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Seagull Scientific Completes Windows Drivers for cab printers
BELLEVUE, WA, USA- June 14, 2000--Seagull Scientific, Inc. has the most powerful
and full-featured Windows® drivers available for the cabProdukttechnik GmbH & Co KG line of thermal printers. They install quickly and allow any program running on Windows 2000, NT, or Windows 95/98 to easily print to cab Apollo and Gemini printers located anywhere on a user's network. The drivers' user-interface can display in any of nine international languages, including German, with support increasing to over 20 languages later in 2000. Seagull Scientific produced the first true Windows drivers for thermal printers and is currently the world's largest such developer. Drivers can be downloaded for free from www.seagullscientific.com or installed from the CD for BarTender, Seagull's software package for desktop and enterprise-wide label printing. BarTender, used together with Seagull drivers, can take advantage of a variety of powerful cab printing features not ordinarily available using standard Windows programs or printer drivers.
Thomas Rudolphi, cab technical manager comments, "I would like to tell you how much I like your drivers. Their implementation/operation is, on the one hand, very clean and clear; yet, on the other hand, you have really built in wonderful features."Seagull makes the only Windows printer drivers with both a "standard" and "enhanced" printing mode. Although conventional Windows programs normally print using standard mode Windows drivers, this does not allow access to certain high-performance features built-into thermal printers. In contrast, when BarTender prints, Seagull drivers automatically switch to their "enhanced" mode to take advantage of a printer's full-range of available features. In cab printers, this includes use of the printer's built-in, high-precision bar codes, as well as maximum printing speed using automatic serialization and the ability to store and reuse non-changing label data and graphics in the printer. By controlling BarTender using ActiveX Automation or command line parameters, users can even access these powerful "BarTender-only" features from within other programs. Seagull's Data Detector integration tool even allows BarTender label jobs to be launched from non-Windows programs located remotely on a network.
According to Don Ray, president of Seagull Scientific, "Adding a major European printer manufacturer, such as cab, to our
growing list of supported printer families reflects our ongoing commitment to enhancing our position as the world's preeminent developer of thermal printer drivers."
Availability
Seagull offers drivers for free at
www.seagullscientific.com in order to publicize the full-working Trial Edition of BarTender label printing software. Available for optional download from the same web site, BarTender can take advantage of a variety of powerful printing features not otherwise available to standard Windows programs
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