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| 1/9/2010 8:30:18 PM |
| Vacation home in Tuscany, Italy for ExScite people |
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 |
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| 12/23/2009 8:13:34 PM |
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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. |
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| 11/14/2009 5:13:52 PM |
| Phase One Buys The Temaining Leaf Assets |
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.
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The ExScite Stephen
Bradley Martin has sent us this link to two fantastic videos, promoting the
IMIX, A Scitex company Video system.
What, you don't
remember? Yes- for a few years during
the roaring 90's Scitex had bought, owned, and shortly thereafter sold, a
couple of video editing companies in Northern California.
Click here to
download the videos: Scitex
imMIX, watch them and enjoys.
These are VCR tapes
converted to digital videos and archived on ZumoDrive, now available for public
viewing.
Scitex IMIX designed, built and sold digital video systems for post production editing. The
IMIX system had parallel capabilities to the Scitex print imaging systems, but
for the much more complex video environment.
The system was designed to handle video sights and sound, including editing,
mixing, cutting, animating, brushing and sketching.
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End of an Era- Kodak (the remanents of Scitex) is no longer selling Dolev To Film.
On Feb 1, 2010 Kodak sent the following letter to all Kodak dealers and customers of Dolev 2-up/4-up computer-to-film (CTF)products:
As a result of the declining customer base for Dolev products and Kodak's correspondingly higher costs, Kodak has made the decision to end all service agreements for the following Dolev CTF products, effective April 30, 2010. We will continue to provide remote support and on-site service on a time and materials basis for these products until June 30, 2010. However, after April 30, 2010, Kodak will not be able to guarantee the availability of parts. After June 30th , 2010, Kodak will no longer provide any support or parts for these products.
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Current Product & Solutions Manager, Eastman Kodak Company
To see the actual document, click here: http://exscite.net/gossip/Dolev_noMore.pdf |
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Redefining Visionaries as Heroes [A Scitex Customer Nostalgic perspective]
Article by Harry Waldman, A Scitex system owner
Published in Printing Impressions-February 2003
…..How much do we really know about the inventors, pioneers and visionaries in our own industry like Otto Mergenthaler and, yes, even Gutenberg himself? Moreover, what do we know about the contributions of our contemporary industry visionaries like Efi Arazi, John Warnock and Chuck Geschke?
Almost 25 years ago Efi Arazi and his company, Scitex, ushered in a whole new world harnessing the power of the computer to manipulate and color correct images for print. More than a decade before Adobe Photoshop began its reign over image editing, Efi moved our industry into the digital age. I can vividly recall trade show crowds of the early '80s staring in awe at Scitex terminals as the magic of the digital age unfolded before them.
My company was an early Scitex customer and that's how I eventually met Efi. It all came about because I insisted that there was a problem with the system architecture. Unlike today's inexpensive computers armed with a $700 copy of Adobe Photoshop, a Scitex terminal was about $500,000, in addition to all the other stuff that brought the cost of a total system into the millions of dollars. My argument back then was that the terminal was cost-effective to do what we referred to as magic (image manipulation and cloning) because of the high premium you could charge customers for this unique service (at that time).
However, page assembly was another matter and most Scitex users, like my firm, still found it was more cost-effective to resort to conventional offset stripping. I thought that it would be a better idea to have a second, much cheaper, terminal dedicated to page assembly. One Saturday I got a call at home from a man with an Israeli accent trying to make himself understood above the noise of an airport in London. The man simply said, "Harry, this is Efi. We now have the Assembler." This was my first encounter with Efi Arazi, but not the last, as we became the beta site for the Assembler, which was a $100,000 terminal dedicated to page assembly and the production of one-piece negatives.
The highlight of my experiences with Efi was a fascinating dinner in his Tel Aviv apartment where he outlined his vision of the future. Efi is a hero of mine because Scitex was at the forefront of major change in our industry. I haven't seen him in many years and I know he went on to start other companies like EFI (Electronics for Imaging), but I have always felt that he has never been fully recognized by our industry for his contributions....
