Product Launches

Imaje

Crayon Plus

Imaje has launched Crayon Plus—a new large character inkjet printer for the Indian market. Ideal for marking on secondary packages such as cartons, barrels and big containers, this printer will meet specific marking and coding needs of all manufacturing sectors like FMCG, pharma, food, automobile, textile and electronics.

Based on a technology called drop on demand (DOD), the printer offers various advantages to customers. Its no-contact marking technology ensures high-quality marking even if the printing surface is flat or irregular. Another advantage with this technology is that products are not damaged during marking operations. It is a compact and complete printer with a pre-pressurised ink container.

Crayon Plus can mark on porous as well as non porous surfaces such as paper, laminated paper, cardboard, plastic film, etc. It marks at a high speed—300 fpm, 90 m/min but the production line need not be slowed down because the products are marked as they are conveyed under the printhead jet.

The printer is fully programmable. It can print a manufacturing date and use-by date which changes automatically every day and even has a counter that tots up in real-time.

Contact:
Imaje India
Tel: (120) 2444003/ 4/ 5.
E-mail: markom@imajeindia.com

Autodesk

Buzzsaw 5

Autodesk has introduced the latest version of the Autodesk Buzzsaw online project management and collaboration service. Buzzsaw 5 combines support for global design and construction teams with a host of new features and optional solution upgrades for specific building industry sectors. For building owners and developers, the advanced version called the Buzzsaw Professional service delivers greater return on investment throughout the lifecycle of a building by enhancing project visibility and control, and advancing collaboration within geographically dispersed design and build teams.

Autodesk is making Buzzsaw 5 available in six languages: English, Japanese, simplified Chinese, Korean, German and Spanish. With the ability to collaborate and manage documents in their native languages, project team members will now be able to realise the full time- and cost-saving benefits of online collaboration. For international building owners and developers, the Buzzsaw 5 collaboration and project management service makes it possible to smoothly route and share documents and communications, as well as proactively manage project tasks and resources, across international borders and time zones.

Contact:
Dataformatics Consultancy
Tel: (22) 24329680
Fax: (22) 24625499
E-mail: autodesk-sales@dataformatics

Kunhar Peripherals

S 200

Kunhar Peripherals has launched the S 200 Subwoofer speaker system. The system features one subwoofer and two satellite speakers featuring volume as well as bass and treble control on the subwoofer. The system delivers almost 28 RMS of power output, providing a great listening experience. Other than your personal computers, the speakers can also be attached to your stereo system providing great value for money.

Features:

• 1500w PMPO, power output 28 RMS
• Frequency response 35 Hz-18 Khz
• S/N ratio 65 dB, separation: 50 dB
• Speakers 3’’x2 + 4”
• Colour: Silver black , Silver blue
• Discman, TV sets, walkman, CD / DVD players

Contact:
Kunhar Peripherals
Tel: (22) 56345758
Fax: (22) 56345859
E-mail: salesbom@kunhar.com
Website: www.kunhar.com

EPSON

Stylus C63

Epson has launched the Stylus C63 featuring the proprietary pigment-based DURABrite ink technology. This produces photo prints on plain paper that are visually vibrant and appealing. It also makes double-sided prints possible without the worry of bleed through.

DURABrite ink has water-resistant properties for both black and colour inks, as the pigment ink particles rest on the surface of the paper and are insoluble in water. The inks offer light resistance up to 80 years on speciality matte papers and up to 70 years on plain paper. This makes the printouts fade-proof. DURABRite is available in separate ink cartridges, which enables the user to replace only the ink cartridge that has run dry, thereby saving a large amount on maintenance.

The Stylus C63 has a print resolution of 5760x1440 dpi and prints up to 17 black and white pages, and nine colour pages a minute. The C63 boasts the quietest mechanisms among printers in its class thanks to a new paper feed motor with added noise dampers such as rubber insulation and a quieter DC-motor carriage. Priced at Rs 3,999, the C63 also sports a dual USB and parallel interface. It can also accommodate up to 120 sheets of paper, and incorporates a print cancel button to prevent unnecessary paper wastage.

Contact:
Epson India
Tel: (80) 5321266-70
Fax: (80) 5581799/5321095

Intel

SRAM chips

Intel has built fully functional SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) chips using 65 nanometer (nm) technology, its next generation high-volume semiconductor manufacturing process. This new 65 nm process combines higher-performance and lower-power transistors, high-speed copper interconnects and a low-k dielectric material. Intel’s new 65 nm process will feature transistors measuring only 35 nm in gate length, which will be the smallest and highest performing CMOS transistors

Intel has used its 65 nm process to make fully-functional, four megabit SRAM chips with a very small 0.57µm² cell size. Small SRAM cells allow for the integration of larger caches in processors, which increase performance. The SRAM cells have robust operating characteristics, with a solid noise margin indicating very efficient on/off switching properties. Each SRAM memory cell has six transistors: 10 million of these transistors would fit in one square millimeter, roughly the size of the tip of a ball point pen.

