Electronic Publishing articles from April 2004

Electronic Publishing archives from April 2004

Timing is everything.(Editorial)(planning a trade magazine for the DRUPA show requires lots of advanced timing)
April 1, 2004... One of the more difficult aspects of publishing a trade magazine is delivering information to readers in a timely manner. As we worked this month to put together our preview for the DRUPA show, we had to set a deadline of late February for...

Canon makes a splash at PMA with new cameras and printers.(Tech News)
April 1, 2004... Canon (Lake Success, NY) made quite a splash at PMA with the introduction of what it says is the world's fastest professional digital SLR camera: the EOS-1D Mark II. A key feature of the device is its 8.2-million-pixel CMOS sensor, which...

Kodak pushes boundaries of camera and printer technology.(Tech News)
April 1, 2004... At its booth at PMA, Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY) unveiled its Kodak Professional DCS Pro SLR/n digital camera and its Kodak Photo Printer 6800. Built on an F-mount compatible body, the camera features a 35mm CMOS sensor that delivers...

Phase One lets loose with new portable camera backs.(Tech News)
April 1, 2004... Phase One (Northport, NY) introduced at PMA a generation of high-end, portable digital camera backs. Besides being fully untethered, the 22-megapixel P 25 and 16-megapixel P 20 feature on-the-fly raw file compression via two options: High, a...

Fujifilm targets pros and consumers with new cameras.(Tech News)
April 1, 2004... Fujifilm (Valhalla, NY) featured a bevy of digital cameras at the recent PMA show. Among them were the new entry-level FinePix A330, which offers 3.2 million effective pixels and a 3x optical zoom, and the FinePix A340, which offers 4 million...

Mitsubishi adds Color Thermal Printer to photo printer line.(Tech News)(Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America Inc.)
April 1, 2004... Mitsubishi Digital Electronics' Photo Imaging Products (Irvine, CA) announced at PMA that it added the CP-9000DW Digital Color Thermal Printer to its line of photo printers. According to the company, the device features a roll-type mechanism...

GretagMacbeth focuses on color quality at PMA.(Tech News)
April 1, 2004... In its booth at PMA, GretagMacbeth (New Windsor, NY) introduced its ProfileMaker 5 color management software, which it is packaging in three vertically focused solutions--PM5 Photostudio Pro, PM5 Publish Pro, and PM5 Packaging Pro, targeted...

HP revamps printer and digital camera lineup.(Tech News)
April 1, 2004... Hewlett-Packard (Palo Alto, CA) chose PMA as the venue at which to highlight its new HP DesignJet 30 and 130 six-color printers for design, proofing, and photography. The DesignJet 30 is a B+ size graphics printer, while the multiformat...

Extensis extends capabilities of Portfolio asset management solution.(Tech News)
April 1, 2004... Visitors to Extensis's PMA booth were treated to demos of the latest version of the Portland, Oregon-based company's Portfolio digital asset management solution. Portfolio 7 includes dozens of new features, many of which are targeted at...

Konica Minolta develops interchangeable-lens digital SLR camera.(Tech News)
April 1, 2004... At PMA, Konica Minolta (Mahwah, NJ) announced the development of a new interchangeable-lens, digital, single-lens reflex camera. Tentatively called the Dynax 7 Digital (for the European market and for all other regions outside North America...

Pacific Image Electronics launches trio of scanners.(Tech News)
April 1, 2004... At PMA, Pacific Image Electronics Inc. (Torrance, CA) announced three new scanners: two for use in mini photo labs and one designed for photographers. The two photo-lab scanners are the PrimeFilm 3650LAB and PrimeFilm 1800LAB. The...

ENCAD aims for higher productivity with new NOVAJET.(Tech News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... According to ENCAD Inc. (San Diego), its NOVAJET 1000i is the first printer to combine ENCAD's wide-format expertise with Kodak's knowledge and research in color imaging science. The company adds that the new device, which was on display at...

Olympus announces high-performance digital cameras.(Tech News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... According to Olympus (Melville, NY), perhaps the most impressive features of its C-8080 Wide Zoom digital camera are that it delivers 8 million pixels of resolution, and that it boasts a super-bright f2.4 wide-angle glass lens, all for an...

