While drupa is now about a year away, as we have already seen, many industry manufacturers are rolling out their developments well in advance of the big show. In the case of Global Graphics’ new technology, this is even more understandable since it will undoubtedly find its way to the core of many of the new products shown at drupa.

Global Graphics has been around since 1986, when they first introduced their Harlequin RIP to compete with Adobe for the Postscript RIP business that was at the core of the DFE and the seed that created the digital printing industry. Today, in continued competition with Adobe, they both share the market with their respective core PDF rendering technologies, the descendants to the Postscript RIP. 

Since that time Global Graphics has been developing and acquiring many new allied technologies. These include the Harlequin Host Renderer (HHR), which is used by press manufacturers, including Agfa, Canon, Durst, HP, Kodak and many others. They also expanded and enhanced their original JAWS core PDF library technologies to create the MAKO SDK, which provides developers a cross platform way to create, optimize and convert PDF files for increased output device performance.