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  1. Jobs Applications by whereiswaldo · · Score: 1 · on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews?

    Related issue: job applications which collect gender, age, and nationality:

      http://www.agfa.com/en/co/jobs/job2.jsp?action=application&id=W0608-02

  2. Re:Unfortunately the Industry Dictates the Standar by tepples · · Score: 1 · on GIMP 2.2 Released

    The photography field, Graphics, and PrePress statndards are ruled by Adobe, AGFa and the like

    I just realized something: If a major imaging company has a name that's a Pig Latin slur against homosexuals, then what's wrong with "GIMP"?

  3. What about the PDF/X ISO standards? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Microsoft takes on PDF

    The publishing industry is moving to the PDF/X standards. Check some of the PDF workflow systems from Agfa, Heidelberg, and other big-name publishing vendors. A look at the DDAP is a good idea too.

    Time Magazine annouced this year ALL ads should be submitted as PDF/X files. That is a big corporation for MS to go up against. Ads submitted through the AP's AdSend system to newspapers must be in PDF format. The web use of PDF is a small part of how the format is used.

  4. Re:Printing at various degrees of expense. by amazoken · · Score: 1 · on To Digitize or Not Digitize the Family Photo Album?

    Cymbolic Science is no longer the only maker of digital laser plotters. Polielettronica, Fuji, Agfa, Noritsu, and Durst all manufacture digital RGB laser or LED plotters that expose onto conventional color RA-4 paper with quality equal to the LightJet. Most photo labs today either have one of these printers or can send work to a lab that does. Since the materials used are the same as conventional printing, the price is, or should be, the same as getting conventional reprints. Less if you consider that there is no film to process. For those who are not DIY'ers, these same labs will also have high quality scanners to digitize your prints and film to CD at a variety of resolutions.
    Also, reasearch at Wilhelm Imaging shows that Fuji's Crystal Archive photo paper has a life expectancy of 68 years, making it the longest lasting color paper on the market, much better than the papers of the 1970s.

  5. Re:Fontographer by sphealey · · Score: 2 · on Font Company Wielding DMCA Against Bit-Flipping
    Not to mention that Fontographer is evidently made by Macromedia which is probably a bigger company than Agfa Monotype (judging by the fact that I hadn't heard of the latter)
    You might want to get out and about a bit more. Agfa is a very large industrial conglomerate with a huge presence in imaging of all types. Sort of like Kodak, except much larger and more profitable.

    sPh

  6. Re:Copy of a copy of a copy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Do Digital Photos Endanger History?
    Ummm. Put that inkjet print in your living room window for about a week next to a wet chemistry print from a lab and you'll tell the difference.

    And if you need something more "permanent" than, say, inkjet copies, go (as some have already suggested) to a print shop and have your digital shots processed there. Some digicam manufacturers (I know Agfa has this, dunno about any others) provide a service that does exactly this as well.

    mrg