Sinar thinks big with tiny Sinarback 54 M.(Tech News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Measuring only 87X87X45mm and weighing just 400 g, Sinar AG's (Edison, NJ) Sinarback 54 M works with the company's new Sinar Action Module to provide a high-end digital photography solution for mobile digital applications. According to the...

Concord Camera intros 4/5-megapixel devices for less than $230.(Tech News)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... At PMA Concord Camera Corp. (Hollywood, FL) introduced a pair of digital cameras--the 5-megapixel Concord Eye-Q 5062 AF and 4-megapixel Concord Eye-Q 4062 AF--that retail for $229.99 and $199.99, respectively. Besides their low prices,...

A DRUPA sneak preview.(What's New)
April 1, 2004... Although DRUPA is still more than a month away, some of us in the world of journalism and consulting were given an opportunity to see some of the "what's new" of the show in advance. In a 10-day period I traveled nearly 16,000 miles on seven...

The wide-open digital canvas: a look at how some users are building very successful business models with their wide-format printers.(Cover Story)
April 1, 2004... It's quite amazing the variety of uses to which wide-format digital printers are put today. Applications include everything from point-of-sale placards and posters, vehicle wraps, banners, fine-art reproductions, and backlit displays, to...

Wide-format printers.(Resource Guide to)(Illustration)
April 1, 2004... bigger is definitely better when it comes to eye-catching prints. And today's market bears a wealth of options in the wide-format printing space, as the following chart indicates. More information about the models mentioned is available by...

DRUPA 2004 preview.(publishing and paper industries trade show, Dusseldorf)
April 1, 2004... With DRUPA now just a few weeks away, many of the industry's major vendors have unveiled their plans for the show. Throughout the early part of the year, we attended many pre-DRUPA press events around the world gathering information to help...

Stacking the design steps just right; the paper and press play a key role in designers' printed projects.(Design in Action)(Prevalent Design in San Francisco adds interesting designs to brochures, posters and advertising)
April 1, 2004... TO ENTICE A TARGET audience to open direct-mail pieces or peruse brochures, Ted Estelle, founder and owner of Prevalent Design in San Francisco, adds intriguing elements to his design projects. One example is an invitation for a San Francisco...

Brown Printing adds security and flexibility with its automated file transfer workflow; leading publications and catalog printer implements a more effective and secure file transfer system to improve customer access and expedite prepress performance.(In the Field)
April 1, 2004... To maintain its market leadership position, Brown Printing needed more than just a customer-friendly file transfer system. It needed a way to streamline its workflow processes, while ensuring a fail-safe method for accepting and distributing...

Creating products people talk about; at the On Demand Conference & Exposition, suppliers of digital papers and printers presented their enhancements, which can inspire end users to push the envelope.(The Digital Paper Platform)
April 1, 2004... Don't be boring; be outstanding. At On Demand 2004, one of the keynote speakers, Seth Godin, author of the marketing book Purple Cow, Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable, inspired the audience and his readers to create amazing...

All-natural workflow: in the Wacom Cintiq 18SX, display and tablet combine for a more comfortable creative solution.(Reviews)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 1, 2004... At work and in my personal life, much of my time is devoted to composing creative digital content. And for several years, I've used a 12X12-inch Wacom Tablet Digitizer 2, a device that's so old, it's no longer listed on the company's website....

Eye-catching Xenofex: Alien Skin's plug-in breathes new life into images, and the imagination.(Reviews)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2004... Graphic designers, digital photographers, web designers, and others with a penchant for special effects, take note. When I suffer the occasional lapse or lull in creativity, I reach for the Xenofex 2 effects filters from Alien Skin Software....

Bulk-enabled inksets.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... Lyson Inc. (Elk Grove Village, IL) has introduced what it says is the first bulk feed ink delivery system with complete pigment and dye-based inksets for the Epson Stylus Pro 7600. According to Lyson, having access to bulk-enabled inksets...

EtherShare supports AFP 3.1.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... According to HELIOS Software GmbH (Hannover, Germany), its HELIOS EtherShare network and prepress server product now supports the latest version of Apple Computer's Apple Filing Protocol (AFP 3.1). Support for AFP 3.1 includes filenames up to...

