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A Crosfield Glossary
A partial list of Crosfield products, might-have-beens and research
projects. I attempted to compile it during the period of Crosfield's
terminal decline, before the Fujifilm take-over. The sources are listed
at the bottom.
List
- Albert
- A concoction of EDG and scanner boards in one box, that provided
an interface to the early stand-alone expose units, such as Magnasetter
1000. Used as a Galan-to-expose connection. [3]
- Antelope
- Project name for the development of new, flexible image processing
electronics, latterly specifically for Maxtel. The project sort of loosely
turned into CRAB. [3]
- Autocrat 300
- A register control for offset presses (may have been a 200 or
250 as well). Late 1980s. [10]
- Autoflow
- Automatic film processor, made by Crosfield until the competition
got going. Based on the earlier 1960 prototype Gammatron. [1]
Autoflow 60. [4]
- Autoscan
- Automates job set-up on Magnascans (finding image white and black
points and ranging between them). 1992. [2]
- Autotron
- Crosfield's first product, in 1950. A photoelectric register control
system for rotary presses. First installation at Sun Printers, Watford, on
a gravure press. Continuously improved into the 1970s (and beyond? until?).
[1]
- Berthold
- German phototypesetting system sold by Crosfield, 1968 to mid 1970s.
[1]
- Btext
- [4]
- Canonlink
- Interface to a Canon colour copier? [5]
- CASC
- Product name for final Crosfield 6xxx development, with autofocus,
autocrop, CRAB, better black USM and Turbo control. Followed on from
Flash project. [10]
- Celix 2000
- A3-format desktop imagesetter using internal drum and semiconductor
laser technology. Was developed as part of the Moon project. [3]
- Celix 4000
- Medium-format imagesetter using internal drum and semiconductor
laser technology. Was developed as part of the Moon project. [3]
- Celix 8000
- Large-format desktop imagesetter using internal drum and gas
laser technology. A marriage of the Jaguar expose engine with the Moon
electronics. [3]
- Celix 8000
- Computer-to-plate derivative of Celix 8000. [3]
- Celscan
- Modern, intuitive Mac-based sofware used with input scanners such as
Celsis 330. [3]
- Celos
- [11]
- CelServe Manager
- Software, server on Sparc, client on Mac, to manage image tracking and
archiving. 1996 [2]
- Celsis 130
- A digital camera (re-badged Kontron unit). Hi-res output (3072 by
2320 pixels) by piezo-dithered area array, so suitable for static studio
work only. [2]
- Celsis 160
- A digital camera (re-badged Fuji unit). Lo-res output (about 820 by
1100 pixels) from area CCD, sub-second exposure. [2]
- Celsis 240
- A re-badged Howtek desktop drum scanner (the curved one). [3]
- Celsis 330
- Desktop A3-format CCD scanner for transparencies and reflection copy.
A re-badged Howtek 2500. [3]
- Celsis 360
- Desktop CCD scanner featuring automatic loading. For transparencies
only, up to 6 by 7 cm. Project name was Phoenix. [3]
- Celsis 5250
- [3]
- Celsis 5xxx
- "Entry-level" derivatives of Celsis 6xxx scanners. [3]
- Celsis 6100
- An upgrade kit for 6xx users to provide many of the features of the
Celsis 6200 series scanners. 1994. [2]
- Celsis 6220
- [3]
- Celsis 6250
- [3]
- Celsis 6xxx
- A family of analyse drum scanners, based on Magnascan 6xx but with
more advanced electronics and external control and set-up from computer
application. Around 1994. [3]
Also introduced much more automation of scanning, including autofocus,
preset USM, autocrop. [14]
These scanners introduced direct SCSI to stand-alone scanners (Hawk).
