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Shmulik Raz passed away in Israel on January 28th 2016

Shmulik Raz passed away in Israel on January 28th 2016

Shmulik Raz

שמוליק רז נפטר ביום חמישי 28 לינואר 2016
שמואל רז, או כפי שנקרא בפי חבריו “שמוליק” החל את עבודתו בסאיטקס באמצע שנות השבעים.
בסוף שנת 1979 עבר עם משפחתו לבריסל, שהיתה בזמנו מרכז השירות של סאיטקס באירופה.
במהלך שירותו שם, נפצע קשה מאוד בתאונת דרכים בעת שהיה בדרכו הביתה לאחר שבוע העבודה.
הוא אושפז כ 3 חודשים בשוודיה ובבלגיה כאשר כחודשיים מהם, היה מחוסר הכרה. לאחר תהליך השיקום, החל אט אט לשוב לעבודתו כמנהל השירות בבריסל.
ב 1984 חזר עם משפחתו לארץ והמשיך את עבודתו בסאיטקס על כל תהפוכותיה עד לשנת 2006 , שנה שבה פרש מהעבודה.
באותה שנה נתגלתה אצלו מחלת הסרטן ומאז התמודד ונאבק בה עד ליום מותו.
שמוליק היה אהוב על חבריו והיה ידוע בטוב ליבו, איש משפחה אמיתי.
השאיר אחריו אישה, שתי בנות וארבעה נכדים שהיו משוש חייו.
יהי זכרו ברוך!
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Shmulik Raz passed away in Israel on January 28th 2016
Shmuel Raz, or as he was known by his colleagues as “Shmulik”, began
working for Scitex in the mid seventies.
Towards the end of 1979, he relocated to Brussels, Belgium with his
family. At that time Brussels was the Scitex European service center.
While he was staying there, he went through a devastating car
accident, which resulted in hospitalization for three months in Sweden
and Belgium. Two months out of these he spent unconscious.
After his rehabilitation process, he returned to work as the service
manager in Brussels.
In 1984 he returned with his family to Israel and continued working in
Scitex throughout all its takeovers. He retired in 2006, and was
immediately diagnosed with cancer. He coped and fought his disease
ever since till the day he passed away.
Shmulik was always loved by his friends and colleagues and was known
for his kind and generous heart. He was a true, honest family man, a
real mensch and left behind a wife, two daughters and four
grandchildren, who were the apple of his eyes.
May he rest in peace !

 

 

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Made In Israel : הייטק

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How has the small state of Israel turned, within a short period of time, into a successful international hitech giant?

This is a story of the historical development of the Israeli hitech industry and its worldwide influence. This video presents the biggest successes and the social elements, that turned the Israeli hitech into one of the most important segments in the Israeli economy.

Source: Israeli Educational Television.

(Sorry, at this point, the video is only in Hebrew. Hopefully the program will be translated into English in the future)

Click here to watch the 51 minute video.
Our ExScite members should note minutes 6, 21 and 44.5 in this video, in which Yoav Chelouche (former CEO of Scitex) and Beni Landa (founder of Indigo and Landa Nanography) tell their — and our–story.

 

 

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The history of Desktop Publishing from 1984 onwards

“The history of prepress from 1984 onwards”  article (http://www.prepressure.com/prepress/history) is a nostalgic overview of DESKTOP PUBLISHING aspect of the Prepress industry. 

Scitex America with Visionary at Mac World ’94

In the early 80’s many of the technologies that are still in use today first appear on the market. IBM launches its Personal Computer. The Apple Lisa offers a first glimpse at the graphical user interface that will later be made popular by the Macintosh.

(“search”, or “Find” the word Scitex).

The following are just a few the article’s comments:

The nineties: the big wars are fought
Once desktop publishing becomes an established phenomenon, a few battles are fought over some of its fundamentals.
Traditional prepress vendors such as Crossfield, Scitex and Dainippon-Screen hope to maintain their lead by using their expensive systems to put the final touches to designs created on Mac.

Marc Lager says:
January 17, 2008 at 9:27 am
Scitex started the “desktop revolution” with the Pixet work station in 1982. I was one of the first to operate one for Graphic Arts Systems (Burbank, CA). We did not only photo retouching but page layout as well and output film on the ‘Erray” ouput (
JaniceG says:
December 17, 2010 at 12:03 am
Glad someone remembers Scitex! It was an Israeli company at which I worked in the mid-1980s. I remember being thrilled when I went for training on their $500,000 scanner ( ? Janice meant to say “system”. AN) and being able to change the color of someone’s eyes in a photo.

