website: www.casameo.it

If you are looking for a magical vacation site, immersed in Tuscany's green landscape, here is a history-laded house offering comfortable rooms within easy reach of the most remarkable Tuscany's spot, and not far from Florence.
Our own ExScite veteran Reuven Anati (who had been born in Italy) and his wife Erela bought the Casa Meo house and have converted it into a magnificent 6 room B&B. Located in the heart of Italy's Casentino area, the house had been built in 1541 and was restored by Anati recently.
Great place, very reasonable daily rate, friendly service and Ex-Scitex atmosphere, combined with a breath-taking view and immersed in intoxicating Tuscany air. Casa Meo, is the perfect vacation spot.

Contact Reuven and Arela (Hebrew, English and Italian) at:
Email: info@casameo.it
Tel: +39 0575 570 498
Address: CasaMeo Loc. Pagliericcio, 74 52018 Castel San Niccolo (AR), Tuscany, Italy

Happy new 2010 from the ExScite team.

The graphic presentation of the Scitex logo wavering in the wind, is a cut out section of one of Shmulik Succari's illustrations from the good old days.

Phase One Buys Leaf Assets. Leaf Imaging is now part of Phase One company

Medium format camera maker Phase One takes over portions of the Leaf business, and will enter a licensing agreement with Kodak, Phase One announced in a press release today. It's the latest step toward consolidation in the medium format camera space. Earlier this year, Phase One announced it was investing in Mamiya.
COPENHAGEN and TEL AVIV, June 25, 2009 -- Phase One A/S, in conjunction with senior management employees of Leaf, today announced that they have created a new entity, Leaf Imaging Ltd., to purchase certain assets of the Leaf camera business. The assets include the “Leaf” brand product names, engineering design and production tools. The new entity will also enter into an intellectual property license with Eastman Kodak Company that is royalty-bearing to Kodak. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Phase One is a small provider of digital image capture and work flow management technology. Phase One www.phaseone.com is an employee-owned company based in Copenhagen with offices in New York, London, Tokyo, Cologne and Shanghai.

See a Phase One press release here

  Since 2004, the ExScite Kenji Hamada is a group manager, Enterprise Business Applications, at Microsoft in Tokyo, Japan.
Kenji has been with Scitex from 1995 to 2003. During his long period with the company has held product support management roles at Nihon Scitex, Scitex and Creo in Israel.
Kenji joined Nihon-Scitex following 3 years as a software programmer at the Japanese printing press manufacturer Ryobi.

Dror Mualem is VP sales, marketing and BD at Bordeaux digital since 2008.
Located in Yavne, Israel, Bordeaux Digital PrintInk is a manufacturer and distributor of premium digital inks and chemistry for the digital printing industry. The company develops, manufactures and markets quality inks for wide and super wide digital printers, pioneering HAP Free Organic Green Ink.
Before Bordeaux he was VP marketing at PowerMat and PixDro. Earlier he was marketing manager at Matan digital printers, Scitex Vision and Aprion.
Dror was product marketing manager at Scitex in Israel from 1999-2003. He came to Scitex from Eskofot/Israel.

 In early 2010, the ExScite Kobi Stern traveled for two month in South America including: Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Peru. (See picture).
Over the recent two years Kobi has been working on completing his M.Sc in Biomedical Engineering. Currently he is working in Tel Aviv university as Research assistance/project engineer. The research subject is "Optimization of cut in velocity of straight bladed vertical wind turbines".
Before going back to school, Kobi was the CEO of IntelliMedi. From '04-'06 he was Head of Department Electronic Design Process Improvement at Elbit and from '98 to '03 he was VP Engineering Infrastructures at Orbotech.
Kobi's career at Scitex spans 17 years. He was field support engineer, h/w design engineer, projects manager and director of engineering infrastructure.

The ExScite Moshe Carmi is the primary algorithms developer at PSik Solutions.
  Carmi spent more than 12 year (1980 – 1992) at Scitex, Israel R&D. He was principle programmer and a project manager for the Scitex Work Stations- the Prisma platform. As we all remember so fondly, the comprehensive Prisma product line positioned Scitex as the undisputed world leader in the pre-press industry during the roaring 80's.
After Scitex he was VP R&D at Polycom, Israel for 14 years. The company was a technology group that had been started by another ExScite- Gideon Rosenfeld, and was later sold to Polycom.

Located in Zur Yigal, Israel, PSik Solutions Ltd. was established in August 1995 by the ExScite- Udi Zohar. PSik specializes in developing solutions for OEMs and VAR's in the digital color printing market, focusing on various aspects of color printing and raster image handling, based on our fast, large image viewer, named PViewer. Psik applies its knowledge from the graphic arts industry to other fields where handling of large images is essential.