Re: Tojo – it was actually one of the brainstormed code names for the project after Araxi (trying to stick to the restaurant theme). It was quickly rejected for the reason you cited.

Great read! It’s funny how this weird little questions come up between prepress operators, when we’re stuck in a dark, claustrophobic room for 8-10-12+ hours a day with each other. Thanks for filling us in, I shall now venture forth with my newly acquired (factual no less) information & impress the rest of The Herd. Thanks guys!

Actually, I think it was me who put in that easter egg. I’m happy to give credit to Joe, though, as it was maybe the lamest easter egg ever. I think we were too busy adding real features.

It was triggered in the about box by clicking on the ‘e’ in Prinergy while holding down about 4 keys – I think ctrl+alt+shift+e. I might be missing one.

However, you could always skip that and just open the .jar file with WinZip and extract the two .jpg images of cement trucks.

If you enter saturdaynightfever in the submit file area of PrintConsole, a disco ball appears as the lights dim and the animation of the plate continues.
There were two other animations that didn’t make it in. One had an earthquake and another had the electrical cord starting on fire, spreading up towards the Trendsetter and eventually turning it on fire. Created by animation whiz kid Dylan now at Google.

April was the 10th anniversary of the public launch of Prinergy in San Francisco at the W Hotel. Barry Quart greeted the worldwide press in at least 8 languages.

Estimated numbers of prepress users worldwide using Prinergy in production is well over 40,000. Many of them still using ARAXI ARAXI in a pinch.

a few corrections deej,

It was me who picked the code name Araxi after a fantastic meal there in 1995 with my wife on a ski holiday. The irony is that a few weeks later we hired Jim Firstbrook who actually knew the owners – Jack and his Greek wife Araxi. True story. Stan cannot be blamed for any of this.

The easter egg was put in by Joe Gnocato I believe, and is a backwards cement truck because we were spending a lot of time in Wisconsin and that was the only place we saw them weird lookin’ thangs. They have the skinny end of the mixer over the front of the cab. I think they were made by Oshkosh trucks. None of us can remember how to trigger the easter egg anymore.

Some of this in now on the Prinergy Wikipedia page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prinergy

Apogee never ‘acquired’ the name ‘Apology’. Some marketing manager from Creo or Scitex or where-ever came up with that name and tried to make it popular but it never caught on in the market. Printers don’t waste time playing the stupid games that some marketing nitwits from vendors seem to find so amusing. I remember one of our marketing people called Brisque ‘Be Risk’ which was just as stupid.

Come on DJ, don’t tell me you believe the marketing blabla that they fed to you…