(Though previously seen in Autoloader? MagnaLink?) [10]
- Celsis Display Calibrator
- [5]
- Cepheid
- RISC board development for Python. Project name for a PCB. [3]
- CET
- Another name for Colorspace (Colour Edit Terminal). [11]
- Cobra
- An NGS board. [12]
- Colorspace
- A stand-alone image re-touch station. An NGS product. 1990. [2]
- Colour Data Terminal
- A sort of development of ScanView. A PC attached to a scanner that
could be supplied with various software modules. The terminal could do
preview scans. This Software was called InterView, and it could control
the scanner, though operators generally found it easier to use the
scanner's own controls. The terminal could also run Quickview, Multran,
and off-line set up. Part of Magnascan 656. [15]
- Comet
- Development name for the EDG for 5xx scanners. [3]
- Communicator
- Something for linking distant Studio 9xx systems. 1990. [2]
- Communicator II
- JPEG compression and File transfer of TIFF or Studio images.
(1993..1994). [6]
- Compuscan
- Electronic reader for typewritten copy, imported from USA. 1969. [1]
- CRAB
- An image processing ASIC. Originally intended as a general-purpose
engine for off-line function such as re-touch, it was eventually used
as a real-time processor in stand-alone image input scanner systems. [3]
- Crosfield 7000
- Data preparation system for encoding documents, CBM. [1]
- Crosfield 9000
- Banknote sorting and issuing system, CBM. Also sold for other paper
and ticket handling applications. [1]
- Ctext
- [4]
- Datrax 760
- A large-format facsimile machine. [3]
An internal drum fascimile machine, designed by Crosfield, with similar
function to Pagefax but smaller format. Used a laser at the writer end that
blasted carbon off a film onto paper - the film turning into a negative
transparency of the image being transmitted. [15]
- Datrax 765
- [4]
- Datrax Direct to Plate
- Such a system was developed. [11]
- Diascan
- Drum scanner for use with film. Single drum, film original, same-size
output written one colour at a time, delivered 1965. Later version with
improved resolution called the Diascan 2000, delivered in 1967. [1]
- Dicomed
- A company that Crosfield bought in the 1980s and then sold at a loss.
[3]
- Direct to Tape Terminal
- [4]
- Dragon
- Project name for Phoenix plus Harlequin, launched as Celsis 360. [3]
- Duet
- Allows two Magnascans to be connected to a single expose, to
increase overall productivity. 1989. [2]
- Eagle
- Project name for SCSI interface to 9500. [13]
- Emerald
- Project name for improvements to 6xx. [3]
Improvements were to image sharpness. [10]
- Enterprise
- A project (current in 1997) to develop a new RIP. [3]
- Eskimo
- Project name for the analyse half of an analyse-to-expose system
using Jaguar as the expose engine. This was under development at the same time
as StudioWriter 1000. [7]
- Etchomatic
- 1963 machine to control the temperature and acidity of the etchant
for gravure cylinder preparation. [1]
- Fang
- An NGS board. [12]
- FDDI interface
- An NGS interface project. [12]
- Feldspar
- Project name for an expose unit. Killed in favour of Moon. Was going
to be external drum, multi-beam. [3]
- Flash
- Project name for Celsis 6xxx development. [3]
Followed on from the death of 600i. Resurrection of Swift apart from the
faster leadscrew. Mac interface, pre-set USM, motorised focus with
memory, enhanced greens and browns. [10]
- Freeway
- Information pack for system integrators wanting to interface with
Crosfield kit. 1988. [2]
- Galan
- Fibre-optic network system developed by Crosfield. Using token-passing
based on FDDI. 1988. [2]
- Galaxy
- The name under which Crosfield was going to sell its own Unix box.
Also a project to integrate Celscan with Celsis 330 and 360. [3]
- Gemini
- Project name for Celix 4000. [3]
- Gravure Direct
- The complete gravure system, with Lasergravure and Klischograph interfaces,
integrated with scanners and other kit. A marketing term. [3]
- Gravure Plan
- Off-line cylinder layout planning station for Gravure Direct. [3]
- Gravure Plus 1000
- The application of the advanced direct-to-cylinder electronics from
Lasergravure to a Hell K193 Klischograph engraver. It sold a couple. [3]
- Gravure Plus 2000
- The application of the advanced direct-to-cylinder electronics from
Lasergravure to a Hell K202 Klischograph engraver. It nearly sold. [3]
- Gravure Screeen
- Offset to gravure conversion using a modified Pagefax reader and
special descreening electronics. [3]
There was also a de-screening Magnascan with register pins that was
sold (one or two?) for offset to gravure conversion. [15]
- Harlequin
- The original project to design an easier, more interactive interface
for input scanners, which first appeared as part of the Celsis 360 product.