Personalizing short runs.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... Compatible with all OKI digital color and monochrome printers, PrintShop Mail from Oki Data (Mount Laurel, NJ) enables businesses to design and personalize documents and collateral materials such as direct mailers, form letters, sales flyers,...

See Fido find.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... Fido is a plug-in for Adobe InDesign that reports on the link status of ads and graphics in an InDesign document and automatically finds the correct file paths anywhere on the network. Images are then automatically imported to the pages where...

New Heidelberg ToolKit.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... Heidelberg USA (Kennesaw, GA) has announced the NexPress Business Development Tool Kit, comprising printing samples, marketing templates, sales presentations, and a guide on how to host an open house, all designed to help Heidelberg customers...

Technology history from NPES.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... As part of events commemorating its 70th anniversary, NPES--The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing, and Converting Technologies (Reston, VA) has published a history of the 20th century technological revolution in printing,...

Wacom pen tablets.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... New from Wacom (Vancouver, WA), the Graphire3 pen, mouse, and tablet enable users to edit digital photos, sketch, paint, and mark up documents. Free bundled software comprises Adobe Photoshop Elements 1.0, Painter Classic by Corel, and...

Samsung color printer.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... Built-in automatic duplex units for error-free, two-sided printing, along with optional wireless capabilities, highlight Samsung's (Irvine, CA) new CLP-500 color laser printer. Featuring Samsung's patent-pending NO NOIS static engine, the...

Premium Parrot canvas.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... Parrot Premium Satin Canvas is an 18-mil, 430 gm, acid-free, natural-feel, white cotton-polyester blend artist stretch canvas with primer coatings and an inkjet topcoat, available in 35X47-inch sheet format. Parrot Hi-Performance Matte Canvas...

Double-sided DVD+R media.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... According to Kano Technologies (Garden Grove, CA), its new ArchivMedia DVD+R double-sided media is the first such product on the market. Kano teamed with Verbatim to develop the media for use with Kano XFiniti optical libraries, however it...

Connect the dots.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... dots Cockpit JTX software, available from dots Software (Berlin), enables users to connect with their central printing shop's hardware. A built-in job ticket ensures reliable and safe communication as well as provides independent control from...

End-to-end media services.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... According to SAVVIS Communications (Herndon, VA), its SAVVIS portfolio of WAM!Net Media Services comprises three levels of managed services. At the first level are content management, archive, collaboration, and distribution services that...

News from Vio.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... Vio Worldwide (Roseland, NJ) has developed AdsML-compliant job tickets for its Digital Workflow Suite. AdsML is the open standard developed by the AdsML Consortium (www.adsml.org) to unify existing advertising standards and to automate...

Helios announcements.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... Helios Software GmbH (Hannover, Germany) added DeviceN color space support to HELIOS ImageServer 2.5. DeviceN support enables users to print files with spot colors as high-resolution composite PostScript 3/DeviceN output that is compatible...

Self-Calibrating Inkjet Proofer.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... DuPont Imaging Technologies (Wilmington, DE) launched the DuPont Cromalin b2 Self-Calibrating Inkjet Proofer, which features next-generation drop-on-demand printhead technology. According to the company, the Cromalin b2 imaging head...

FrameMaker enhanced.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... Adobe (San Jose, CA) updated its FrameMaker authoring and publishing solution to include features for cross-referencing between documents and for allowing multiple variations of a document to be stored as a single file. FrameMaker 7.1 also...

New E-DAM technology.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... The TeleScope 7.1 Order Processing Module is only one of the enhancements North Plains Systems Corp. (Toronto) added to its TeleScope Enterprise 7.1 E-DAM technology. The solution also features a Mac OS X native client. Both enhancements are...

Xitron shipping XiFlow.(New Products)
April 1, 2004... New from Xitron (Ann Arbor, MI), the XiFlow Prepress Workflow System controls and automates output to Xitron Navigator and other Harlequin-based RIPs. The server-based product communicates with the RIPs it controls and displays all RIP...

Pushing the envelope.(Frank Talk)
April 1, 2004... The first envelope was a clay wrapper used by the Babylonians in 2000 B.C. The clay was folded over the original message, crimped together, and baked in an oven. Think of it as a clay fortune cookie. You then cracked the shell to gain access...