Autograph International A/S, the Danish company that was a spin-off from graphics specialist Uniras A/S, has now formed a US arm in San Jose, California, and has launched its EasyCopy/X software onto the US market. EasyCopy, which has been available in Europe since last Summer, is intended to solve the problem of getting true colour images from printers. It costs $900 and runs on all the major Unix workstations and X terminals including Digital Equipment Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc hardware. As a stand-alone, Easycopy includes a Motif interface with an X11 Release 4 screen grabber. It currently grabs images with 8-bit-plane colour definition but can reportedly output 24-bit colour file images to hard copy devices. The tool will support 24-bit frame grabbing as soon as the X11 utilities allow for this, the company said. Images can be imported directly from most of the popular image file formats. EasyCopy uses the Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage’s Uniform Chromaticity Scales colour calibration standard to match colours among devices. It new product also supports Unix spooling and Adobe Systems Inc’s Colour PostScript.
