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Separate Note[edit]

The trademark Genigraphics was eventually abandoned by GE, and is currently registered to an unrelated printing business.

If I am to understand this right, your claim is that the printing business being referred to is what the article should be about, correct? –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 01:20, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that is correct. Genigraphics has been operated continuously since 1973 and the trademarks have always been maintained and transferred to current ownership (easily verified through uspto.gov). The company has changed focus from 35mm slides to large format printing, just as IBM migrated from typewriters to computers.

I apologize that I'm not terribly familiar with how Wikipedia edits work. http://computationalculture.net/one-damn-slide-after-another-powerpoint-at-every-occasion-for-speech/ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sweating_Bullets/t3INw5KknpYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=253

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Yes, that is correct. Genigraphics has been operated continuously since 1973 and the trademarks have always been maintained and transferred to current ownership (easily verified through uspto.gov). The company has changed focus from 35mm slides to large format printing, just as IBM migrated from typewriters to computers.

I apologize that I'm not terribly familiar with how Wikipedia edits work. http://computationalculture.net/one-damn-slide-after-another-powerpoint-at-every-occasion-for-speech/ https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sweating_Bullets/t3INw5KknpYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=253

As it currently stands, the page implies that Genigraphics went out of business in 1994. This is incorrect and the company not only contributed to PowerPoint development through 2001 but has thrived ever since. There has been no discontinuity in operations through the various ownership changes.

Steven rose (talk) 02:09, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewing... I am currently looking into this for you. Please expect a response as soon as possible. Thank you! :D –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 02:58, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Continuity Question[edit]

I looked up the bankruptcy records for Genigraphics Corporation and Genigraphics Service. They filed in Connecticut Bankruptcy Court on 24 November 1992, and the case closed in 20 January 2006. At the time of filing, they were clearly based in Fairfield, Connecticut. According to its website, Genigraphics LLC has a PO box in Kansas. Orders are, furthermore, placed in Central Standard Time rather than EST. This is not to mention that the names of the companies are remarkably different (not more so than Blockbuster LLC and its predecessor BB Liquidating Inc., however-- which we list as the same thing). My concern is that if none of the operations are the same, the owners are different, and they don't even share a similar location; then what exactly is the connection besides the trademarked name. I could theoretically buy the rights to Radioshack name, but that wouldn't mean I was the successor to Radioshack.

I can't draw any consistent conclusions from this matter. I will ask if you consider the article possibly being worthy of deletion? That might be the best solution if it is going to be completely inaccurate, wildly unsourced, and go without any clear claims of Notability. Cheers, –MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 03:27, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

"In 1994, with only a dozen or so companies in the industry, primarily young and entrepreneurial in nature, the company was well ahead of the game in its technological development. That would all change over the next few years as the industry exploded with growth. That year, the company formed the subsidiary In Focus Services, Inc. and, in August, acquired certain assets and liabilities of Genigraphics Corporation and Genigraphics Service Corporation for $1.5 million, an acquisition which helped lead to a 67 percent increase in sales for 1994. " https://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/38/In-Focus-Systems-Inc.html

"Mark has served as vice president of marketing and sales for a former division of General Electric, as senior vice president of sales, marketing and services for InFocus Systems, and as the CEO of that company’s first acquisition, Genigraphics Corporation. " https://www.censis.com/team/mark-reed/

"Genigraphics Production Manager Genigraphics Juli 1986 – September 1994 8 Jahre 3 Monate Bellevue, WA

Jim managed a team of computer artists at Genigraphics' Bellevue, WA office. His team provided computer generated design support for a broad range of Seattle-area clients including the Microsoft senior executive team."

"Manager - Client Services InFocus Systems Juni 1994 – März 1998 3 Jahre 10 Monate Wilsonville, OR

During the hay day of InFocus' rise to market leadership in the electronic project industry, Jim managed their Client Services organization - an entrepreneurial team within the organization that brought presentation skills coaching support as well as high end presentation design services to InFocus customers.

During that time, Jim was also an award-winning columnist for Presentations magazine and developed a national reputation in the area of presentation messaging, advanced design & delivery skills coaching." https://at.linkedin.com/in/jimendicott/de Jim Endicott served as General Manager.

"The Fonts collection is used by the Geni Wizard to determine whether any of the fonts in the specified presentation won't be supported when Genigraphics images the slides. If you just want to set character formatting for a particular bullet or text range, use the Font property to return the Font object for the bullet or text range.

The Genigraphics wizard enables users to transmit their presentations directly to Genigraphics for conversion into film slides, overhead transparencies, or other specialized media formats. For more information about the services Genigraphics provides, visit the Genigraphics Web site. This service might not be available outside the United States." https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/office-2010/ff764006%28v%3Doffice.14%29

"Genigraphics eventually entered Chapter 11, but was briefly rescued in 1994 by electronic projector manufacturer In Focus Systems.This relationship only lasted a few years, however; Genigraphics was eventually resold in an ongoing attempt to figure out how to leverage the presence of SEND TO GENI-GRAPHICS in the PowerPointFILEmenu on 10 million desk-tops. PowerPoint 95, introduced in August 1995, was based ona whole new code, VisualC++." https://www.indezine.com/stuff/guppt.pdf

"PowerPoint includes a special feature that enables a user to send the presentation file to the Genigraphics service bureau for producing 35mm slides, digital color overhead transparencies, large display prints, and posters. If the Genigraphics Wizard is installed, choose File > Send To > Genigraphics to open the Genigraphics Wizard that guides a user through the packaging of a slide." https://books.google.com/books?id=DtICtf_zU5oC&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=%22genigraphics%22+powerpoint+wizard&source=bl&ots=Br0Hi8wIPP&sig=ACfU3U2B5_ctkqiU8FTEiDD04PKuSX-tbQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjq56X1k-rgAhVOHqwKHdedB1IQ6AEwCnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22genigraphics%22%20powerpoint%20wizard&f=false

Certain employees, like Jeff Scarpace, worked through the ownership changes. Mr. Scarpace, in particular, started imaging slides for Genigraphics in March 1991 and later became involved with PowerPoint development until October 2000. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-scarpace

Here is the mention of the MacWorld pr conference for joint development with Microsoft.

https://books.google.com/books?id=t3INw5KknpYC&pg=261#v=onepage&q&f=false

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