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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
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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. Singed- 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.... 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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In the picture form left to right Top: Nicola, Avi, Iris, Israel, Yaffa On January 5th 2010 the mythological Scitex Purchasing department members had a lovely meeting in Mezzada café in Herzliya. The pricture was sent to us by Avi Raby. Among the participants were: Israel Leshman – The man and the legend |
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The following has been Emailed to us by Steve King from New York. "In 1979 Scitex America attended Auto-Carto IV in Washington, D.C. Shown in the picture are Scitex President Efi Arazi, STA Marketing Vice President Steve King and Executive Vice President Arthur Low. The person sitting is most likely Yuval Asodi, Application Engineer.. Dani Herzka, the Senior Applications Engineer with whom I worked on many cartographic accounts, took the picture". |
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This picture was sent to us by Alex Gall. |
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Following the initial successful entry into the Graphic Arts market place, Scitex enbarked on a massive re-branding effort. The process included establishing a revised red logo and a unified graphic representation of the company.
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We wonder- Scitex going all the way to (where)? |
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Isabel Feldsberg , the flamboyant application engineer and world jet-setter was the first Scitex person to set foot in red China. |
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Click on this link to start a YouTube corporate video from Scitex America Corp.
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Etan Rozin
User Interface Design