[3]
- Hawk
- Project name for SCSI interface to Magnascan analyse and expose. [3]
- Heliostat
- Electrostatic assistance to improve ink transfer on gravure presses. [1]
- Hendrix
- Bought-in system for electronic entry and sub-editing of copy. About
1973. [1]
- Idotron
- 1956 machine to monitor ink density, and adjust by changing ink to
extender ratio. [1]
- IFEN
- IFEN Gateways - Two products which connected to our competitors machines
via XTP over an FDDI network. One of which was the IFEN Studio Gateway, which
took Studio 9000 format files and converted them to IFEN format, and vice
versa. The other was the IFEN Imagesetter Gateway, this took IFEN format files
and exposed them on a Magnasetter 750 or 2000. IFEN formats later went on to
become the TIFF/IT formats. (1993..1994). [6][5]
- ImageBureau
- Sun Sparc-based workstation. Simplifies page planning in systems with
Macs by keeping high-res data away from the desktop. Used with Magnalink.
1993. [2]
- Imagedit
- A sort of extended ScanView which could also manipulate images off-line.
[3]
- Infocolour
- [4]
- Inkotron
- 1960 automatic colour control for sheetfed offset presses. Too expensive
to sell. [1]
- Insetter
- Device to synchronise pre-printed colour with later black printing, for
example printing of newstext around pre-printed colour adverts. Launched
1958. [1]
Another version was developed in the late 1980s, but was not a commercial
success and drained resources from other work. [10]
- Interview
- Part of Magnascan Plus. Allows job file data to be examined and edited,
and helps novice operators. 1992. [2]
- Jaguar
- The development name for the first internal drum expose unit. This was
a long drawn out project, which eventually worked. The expose engine was
used in Magnasetter 2000 and later Celix 8000. [3]
- Jetproof
- Third-party inkjet proofer that we sold. 1990. [2]
- Jetstream
- Development of a leter EDG system for scanners. [3]
- Lasergravure System 700
- A long-term and expensive project to develop a complete gravure system
based on laser-engraved plastic-coated print cylinders and advanced
electronics for direct-to-cylinder production. It failed. Project ran 1969
to 198x, and followed on from earlier work (1960) on spark erosion.
The project included several complete sets of cylinder preparation plant
and an imposition planning system as well as the engraver system. [3]
- Lazel Screening
- Frequency modulated (stochastic) dot generation for expose units
incorporating a PostScript MagnaRip. 1994. [2]
- Lightspeed
- A Mac-based page make-up system, "a sort of Crosfield Quark Express".
Bought-in as part of Dicomed, then abandoned in favour of systems
based on our proprietory hardware. 1988. [10]
- Linework Interfaces
- Relating to Autokon. 1989. [4]
- LISA
- Luxscan Interpolating SCSI Adaptor. [11]
- Lumitype 540
- A Crosfield version of the American "Photon" phototypesetting machine,
made under licence. In 1961, this was pioneering. [1]
- Magnadot
- Crosfield's electronic dot generation technology. [3]
- Magnalink
- Fits between analyse and expose Magnascan 6xx, allowing connection
to desktop systems. Late 1980s? [3]
SCSI link to desktop systems began the move from proprietory to open
interconnect. [14]
- MagnaLink 600
- Formats Magnscan images to the DTP world. Hardware unit with disk
buffer and extra fast SCSI for Mac. 1993. [2]
- MagnaLux 450i
- Marketing name for Fuji Luxscan input scanner as a stand-alone? [3]
- MagnaPlan
- Originally "Tints and Borders", a method of making simple pages on a
Celsis 640 scanner, using the SDT to define co-ordinates and tint values. [19]
- MagnaRip
- Sun Sparc-based workstation providing PostScript input for stand-alone
expose units. Also incorporates a job queue system. 1995. [2]
- MagnaRip Autotrap+Edit
- Software module to extend MagnaRip to perform automatic trapping.
