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NTRODUCTION
imagePRESS Server
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1:
IGURE
The imagePRESS Server is one of several imaging products engineered and manufactured by
Electronics for Imaging, Inc.
How the imagePRESS Server operates
The imagePRESS Server enables the customer to use the copier as a high-performance
networked PostScript color printer. Users at the customer site can print to the
imagePRESS Server from networked Windows computers, Mac OS computers, and
networked UNIX workstations running TCP/IP.
The imagePRESS Server custom-designed boards and system software are responsible for
efficient image processing and printing controls. The main functions of imagePRESS Server
components and software are described in the following paragraphs.
The imagePRESS Server uses a motherboard and a copier interface board to process image
data for printing and scanning images.
The motherboard includes two quad-core Intel Xeon 2.8GHz CPUs that control the image
data transfer to and from the copier interface board and run the interpreter. The interpreter
rasterizes the page description file and compresses the image pattern into memory using
compression technology.
The interpreter outputs compressed raster data through the image frame buffer memory to
the imagePRESS Server copier interface board. The copier interface board decompresses the
image data and sends it to the copier through two copier interface cables. The raster data is
supplied to the copier, which then renders the final image on paper at full rated engine speed.
High-speed DIMMs (dual in-line memory modules) on the motherboard hold the image data
during printing. The imagePRESS Server is configured with 4GB of memory.
Copier
Printing system
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Networked computers
or workstations
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