Global Inkjet Systems (GIS), a leading developer of software, drivers, firmware and electronics for industrial inkjet printheads, has launched its new Atlas user interface platform. Atlas is a user interface/machine control software development kit (SDK) that GIS customers can customize and rebrand, as it accelerates technology design and cuts development time.
The kit provides many standard user interface components, including job design and review, transport control, job creation, submission and tracking, printhead status, system status, RIP configuration and ink system monitoring and control.

The machine builder can modify standard user interface views, which includes changing logos, buttons, shadows and color transparencies. In addition, backgrounds can be deleted, moved and modified, and much of this can be done without programming skills.

“We have customers that want to develop new product lines or extend existing ones, and they often have an interface that is completely different, with diverse features and requirements,” says Nick Geddes, CEO. “The first thing about Atlas, beyond its standard functionality, is that customers can easily rebrand and customize the interface. This allows their software engineers to focus on other value added features as GIS has done a lot of the core work already. It shortens their time to market, and it really engages the imagination of their software developers.” 

GIS will be rolling out levels of functionality and customisability during 2016, including access to the full SDK, which allows customers to completely re-skin the user interface and add their specific machine control components.

Atlas is capable of supporting different languages and this functionality will be rolled out during 2016. The first language to be supported will be Japanese.