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Xitron manufactures productive, flexible workflow systems and interfaces designed to drive the pre-press industry’s most popular new output devices as well as its legacy systems, prolonging their life and protecting our customer’s investments.Founded in 1977, Xitron quickly became known for reliable interfaces that allowed proprietary newspaper front-end systems to communicate with many of the most popular phototypesetters available. Known as "The Blue Box," the Xitron interface empowered users by letting them match their input and output needs regardless of the front-end manufacturer.As the typesetting world embraced the PostScript page description language along with desktop publishing in the early 1990’s, Xitron began bridging the gap between PostScript Raster Image Processors (RIPs) and laser-based imagesetters. Just as the "Blue Box" provided alternative solutions 15 years earlier, the Navigator RIP allowed users to choose an inexpensive, reliable RIP to drive imagesetters and platesetters from premier vendors such as Agfa, ECRM, Screen, and others.