Electronic Publishing articles from April 2000

Electronic Publishing archives from April 2000

Prepress as opportunity.
April 1, 2000... KEITH HEVENOR A number of discussion groups and forums for information sharing exist among prepress and printing companies in the industry. They are often a source of interesting information that can shed a little light on what's going...

Indigo introduces new digital presses.
April 1, 2000... Indigo N.V. (Woburn, MA) expanded its digital press product line with several innovative offerings. Indigo's new Series 2 family of digital offset color presses comprises seven ultra-high speed, seven-color models. Two sheet-fed units,...

Intergraph unveils Zx Server family.
April 1, 2000... Intergraph Computer Systems (Huntsville, AL) presented its new Zx10 family of servers designed specifically for Windows NT-based prepress and publishing environments. Based on its Wahoo Technology, the Intergraph Zx10 servers are...

Scitex previews latest products.
April 1, 2000... Not long after surprising the graphic arts industry with the announcement of the intended merger of its prepress business with Creo Products (Vancouver, Canada), Scitex Inc. (Bedford, MA) unveiled a number of new products and technologies in...

McMillan Foundation awards Edwards.
April 1, 2000... At Seybold Boston 2000, The Tom McMillan Foundation presented Steve Edwards, senior editor at Seybold Publications, with the second annual Tom McMillan Award for Editorial Excellence. The award is given to an editor in the graphic art...

Partners premier printCafe service.
April 1, 2000... PrintCafe (Pittsburgh, PA), an Internet-based business-to-business communications solution from the collaborative efforts of Creo Products Inc. and Prograph Systems Inc., first went live during the first day of the Seybold expo. Creo...

VCG launches its Design Online portal.
April 1, 2000... Visual Communications Group (VCG; Seattle), recently acquired by Getty Images, launched Design Online, located at www.designonline.com. A web portal designed for creative professionals, Design Online is a gathering place for graphic arts...

Screen adds three products to its line.
April 1, 2000... Screen (Rolling Meadows, IL) demonstrated the three latest additions to its product line--Cezanne Elite, PixelStream, and Trueflow--during Seybold Seminars Boston 2000. Able to input at resolutions reaching 5300dpi, the Cezanne Elite...

Splash announces new color servers.
April 1, 2000... Previewed during Seybold and officially released at On Demand, Splash Technology Inc.'s (Sunnyvale, CA) T200 product line encompasses three color servers. The Splash T200e, T200, and T240 are the company's first color servers designed for use...

ScenicSoft introduces its TrapWise 3.0.
April 1, 2000... ScenicSoft (Lynnwood, WA) demonstrated its new TrapWise 3.0 and TrapWise Remote 3.0 trapping tools at its booth at Seybold Seminars in Boston. Both TrapWise 3.0 and TrapWise Remote 3.0 incorporate an Adobe-certified Postscript 3 RIP,...

Dynagram debuts DynaStrip for the Mac.
April 1, 2000... Dynagram Software (Quebec City, Canada) introduced the latest version of its DynaStrip imposition software, 3.0 for the Macintosh, during Seybold Seminars Boston 2000. The first DynaStrip release for the Macintosh, the versatile version...

The approaching storm.
April 1, 2000... Here we are with a little more than a month to go before the flurry of new announcements at DRUPA--the premier trade show of the printing industry--and I have to wonder what is left to be introduced this year. Over the last three months, many...

Internet invasion felt at PMA.
April 1, 2000... The annual Photo Marketing Association show, which recently took place in Las Vegas, is the showcase where manufacturers preview their new summer and fall wares to retailers and service providers in the photo industry. Last year for the first...

Iain Pike.
April 1, 2000... With 11 of his 20-plus years in the printing business spent at X-Rite, Iain Pike knows intimately the ins and outs of color measurement and management. A formal education in printing management, an MBA, and a stint as quality assurance...

Automation in the pressroom.
April 1, 2000... TRUE COMPUTER-INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING (CIM) WILL TAKE TIME, BUT MANY PRINTERS ARE TAKING SMALL STEPS AND LIKE THE RESULTS SO FAR. Evolution can be a slow process. Not only does it take time for technology to mature from the barely...

PREFLIGHTING FOR PRODUCTIVITY.
April 1, 2000... The practice of preflighting helps propel files through the print production process. A majority of prepress and print professionals hold this truth to be self-evident: not all files are created equal. More often than not, files...

Digital asset management.
April 1, 2000... It's no secret that this industry thrives on digital assets. No matter your role in the design, content-creation, publishing, pre-press, or print community, you're likely to work with thousands of digital assets each day. And with the advent...