1995. [2]
- MagnaRip Plus
- Sun Sparc-based workstation. Comprises OPI image server and output
RIP, complete with Magnalink graphics. 1992. [2]
- Magnascale
- (?)Like Scanscale, but with enlargement. [15]
- Magnascan 200i
- A Howtek desktop drum scanner with a Crosfield badge. (The rectangular
one.) 1992. [2]
- Magnascan 450
- Twin-drum scanner capable of enlargement, using digital storage of
one line. Screening done photographically. Launched 1969. [1]
- Magnascan 460
- Development of Magnascan 450, launched in 1972. By 1973, 200 Magnascans
had been installed. [1]
- Magnascan 510
- A single-colour drum scanner, single machine, contact screen,
anlogue colour processing. [15]
- Magnascan 515
- (?) A development of the Magnascan 510 to expose two colours at a
time. [15]
- Magnascan 520
- Introduced 1977, with the ability to make screens electronically. [1]
Introduced Laserdot Electronic Dot Generation. Still analogue
colour processing. [15]
First with EDG, but was really too early. The accuracy of the expose unit
was not good enough for dot generation, and it was not a commercial
success. Went back to contact screen for next models (530 and 540). [14]
- Magnascan 530 and 540
- The first all digital scanners, back to using contact screens, though.
[15]
The first machines to separate analyse and expose. Digital USM. [14]
- Magnascan 550
- First scanner with digital colour processing. Introduced between
the 520 and the 530. Lamp expose. [14]
- Magnascan 570
- First version of what later became Studio 820; it was online to the
MagnaScan 550 scanner. All of the s/w of the 570, plus user layouts, were
on a single density, single sided 8-inch floppy disk. [19]
- Magnascan 600i
- Product development that followed the demise of Swift. A scanner
re-design from the base up. Abandoned. [10]
- Magnascan 610
- Single-colour down-market version of 625. [15]
- Magnascan 616
- The intended product name for Scantel. [3]
- Magnascan 625
- [4]
Appeared later than 630, 640. [15]
- Magnascan 626
- [2]
Appeared later than 630, 640. [15]
- Magnascan 630 and 640
- Electronic dot scanners with digital colour processing and Scan Data
Terminal, could do Multran, tint, borders and so on. [15]
It was these, or the 535, that re-introduced EDG. Based on 530.
These also could have a PDP computer (SDT) attached, and on 630, at least,
could use a disk image store. Launched 1982. [14]
630 is a 640 without a Scan Data Terminal; appeared later than 640. [15]
- Magnascan 634
- [4]
- Magnascan 635
- [4]
- Magnascan 636
- [2]
- Magnascan 636 GISS (RGB)
- Input scanner suitable for use with MAMBA. 1991. [2]
- Magnascan 640IS, 640IS, 640IM
- [4]
- Magnascan 645IS, 645IS, 645IM
- [4]
- Magnascan 646
- [2]
- Magnascan 656
- 636 plus a Colour Data Terminal (InterView and QuickView, &c.). [15]
- Magnascan 676
- Project name for a 6xx analyse working real-time into a Jaguar?
Not launched? Included Hawk text, 636 scanner; not the Jaguar. [3]
- Magnascan 6xx
- A family of drum scanners, originally linked pairs but later used
as separate analyse and expose stand alone machines. [3]
- Magnascan Autoloader E
- Automatic film handling stand-alone expose, based on Magnascan 6xx.
1992. [2]
- Magnascan Plus
- Systems for connecting Magnascans to Macs. 1992. [2]
Early name for Magnascan 656? [15]
- Magnascan GESS
- Also GESSA, WESS, WMSS, WISS. [11]
Various names for stand-alone analyse and expose scanners, mid 1980s?.
