PREPRESS FOR AGENCIES
Bill Webster, Senior Partner of the CPS Group has been able to bring to bear the raw computing power of the Silicon Graphics' MIPS(R) chip on his current logjams in innovative ways. At the RIP-ping end, CPS currently has a Challenge(TM) M server running Torque's RIPServer(TM), a combination capable of driving multiple engines while outpacing Agfa's Star Plus(TM) RIPS by as much as a factor of 10. Running a software RIP on the Silicon Graphics system relieves Webster of the considerable expense of buying a dedicated hardware RIP for each of his imagesetters. And CPS is expecting delivery on a pair of Indigo2(TM) workstations running Alias Eclipse(TM), which will enable them to manipulate large graphic files with a quantum leap in speed. They're also bringing in a second Challenge M loaded with Helios(TM) software for accelerated file service and graphic management, and plan to use Silicon Graphics solutions for color separations as well.
Silicon Graphics brings CPS this superior reliability and speed on a platform they can leverage into the future. Webster calls this kind of open system power "a big plus." For example, the move to color separations will bring an exponential growth in file size, which will in turn make network transmission speed the new bottleneck. To prepare for this, CPS is looking at fiber optic connections. And Silicon Graphics is ready to take them there.
But more important than satisfying the needs of CPS, Silicon Graphics machines have fired their imagination. Once you've bought into MIPS processing power, why stop at static graphic images? CPS can now explore opportunities in 3D modeling and multimedia presentations using the tools brought to the table by Silicon Graphics.
Every bottleneck has a solution, and some solutions are better than others. But when CPS looked to solve not only the problems they have today, but the problems they are yet to encounter, time and time again they came back to Silicon Graphics. In short, CPS "discovered" the Silicon Studio(TM) before it became a product.