Success with PDF at The LTC Group/Gamma One.
April 1, 2000... Implementing an internal PDF workflow was easy--getting customers on board was harder. When Scott Tully speaks about the PDF Mafia, he does so with tongue planted firmly in cheek. He's talking about those vociferous promoters and pundits...

Producing prototypes expands business.
April 1, 2000... Advertising agency adds new technology to corner a new business opportunity: packaging prototypes. To stay competitive in the constantly shifting graphic arts industry, companies seem to take the attitude of "I can do it myself." One...

Collaborating online.
April 1, 2000... With MediaLot.com, Kaleidosphere collaborates on projects, accelerating the creative process. The Web is changing how corporations do business, how consumers shop, and how ad agencies do creative work. Kaleidosphere, an Ottawa-based ad...

Preflighting improves company's profits.
April 1, 2000... By eliminating potential problems with preflighting software, a marketing company saves time and money. It's not every day that a software product provides users a return on their investment in just a few months. But according to Charlie...

Secrets behind large museum prints.
April 1, 2000... California museum installs a Roland six-color printer just in time to produce exhibit's prints. It requires skill to make some thing subtle and magnificent at the same time. The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana, California, was...

The Great Imaging Equalizer.
April 1, 2000... With a single, 3-second command, a novice can transform a lousy image into a professional-looking one--some of the time. Understand the principle that makes this crude method work and you're well on the way to good images all the time. ...

Linux for prepress.
April 1, 2000... Torque Systems' HotVu server performs well in prepress environments. Linux is making strides into the pressroom. Or at least the prepress room. A few brave tinkerers in search of a more reliable and faster alternative to Windows NT...

Quite a catch.
April 1, 2000... Visual Capture automates the acquisition of screen shots. From Advanced Firmware Development's Graphics Publishing Work-flow Series comes Visual Capture, an automated screen-capture application. Visual Capture offered me the ability...

Building a web presence.
April 1, 2000... Trellix Corporation continues to add functionality to Trellix Web. Having little experience with HTML and FTP technologies, I found Trellix Web to be an easy-to-use application for creating an eye-appealing, interactive web presence. I...

A FreshStart.
April 1, 2000... Right Hemisphere (Bellingham, WA) unveiled its FreshStart Upgrade Program. The new upgrade incentive enables users of MetaCreations' Painter to download Right Hemisphere's Deep Paint at the greatly reduced price point of $79 for a limited...

httprint.com.
April 1, 2000... Formerly Landmark Productions Inc., httprint (San Francisco) launched httprint.com, its global online print e-marketplace. The httprint.com portal site was developed to improve the process of buying, selling, and managing print, while at the...

Taking advantage of Flash.
April 1, 2000... Macromedia Inc. (San Francisco) entered into a licensing agreement with Corel Corporation. As a result of the agreement, CorelDraw offers support of Macromedia Flash, while CorelLinux will be distributed with the Macromedia Flash Player. In a...

Noosh news.
April 1, 2000... Noosh Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) and Digital Art Exchange (DAX) entered into an agreement to co-market Noosh's Internet-based print-management solution and DAX's Internet and managed-network services to each company's existing customers. During...

Sinarback release.
April 1, 2000... Sinar Bron Imaging (Edison, NJ) introduced the Sinarback 23 digital camera back to the Seybold audience. Featuring a 2048x3072-pixel sensor and Sinar CaptureShop software with an integrated Sinar Color Catcher Engine, the Sinarback will be...

Corel for Linux.
April 1, 2000... Corel Corporation (Ottawa) previewed its Photo-Paint image-composition and natural-media creation program and its CorelDraw vector illustration application on the Linux platform at Seybold Seminars in Boston. Also currently available for...

Sprockets.com service.
April 1, 2000... Sprockets.com (Boston) presented Sprockets, its Internet-based deadline management service, to attendees at the recent Seybold Seminars. Sprockets.com provides the collaboration, distribution, and bandwidth billing tools necessary through the...

Wide-format and high-fidelity.
April 1, 2000... The Mile High Engineering Supply Company Inc. (Denver) demonstrated its new Accuplot 4300 piezo printer. Providing six-color output at up to 1440dpi resolution and in up to 42-inch widths, the Accuplot 4300 works with the Accuplot RIP...

Corbis' collection.
April 1, 2000... Corbis Images (Bellevue, WA) and Random Eye Technologies (Toronto) announced an agreement whereby Random Eye's flagship product, images, will be linked directly to Corbis Images' royalty-free database. As a result, users of Random Eye images...

