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Widget Printers is a simple low-cost solution to get your printshop up and running with a web presence without breaking the bank. Widget Printers offers a low cost way of getting your catalog of print products online. Whether you are a classic lithographer, flexographer, impact, copy or small printshop, Widget Printers can get your full business online in a matter of minutes. Really, it is that easy. Drag and drop, with 1 permission change. No database, simple CSV uploads to generate website..
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- Date: 11-07-2011
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Database driven web software designed for the heat-transfer imprint, impact printshop to sell promotional items online. (similar to CafePress.com, but you can add any imprintable product you like) Have your customers create their own products, such as T-shirts, mugs, mousepads, boxers, aprons, coasters and so on, with real-time preview. Complete print web service package, Product management, Add product samples, Order tracking, Add company logo, CMS, Real-time customer photo upload, Shopping cart, Online commerce, and Multi-language support.
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- Date: 04-05-2011
- License: Shareware
Have you ever went to a photo printshop just to find out that your 'photoshop modifications' or 'photo corrections' didn't work out on the kiosk.
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- Publisher:Dominick Lee
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- License: Freeware
Fiery Go allows you to monitor the status of multiple Fiery Driven™ printers and manage print jobs from anywhere in the printshop. Using Fiery Go, you can perform multiple job actions like printing, deleting, previewing*, and defining job attributes. The app alerts you about consumable status, errors in the print job, paper jams and more, so you can take immediate action. Easy to learn and use, Fiery Go gives you more flexibility and allows you to multi-task for a more efficient workplace and higher productivity.
- Platform: Android 4.x
- Publisher:EFI
- Date: 22-02-2014
- Size: 9830 KB
- License: Shareware
Prepare your digital printshop quotes, invoices and costing effortlessly with ROBO Digital Print Job Manager. This software provides all the tools you need to cost your jobs quickly and create all your paperwork. Everything is fully customizable - costs, settings, tax and paperwork templates. Extremely easy to use Windows interface. Metric Version..
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- Publisher:ROBO Design Solutions
- Date: 24-11-2012
- Size: 1331 KB
- License: Shareware
Prepare your digital printshop quotes, invoices and costing effortlessly with ROBO Digital Print Job Manager. This software provides all the tools you need to cost your jobs quickly and create all your paperwork. Everything is fully customizable - costs, settings, tax and paperwork templates. Extremely easy to use Windows interface..
- Platform: WinOther
- Publisher:ROBO Design Solutions
- Date: 26-07-2012
- Size: 1331 KB
- License: Shareware
Belltech Business Card Designer Pro helps you design and print your own business cards from professional quality business card templates and logos in minutes. Print your cards right-away on any Windows compatible printer. This card maker software supports papers from Avery, Sigel, DECAdry, Herma, Formtec and more. This has great design tools, graphics and background images to help you design your own cards, like a pro. Add your logo, art work, text, shadow, color, modify design until satisfaction.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher:Belltech Systems
- Date: 11-07-2012
- Size: 12503 KB
- License: Shareware
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Newlite Business Card Printer is a professional quality business card designing and printing software. Easily print your business cards on your own printer from a tons of professional templates, background images and clip arts. Key Features are -1)Create one-sided, 2-sided, horizontal or vertical cards. 2)Add your logo, text, shapes and clip arts. 3)Add color blends, transparency and texture to your design. 4)Use standard paper stocks from Avery, DECAdry, Sigel, Formtec, Herma etc. 5)Save your card as a high resolution image for printing outside.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher:Newlite Technologies
- Date: 20-06-2005
- Size: 4827 KB
- License: Shareware
Indentsoft Label Maker Plus, a feature rich professional quality business printing software to print full color address labels, letterheads, flyers, postcards, business cards, envelopes, brochures and more from your database files. It comes with many design templates and supports all standard paper stocks including Avery papers. This is perfectly suited for business printing. Use this application to easily meet your printing needs. Ability to link to your customer data from databases during printing is a unique feature.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher:Indentsoft Software Solutions
- Date: 02-07-2006
- Size: 5779 KB
- License: Demo
Barcode Studio 2 by Shortcut Software is a comprehensive program for barcodes. It helps you create, export, import, print and archive 17 different types of barcodes. Barcode Studio 2 does everything you need for hundreds of dollars less than the competition! Barcode Studio 2 makes professional quality barcodes and several enterprise customers have made it their company barcoding solution. Barcode Studio 2 supports UPC A, UPC E, ITF, Code 128, EAN 13, EAN 8, UCC/EAN 128, Code 39, Code 93, Codabar, Postnet, Planet and the 2/5 code family.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher:Shortcut Software International Inc.
