize the performance of their respective technologies to deliver the very best results. About Global Graphics Global Graphics (Euronext: GLOG) is a leading developer of software platforms on which our partners create solutions for digital printing, digital document and PDF applications. Customers include\u00a0HP, Corel, Quark, Kodak and Agfa.\u00a0The roots of the company go back to 1986\u00a0and to the iconic university town of Cambridge, and, today the majority of the R&D team is still based near here. There are also\u00a0offices near Boston, Massachusetts and in Tokyo. \u00a0Additional information is available at http:\/\/www.globalgraphics.com About Software Imaging Software Imaging is a developer of advanced software solutions for the printer manufacturing and mobile device markets. Customers include Ricoh, Epson, Riso and Roland DG. We supply all types of printer drivers, but also known for our supply of advanced workflow solutions involving mobile, secure document archiving and cloud based services. Software Imaging is based in Oxford, England with partner offices in Tokyo and Osaka. Additional information is available at http:\/\/www.softwareimaging.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[2394,2542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15479,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15478\/revisions\/15479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}