 

Scitex has made real inroads into the Desktop Publishing in the early 90’s. See here (https://www.exscite.org/2003/11/18/nostalgia-77/) an article we published at Exscite many years ago, about Scitex exhibiting at Mac World 1994.

 

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Salute: Scitex wins prestigious IR-100 award for ELP (1977)

Scitex won the prestigious Industrial Research IR-100 award for the ELP in 1977.

The Electronic Laser Plotter (priced at $125,000) was the most advanced and the biggest (1m x 1.8m) drum film plotter in the world. The plotter has been sold for more than 10 years into 4 main applications:
Geophysics research,   Engineering graphics/PCB design,   Cartography/mapping and   graphic arts/pre-press.

The development team was headed by the principle engineer, Assa Bar Lev.

The Award ceremony took place at the museum of science in Chicago on Oct. 1977. Scitex was represented by Aharon Nizani (who came over wearing his best [rental] tuxedo…).

 R&D Magazine provides timely, informative news and useful technical articles that broaden our readers’ knowledge of the R&D industry and improve the quality of their work. R&D features the latest technology, products and equipment used in laboratory research.

The 1977 article at the Industrial Magazine (now renamed R&D Magazine):

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Scitex patent (1998), Improve media positioning (in Dolev platform)

See US patent #6043865 summary: Imagesetter

Owner name: SCITEX CORPORATION, LTD., ISRAEL
ASSIGNMENT:HALUP, NIR;LICHTENSTEIN, YOAV;VRONSKY, ELIYAHU;

Publication date Mar 28, 2000
Filing date Dec 17, 1998

ABSTRACT
Imaging apparatus is provided which includes a generally cylindrical support defining a substrate support surface, a head operative to record information onto a substrate on the substrate support surfaces, and apparatus for precise rotational positioning and displacement of the cylindrical drum with respect to the imaging head. The apparatus includes at least one linear motor arranged to drive the cylindrical support in rotational motion, and control apparatus for providing electrical inputs to the linear motor to achieve precise rotational positioning of the substrate support surface.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The Scitex invention seeks to provide improved media positioning apparatus and scanners and imagesetters employing such apparatus.
(Referring to theDolevPatent 1998-4 DolevPatent 1998-6 DolevPatent 1998-7 Scitex Dolev platform)

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Conventional scanners and imagesetters commonly Employ external or internal drums for media positioning. External drum scanners such as the Scitex ELP external drum scanner, utilize rotary motors of various types for media positioning. The cost of such motors becomes extremely high when highly accurate positioning and repeatability is required.

Internal drum imagesetters, such as for example, the Scitex Dolev 200, utilize pairs of rollers for drawing film out of a film casette and precise positioning thereof inside a drum.

Precise positioning becomes increasingly difficult as the size of the film to be positioned increases. Roller based positioning systems encounter difficulties in providing consistently precise positioning.

See full patent description here: https://www.google.com/patents/US6043865

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Amnon Neubach (ExScite in the 80’s) – managing director of the Israeli Stock Exchange

Amnon Neubach (ExScite in the 80’s) has been appointed managing director of the Israeli Stock Exchange.

In the middle of the 80′s during the existential crisis at Scitex, he was brought in for a short period, as a corporate VP finance and helped in the cost cutting and the turn around of the company.

Over the last several years Amnon served as chairman and director for quite a few public and industrial companies in Israel. He was also the economic attaché in the Israeli embassy in Washington. Prior to working at Scitex he was economic consultant to the (then) prime minister Shimon Peres.

This is an article in Hebrew from the Israeli economic paper Globes (March 20, 2014):
http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000926146#fromelement=hp_firstarticle

לבורסה בתל אביב יש יו”ר חדש, לאחר כשמונה חודשים ללא יו”ר. דירקטוריון הבורסה אישר היום (ה’) את המלצת ועדת האיתור ומינה את אמנון נויבך לתפקיד יו”ר הדירקטוריון. בעוד שבבורסה ציפו לכ-200 מועמדים, בפועל רקכ-40 איש טרחו להגיש מועמדות.