- Date: 30-09-2007
- Size: 60928 KB
- License: Shareware
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- Publisher:CAM Development
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EximiousSoft Business Card Designer is powerful but easy software for creating professional looking business cards. With which, you can design your own cards as you want. Select from pre-designed business card templates and customize with your texts and symbols to build attractive cards. That happens so easily and quickly! EximiousSoft Business Card Designer is also professional quality printing software. It supports to export cards to image files with high quality which are printed for printshop.
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- Publisher:EximiousSoft
- Date: 31-03-2018
- Size: 21702 KB
- License: Shareware
PyroTrans is an EuroFile transfer package (client, server and batch mode), that allows users to manually or automatically exchange files between computers which are connected via ISDN, Modem or Internet. The product is targeted at software developers, users and companies who require easy and reliable file transfer, either manually or controlled by other software. The server component PyroServer is typically used in environments who allow multiple users to download files from or send files to the server (e.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher:EmTec Innovative Software
- Date: 21-12-2004
- Size: 2560 KB
- License: Shareware
Ecommerce shopping cart software and content management for UNIX, Windows, and OS X servers; Management tools for eBay, Amazon.com, and Yahoo! seamlessly integrated for true online business marketing and sales. 100% Customizable template driven front-end plus powerful online management tools and data export/import features for real-time and 3rd party application integration. No programming required. Open Standards Supported. Caching and modPerl support for ultimate scaleability. Additional modules include: Affiliates Module, Email Tools Pro Module, Loyalty/Rewards Point Module, Reports & Statistics Web Service, Wish List/ Gift Registry Module, Value Added Reseller (VAR)/MLM Module, Google Optimization Web Service, Price Comparison Engine Submission Web Service, Multi Templates (Storefront) Module, Member's Only Module, Barcode...
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher:Make-a-Store, Inc.
- Date: 05-09-2009
- Size: 5068 KB
- License: Shareware
If you want to create high-quality design in minutes, without any technical or graphical skills then this software might be something for you. GrafX Creative Studio is a powerful desktop publishing software. Create birthday greetings or invitations, cartoon clipart, business cards, brochures, letterheads, folders, logos, forms, small animations and much more. GrafX Creative Studio offers many different shapes, colors and templates which are easy to use and where you also can import data from Microsoft Excel.
- Platform: Windows
- Publisher:Nordic XIGraffix Software
- Date: 18-05-2011
- Size: 68498 KB
- License: Shareware
No matter what proponents of paperless office solutions may shout about, the truth is printed merchandise is going to be used by businesses across the world in near future. To make merchandise like brochures, pamphlets and business cards, designers use various publishing software. If you are in such profession and want an affordable solution for versatile business printing needs, MAGIX Page & Layout Designer may fit the bills.
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- Platform: Windows
- Publisher:MAGIX Entertainment
- Date: 28-11-2012
- Size: 102400 KB
- License: Freeware
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- Platform: Android 2.x, Android 3.x, Android 4.4, Android 4.x
- Publisher:Snaptee Limited
- Date: 27-06-2014
- Size: 29696 KB
- License: Shareware
AKM Pro Shop is a very simple, user-friendly bowling program that accurately keeps measurments for customers of your bowling Pro Shop business. It maintains customer records, hand and ball drillings and allows you to print a various array of reports. It has all the tools necessary, organized to meet your needs.
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- Platform: Windows
- Publisher:ATK Solutions Inc.
- Date: 10-07-2011
- Size: 13192 KB
- License: Shareware
Soccer Shop Invoice Template provides you with a fully customizable template that you can use to create and print professional-looking invoices for your soccer shop.
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The Clone Wars, occasionally referred to in the singular as the Clone War, are conflicts in the Star Wars franchise by George Lucas. Though mentioned briefly in the first Star Wars film (1977), the conflicts themselves are not depicted until Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005). The Clone Wars are also the setting for three eponymous projects: a 2D animated series (2003–2005), a CGI film (2008), and a 3D CGI series (2008–2014). They have featured in numerous Star Wars books and games.
