NANAO Brings Color Management To FlexScan Monitors

First To Add Software-Based Color Management To Line Of Display Products

May 23, 1994 -- ATLANTA, GA -- NANAO USA CORPORATION DEMONSTRATES TRUE
WYSIWYG COLOR TO DESKTOP USERS at Comdex/Spring with the new Colorific
color management software. Colorific is the first software-only solution
to provide Kodak technology to monitors for color presentation and
publishing; so now there are no color "surprises" on screen or in print.
Nanao is first to provide this easy to use, Windows-compatible software to
users, free of charge with every FlexScan monitor.

Color Management For Today's Business User

The desktop publishing (DTP) revolution not only brought the efficiency of
computing to graphics and publishing professionals, but also introduced
the concept of graphic design to previously uninitiated users. With high
quality color monitors and printers available to the masses, color became
a new tool to add life to presentations and publications. However, one of
the problems with today's computers and printers is that the colors you
see on your monitor are not often true, and, even if they are, they are
not always reproduced accurately by the printer you are using. Today's
user just wants the monitor to provide a faithful rendering of what has
been produced and displayed on-screen. At no cost to the end-user, Nanao
now offers such a solution - Colorific.

We want Nanao users to get the most out of their monitors - this includes
having proper color, " noted Dan Makino, executive vice president.
"Colorific allows users to match colors between the monitor and the
printer without bulky devices or extensive training; in fact, it's a
simple, one-time-only process."

Colorific - Color Calibration Through Software

Colorific uses a patent pending process developed by Sonnetech, Ltd., a San
Francisco-based company. The process calibrates and adjusts monitor color
balance, all through software. Colorific compensates for variables such as
ambient room lighting, monitor brightness settings, video card bias, and
other environmental factors affecting monitor color purity.

Colorific works at the Windows OS level. It uses data gathered through an
end-user set up sequence to correct colors appropriately on-screen and at
print time. Colorific translates colors onscreen under Windows so that the
monitor displays color within a "calibrated" color space. Colorific
enables Windows to adjust for color biases in the CRT and graphics card,
and for the color effects caused by ambient lighting in the user's
workspace.

Colorific adds Kodak's Precision color management system into the Windows
GDI kernel, providing "no-surprise" color printing. Printed colors match
what you see on-screen.

"Kodak believes that color management belongs at the system software level,
where it is available to Windows offices suites and other business
applications. Colorific brings the Kodak color management to monitor users
today and provides consistency with upcoming operating system releases
that will integrate Kodak technology," said Myron Kassaraba, director of
licensing and market development for the Kodak Color Management Systems
Group.

How Colorific Works

Colorific measures the colors on your monitor to ensure that printer output
closely matches those same colors. It works with virtually any graphics
program, format, and graphics adapter. It does so by leading the user
through a series of choices, choices that determine the color space of the
monitor (the color space of any device is a mathematical description of
its color-rendering characteristics). This process of choices utilizes
on-screen color combinations and template cards that can be easily applied
and removed from your Nanao monitor.

Once this process is finished, Colorific creates a profile of your monitor.
This profile is measured against an international standard of perfect
color, and then it's optionally reset to a more accurate set of colors.
The best part is that the user only needs to do this once; this setup will
remain for every application and every time you turn on your computer.

Availability

Colorific is available in both Windows and Macintosh versions, and will be
distributed free of charge to anyone who purchases a Nanao FlexScan 17-21
inch monitor on or after August 1, 1994. Evaluation copies will be
available to editors late June.

Nanao USA also continues with its free After Dark giveaway for all
energy-saving monitors, so buyers are receiving the most in price and
performance with their Nanao monitor purchase. (more)

NANAO USA Corp
23535 Telo Ave.
Torrance, California 90505
(310) 325-5202

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