This famous Dutch guy “WILLIAM the CONQUEROR” has been spotted having a good time at the Scitex ESPN Party.
To view the source of his pleasant surprise, click in the picture.
If any of you can shed some light on this Scitex (was SDP?) event, if know this fellow, or his companions, please let us know…..
Downtime Caught!
This illustration was prepared for Scitex America, customer Support in 2001.
The caption says:
Our hero, “Remote Support Man” makes quick work of the evil villain, “Downtime!”
(story from 1988) That the camera cannot lie is true only in the sense that the images it captures must have existed in one form or another at some particular time. But it is not always clear if those images have been manipulated in some way to alter or to stage an event which never happened….
National Geographic magazine, long known for its reputation of photojournalism excellence, used the Scitex computer digitizer on two recent occasions (April and Feb 1988 issues). On a cover story of Egypt, pyramids were squeezed together to fit the cover’s vertical format. A picture story on Poland contained a cover photograph that combined an expression on a man’s face in one frame with a complete view of his hat in another picture. Both cover images were altered without a hint of possible detection and without a note to readers that such manipulation was performed. Click here to see the complete article, which was originally published in Media Development, 1/1988, 41-42.
The Scitex plotters’ drums have always been an object of fascination. This picture was taken during a visit from France at the Scitex machining factory in Herzlia in 2000.
Are you old enough to remember the Scitex Response 280?
In the picture you can see the CAD Input Digitization System, based on a color workstation and the large format drum-based Super Scanner. The system was designed to scan technical drawings in raster and feed them to a CAD system as vector data with certain amount of intelligence added to it.
The picture was sent to us by Shmuel Dekel (See ExScite Nostalgia section posting from: 12/11/2003 6:27:51 PM).
Any of you remember the Scitex Blaze workstation? well here is a nice screen shot, to see additional user-interface examples. The user-interface was designed by Etan Rozin, who’s the ExScite webmaster and the technical wizard.
One of our members has recently sent us a great Blaze QuickTime movie clip (click here to play the video, 2MB).
This Blaze-96 movie was created by Scitex America and distributed to the Scitex sales organizations around the world.
If any of you guys have a nice picture of the Blaze– please Email it to content@exscite.org.
The middle of the 80’s were the hay days of Scitex foray into the Engineering Graphics Market. The company designed and sold the Response 280 system for civil engineering applications. That business unit was later sold to Toyo Ink.
This picture was taken at the Scitex booth at the Isratech show in Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1984.
This was one of the first demonstrations of the Response 280 system for engineering solutions in the Cartography and Printed Circuit Boards applications.
In the picture, the ExScite Shmuel Dekel, then an application engineer at the Engineering Graphics group, is shaking hands with Israel’s President Haim Hertzog while visiting the show.
If any of you guys have a nice picture of the Response 280– please Email it to me.
I do not know who the dancer is, but she sure looks ExScite’ing, don’t you think? In the background sitting I recognized Yoel Stern’s mustache, but does any one recognize the person holding the microphone?
The picture was taken at the 20 years birthday party for Scitex in 1988 in Israel.
Want to see the belly button in greater details? click on the picture.
At a Mac-World in Boston, a huge Apple Computers event in 1994 (?), Scitex was one of only 8 vendors given space in their booth, to preview/demonstrate the newly launched Power Macs. Back then, scitex was not afraid to take on Quark and Adobe and emonstrated the big hope for desk-top publishing: Visionary+ Maskcutter+ ColorFill.
In the picture (click to enlarge) standing Marc Mascara of STA’s Visionary team and sitting on the left is STA’s Katheryn Nettles application specialist in the response center.
Since Scitex made so much noise at a Show in Milan Italy, the Italian Police was really itchy to just shut them up and take them to prison downtown. In the picture from 1979 you can see the Italian policemen during a practice run, trying to catch 2 dangerous criminals (Ruth Gahtan and Dani Herzka, 2 of the first application engineers at Scitex). They all had such a good time….