Within the Star Wars narrative, the Clone Wars involve a three-year war fought to prevent thousands of planetary systems from seceding from the Galactic Republic and forming the 'Confederacy of Independent Systems,' often referred to as 'the Separatists,' or the 'CIS.' The Republic uses an army of clone troopers, the namesake of the conflict, led by the Jedi Order against the Separatist battle droid army. The conflict was manufactured as a scheme for the Republic's Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, secretly an evil Sith Lord, to gain power and ultimately to convert the democratic Galactic Republic into the autocratic Galactic Empire, which was controlled through means of a military-industrial complex and featured in the original trilogy.
Lucas used the Clone Wars narrative to answer questions about the original trilogy, such as how the Empire originated and how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader. The political and military events of the Clone Wars draw inspiration from real-world conflicts and historical events, such as World War II and Adolf Hitler's rise to power, and show similarities with the American Civil War.
- 2Depiction
Concept and development[edit]
The first reference to the Clone Wars is in Star Wars creator George Lucas' third draft of the first film, which mentions the grizzled cyborg General Kenobi's 'diary of the Clone Wars'.[1] The wars were mentioned twice briefly in the final version of the film, referring to Obi-Wan Kenobi as a General who served Leia Organa's father during the conflict.[2] In drafting The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Lucas considered introducing a clone character who had been involved with the Clone Wars.[3]Leigh Brackett's first draft of the film initially developed Lando Calrissian as a clone from a planet of clones involved in the Clone Wars mentioned in A New Hope and were nearly made extinct by the war.[4]Boba Fett was also considered as from a group of shocktroopers nearly wiped out by Jedi Knights during the Clone Wars.[5] However, these concepts were not included in the final version of the film. Lucas was more guarded about the details of the Clone Wars than any other element of Star Wars,[6] even making them off-limits to licensed products and books.[7] Because of Lucas's proscription on the topic, Timothy Zahn's first draft of Heir to the Empire (1991) required significant revision because the text included an insane clone of Obi-Wan Kenobi created during the Clone Wars.[8]
Lucas noted that Palpatine's rise to power is similar to that of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany; as Chancellor of Germany, the latter was granted 'emergency powers', as is Palpatine.[9] Lucas has also said that one of the primary influences for the political backdrop behind the Clone Wars, and all of Star Wars, was the Vietnam War and Watergate scandal era, when leaders embraced corruption for what they thought was the best course of action.[10][11] In 2002, Lucas said:
All democracies turn into dictatorships—but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea. What kinds of things push people and institutions in this direction? That's the issue I've been exploring: how did the Republic turn into the Empire? ... How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship?[12]
The clone forces shown at the conclusion of Attack of the Clones' comprised the largest digital army created for a film at that point.[13] Lucas proposed to concept artists that Revenge of the Sith would open with a montage of seven battles on seven planets.[14] Lucas then radically re-organized the plot,[15] which Michael Kaminski surmises in The Secret History of Star Wars stemmed from flaws with Anakin Skywalker's fall to the dark side of the Force. Instead of opening the film with various Clone Wars battles, Lucas decided instead to focus on Anakin.[16] The absence of the 'seven battles on seven planets' in part led to Lucas's decision to launch the CGI animated Clone Wars television series; Lucas said the cartoon could 'do better' at depicting the conflict.[17]
Depiction[edit]
Prequel films[edit]
Attack of the Clones, set at the beginning of the wars, opens with the Galactic Republic's rising concern about the secession of thousands of star systems to the Confederacy of Independent Systems, which is led by Count Dooku. Chancellor Palpatine manipulates Jar Jar Binks and the rest of the Galactic Senate into granting him emergency powers. Investigating two attempted assassinations of Senator Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers Dooku used the identity of a dead Jedi master to secretly arrange the creation of a massive clone army on the Republic's behalf. Yoda leads the clone army to rescue Obi-Wan, Padmé, and Anakin Skywalker from the Separatists on Geonosis, and the first battle of the war ensues. At the battle's conclusion, Yoda declares: 'Begun, the Clone Wars have.'
