a real sale
RUBIE'S COSTUMES WARPS INTO HIGH TECH
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TORONTO, Jan. 22 /CNW-PRN/ - When the largest costume company in the United States transmits Star Trek uniforms, it uses Warp 10.
Dealing with thousands of digital images every year, Rubie's Costume Company of New York, has drastically reduced computer storage needs and electronic transmission times with System Accelerator(TM) from Warp 10 Technologies Inc. The compression/decompression software increases Rubie's image storage capacity up to 10-fold.
Sometimes we used to be able to get just one file on a disc. Now we can get five, or even 10 on the same disc with no loss of quality,'' said Roberto Trejos, Creative Art Director for Rubie's.
The savings are substantial for the company which sends the contents of its 444-page annual catalogue on discs from New York headquarters to Hong Kong for printing. It also means the computer storage space required at home office is vastly reduced.
We do all the pre-press work on the catalogue here. It's only the printing that is done elsewhere,'' said Trejos.
Output is easier, too. If we send discs to someone, they don't need the System Accelerator software to be able to open them. And they open quickly,'' said Trejos. The files can be opened and re-stored in their compressed form.
Rubie's tested the System Accelerator for the month of November, the heaviest time of the year for catalogue and packaging production. The company has installed the program on one of its two servers and has just purchased a second program for its other server.
Rubie's produces its annual Halloween catalogue, a special Christmas catalogue and the final costume products for retailers in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Mexico.
Rubie's holds licensing agreements with Paramount Pictures for Star Trek costumes, LucasFilms for Star Wars, Universal Studios for its gallery of horror monsters, Warner Bros. for Looney Toons, and with DC Comics for its famous heroes and villains.
Rubietoy Company, a subsidiary of Rubie's Costume Co., produces children's costumes, play sets, make-up and accessories. Walk into many major retail stores for a Halloween costume, and you'll likely walk out with costume, accessories and packaging from Rubie's, a company with over $100 million in annual sales.
Costume design is still done the old fashioned way -- by hand -- but for image storage, and especially delivery to printers and suppliers in the U.S. and Asia, Rubie's relies on digitized files.
Warp 10's System Accelerator is saving time and overtime for Rubie's. And it saves on expenses -- in the difference between buying, using and physically sending one disc instead of 10.
We're pleased to provide this leading edge technology to Rubie's, and equally pleased that the company learned about our product through Warp 10's success with another client, Warner Bros. Consumer Products Creative Services,'' said Brian Magee, Warp 10's Director of Marketing and Communications. ''The sale to Rubie's is proof of the software's efficiency and growing popularity.''
System Accelerator's compression/decompression and workflow technology has been specifically designed to meet the production needs of anyone using large files, such as publishers, graphic designers, pre-press facilities and digital printing companies.
Toronto-based Warp 10 Technologies Inc. focuses on the digital management and rapid movement of data, video, audio and still images across communications networks.
The publicly-listed company (NASDAQ:WARPF; CDN:WARP) counts among its many clients Warner Bros. Consumer Products Creative Services, Quad Graphics, Route 66 and Southam Magazine Group.
Warp 10's other successful products include the Digital Toolkit(TM), a software that gives customers total management of their digital assets, and WarpRes(TM), which uses a single-image incremental resolution download technology for the manipulation of images in network-based environments. |