Attached to some of the 6xx numbers when complete separation of analyse
and expose became possible. Communication over GALAN (others?). [3]
- Magnaset
- Crosfield's own design of phototypesetter, about 1971. [1] One production
machine was sold to Klett Druckerie in Stuttgart where it operated for about
a year before being replaced by a Hell Digiset. [20]
- Magnasetter 1000
- Jaguar with Albert. Stand-alone expose. [3]
- Magnasetter 2000
- Jaguar expose unit with Albert and Sun Sparc workstation with RIP.
1994. [2]
- Magnasetter 350
- [5]
- Magnasetter 355
- [5]
- Magnasetter 450
- Someone else's expose unit with a Crosfield badge. (Was it the expose
complement of Fuji Luxscan?) [3]
- Magnasetter 620
- [5]
- Magnasetter 650 CTP
- [5]
- Magnasetter 750
- External drum stand-alone imagesetter based on Magnascan 6xx expose
with additional automatic film handling gear. Postscript RIP provided
on Sun Sparc workstation. 1993. [2]
- Magnatran
- A 3-colour transparency expose unit. 1990. (Also known as Magnatran
S1000?). Magnatran came from Cymbolic Sciences Inc (CSI), they sold it as
Fire 1000. (Inverse half-drum internal drum photoplotter, that exposed
10-inch wide film that conformed to the drum just with postive pressure
from the feed roller.) [2] [19]
- Magnet
- An device for multi-porting big disks between multiple Studio 8xx
systems. 1988. [2]
- Magnet Picturebase
- A Magnet network with a collection of big disks and image compression
hardware to provide an image storage and management system. 1988. [2]
- Mamba
- One of the NGS systems, same project name as product name. A creative
workstation, intended for output to transparency. 1993. [2]
- Mamba Link PC
- Used to transfer data between Mamba and Magnatran. 1992. [2]
- Maxtel
- A project to develop a CCD flatbed equivalent to the 6xx drum
scanner. The project was abandoned, as much for political reasons as for
engineering difficulties, and the knowledge gained was used in the design
of the small-format Celsis 360 scanner. [3]
- Mercury
- Project name for Celix 2000. [3]
- Merlin
- Project name for a SCSI interface to a drum scanner - after Hawk. [13]
- Micrex
- Machine for checking the quality of magnetic ink printing on cheques.
Introduced in 1962 by CBM. [1]
- Microscan
- [4]
- Midi Mamba
- Cut-down Mamba workstation. 1993. [2]
- Molar
- An NGS board. [12]
- Moon
- Overall project name for the Celix 2000, 4000 and 8000 development. [3]
- Multinex
- Swedish step-and-repeat machine sold by Crosfield. [1]
- Multran
- The ability to queue jobs for batch scanning on a Magnascan. [3]
- Newsframe
- [4]
- NewsLine
- System for electronic picture processing for newspapers. Comprises
2641 PC-based file server, 2642 PC-based workstation, 2643 server plus
workstation, or 2644 Mac-based workstation. 1991. [2]
- Newspublishing Systems
- A set of systems called 2700, 2710, 2750. [4]
- Optical disk
- [4]
- Orion
- [8]
- Pagefax
- A large-format flatbed fascimile system, originally designed by Muirhead,
and purchased with the company. It used a scanning laser spot. [3]
- Papertron
- Paper flaw detector. Never a product. [1]
- PAT System
- [5]
- Pawo
- A brand of densitometer from Switzerland supplied by Crosfield to
support the Scanatron. [1]
- PC-Scripter
- Device for getting text into Studio 9xx for integration with colour
images. 1990. [2]
PC Scripter Mk III provides an interface between text front-ends and
Studio Systems. Front-ends vary in size and complexity depending on
their intended use. There are large multi-terminal systems, e.g.