Contact:
Moushumi Dutt
Tel: (11) 26209500
E-mail: Moushumi.dutt@intel.com
Website: www.intel.com/research/silicon

D-Link

DWL-G120

D-Link recently announced the shipping of a USB 2.0 wireless IEEE 802.11g standards-compliant adapter, the D-Link Xtreme G USB Adapter (DWL-G120). Providing the compliance of high speed USB 2.0 technology to deliver an out-of-the-box installation with up to 54 Mbps bandwidth in the 2.4 GHz frequency range, the D-Link DWL-G120 is interoperable with the most popular 802.11g/b home, office and hot spot networks in use today. The new plug-and-play D-Link USB 2.0 wireless adapter is easily installed to connect any USB-equipped computer to wireless networks and to the Internet, bypassing the need to install an internal PCI card.

Ensuring network scalability and compatibility, the D-Link DWL-G120 USB adapter auto-senses the USB port in order to maximise network performance, whether connected to a USB 2.0, 1.1 or 1.0 port. The adapter complies with the latest wireless networking security features, including 64/128-bit WEP encryption and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) support for both 802.1x and WPA-PSK.

The DWL-G120 is also capable of supporting government-grade AES encryption and upcoming 802.11i standards with future firmware upgrades.

The plug-and-play USB 2.0 device can operate in multiple modes, including ad-hoc mode, connecting point-to-point users without the need of an access point, and infrastructure mode, connecting to a wireless residential gateway via a xDSL / cable modem for high-speed wireless Internet access or for sharing resources across a network. With a five-foot USB cable included, the wireless USB adapter can be positioned virtually anywhere to achieve the best-possible wireless connection.

Contact:
Sandeep Viswanathan
D-Link India
Tel: (22) 2652 6696
E-mail: sandeepv@dlink.co.in
Website: www.dlink.com

INTEX

IMAC

Intex Technologies has launched IMAC multimedia keyboard with all the multimedia features controlled by 17 hotkeys. The hotkeys enable the user to shift to different functions i.e. my documents, messenger, web/home page, music, movie, and volume control, everything in one touch. It also has ACPI power management keys, and a high quality membrane tactile key switch. Priced at Rs 490, the IMAC is currently available in ivory colour.

Contact:
Intex Technologies India
Tel: (11) 51610224

Advanced Micronic Devices

BEM CAE

Bangalore-based Advanced Micronic Devices has tied up with Canada-based Integrated Engineering Software (IES) to offer their 2D/3D electromagnetic computer aided engineering (CAE) design and analysis software in India. IES’s premier electromagnetic simulation tools put the design engineer on the cutting edge of CAE. Integrated’s products are specifically designed to combine the advanced technical capability of the boundary element method (BEM) with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. Fields are calculated through integration, effectively smoothening out discretisation and round-off error.

Features:

• Avoid repetitive and costly prototype development.
• Create high quality virtual prototypes for design optimisation.
• Realise significant cost saving through increased efficiency and shorter product design cycles.
• Solutions are available for:
• Electrostatic fields 2D/3D
• Electromagnetic fields 2D/3D
• Eddy current and time harmonic fields 2D/3D
• Particle trajectory and beam analysis 2D/3D
• Radiation and scattering 3D analysis
• Coupled thermal 2D/3D analysis
• Coupled structural 2D analysis

Contact
Advanced Micronic Devices
Tel: (80) 6507800 / 6529692
E-mail: eda@amdlsed.com

Zebra Technologies

QL220

Zebra Technologies has unveiled the new QL220 as part of its QL series of printers. The QL220 is the two-inch label version of its QL320 three-inch and QL420 four-inch counterparts. It offers users the convenience of printing labels and receipts at the point of application, while at the same time allowing users to access up-to-date information through wireless connectivity (802.11b) to the company’s network. The QL220 can be used with a terminal equipped with a magnetic card reader to accept credit card payments.

The QL220 LAN version is fully IP-addressable and can be accessed and managed as any fixed station printer on the network. The printer features its own Web page that can be browsed remotely, via a wired or wireless network connection, and allows the user to view general status, communication and battery information. If the user is experiencing technical difficulties, instead of sending out an engineer, IT administrators can browse the Web page to diagnose problems from wherever they are based. This is both time- and cost-efficient. Similarly, more advanced radio frequency settings, encryption and security information can be viewed and updated by the administrator.

Features:

• Ergonomic design, compact size (181.6 mm/7.15 inches by 90.7 mm/3.37 inches), lightweight (.59 kg/1.3 lbs with battery).
• Connectivity options include 802.11b and Bluetooth.
• Optional LCD panel to carry custom or application specific screens.
• Lightweight lithium ion rechargeable battery.
• Supports WEP (wired equivalent privacy), LEAP and Kerberos.

Contact:
Paul Garner-Evans
Zebra Technologies
Tel: (971) 4 8871004
Fax: (971) 4 8817119
Website: www.zebra.com