Centipede Productions Ltd

About us

Originally founded in 1992 (and incorporated in 2004), Centipede Productions specializes in multimedia software development.

Products

Centipede's core product — CPL/Opus — is a Postscript Raster Image Processor (RIP) which takes Postscript or PDF source code and renders it as a raster image suitable for printing. It's used by commercial printers around the world. It's complemented by our CPL/Orval vector trapping solution and our CPL/Diatio screening engine.

The RoPS viewer is based on the same core RIP technology as our professional RIP. The viewer is one of our most successful products, typically used by companies to view, on screen, archived Postscript copies of letters sent to their customers.

See latest news below for some more exciting product information.

Consulting Services

We can also provide a range of specialist software consultation services, from product evaluation to bespoke development.

Examples of some recent projects include:

Vector trapping — designed to complement our CPL/Opus product, CPL/Orval automatically traps (grip, choke & spread) vector graphics for printing purposes.

Constant rate disk driver — SATA drives are much faster at the edge than the middle. We developed a RAID device driver which interleaves data across disks to maintain a constant aggregate throughput.

Embedded timecode extraction — wrote a utility to extract embedded (on-screen) timecode from an mpeg2 data stream, using OCR techniques.

Video wall synchronization — implemented a Linux device driver to to synchronize eight separate video sources, utilizing a standard parallel port for point-to-point communication.

XFS optimizations — developed functionality to defragment file sequences on SGI/XFS formatted disks.

Website development — utilizing apache / php / mysql on a freeBSD system, we developed the Cerebral Sounds music download website.

A report on the state-of-the-art for automatic pagination systems.

Your project could be here!

Latest news

We have recently acquired rights to an advanced database publishing — typesetting and page layout — system for classified content that we originally wrote for a well known free-ads company. If you need to publish your database content — online, as Postscript/pdf, or on paper — send us an email!