Printing Pulse
8 Printing News June 2018
Creative Edge Software Showcases Real-Time
Ray Tracing for iC3D at Leading Shows in May
Game-changing render capabilities take center stage at Luxe
Pack New York and Packaging Premiere, Milan.
Creative Edge Soft wares showcased its latest technology
breakthrough at parallel events in Milan and New York in May.
Th e new iC3D Real-Time Ray Tracer delivers instantaneous
rendering of highest quality images for immediate visualization
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of even the most complex designs on-the-fl y.
Th e Real-Time Ray Tracer will shortly be available as a free,
automatic upgrade (version 5.2), for users with an iC3D soft -
ware maintenance agreement (SMA) and builds on key rendering
advancements and distributed rendering capabilities
enabled in the current iC3D version 5.1 release. Th e technology
works on almost any off -the-shelf Mac or PC in conjunction
with an appropriate NVidia or AMD Graphics card. Alternatively,
Real-Time Ray Tracer performance can also be achieved
on older computers using commonly available external graphics
card (eGPU) to extend graphics capability.
Using the new iC3D Real-Time Ray Tracer technology,
high-resolution design renders can now be delivered at unprecedented
speeds. For example, a high-quality (1024 pxi)
ray-traced image, 6000x3500 pixels in size, which would
previously have taken 3-4 hours to render, can now be achieved to photorealistic quality
in 1 minute, 49 seconds using an off -the-shelf PC with Nvidia 1080 Ti graphics card.
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Productivity Flourishing at Bourne Brothers with
Colter & Peterson’s PRISM Paper Cutter
Scott Ruple knew productivity
would increase at
Bourne Brothers once installation
of a new 36-inch
PRISM paper cutter with
Microcut from Colter &
Peterson was completed.
What he didn’t quite expect
was the level of improvement
would continue aft er
having the machine for a
year. Not that he’s complaining,
especially with
business doing well at the Hattiesburg, Mississippi large format conventional and digital
print shop.
Ruple says the keys to success for Bourne Brothers is its fl exibility. Th ey print all
types of work and sizes for a vast of range of customers. Equal amounts of the work
is divided and printed on Xerox 2100 and Sharp digital presses, plus two Ryobi 3302
presses and 4-color PM 74.
Th e reason why is the automated Microcut electronics system, which includes a 15-
inch programmable touchscreen. Microcut quickens the process by memorizing cutting
sequences for instant recall. Ruple’s crew assigns numbers to each job so Microcut can recall
cut specifi cations when they repeat the job. A 6-inch clamp opening provides room for
more material to be trimmed.
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HP Inc. Survey Reveals
Sustainability Tops List
of Incentives for Offi ce
Workers
New survey among U.S., Mexico and
Brazil employees reveal a growing demand
for resources and education to
build sustainable workplaces.
In a new survey from HP Inc. focusing
on more than 3,000 offi ce
employees in Mexico, U.S. and Brazil,
sustainability rises to the top as the
most important employer off ering.
HP revealed the results as part of the
company’s 2018 Americas Innovation
Summit. From the survey, sustainability
is tied with new technology as
the #1 most important employer offering
across all surveyed countries.
It is #1 most important in Brazil and
a close second in the U.S. and Mexico,
behind new technology.
It’s time for employers to step up.
Employees are committed, but they
want to do more. Offi ce workers report
high levels of participation in
sustainability eff orts such as turning
off lights to save energy, recycling,
and taking alternative transportation
to work. As important as sustainability
is to offi ce workers, they don’t
demonstrate much knowledge about
it; more education is needed around
the environmental impact of printing
to combat common misconceptions,
and most underestimate how well
their country is doing at meeting its
Sustainable Development Goals. Few
see printing as an environmentally
friendly technology.
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