New Compose Online Proofing tool

Before we send a holiday message, we wanted to let you know about our new soft-proofing tool called I-Zoom. I-Zoom takes 1 bit tiff files, recombines them and makes a Microsoft Silverlight compatible web page. For those of you who have not heard of Siliverlight, it is Redmond's answer to Adobe Flash. Personally, I think that Microsoft has done a great job with this product. It's fast and it's fully supported on the Mac.

Let's talk some more about I-Zoom. I-Zoom allows the user to zoom in a job to view traps and screens, even pixels at a great speed. If you have an in house web server and if your RIP can generate 1 bit tiff files, you can start creating your I-Zoom soft-proofs in no time.

We've created a sample job from 1 bit tiff files whose combined size is over 140 MB, yet the soft-proof loads in very little time. You can roll the wheel on your mouse to zoom in and out and notice the short time it takes to refresh. To view this I-Zoom sample job, click here. You will be promoted to install Silverlight. Once you install Silverlight, you'll need to restart your browser and open this page again.

With no custom software to install on the client end, I-Zoom is a great tool to let your customers know how their jobs will look on press. I-Zoom works with every major Mac or PC browser.

I-Zoom retails for $1499 and runs on a PC running Windows 7 or Windows 2008 Server, with at least 2 GB of RAM.

If you like more information please contact your local Compose representative, or call or e-mail me.