Crosfield Hastech, Atex etc., as used in newspaper publishing. There
are also PC desktop publishing systems, e.g. Ventura Publishing
System ... Optionally, PC Scripter Mk III can be fitted with a Laser Printer
and/or Typesetter which will produce a hard copy of the page output
by the RIP. Input by floppy or RS232 to PC, PC talks to RIP, output from
PC to File Manager via Ethernet. [17][18]
- PCR
- Polychromatic Colour Removal - Crosfield's version of an extended
undercolour removal system. A function of the Magnscan colour computer.
Removes colour ink and replaces as far as possible with black. [15]
- Photon 713
- Phototypesetting machine for web offset printing, sold in Europe for
the American firm Photon. About 1964..1970. [1]
- PixelLink
- Software for NGS Studio system or Sparc to transfer images between
Studio systems and DTP applications (both ways, including RGB images
at DTP end). 1993. [2]
- Pixie
- A project name for the Magnascan 634 development. [8]
- Pizza box
- A PC-based system intended for interactive training. [3]
A PC plus a laser-disk player. [15]
- PHIC
- An NGS board. [11]
- Pro-edit Visualiser
- This was a Studio 8xx-based colour transparency retouch system; sort-of a
forerunner to Mamba. Maybe 2 were delivered to outside locations. [16]
- Pulsar
- An A3+ format flatbed CCD scanner, with variable optical magnification
from 22 to 200 lines/mm and cross-slide mechanism. Announced 1997.
Sold as Fujifilm Lanovia C-550 (and slightly modified as Agfa XY-15). [3]
- Python
- Development name for Crosfield proprietory Unix box, orginally bought
in with another company (Benchmarq Technologies?), and optimised for image
manipulation. [3][12]
- Quasar
- Bought-in RISC upgrade board for Python that did not work. Developed
into Cepheid project. [12]
- Quaver
- An MK comms project. [12]
- Quickview
- Part of Magnascan Plus. Allows pre-views of images and extends job
storage and management facilities. 1992. [2]
Before the PC version, there was a PDP version. [14]
One of a set of software modules that could be run on the Colour Data
Terminal. [15]
- Rabbit
- An image compression unit, based on DCT and Huffman encoding. It occupied
a substantial chassis. [3]
- Remote Diagnostics
- [4]
- Remote View
- [4]
- Repropak
- Standard collection of images for quality control. [3]
- Ribbonmaster
- Press controls product, to register a cutting device to a printed
web without using extra control marks. [10]
- Scaleplan
- An off-line page plan generator. A plotting table and a computer to
generate page plans for Studio 875 or 880. 1990. [2]
- Scaletec
- Australian-made gadget for Studio system planning that we sold. Plan
page and import to Sudio system. Had computer plus digitising table. Worked
with Studio 9500 (rather like 805 with Studio 8xx). Late 1980s. [15]
- Scan-a-graver
- American machine to engrave a letterpress plate from a photograph, sold
by Crosfield. Also the Scan-a-sizer, which could re-size as well. [1]
- Scanatron
- Colour scanner based on flying spot from a CRT imaged onto glass plate
separations produced photographically.
The system scanned all three separations, scanned by three separate beams split
from the flying spot, and produced a single glass plate corrected positive.
Four passes required to make four-colour output.
Introduced 1958. About 80 sold. [1]
- Scan Data Terminal
- A DEC PDP-11 based box to drive a Magnascan analyse or expose as
a stand-alone scanner. It typically connects to 300 Mbyte removeable
drives. [3]
Also had function for non-stand-alone scanners, such as Multran, tints
and borders, storage of set-ups, and a good dungeon game. [15]
- Scanscale
- (?) An enlarger system for setting up magnification and rotation
values for a Magnascan job. [15]
- Scanset
- A scanner keyboard and Xrite densitometer coupled to an ? computer,
which could generate set-up floppies to be used for later scanning. [15]
- Scantel
- A desktop CCD scanner for 6 x 6 cm transparencies. It was designed to
have similar interface to the contemporary drum scanners and was very
mechanical. It was withdrawn just before launch, when it would have been
Magnascan 616, mainly because the image quality was not thought good
enough for a Crosfield product. [3]
- Scantex
- [4]
- ScanView 600
- [11]
- ScanView II
- A console with a display and Magnascan keyboard, that enables job
set-up to be done in parallel with scanning to expose. A pre-view scan
is done, and that is worked on, before the finished job file is sent
back to the scanner. [3]
- Scripter
- [4]
- Secatron
- 1954 derivative of Autotron, to control register of pre-printed material
into a sheeting machine (one that cuts into individual sheets). [1]
- Sirius
- A page composition stage added between the analyse and expose of
Magnascan 626, 636 or 646 scanner sets. Also contains image storage.
