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Software Imaging Revolutionizes Font Management Dynamic Device Fonts™ Allows Printer Manufacturers to Significantly Reduce Their Font Licensing Costs, While Improving the End User Experience Oxford , United Kingdom – September 22, 2008 – Software Imaging today has announced an innovative new font solution that provides an alternative to the way in which fonts have traditionally been handled on printers and MFPs. It is working with its customers to implement the new technology to their specific requirements. Printer Manufacturers Now Have a Choice Traditionally printer manufacturers have needed to license fonts for inclusion on their devices. Software Imaging’s solution takes advantage of resident system and application fonts to provide an alternative for printer manufacturers who license fonts. Fonts are provided as an integral component of all operating systems and many applications and end-users already have a license to print with all of these fonts. Software Imaging’s solution communicates between the printer driver and the printer, downloading these end-user system and application fonts to the printer when needed. It is transparent to the end-user and communicates directly with printer drivers to update the list of available device fonts. The self optimization feature makes the most frequently used fonts available on the device. Software Imaging's solution is especially flexible: it can run on the host or be incorporated into the device's firmware. “Our solution does not commit end-users to the finite set of static fonts that are included on the device. Our Dynamic Device Font Manager will support the user to download fonts from the internet as required. This means that using Software Imaging’s solution, any fonts downloaded in the future may be supported by the device” said Kevin Jampole, Director, Sales & Marketing for Software Imaging. Reduced Cost By using Software Imaging’s solution, printer manufacturers can avoid the traditional route of licensing embedded fonts separately in order to provide them on their devices. Our research indicated that most embedded device fonts that are licensed are never actually used, but the added cost of licensing them is seen as an unavoidable overhead. Now there is a choice and in an increasingly mature printer market where consumers and businesses are facing increasing pressure on budgets, the ability to reduce per device bill of materials will be an attractive option for manufacturers. “The cost of device fonts has been an issue that we’ve seen from almost every OEM that we have done business with. Our Dynamic Device Font Manager now gives OEM’s a choice to license a tool that intelligently runs in the background and makes use of the fonts that are already licensed and available to the end-user. The Dynamic Device Font Manager can significantly lower costs for printer manufactures throughout the world”, said Kevin Jampole. Improved Output Quality and Performance By taking advantage of application and system fonts, Software Imaging’s solution enables the end-user to be assured that the font they are viewing on screen will be the font they will see when they print. With embedded device fonts this is not always possible, creating end user dissatisfaction and costly support issues for the printer manufacturer. By contrast, Software Imaging’s solution opens up the possibility for printers to support any font the end-user has on their system without the need for the end-user or printer manufacturer to worry about font licensing or memory management. Moreover, by reducing the size of the print jobs, Software Imaging’s solution decreases printing times while reducing network traffic, one of today’s network administrator’s biggest concerns. An Opportunity for Manufacturers Software Imaging’s solution provides printer manufacturers with a real opportunity to create value. It will significantly reduce their costs, while enabling them to provide their end users with improved output quality and performance. An attractive proposition in a maturing market. For more information and to start discussing how Software Imaging can implement this new technology to meet your specific requirements, please contact your Software Imaging representative or send an email to info@softwareimaging.com. About Software Imaging Software Imaging is well respected as one of the most influential and reliable technology solution providers in the printing and imaging space. For over twenty years the company has been at the forefront of global innovation in printing and imaging software, providing its partners with access to advanced technologies and expertise in the areas of printer drivers, color science, raster image processing (RIPs), mobile printing and more. Software Imaging is a leader in XPS technology for Windows Vista and developed the XPSDrv reference drivers shipped with Microsoft's Windows Driver Kit. Headquartered in the UK with offices worldwide, Software Imaging provides technology and development services to the world's largest suppliers of printers, digital copiers, and mobile phones. Join Our Mailing List
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