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OneVision and basysPrint announce cooperation agreement

Donnerstag 13. Juli 2000 - News in the pre-press sector: shortly before the opening of the Drupa trade fair, OneVision, the leading software provider for the graphics industry, and basysPrint, the successful producer of UV-based CtcP technology*, announced their new partnership agreement.

The cooperation between OneVision and basysPrint will bring basysPrint’s powerful CtcP technology together with OneVision’s high-end software to form a new pre-press solution that is also ideally suitable for newcomers to CtP. For this purpose, OneVision’s Asura, Solvero and Secare software packages are being combined with the CtcP exposure devices from basysPrint to produce an efficient, secure and reliable automated production line.
OneVision Asura first checks, corrects and optimizes all incoming digital data – regardless of whether this concerns PostScript, EPS or PDF – fully automatically, reliably and in a single process. Files requiring manual corrections can be opened to a monitor, modified and optimized with Solvero. Solvero permits fast and reliable manual editing of text, images and graphics – on a multi-platform basis and in one single application. Secare is the powerful imposition software in the professional pre-press sector, which fits smoothly into all digital production lines. Output is via the Harlequin Express RIP under Windows NT and on to the CTcP exposure devices from basysPrint, the UV setter 57 (4 up), UV setter 710-S/HS (8 up) and UV setter 1116 (24 up) – onto conventional, reasonably- priced negative plates from various providers. A new feature is the exposure of UV-sensitive materials such as DuPont Cromalin®, Fuji Color Art and Toyo INKPROOF.
OneVision has more than ten years experience in software development and is now one of the leading providers world-wide of software technologies for the printing industry. OneVision has already achieved market coverage of 50% among the large companies in the sector in Germany, while over 700 companies world-wide entrust the reliability of their production lines to the software developer from Regensburg. OneVision maintains its own world-wide distribution network as well as subsidiary companies in the USA and Great Britain. Further subsidiaries are planned for this year, including Asia.
The CtcP producer, basysPrint, made a name for itself by developing the UV setter technology, the only CtP exposure device that can illustrate conventional offset printing plates and proof material digitally using UV light. The company, which was founded in 1995, is a „spin-off“ of the over 85 year-old company, Lüneburger basysPrint GmbH. As an OEM partner of numerous well-known providers in the graphics industry, basysPrint has extensive experience in the areas of reprography and printing. Besides the UV setter family, basysPrint also offers customized proofing and workflow systems as well as automation systems. basysPrint also has a world-wide network of distribution partners at its disposal and maintains subsidiary companies in the USA and Canada. Toyo Ink (one of the largest pigment producers) looks after distribution and support in Asia in the capacity of a cooperation partner.
Hussein Khalil, CEO of OneVision, summarizes the benefits of the partnership as follows: „Our cooperation with basysPrint enables us to provide the CtP market with a solution that guarantees a fast, reliable and efficient workflow, thus increasing profitability.“
„The partnership with OneVision enables us to offer individual configurations for newcomers as well as upgrade existing ones for automated data import, including preview“, comments Ulf Meyer, Distribution and Marketing Manager at basysPrint, „…and we want to give our customers the opportunity to integrate the equipment they already have into new, Harlequin-based solutions under Windows NT. We do, of course, take overall control and responsibility for projects, including configuration of the server/RAID systems and the TECSA 3100 redigitalization scanner.“