SV630 – Mac Interface
for SV6500 Printer

Software Solution

Mac Interface – SV630

At the time, all PCs were monochrome, unless you added something like an $8000 National Graphics TARGA board, which provided video capture and editing with special on-board software. The cost of equipment for the PC version of a mug station made it an expensive solution.

Connecting the printer to the Macintosh II would also require a bi-directional interface card. This would allow users to upload images captured in the video framestore of the printer, as well as send an edited image back to the printer.

Working with a local developer, I designed a Mac software program, called “SVPrinter,” which gave you control over the printer and the ability to capture an image, upload it to the Mac, edit the image, re-download it to the printer, print it and then save the captured images to the computer hard drive.

The print settings also featured a reverse image feature, just for imprinting mugs. I suggested we market it as “The Only True Color Capture Board that gives you something the others don’t, Hard Copy Output.” This was the very first digital imaging app for the Macintosh, shipped by Kodak.