Vivid Image Technology-VI100 and VI225 Features

The VI100 and VI225 Color Print Controllers

When your color image is ready for printing, you want nothing standing between your great ideas and the finished print. Yet, color printing hasn't always been easy. It can be expensive, and complicated. And who has all that time to wait?

Vivid Image Technology has the solutions for fast and easy high-end color printing with the VI100 and VI225 Color Print Controllers . By just touching the VividTouch LCD screen, you can enjoy the world's fastest image processing with the easiest user interface ever designed. The VI100 and VI225 are powered, respectively, by the 100MHz, and 225MHz Alpha® RISC microprocessors from Digital Equipment Corporation.

The VI100 and VI225 harness the power to manage the printing of sharp, colorful images from any networked Macintosh® and IBM compatible computer to a complete range of wide format color printers from Encad, Hewlett-Packard and Calcomp. The VI100 and VI225 combine this speed with complete ease of use that lets you manage your print jobs effortlessly and fast - no matter how complex the image.

Using state-of-the-art technologies, Vivid Image Technology proudly offers the world the following features with the fast, powerful, and easy-to-use VI100 and VI225 Color Print Controllers.

VividTouch: An LCD screen with simple, intuitive commands for setup, operation and troubleshooting. On-line help menus give you quick tips by category to get you started and keep you going.
VividColor: Color Calibration - accurately match every print job between hardware, ink and media, every time, automatically. No need for additional computer processing time.
VividProof: One easy command from the controller's touchscreen allows you to print, proof, then volume-print on-the-fly without added processing time and trouble, streamlining print production.
VividScale: Allows you to scale any size original to your desired output size at the VI100 or VI225 controller.
Support for multiple inks, including waterproof and UV, and media such as vinyl, transparency, and canvas. The VI100 and VI225 can handle virtually any type, any combination.
Standard 32MB for VI100 and VI225, let you run true-to-life color output up to 18 feet with no need for additional RAM.
The spooler with standard hard drives (2.1GB for VI100, and 3.2GB for VI225) lets you load large images off your host computer to decrease throughput time.