Firm Donates Print Buffer to Institute

  • 03/01/97

BARCO Graphics, a supplier of complete pre-press solutions, has donated a PrintStreamer high-speed information buffer to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York. The PrintStreamer and the Xeikon DCP-32D press that it enhances are used at the CIMSPrint Center, RITís integrated digital printing, publishing and imaging center. 

RITís CIMSPrint Center houses three new laboratories dedicated to making the latest digital printing technology available to the graphics arts community. Besides offering workshops and seminars, RIT tests products, collaborating with paper suppliers, software and systems providers, and finishing equipment manufacturers. 

John Peck, director of the CIMS project at RIT, says the PrintStreamer is ìthe key to utilizing the Xeikon press to its full potential.î BARCO Graphics, Vandalia, OH, (513) 454-1721, www.barco.com. 

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