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Design Essentials Business Image and WebRecord Pro -Two Powerful Professional Productivity and Design Tools to Succeed in Business
COSTA MESA, Calif., (January 4, 1999) Canon Software Publishing (CSP), a division of Canon, the world's leader in imaging technology, today announced a powerful winter line-up of two new software titles in the design and business productivity categories. Design Essentials gives small office/home office (SOHO) users the software tools to create a polished professional image while WebRecord Pro gives the users the ability to harness research data on the Web.
These two new titles include: Design Essentials Business Image, a high quality, template-based design application that allows SOHO users to easily create related families of professionally designed, sophisticated and highly customized business-to-business printed materials; and, WebRecord Pro, a web-based data management application that allows users to capture, store, print and manage web-based data.
"Design Essentials Business Image is the ultimate solution for SOHO users who wish to produce families of sophisticated, professional business and graphic materials," says Kevin Reilly, senior manager, at CSP. "This is the first SOHO design software that allows users to create a powerful business image by using superior, yet easy-to-use design templates."
Realizing that businesses are quickly utilizing their PCs as powerful research tools to harness information on the web, Canon developed WebRecord Pro as the ultimate research assistant and complete web-based data management tool. Designed specifically for the professional or "power" Internet researcher, WebRecord Pro features the most advanced search, scheduling and information management tools available allowing users to cost-effectively conduct and document Web research.
"WebRecord Pro is geared primarily at business users who access the Web every day," adds Reilly. "Power users place a great value on the Internet and will want to take advantage of WebRecord Pro's advanced tracking, scheduling and data retrieval features. The most important feature of the software is its ability to perform redundant tasks automatically with little or no intervention from the user."
WebRecord Pro
WebRecord Pro allows professional users the best way to capture, store, print and manage web-based data. The program's sophisticated and advanced scheduling features allow a user's computer to do the work, even in the middle of the night. With WebRecord Pro's advanced printing utilities, users can preview and print their Web travels in the most professional and accurate formats available. It even allows the user to print multiple web pages on a single page.
According to Reilly, WebRecord Pro is an invaluable tool for professionals in research-related jobs who depend on tracking and printing competitive corporate data, stock reports, trade and industry news and product information. Additionally, WebRecord Pro will prove invaluable to legal, education and medical professionals who depend on critical research data such as tracking, printing and presenting references, related case histories, case precedents, statistical data and comparative analysis. WebRecord Pro's built-in browser allows users to instantly access and print from the Web while maintaining print history lists of all web pages viewed or visited. The program saves a user's print list with all data and links encapsulated. WebRecord Pro features the ability to:
Retrieve full Web sites for off-line viewing at a later time.
Organize, preview and print favorite sites automatically.
Retrieve complete sites off-line via an advanced "Fetch" feature including the ability to search and filter by page content, URL, page title, anchor links, size, MIME type and date
Schedule pre-determined searches
Additionally, WebRecord Pro is bundled with the 333-page "Researching Online for Dummies" by author Reva Basch. A $24.95 value, this "Dummies" book published by IDG Books Worldwide is written from the mindset of a professional Net cybrarian. The book provides an invaluable online search reference and is written in an informal and irreverent style.
Design Essentials Business Image
Featuring designs from a team of talented and award-winning graphic design professionals, Design Essentials Business Image automates the design of dozens of coordinated pieces of printed materials -- freeing a SOHO or small businessperson to concentrate on their business, not design. Design Essentials Business Image features one-click edit functions, a family of professional designs and customizable graphics templates and high quality photo images.
Design Power Made Easy: Canon makes professional, creative business communications easy. Design Essentials Business Image allows the novice designer to choose from layouts and thumbnail views, and customize their work by selecting or importing images, text, fonts and color.
Design Essentials Business Image supports the following image formats: bitmaps (BMP extension), Windows Metafiles (WMF extension), Photo CD format (PCD extension), Open Page drawing (OPD extension), Tagged Image File format (TIF extension), FPX Image Format (FPX extension) and OLE objects.
Superior Design Templates: As the ultimate tool in creating business graphics, Design Essentials Business Image provides users with a choice of more than 500 high quality business design suite variations and a total of 202 design templates. Working with Design Essentials, even the smallest business can achieve a "corporate" look and a competitive edge.
Design Essentials gives users the ability to create an entire "family" collateral look of business communications materials - from sophisticated letterhead, business cards, three-page brochures - to professional looking ads, flyers and announcements. Additionally, each of the design family templates can be modified to reflect the company's unique and individual style.
To further customize professional-looking business creations, Design Essentials Business Image provides the user with easy-to-use editing tools to change existing design templates and adjust the color, typestyles and photos. With the Text Editing feature, users can edit with Design Essentials or use Microsoft Word. The program also includes a "linked text frames" feature to keep the word flowing from one box, column or page to the next in a layout.
"With Design Essentials Business Image, you don't have to be a design professional to achieve outstanding results. It really gives everyone the ability to create attractive and intelligently formatted communications," adds Reilly
Pricing and Availability
Design Essentials Business Image and WebRecord Pro will be available on CD-ROM in January 1999 with an estimated street price of $59.95 and $49.95 respectively.* Consumers can purchase both titles via a nationwide network of leading software retailers including office and electronic superstores, and computer superstores.
System Requirements
Minimum system requirements for running Design Essentials Business Image include an IBM compatible PC with a 486 processor or better (Pentium or higher recommended); Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0; CD-ROM drive for installation; minimum 16 MB RAM (32 MB recommended); 16 MB free hard disk space (30 MB recommended), SVGA/256 color display (1024 X 768, 24-bit color recommended); and a mouse or other pointing device. Design Essentials works with most PC-compatible inkjet, Bubble Jet or laser printers.
Minimum system requirements for running WebRecord Pro include an IBM compatible PC with a 486 processor or better (Pentium or higher recommended); Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0; CD-ROM drive for installation; minimum 16 MB RAM (32 MB or higher recommended); 16 MB free hard disk space, 640 X 480 SVGA/256 color monitor (1024 X 768, 24-bit or higher recommended); 28.8 Kbps modem (56.6 Kbps or faster recommended) (Internet access must be purchased separately); and a mouse or other pointing device. WebRecord Pro works with most PC-compatible color inkjet, Bubble Jet or laser printers.
Customer Service and Customer Technical Support
Canon Software Publishing offers a full range of customer technical support options: e-mail and Web Site (FAQ's) via the CSP Web site at www.software.canon.com. For 24 hour, 7 day-a-week technical support, a customer can call (757) 413-2855 for fax-back support or to talk with a customer care technician (8 a.m. - 10 p.m. Monday - Friday, EST). Regular customer support is free for the first 30 days. After 30 days, paid support is available.
About Canon Software Publishing
Canon Software Publishing (CSP) is a division of Canon Computer Systems Inc., which is a subsidiary of both Canon USA Inc. (Lake Success, NY) and Canon Inc. (Tokyo, Japan). The division, headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., was founded in 1998 to develop, publish and distribute computer software primarily in North and South America. CSP will also publish titles from both independent third-party developers and associated Canon companies. Canon is recognized as the world's leading imaging technology company, a leader in printer technology and a top worldwide patent holder. As a global technology leader, Canon achieved $22 billion in worldwide sales in 1997.
*Prices are estimates only. Dealer prices may vary and are subject to change at any time.
Canon is a registered trademark and Bubble Jet, Design Essentials and WebRecord are trademarks of Canon, Inc. All other products and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Product specifications and features subject to change without notice.
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