Stock Market investments.
April 1, 2000... The Stock Market Photo Agency (New York City) announced the availability of Catalog 13, containing more than 2500 images, and a Macintosh- and Windows-compatible companion CD6, boasting the complete catalog and another 2000 bonus photos. To...

isProof.com launch.
April 1, 2000... Informix Corporation (Menlo Park, CA) and integrated Software jointly introduced isProof.com, a Web-based asset-approval and job-tracking tool. Based upon Informix database and media asset-management technology, the isProof.com solution...

New partners.
April 1, 2000... Harris Publishing Systems Corporation (Melbourne, FL) and Harlequin are jointly developing and distributing digital workflow solutions based upon Harris' MAXWorkFlow digital output management system and Harlequin's RIP technologies. The new...

DRM service.
April 1, 2000... During Seybold Boston, Reciprocal (Buffalo, NY) and Xerox Corporation revealed the first customers to take advantage of their collaborative e-Publishing Clearing Service. A one-stop digital rights management (DRM) publishing service, the new...

TeleScope.web.
April 1, 2000... North Plains Systems (Mississauga, Canada) demonstrated its latest digital asset-management system, TeleScope.web, during Seybold. Scheduled for release early next month, TeleScope.web features a flexible user interface, drag-and-drop...

In-house color comps.
April 1, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) unveiled a new color inkjet printer designed specifically for the creative community. Able to accommodate media measuring from 4x6 inches to 13x19 inches, the HP DeskJet 1220C/PS is a wide-format...

Internet server from SGI.
April 1, 2000... At Seybold, SGI (Mountain View, CA) introduced its new SGI Internet Server. Offered at a starting price of less than $4600, the SGI Internet Server features a 550MHz Intel Pentium III processor, 128MB of RAM, a 9GB drive running Red Hat Linux...

X-Rite bundle.
April 1, 2000... X-Rite Inc. (Grandville, MI) teamed up with Monaco Systems to bundle MonacoPROOF 3.0--Monaco Systems' high-end monitor, input, and output color profiling solution--with the X-Rite Digital Swatchbook color-measurement tool. The MonacoPROOF and...

Volume licensing reduction.
April 1, 2000... Enfocus Software (San Mateo, CA) is offering 30-day trial versions of its PitStop plug-in and PitStop Server PDF preflighting software tools via its website at www.enfocus.com or by dialing 650/358-1210. Enfocus also announced the new PitStop...

New versions.
April 1, 2000... MetaCommunications (Iowa City, IA) debuted the latest version of its Virtual Ticket and Job Manager applications during Seybold in Boston. The Virtual Ticket 2.2 electronic job-ticketing and digital asset-management software solution offers...

MyFonts.com.
April 1, 2000... Bitstream (Cambridge, MA) launched MyFonts.com at Seybold Seminars Boston. The MyFonts.com portal is an interactive online resource for browsing, searching, and purchasing fonts online. Said to comprise the largest font collection ever...

Attention getter.
April 1, 2000... Encad's (San Diego) display of its NovaJet 700 caught the eye of a large number of Seybold attendees, thanks in large part to the vibrant, high-quality images emanating from the 60-inch model. One such eye-catching print depicts a...

Running Start.
April 1, 2000... Running Start (Tucson, AZ), maker of the ArticleBase digital media-management system, and College Broadcast inc. have merged to form CB internet Holdings. Running Start and College Broadcast now serve as wholly owned subsidiaries.

Wacom support.
April 1, 2000... Wacom Technology (Vancouver, WA) presented a new version of its popular PL-400 LCD/pen-tablet system. Through a new external converter box, the new release provides USB connectivity and compatibility with DFP/DVI graphics cards from such...

Impresse enhancements.
April 1, 2000... Impresse Corporation (Sunnyvale, CA) revealed enhancements to impresse.com, its online business-to-business commercial print procurement and collaboration service. In addition to offering support for Apple's ColorSync color-management...

Kathleen Blavatt.
April 1, 2000... Using MetaCreations Painter 6, San Diego artist Kathleen Blavatt created this image for an upcoming book on the software. "I was experimenting with the new tools," says Blavatt. "I love the Starburst tool, and new brushes, such as the Impasto...

The new (digital) world order.
April 1, 2000... In February alone, several announcements portend the future of the printing industry. Xeikon revealed a sheet-fed version of its digital color press at low cost and low speed but with a high duty cycle. Xerox announced a higher-speed...