בשנים האחרונות מכהן נויבך כדירקטור ויו”ר דירקטוריון של חברות ציבוריות וחברות תעשייתיות ביניהן ביטוח ישיר, לאומיקארד, דלתא, בזק, פלאפון ועוד. נויבך שימש חמש שנים כציר כלכלי בוושינגטון, והיה אחראי להשגת הערבויות לקליטת עולי ברית המועצות. כמו כן כיהן כיועצו הכלכלי של ראש הממשלה פרס בשנות השמונים, והיה שותף לביצוע תכנית הייצוב הכלכלי. לפני כן היה סגן הממונה על התקציבים באוצר, ושימש בתפקידים נוספים באגף התקציבים. אמנון נויבך חבר בהנהלת לשכת המסחר ישראל – אמריקה.

נויבך מסר כי הוא “משוכנע כי בכוחות משותפים נתמודד עם האתגרים העומדים בפני שוק ההון בעת זו, ונוביל את הבורסה לעידן חדש”.

עו”ד ברכה ליטבק, יו”ר הועדה, אמרה כי “מר נויבך מביא לתפקיד ניסיון עשיר ומגוון בניהול עסקי, בסקטור הציבורי והעסקי, כדירקטור וכיו”ר דירקטוריונים. הוא בעל ראיית מקרו רחבה וניסיון בהובלת שינויים משמעותיים בארגונים מורכבים. יש לו הכרות עמוקה עם העולם הפיננסי ועם ארגונים בארץ ובעולם. אני משוכנעת כי מר נויבך יזכה לתמיכה ולשיתוף פעולה מלא של הדירקטוריון, של השחקנים בשוק, ושל הרגולטורים, ויפעל יד ביד עם מנכ”ל הבורסה, הנהלתה וצוות עובדיה על מנת להוביל את הבורסה לתהליך של צמיחה והתחדשות”.

יו”ר רשות ניירות ערך, שמואל האוזר, מסר כי הוא “מודה לוועדת האיתור על עבודתה המצוינת והיסודית בתהליך בחירת יו”ר לבורסה. ניסיונו העשיר של אמנון במגזר הציבורי כמו גם במגזר העסקי וכיו”ר לשעבר של חברות גדולות, יסייע לו להוביל את הבורסה יחד עם מנכ”ל הבורסה, מר יוסי ביינהרט, וחברי הדירקטוריון, אל שיאים חדשים ולהביאה למקום הראוי לה בזירה הבינלאומית והמקומית כמחוללת צמיחה במשק וכאחד מעמודי התווך המרכזיים של התעשייה בישראל”.

עוד הוסיף האוזר כי “התקופה הקרובה מעמידה בפני הבורסה אתגרים גדולים, ואני משוכנע כי ההנהגה החדשה, בהובלת היו”ר והמנכ”ל הנבחרים, יצעידו את הבורסה ואת שוק ההון לעידן חדש”.

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How did Rafi Bronshtein get his first job at Scitex

Rafi_Bronshtein_2013At the 2013 ExScite reunion, Rafi Bronshtein described the process of applying to, and finally getting, his first job at Scitex. Click here  to see the young Rafi during his first period at Scitex, Herzlia 1976.

Toady, Rafi is a patent agent, operating as Daltan Consulting Ltd. in Kfar Saba.

To watch Rafi’s video presentation click on the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUo1i6-aT4Q

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Scodix adds more Exscite’s

Scodix has recently added more ExScite’s to its top management in Israel and in the USA.

Lance Shumaker has been appointed to Head Up Scodix North American Operations.He will report to another ExScite member Dror Danai, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development. Lance has held executive management positions with Scitex and Indigo, and more recently Advanced Vision Technology (AVT).

Amit Svartz joins Scodix as VP marketing management. In his previous position, Amit was the VP Marketing of Extricom, a privately held firm specializing in enterprise wireless LAN. Prior to Extricom he was VP Marketing at Objet Geometrics (2005-2010), and held several positions over a 10-year period beginning in 1995 with industry trailblazers Scitex and Creo.

Dennis Kercher Joined Scodix as sales manager,Western United States and Western Canada. Previously he was Account Manager at Domino Amjet, Western Region. Prior to Domino Amjet, he held several sales positions at both Creo and Kodak over a 16 year period.

Scodix Ltd. provides digital print enhancements for the graphic arts industry. Through the Scodix S Series, Scodix Ultra™ and Scodix Rainbow™ Station, they offer the breakthrough Scodix SENSE™ experience in America, Europe, Middle-East, Asia and Africa. The company’s aim is to lead print enhancement into the digital age and to be known for its passion and commitment to providing what our customers need the most – true brand differentiation for today’s highly competitive printing environment.

Scodix bunch 2014

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