Revenge of the Sith shows the waning days of the three-year Clone Wars, in which clone soldiers and their Jedi generals have fought against the Separatist droid army. After killing Dooku and rescuing Palpatine from the Separatists during their assault on Coruscant, Anakin learns Padmé is pregnant. He becomes troubled by visions of her death in childbirth, and Palpatine lures Anakin to the dark side of the Force by promising to teach him how to prevent her premature demise. Meanwhile, Yoda is dispatched to Kashyyyk to stave off a Separatist invasion, and Obi-Wan Kenobi is dispatched to Utapau where he kills General Grievous. Anakin discovers Palpatine is a Sith Lord, but he defends him against Mace Windu because he needs Palpatine's knowledge to save Padmé. After Palpatine murders Windu, he dubs Anakin his new apprentice Darth Vader. Palpatine orders the clone commanders and army to execute Order 66, and clones kill their Jedi generals across the galaxy. Palpatine then dispatches Vader to kill the Separatist leaders on Mustafar and to issue a 'shutdown command' to their droid army. With their demise, Palpatine declares an end to the Clone Wars and the Republic's reformation into the Galactic Empire.
Animated productions[edit]
The cel animated Clone Wars series (2003–2005) depicts several Clone Wars battles and was meant to generate interest in Revenge of the Sith. It also depicts the prelude to the opening battle of Revenge of the Sith and Palpatine's capture by General Grievous.
Several years later, Lucas chose to reboot the series as a 3D CGI series developed by Dave Filoni. After several years of production on the new television series, Lucas decided to spin off the first four episodes as a standalone film.[18] The film, released in 2008, introduces Ahsoka Tano as Anakin's apprentice and depicts the Republic and the Separatists attempting to gain permission to travel through Jabba the Hutt's territory, as well as the Separatist invasion of Christophosis.
The television series that followed (2008–2014) is likewise set against the backdrop of the Clone Wars. The show offers additional details about the clone army's creation, depicts numerous confrontations and developments from the conflict, and portrays the interaction between the clone troopers and their Jedi commanders. The series reveals that each clone has an 'inhibitor chip' in his body that makes most of them obey Order 66. The series is set to return for another 12 episodes, on Disney’s new streaming device, in Fall 2019.
Other media[edit]
The prequel trilogy brought an end to Lucas's embargo on licensed material set during the Clone Wars. As such, Lucas Licensing sanctioned several novels and comic books set during the conflict. Dark Disciple novelizes a story arc about Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos from eight unfinished episodes of The Clone Wars,[19] and the Kanan comic book series depicts the eponymous Star Wars Rebels character Kanan Jarrus as Jedi Padawan Caleb Dume during the conflict. LucasArts also produced video games like Republic Commando and The Clone Wars that depict the Clone Wars.
Analysis[edit]
Comparisons have been made between the political aspects of the Clone Wars and the events leading up to World War II. Radio host Clyde Lewis' article on historical similarities in Star Wars claims that Palpatine's tactics parallel those of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany; both leaders used wars and scapegoats to manipulate society's emotional state, thus providing the leadership with support and power.[20] Another writer compares the Clone Wars with World War II in general, basing his argument on the fact that Lucas was born during the baby boomer generation, and the dark times featured in the original trilogy rival the dark, uncertain Cold War.[21] Referring to Lucas's statements that the conflict in Star Wars was inspired by the cultural backdrop of the Vietnam War, journalist Chris Taylor said the Clone Wars are a parallel to World War II.[6] Anne Lancashire from the University of Toronto also points out some similar nomenclature between the Clone Wars and the American Civil War.[22]
Several publications compared the political context of the Clone Wars to the War in Iraq. In claiming that the Star Wars galaxy under the deceitful Palpatine parallels the modern issues of the United States, an editorial on Antiwar.com states that Star Wars 'establishes first the generally agreeable premise that it's right to overthrow oppressive government, before bringing into focus something more discomforting – that the corrupt tyranny referred to is our own'.[23] Additionally, an article from Wiretap claims that 'like Palpatine, the Bush administration has been able to feed on people's fears to gain more power'.[24] Lucas stated that the Iraq conflict 'didn't exist' when he developed the Clone Wars,[10] but he did see parallels between the Vietnam conflict that inspired Star Wars and the conflict in Iraq.[11]Star Wars producer Rick McCallum also said that the Clone Wars was developed before the War in Iraq, and he added that Lucas 'is a product of Vietnam'.[25]
Impact and critical response[edit]
Chris Taylor called the Clone Wars 'a major part of Star Wars lore'.[26] In its attempt to keep its Star Wars line of toys active after Return of the Jedi (1983), Kenner devised a storyline that would involve the return of an exiled 'genetic terrorist' and his Clone Warriors.[27]
Timothy Zahn said the clones' unexpected appearance fighting for 'the good guys' in Attack of the Clones — despite many years of fan speculation that the clones were an invading force — was 'wonderfully blindsid[ing]'.[13] After seeing the CGI Clone Wars television show, Zahn was grateful Lucasfilm rejected his initial Heir to the Empire draft, which had a different depiction of the conflict.[28]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Footnotes
- ^Taylor 2014, p. 122
- ^'What are the Clone Wars?'. StarWars.com. LucasFilm. Archived from the original on July 17, 2006. Retrieved December 9, 2015.