Sold as intermediate between basic Magnascan and Studio 8xx systems.
1988. [2]
Versions 240, 250 and 260. [11]
- Solo
- An off-line job set-up station to be used with Multran and a scanner
with a Scan Data Terminal. It's basically an analyse scanner, but only
the job data is saved on floppy for later scan elsewhere. 1989. [2]
- Spitfire
- Project name for a drum scanner? [13]
- Studio 3
- Studio 9xxx systems with RISC processors. 1994. [2]
- Studio 570
- The first page planning system (was there a 560?). [15]
A page planning system based on the Magnascan 550. Launched at
DRUPA 1978. [14]
- Studio 820
- [4]
- Studio 825
- [4]
- Studio 830
- Basic Studio system with no image display, just dropped images into
holes. No re-touch. Images held off-line. Rumoured to be the most
productive Studio system ever. [15]
- Studio 835
- Mono monitor; PDP 11/73; 3 off 340M disks. 1988. [2]
- Studio 840
- [4]
- Studio 845
- [4]
- Studio 860
- Full-blown Studio system with colour monitor, including re-touch. [15]
- Studio 865
- [4]
- Studio 870
- [4]
- Studio 875
- Mono monitor; PDP 11/73; 3 off 340M disks. 1988. [2]
- Studio 880
- [4]
- Studio 885
- Colour monitor; PDP 11/73; 4 off 340M disks. 1988. [2]
- Studio 895
- Colour monitor; PDP 11/73; 4 off 340M disks; text; air-brush;
geometric shapes. 1988. [2]
- Studio 8xx
- Image manipulation and page make-up systems based on DEC PDP-11
technology. [3]
- Studio 910
- Studio 8xx family re-packaged and improved in a lower cabinet.
1990. [2][3]
- Studio 920
- As Studio 910 but with faster processing. 1990. [2]
- Studio 9400
- [2]
- Studio 9500
- Page make-up station based on Crosfield's proprietory Unix box
(the Graphics Workstation alias Python alias Galaxy). First NGS product.
1990. [2]
- Studio 9000 FDDI
- Also known as Galan 2 or the 58K (due to the two 2900 chips it used).
A card which fitted into the 9000 RISC cabinet that allowed it to be
connected to a standard FDDI network. (1993..1994). [6]
- Studio 9500C
- [2]
- Studio 9600R
- Page planning system with MIPS processor. Super speed version.
1993. [2]
- Studio 9700R
- Page planning system, as Studio 9600R with extra features. 1993. [2]
- Studio PS Module
- A Studio system software product that does automatic high-for-low
res substitution, allowing working with low-res in desktop applications
then output to any high-res Postscript output device. For RISC-based
Studio systems. It seems to have part of itself on a Sparc with
StudioStream software, and part on the Studio system. [2]
- StudioBank
- An imageserver, based on NGS chassis with MIPS processor. 1993. [2]
- StudioLink
- Bridge to DTP systems from Crosfield Studio 9xx. Allows entry of
layout on Mac, and transmission to Studio system. Various levels:
basic shapes and tints (level 1), plus text (level 2), plus
Postscript (level 3). Typical: Scan images on Magnascan, send LR to
Mac. Enter printed or floppy-supplied layout data into Mac, crunch it. Send
final page-definition data to Studio system, combine with HR images
from Magnascan. Output. 1990. [2]
- Studioplan 805
- A page planning system; just a PDP computer, no image display;
makes floppies to control a full Studio system. [15]
- Studioproof
- [4]
- StudioStream
- A Sparc with software linking Crosfield NGS Studio kits with DTP.