Click here to read the complete article.
Waldman Graphics grew to be one of the premier printers in the Philadelphia-New York City-New Jersey area. As an industry leader, the company was a test site for many top software and electronic imaging companies. In fact, much of what eventually emerged into today's electronic imaging and pre-press was first used and tested at Waldman Graphics.
Today Harry is an independent consultant working with major corporations like Xerox, Fuji-Xerox, DuPont, and American Home Products, software companies like Adobe Systems, industry groups like Printing Industries of America, and printers. In addition to writing, Harry has delivered seminars around the world including cities in Europe, Asia, Australia . New Zealand, and almost every major city in the US and Canada. |
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March 6, 2010 |
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 The ExScite Amir Mushkat founded Shkedia financial services in 2001 and is managing it from Rockville MD. From 1997 to 2001 Amir was director of Professional Services at Shira Inc. Before that he was Project Manager at Scitex for 12 years between 1985 – 1997.
Shkedia Financial Services is a consulting firm advising companies, self employed and families who live, work and conduct business in the US or around the globe. Shkedia services include: Insurance (Health, Group Health, Dental, Life, Disability, International Travel, and Long Term Care), Investment (Retirement, Higher Education and Annuities), residential mortgage origination and Financial Needs Analysis. Serving Maryland (MD), Northern Virginia (VA) , Washington DC area. |
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February 22, 2010 |
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 The ExScite Israel Roth is exhibiting his art, together with 38 other artists, at the picture exhibit "Mabat Israeli". The Pictures are on display in Tel Aviv (Menachem Begin St. 125, Migdal Hayovel), from Feb 19-April 30, 2010. See details here. http://israeli.dafoman.com
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February 15, 2010 |
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  Jeremy Edwards, who worked in Service for many years in Scitex Europe (UK, France and Belgium), died suddenly and unexpectedly on the 13th of September 2009, from undiagnosed ischemic heart disease.
He was just 52 years old. Jeremy and his wife of 26 years Andrea Edwards (Lillmannstons), also ex-Scitex and their two grown-up sons, Jonathan and Daniel, had been living in the UK for the last two years due to Jeremy's position at Kodak. Friends described Jeremy as a kind, generous, level-headed and intelligent person.
He was asked to fill in the Service Director position in Kodak UK and Ireland for the Graphic Communications Group on a temporary basis but was so well respected and appreciated by his team that he was asked to take the job for a two-year period.
It's very tragic - Jeremy was not ill and only complained of arm and chest pains the day before. He agreed to get an ECG the following week but he died within 24 hours. Jeremy will be remembered by everyone who worked with him at Scitex.
You may contact Andrea by email: the.chox@gmail.com. Her tel no. until the end of Feb is 00441753645128. After that she is returning to their home in Belgium. |
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January 31, 2010 |
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 The ExScite Jurgen Rehberg was sales director for a few years at Scitex Europe in Brussels in the late 1980's.
Currently, Jürgen is a partner of the Steinbeis Consulting Mergers & Acquisitions responsible for the IT, software, TeleCom and high-tech industry. Steinbeis M & A, is a company of the Steinbeis Foundation (www.stw.de), one of the largest European technology and - consulting firm with € 110 million turnover, over 800 professors, more than 700 transfer centers, private universities and about 20,000 customers. Steinbeis Mergers & Acquisitions Consulting advises on corporate and patent sales, systematic business acquisition and capital raising.
Previously, he was engaged for several venture capital firms and private investors as Interim Managing Director of Sales in a variety of VC investments as a restructuring specialist. After completing his engineering degree in electrical engineering, he worked for over 25 years in the IT industry, including 15 years for various U.S. computer companies, as well as for companies in Israel (Scitex) and Japan. |
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January 17, 2010 |
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The ExScite Eli Bitan has successfully completed the recent 33rd International Tiberias Marathon. The race took place on 7 January 2010 at the Sea of Galilee in Tiberias, Israel. It is the world's lowest marathon at 200 meters bellow sea level. |
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