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To: LKO who wrote (495)	12/14/1997 10:09:00 PM
From: THAI DUC TRAN	Respond to of 1460

LKO, Scitex is a leader in making the laser plotters owned by an Israeli family. All I remember back about twelves years ago, when I was a software engineer for AMF Logic Sciences. We developed a channel raster system to facilitate bi-directional high speed DMA data transfers via the IBM channel selector to communicate with an IBM mainframe computer, generates the seismic section plots, and graphic output the raster scan lines to a plotter such as Scitex laser plotter. Our customers who used this hi-tech plotter were Western Geophysical, Union Oil, etc... tdt

To: LKO who wrote (495)	12/14/1997 11:55:00 PM
From: David R. Colby	Respond to of 1460

The start of Scitex's downfall was when Arizi and several other Israeli engineers left Scitex with him to develop EFII's color profile system which allowed color spearations to be done on small, inexpensive scanners as opposed to the massive turn-key systems Scitex, DS, Heil and others were selling for millions.That was the start of EFII. Many of these people had connections with the Israeli hi-tech industry and miltary projects. The profile systems evolved in the EFII's Firey RIPs that drive most of the color copiers today. Perhaps, Sculley on someone is on the brink of better technology for these applications.