Global Graphics

Global Graphics SA
Public
Traded as Euronext: GLOG
Industry Software
Founded Nancy (1996)
Headquarters Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, UK
Website Global Graphics

Global Graphics SE is known for its digital printing and document technology including the Harlequin and Jaws RIPs and the gDoc digital document software The Company supplies its software under licence to Original Equipment Manufacturers and software vendors who build products around it. Today it is primarily used in the Digital Front Ends that power new generation digital and inkjet production presses and in desktop and mobile productivity software products. The Company has a large share of the photobook and newspaper markets. It is listed on the Euronext stock exchange in Brussels under the symbol GLOG.

History

gDoc Application Platform

The gDoc Application Platform enables software vendors and enterprises to create solutions that give users a paper-like experience on their PCs and mobile devices including iOS, Android and Windows.

gDoc Printer Platform

The gDoc Printer Platform enables software vendors or system integrators to add PDF creation to their solutions that they can customise and brand to suit their own requirements

The Harlequin RIP

When Global Graphics bought Harlequin in 1999, the press release included the following information about the Harlequin product line of the time:

"The Harlequin flagship RIP management product (ScriptWorks) is widely regarded as the benchmark high-resolution, high-speed, full feature RIP for the DP&P sector." and "The Harlequin name is an industry icon. Its technology has been largely recognized through the whole industry."

Since the acquisition Global Graphics has diversified the application of Harlequin RIP technology and by 2007 had introduced an embedded Harlequin RIP core – the Harlequin Embedded SDK for use in office printers and copiers, moving on to establish relationships with the leading SOC ( system on a chip) manufacturers, as well as a digital RIP – the Harlequin Host Renderer for use in RIP farms and the digital front ends that power high-speed digital production presses. This version of the Harlequin RIP is widely credited with being the fastest on the market following independent testing by the Rochester Institute of Technology and InfoTrends, published in a White Paper in 2012 entitled " Global Graphics Demonstrates Power with the Latest Harlequin RIP".

Global Graphics has main offices in Cambourne, UK; Acton MA, USA; and Tokyo, Japan.

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