HELIOS Software GmbH, Hannover, http://www.helios.de, is a leading supplier of file server, print spooler, AppleTalk router, OPI, and color management solutions. Helios products are available worldwide through distribution and OEM partners.
Helios EtherShare
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Helios EtherShare provides high-performance AppleTalk file and print services on Unix/RISC-based machines and gives Unix applications powerful, flexible printing options on PostScript devices. EtherShare also includes a fast AppleTalk router, a PostScript font server, remote administration from Macintosh, a Macintosh frontend to Unix mail, and various other services for Apple Macintosh.
With Asanté NetDoubler acceleration technology, EtherShare becomes one of the fastest servers. EtherShare NetDoubler is built into EtherShare 2.5 by default. It allows a single user to read and write files at speeds of over six megabytes per second over Fast Ethernet or FDDI. With six clients, a server can provide up to 17 megabytes per second.
Helios EtherShare OPI
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Helios EtherShare OPI is an open prepress interface server. It supports Apple Macintosh clients as well as DOS/Windows PCs and Unix workstations and offers significant throughput improvements to prepress users working with large color or greyscale images. Helios EtherShare OPI 2.0 defines the next generation of OPI:
* Many image file formats are supported, especially PhotoShop native files and hi-res images in not only CMYK, but also RGB, CIE Lab, YCC, etc. color spaces.
* ICC compliant color management for on-the-fly color spearation and matching during output is built into the OPI server as standard.
* The "Helios OpenImage" extension architecture allows other parties - Helios OEM partners, software vendors, system houses, as well as customers with in-house programming - to add new functionality for image handling from file system, file format, resolution adaption to screening.
Helios PCShare
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Helios PCShare makes Unix/RISC-based machines to servers for DOS/Windows PCs. It fully supports DOS file and record locking, is extremely fast, offers relaible printing for PCs, and provides LanWorkPlace and WinSock interfaces under Windows. It smoothly integrates Macintosh, PCs and Unix workstations in for a complete workflow, incl. OPI for prepress customers.
Helios ColorSync 2 XTension
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The Helios ColorSync 2 XTension allows Macintosh users of QuarkXPress to fully exploit the color management capabilities of Apple ColorSync 2. It offers predictable and exact color matching throughout the entire prepress process, including screen representations, proof prints, and final output. The Helios ColorSync 2 XTension not only matches colors correctly for TIFF images, but also for colorized QuarkXPress elements like boxes, borders, and text.
Client/Server Color Management Solutions
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The Helios ColorSync XTension for QuarkXPress is a great solution for stand-alone Macintosh. But it also integrates well with EtherShare OPI 2.0 and its built-in color management. With EtherShare OPI, color adaption and transformation of images can be done where it should be done: In the spool system when the color characterstics of the output device is known, not during image scanning or retouching.
EtherShare OPI 2.0 comes with two integrated, ICC-compliant color matching methods: The Apple ColorSync 2 one from Linoytpe-Hell and Agfa ColorTune, previously known as FotoTune. Color results are exactly the same whether the matching is done on a local Macintosh or on a powerful Unix/RISC-based server by means of EtherShare OPI.
Helios and its distributors also offer Linotype-Hell's ScanOpen, ViewOpen and PrintOpen products. With these tools customers can generate individual ICC profiles for all devices used in the production workflow: scanner, monitor, proof printer, and final presses.
AppleTalk Programmer´s Toolkit
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The AppleTalk Programmer´s Toolkit is a programming library for the C language under Unix. It allows to write Unix applications which communicate directly with AppleTalk networks. Helios EtherShare servers act as runtime environments for programs written with the AppleTalk Toolkit.
Helios Server Platforms
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Powerful and scalable Unix/RISC-based machines from various vendors can be used as Helios server platform: Apple Network Server, Data General AiiON and Intel AViiON, Digital Alpha Unix, Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC HP-UX, IBM RS/6000 AIX, Motorola 88K SVR4, Silicon Graphics Irix, Sun SPARC Solaris 1 and 2, and others.
Helios Distribution Channel
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Helios distribution partner for US and Canada:
European MikroGraf Corp. (EMC)
269 Mt. Hermon Road, Suite 100, Scotts Valley, CA 95066
tel. 408 461-6061, fax 408 461-6056
info@ugraf.com, http://www.ugraf.com
Helios distribution partner for Latin America:
Plexus Prepress Inc.
3900 NW 79th Avenue, Suite #466, Miami, FL 33166
tel. 305 470-0141, fax 305 470-2019
info@plexusinc.com, http://www.plexusinc.com
For Helios distribution partners in other regions, please contact
Helios, the Helios logo, EtherShare, PCShare, and LanTest are trademarks of HELIOS Software GmbH, Hannover. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Product specifications are subject to change without notice.
