HPGL2 and Enhanced PCL Support Announced

CIMS check imaging support also noted.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Marketing Department

Watertown, MA (March 29, 2004) – Snowbound Software Corporation, the leader in performance-driven imaging solutions, today announced the addition of HPGL2 printer/plotter support as well as enhanced PCL capabilities. The support is available for its line of RasterMaster Imaging SDKs and Libraries. 

By adding API calls for displaying, viewing and converting the HPGL2 and PCL image formats generated for HP devices, Snowbound allows developers to easily create viewing or conversion applications that handle these important images.   RasterMaster SDKs with these capabilities  are available for Windows, Unix, Macintosh.  Java support is coming soon.  The Java version will support a wide variety of platforms from Windows systems to web browsers to mainframes.

Also added was CIMS check image support, for images created by Carreker systems.  Similar platform support is available.

“HPGL2 and enhanced PCL Support enhances our broad range of capabilities for our many customers who are in the publishing and pre-press industries. In one powerful package, they can obtain imaging functions that permit the creation of very powerful applications - either for a workstation or for server situations ,” said Simon Wieczner, CEO of Snowbound Software. “Performance and leading edge technology are development standards at Snowbound. This development extends these standards by empowering our customers to have more choices in how they present and work with their image data.”

For more information, please contact Snowbound Software by phone +1 617-607-2010, toll-free 866-630-9495, or by visiting www.snowbound.com.

About Snowbound Software Corporation

As the premier provider of performance-driven imaging solutions for Global 2000 companies, Snowbound Software Corporation supplies imaging technology for Web and network document display and manipulation. Snowbound Software's expert developer tools, powerful imaging applets, rapid batch conversion programs and complete Web imaging solutions support over 100 different file formats and are designed to increase productivity and profitability across numerous vertical markets. 

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