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Since the launch of YottaPrint some
of our customers remain confused about the differences between
YottaPrint
and Imagener.
How
are
these applications different and does one require the other?
Think of Imagener as a "general purpose" image
enlargement application. It enlarges images for any display
purpose - to display on a
computer or other monitor (e.g. HDTV) or for printing the
images out. All enlargements need Imagener
because as we discussed
in our April
2006 newsletter - click
here, even photo software that costs hundreds of dollars
cannot enlarge images without
pixilation. Surprised? Well this statement continues to be
true today — all modern photo
software "algorithms" (mini-programs)
used to enlarge images have not changed in literally decades.
Think of YottaPrint as
a program with one specific purpose: to create wall
murals. Imagener
does not have all of the needed functionality to create panels
for wall murals. An expert in a photo
software program like PhotoShop or CorelDraw could use
Imagener to
enlarge the image then pull the result into one of these
programs to create panels for wall murals, but that process
would require not only hours (days?) of time but the user
would have to manually calculate margins
and overlaps with a calculator which would not be practical.
Even if someone did, they would have
to
make
all of
the hundreds of calculations
over again if they wanted to change just one of the wall
mural dimensions.
Look at the two images below. The first shows Imagener
with an old photograph loaded. Photo
enlargements look very clear
and smooth viewed inside Imagener. The same image
loaded into YottaPrint looks
much grainier. This is because the squares you see are
what YottaPrint will print as panels to assemble on the wall.
YottaPrint prints pages very well using the Imagener
Unlimited technology but it does not display
images well on screen. This is by design as
it would have taken much more memory
to display images perfectly after Imagener's enlargement
while at the same time performing all the calculations for
wall mural panel pages. We created YottaPrint to display
a lower grade image
on the screen for orientation
purposes only as the Imagener
Unlimited enlargement engine
needs as much memory as possible to perform.
YottaPrint is about printing, not
display. 
Does YottaPrint Require Imagener?
No. YottaPrint and
Imagener are
completely self-contained programs. Both Imagener Unlimited
and YottaPrint (all versions)
have the Imagener
Unlimited enlargement engine built inside.
YottaPrint needs the strength of this engine because
most images it enlarges will be very large.
An Historical Innovation
When we created YottaPrint we did it from the viewpoint of
a software company not realizing that to the world of wall
murals YottaPrint is truly new and original. After it
was created and our first wall murals were made we realized
that it is the first and only software that:
- enlarges photos to a massive sizes without breaking them
up into pixels
- can get a photo on a wall from the floor to the ceiling
- this was never before possible
- gives thousands of people this ability because of its
low price
No other software has yet been developed
that can do that. YottaPrint represents a true innovation
that only today's
evolved computer hardware coupled with the most modern and
advanced programming language C++ allows. Beyond this, we
at Kneson Software were fortunate enough to find the Imagener Unlimited enlargement engine, acquired from a 3D gaming company
(see our December
2005 newsletter on Imagener Unlimited's Vector Conversion). Our years of programming experience and
the coincidence of finding this engine made the development
of YottaPrint
possible.
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