Nostalgia

In the last entry here at ExScite’s Nostalgia section (Aug 2, ’05) we posted eye-popping graphics which had been produced to promote the launch of the Iris Realist printer, 10 years ago.

On a recent visit to Maui, Hawaii we have found three older 3047 large format Iris printers. The printers are still in operation at Maui Giclee producing high quality fine art prints for artists world wide. Some of these prints are sold at the Maui Giclee’s own gallery in Kihei, Maui and the rest are sold in many galleries in Hawaii, US as well as in other countries.
Click here to see the definition of what is-Giclee

One of the most anticipated products from Iris Graphics was the Realist Ink Jet Printers.
The newly redesigned line of products was unveiled in 1995. The launch was carefully designed by the Iris product marketing team and included printing eye-catching graphics printed on T Shirts with the slogan- {WHAT YOU SEE IS EVERYTHING}.
If you happen to have pictures of real people wearing those T shirts- please send them to content@exscite.net .

As the old STA newspaper boys can tell- the P.Ink episode was an interesting experiment in (failed) investment.

[1994] Can a German Macintosh developer find happiness with an Israeli imaging company after its disastrous liaison with an American magazine publisher who installed a Frenchman to manage the relationship?
No, it’s not a soap opera, it’s pre-press musical chairs. Following a couple of years of Time Magazine Group’s holding the North American rights to P.INK — the Macintosh-based front-end system developed in Germany — and about a year of negotiations, Scitex bought into P.INK (25% equitty) last winter. The first iteration of the Scitex-influenced P.INK will be shown at NEXPO. We have always believed that P.INK had a lot of potential and weren’t satisfied with the direction in which the Americans pointed the product. But under the new relationship, the literature certainly looks good. P.Ink Press, the publishing system based on Quark XPress that uses an SQL database, seems to have overcome many of its previous deficits and appears to be on its way to becoming a solid product; P.Ink Media, an archiving and recycling system, is intended to hold full-page images as well as text and photographs. All this, and Scitex’s high-end color systems, page transmission systems and the 18-wheel truck (click on the picture to see details) where nine people will build live news pages every day.
Source: THE COLE PAPERS, July 1994

Have you been enjoying finding new nostalgia pictures and stories here every once in awhile?

If yes- please look at your historical collection and send what you find to me.

Scitex in Herzlia continued to work during the first Gulf War in 1991, in spite of the continues fears of weapons of mass destruction attack on Israel. Employees came to work carrying their personal gas masks that had been issued by the government “just in case”.
The situation has gotten the best out of Succari, then with the optical design group at R&D.
Since leaving Scitex, Shmulik Succari has been providing graphic design, creation and illustration services to corporations in under the name of Studio Arteshock This illustration can be seen  [and many others] at the Scitex section of Shmulik’s website.

If you have pictures and stories about this period (or other), please send me.

To mark the 50th birthday of Israel , The City Lights section of The Jerusalem Post newspaper published this on February 6, 1998.The newspaper compiled a list of 50 quintessential Israeli contributions to the 20th century.
They wrote: “Uri Geller, Bamba and Scitex are just three of Israel’s contributions to the 20th century. Send us your 5 best (or worst) by March 21. The most interesting will be published and winners will be awarded prizes.”
Click on the picture to see details.

This picture was taken during the French customers’ visit at Scitex in Herzlia in 2000 at the Output Division assembly area.
In the picture Mooki Talbi (then marketing manager) is seen holding one of the unique parts of the Lotem CTP. Standing on Mooki’s right is Adi of the Output division assembly operations.

This was sent to us by Mike Sinigaglia who found it for sale on eBay for $0.99.
Looks familiar? It is a label for ink-jet printer paper optimized for Iris printers for medical applications.
In 1996 Scitex established the Scitex Medical Imaging subsidiary in the USA. The subsidiary’s goal was to focus on developing systems for the medical imaging marketplace. Called Scitex Medical Systems, Inc., it introduced two new products based on Iris platform: the Unitone B/W and Varitone color printers that output “near-diagnostic-quality” images on paper. Applications for the printers include outputting a wide variety of medical images, such as ultrasound and CAT scans, and magnetic and nuclear radiation scans. Companies such as Picker International, Inc., Philips Medical Systems Nederlands B.V., Diasonics Ultrasound, Inc., and Elscint Ltd. have signed with Scitex to market the printers.
The subsidiary was folded after less than two years.

How to create a square laser dot? Simple- take a round dot, pass it through the Scitex Lotem and walla- you have a square dot.
To read more, click on the picture (we hope that your Japanese reading skills are up to par). This is part of class material prepared for STN and is still available on the web
(see here http://www.bisenet.com/class/data/csjc/scitex/scitex1.htm ).
Good reading.

The year is 1988, the occassion – celebrating Scitex 20th
anniversary.
In the picture Miki Nagler is praying to god that Scitex will not be sold to other, smaller company later on (the prayer was not answered, as we all know).

Following his career at Scitex, Iris and Aprion, Miki is now the COO of the Israeli company Spectrum Dynamics, a medical imaging company.  In the background- Laurie Hanover.