New Ceres Solutions (NCS) developped SignofNCS from 1995 as the first plug-in for Adobe Illustrator dedicated to signmakers. Our solution spreads in Europe and worldwide year after year, while the amount of cutting plotters compatible increases. Hundreds signmakers, screenprinters and designers uses it every day to produce signs.

The current version SignofNCS 3.0 runs from the version 5.0 to the version 7.0 of Adobe Illustrator and drives around 300 models of cutting directly from a dialog inside Adobe Illustrator.

In june 2000, we introduced NCS MagiSign, a completely new product based on the experience acquired through the development of SignofNCS. Faster and still easier than the first one, NCS MagiSign is now the recommended solution to produce signs from Adobe Illustrator. It's commercial succes around the world proves the huge interest of professionnals for this new solution.

From Easter 2001, we are pleased to offer SignofNCS 3.0 as freeware, meaning anybody is now allowed to download and use it for free. Meanwhile, we will not provide any support by any way for this product. If ever you want to use this product and need some help, we invite you to registrate directly near NCS or one our official distributors. For a fee of 150 USD, you will then receive a complete SignofNCS package, its manual in 6 languages (english, french, dutch, deutsch, italian and spanish) and some support by e-mail if any required.

The major differences between SignofNCS and NCS MagiSign are :

SignofNCS	NCS MagiSign
SignofNCS is compatible with Adobe Illustrator 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0 and Xtras of Macromedia FreeHand	NCS MagiSign is compatible with Adobe Illustrator 8.0, 9.0 and later including newer versions 10 and CS under Mac OS 10
SignofNCS appears as a dialog activated through a menu item from the Filter menu of Adobe Illustrator or from the Xtras menu of Macromedia FreeHand	NCS MagiSign appears as a common palette in Adobe Illustrator. You can move it, group it, tab it while you are designing
SignofNCS is compatible with serial Macintosh (Quadra, II FX,) and serial PowerMacintosh (6x00, 7x00, 8x00, 9x00, Performa, G3 beige)	NCS MagiSign is compatible with serial PowerMacintosh (6x00, 7x00, 8x00, 9x00, Performa, G3 beige) as with USB PowerMacintosh (iMac, G3 blue and ice, Cube, G4, G5)
Results appears only when the dialog is shown. SignofNCS is slower than NCS MagiSign	Results appears instantaneously in the palette while editing an artwork. New algoritms and technologies makes NCS MagiSign faster than SignofNCS 3.0.
SignofNCS 3.0 appears as the solution for production of signs through old Macintosh and PowerMacintosh models and/or older version of Adobe Illustrator	NCS MagiSign is the ideal solution for any people concerned by the production of signs on PowerMacintosh using recent versions of Adobe Illustrator
Anybody can download and use SignofNCS for free.	NCS MagiSign is available through a network of professionnal distributors and dealers.
Click here to download SignofNCS 3.0	Click here to download the demo of NCS MagiSign

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