Why Silicon Press
The values behind choosing a name.
“SILICON PRESS” was a program, or rather a package, created in early 1986 by Silicon Beach Software, especially for Macintosh.
At the time innovative, it was the first to create and print, easily and intuitively, a wide variety of sheets, mailing labels, address books on pre-punched stickers, invitations, diskette labels, etc.; as well as filling a series of labels with the same name and design, or sorting from a directory.
It allowed the easy insertion of drawings of different types, coming from other programs; and to extract parts of text from documents written by MS Word, Multiplan, Jazz, Excel, and others.
However, it had a shortcoming: the possibility of serializing the prints made was not foreseen.
A user noticed this and promptly developed a desk accessory intended for the purpose.
He proposed it to Silicon, who bought it and included it in the program.
A great example of customer needs consideration and collaboration!
In short, between windows, layout, choice of typefaces, ease of movement and overlapping of images, Silicon Press was the ultimate in versatility; and at the modest price of about $ 80!
Why then did we choose SILICON PRESS as the name of our company?
Because we were struck by the "philosophy", if we can say so, of this program, that is to offer the best and the "easiest" at the best possible price.
And we made it our philosophy. So many years later, but in a very different technological landscape, we founded our company.