The example shown has the Sparc connected as a hub, with a Postscript
expose, a Crosfield Studio system and a Mac all connected to it. 1995. [2]
- StudioWriter 650
- Flatbed output machine (stand-alone Pagefax writer and Albert).
Later versions with Wydnet, without Albert. CTP version. 1990. [2]
- StudioWriter 650 CTP
- Direct-to-plate derivative of 650. [15]
- StudioWriter 1000
- Automatic large-format stand-alone output machine (Jaguar and Albert).
1990. [2]
- Swift
- Project name for improvements to 6xx. Eventually became Flash,
which became the Celsis 6xxx series. [3]
Project followed Zodiac. Would have had a faster traverse, auto aperture
selection and improved interpolation. Abandoned. [10]
- Synchrotron
- ? [11]
- Synchroscope
- Gadget with revolving mirrors to look at moving web on a press. [1]
- Tape Archive TA1, TA2 and TA3
- TA/1 (6250 bpi tape archive unit for Studio) and TA/2 (same but offline),
(outsourced). [4] [19]
- TEC Dryers
- Hot-air web drying machines made by Crosfield under licence from the
US principal. [1]
- Textran
- Text system supporting high-res text and objects on analyse and
expose Magnascan 6xx, using real-time compression (run-length). [3]
- TIFFLink
- Allowed Studio 9000 graphics files to be stored on an ImageBureau,
with the user interface on the Studio system. (1993..1994). [6]
- Titan
- Part of Eagle. [13]
- Topaz
- Project name for 6xx upgrade development. Became Celsis 6100. [10]
- Trakatron
- 1953 machine to control sideways register on slitting machines, such
as those used to make toffee papers. [1]
- Triton
- Development name for Studio 3. [11]
- Venom
- An NGS project. [12]
- Viper
- One of the NGS systems. Project name. A video graphics chassis that
was added to Python to make Mamba. [3][12]
- Viscomex
- 1959 machine to maintain viscosity of ink on a press. Replaced the
Idotron. [1]
- Wotsit
- MK project name. [11]
- Weasel
- An experimental compression system, developed after Rabbit. [9]
- Webatron
- Press control device to register a high-speed bag making machine; later
also registering folding machines. [1]
- Wydnet
- PC-based software/hardware product for linking Pagefax machines in
networks from factory to global sized. Features data compression, management
information and message passing. 1990. [2]
- Wydnet Pre-Press
- On-line - or netapps, did Studio to TIFF/IT conversion,
file compression, connection to Wydnet equipment, file transfer. A big box of
tricks to help Crosfield users connect to networks, all the software was
completed but never saw the light of day due to restructuring of 95.
(1994..1995). [6]
- Zodiac
- Scanner development project. In time, after Emerald. A QFD study
on drum scanners, supposing a new development. [10]
References
- [1] Recollections of Crosfield Electronics 1947 to 1975, John F
Crosfield
- [2] Crosfield brochures
- [3] My memory (or unattributed)
- [4] 1989 Tech pubs document list
- [5] 1995 Tech pubs document list
- [6] Shane Cheasley
- [7] John Hayhurst
- [8] Darren Baumber
- [9] John Hemmings
- [10] Martin Gouch
- [11] Richard Beaumont
- [12] David Frith
- [13] Dave Hollingsworth
- [14] Graham Webb
- [15] Derek Gleeson
- [16] Adam Huby
- [17] Tech Pubs manual
- [18] Geoff Barrow
- [19] Barry Brown
- [20] Bob Wallace
Dates, where not otherwise qualified, may be the publication date of
the brochure or reference I found in 1996; so the product is likely to
be current at that date, but may have been launched much earlier, or a
little later, or not at all.
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