- ^Taylor 2014, p. 231
- ^Bouzereau, Laurent (1997). Star Wars: The Annotated History. Ballantine Books. p. 196. ISBN978-0345409812.
- ^Kaminski 2007, p. 171
- ^ abTaylor 2014, p. 124
- ^Taylor 2014, pp. 288–289
- ^Taylor 2014, p. 291
- ^Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith DVD commentary featuring George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Rob Coleman, John Knoll and Roger Guyett, [2005]
- ^ abGermain, David (May 16, 2005). ''Wars' Raises Questions on US Policy'. Backstage. Backstage, LLC. Associated Press. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^ abBurns, Chris (May 16, 2005). 'Lucas on Iraq war, 'Star Wars''. CNN. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^Corliss, Richard; Cagle, Jess; Ressner, Jeffrey (April 29, 2002). 'Dark Victory'. Time. 159 (17). Time Inc.ISSN0040-781X. Retrieved June 30, 2016 – via EBSCOhost.
- ^ abTaylor 2014, p. 338
- ^Rinzler 2005, pp. 13–15
- ^Rinzler 2005, p. 36
- ^Kaminski 2007, pp. 380–384
- ^Taylor 2014, p. 375
- ^Taylor 2014, p. 470
- ^'Ventress and Vos' Greatest Hits: A Dark Disciple Refresher'. StarWars.com. Lucasfilm. July 13, 2015. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
- ^Lewis, Clyde (2005). 'The Sith Sense'. Ground Zero. Archived from the original on August 9, 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^Chambers, Stephen (April 18, 2006). 'Star Wars As Baby Boomer Script'. Radical Center. Archived from the original on October 17, 2007. Retrieved July 6, 2006.[dead link]
- ^Lancashire, Anne (2002). 'Attack of the Clones and the Politics of Star Wars'. The Dalhousie Review. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^Horton, Scott (May 23, 2005). 'Star Wars and the American Empire'. AntiWar.com. Randolph Bourne Institute. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^Fanelli, Brian (June 21, 2005). 'U.S. Politics in 'A Galaxy Far, Far Away''. AlterNet. Independent Media Institute. Archived from the original on January 12, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^Lammers, Tim (November 2, 2005). 'DVD Is Hardly End For 'Sith' Producer McCallum'. KIROTV.com. Archived from the original on October 17, 2007. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
- ^Taylor 2014, p. 123
- ^Taylor 2014, p. 280
- ^Taylor 2014, p. 292
- Works cited
- Kaminski, Michael (2008). The Secret History of Star Wars. Kingston, Ontario: Legacy Books Press. ISBN978-0-9784652-3-0.
- Rinzler, Jonathan W (2005). The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. New York City: Del Rey. ISBN978-0-345-43139-4.
- Taylor, Chris (2014). How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise (eBook). Basic Books. ISBN9780465056934.
Further reading[edit]
- Sword Fighting in the Star Wars Universe: Historical Origins, Style and Philosophy by Nick Jamilla (McFarland & Company, 2008)
- Star Wars and History by Nancy Reagin & Janice Liedl (John Wiley & Sons, 2012)
- The Science Fiction Reboot: Canon, Innovation and Fandom in Refashioned Franchises by Heather Urbanski (McFarland & Company, 2013)
- Star wars: the essential chronology by Kevin J. Anderson & Daniel Wallace (Ballantine Books, 2000)
- Culture, identities, and technology in the Star wars films: essays on the two trilogies by Carl Silvio & Tony M. Vinci (McFarland & Company, 2007)
- The Star Wars Heresies by Paul F. McDonald (McFarland & Company, 2013)
External links[edit]
- Clone Wars on Wookieepedia, a Star Wars wiki