Los Angeles, Calif. -- AMULET Consulting is pleased to announce its selection by Lottographix, Inc. to develop custom application software to control industrial printing presses that print state lottery tickets for Arizona, California, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and soon Kentucky.

Lottographix utilizes a variety of Microsoft technologies, including Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 95 workstations, the Office 97 suite, and Access 97. The database backend for this application is based entirely on the Jet Engine. An ActiveX control from Mabry Software will be used to print barcodes for boxes of completed lottery tickets.

Lottographix is a Los Angeles based business printing concern, specializing in printing state lottery tickets. The company’s operation runs three custom configured Harris industrial printing presses. Each press is controlled by its own small-scale computer network consisting of a DOS machine running real-time software that communicates with a special press controller add-in board manufactured by Miranova Systems, and a Windows 95 print server. Each press network is in turn part of a larger Windows NT Server domain servicing the entire enterprise.

The AMULET team is to build a suite of press control components written in Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0, that manage the printing of multiple, concurrent ticket rolls. Also included will be a reporting subsystem developed in Access 97.

"Our lottery business is expanding in leaps and bounds, as we’re trying to add Kentucky to our current list of six states," said Ron Clark, President of Lottographix. "We require robust and expandable software support to allow the business to continue to grow and we liked AMULET’s track record for providing leading edge solutions using the latest technologies." In a related project, AMULET will develop an entire print-shop business application in Access 97 for creating and managing estimates and print jobs.

AMULET specializes in outsourcing of enterprise software projects such as LAN and client/server database applications, so the Lottographix development project fit well within the company’s area of expertise. Mr. Dan D. Gutierrez, AMULET’s CEO, added "We are always pleased to find technology solutions to help a growing business find its stride. The fact that this client prints lottery tickets, a high-profile business, is even more gratifying. We’ve worked hard to provide the global business community with quality development services using Microsoft network and database technologies. We are anxious to apply our years of experience to help Lottographix achieve its goals."