Electronic Publishing articles from August 2001

Electronic Publishing archives from August 2001

A product of our environment.(Electronic Publishing)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
August 1, 2001... KEITH HEVENOR Each year, as I've noted on this page in the past, the editorial staff of Electronic Publishing heads off for a two-day strategic planning meeting, during which we discuss market trends, expansion opportunities, and next...

Computers and Type 1950-1970.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... This month's timeline clearly shows how computers have revolutionized typesetting for the graphics industry. As computer technology grew and improved, typesetting became faster and more efficient. Computers were definitely making an impact on...

Gretag unveils Arizona 500.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Boasting a 75-inch output width, the Arizona 500 is positioned as a mid-sized, high-speed production inkjet printer designed to deliver outdoor durable prints. Using Gretag's (San Jose, CA) six-color (CMYK plus light cyan and light magenta)...

Kodak expands DOS line.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Kodak Professional (Rochester, NY) introduced its next-generation digital camera product portfolio, including the new DCS Pro Back digital camera back and the DCS 760 and DCS 720x SLR digital cameras. Designed for tabletop, portrait, and...

Ecrix premiers VXA-1 for Mac and PC.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Ecrix Corporation (Boulder, CO) released its VXA-1 data storage tape drive offering support for Fire Wire/IEEE-1394/i.LINK interfaces and compatibility with 13 major operating systems, including Mac OS, Linux, and Windows NT, 95, 98, and 2000....

HP debuts commercial unit.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Marking its entry into the commercial printing market, Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) introduced its first product dedicated to production color digital offset printing, rather than inkjet and laser printing. Designed for the...

Openpages releases CWEE.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... ContentWare Editorial Edition (CWEE), Openpages Inc.'s (Westford, MA) newest product release, is an editorial and content management solution designed specifically for newspaper publishers. CWEE provides users the ability to preview not...

Minolta offers new cameras.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Minolta Corporation (Ramsey, NJ) introduced the DiMAGE 7 and DiMAGE 5, two new digital cameras. In addition to sporting a 7x optical and 2x digital zoom, both new Single-Lens Reflex-type cameras benefit from technologies such as Minolta's...

Samsung introduces 210T.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Manufacturer of CRT and TFT displays, Samsung (San Jose, CA) extended its family of LCD monitors with the addition of the SyncMaster 210T. The new 23-inch display is said to be versatile enough to serve as a computer monitor as well as a video...

Global Graphics realigns.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Retaining the names of former subsidiary companies as product brands, Global Graphics has aligned its nine pre-press hardware subsidiaries and printing software companies worldwide into two divisions to reflect the integration of its businesses...

Extensis ships Suitcase 10.(Extensis Product Group )(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... The Extensis Product Group (Portland, OR) presented an upgraded version of its font-management software solution. Extensis Suitcase 10 includes features requested most often by existing Suitcase customers. Among these requested enhancements are...

ScanSoft upgrades software.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Maker of paper-to-digital solutions, ScanSoft (Peabody, MA) announced the availability of its new optical character recognition (OCR) software, OmniPage Pro 11. Omnipage Pro 11 is capable of converting paper-based documents into a variety...

GretagMacbeth clarification.(Correction Notice)
August 1, 2001... In the "Tech News" section of the June issue, Gretag Imaging was incorrectly credited with the release of EyeOne. The new color-measurement and management system is offered by GretagMacbeth LLC. For more information about the company and the...

Cool stuff from a hot summer.
August 1, 2001... The summer is usually a time when the printing industry seems to go into hibernation and the computer industry begins to awaken. Just before our annual hibernation, Presstek (www.presstek.com) and Xerox (www.xerox.com) sponsored DIalog 2001, an...

Visual communication--the next megatrend.
August 1, 2001... Among the core beliefs expressed in folk wisdom is the age-old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words." Along with related others, such as "seeing is believing," it expresses our ancestral awareness that, in the vast majority of cases,...

Joe Demharter.(excerpt of interview wwith Pitman Co. official Joe Demharter)(Interview)
August 1, 2001... Joe Demharter's career in the printing industry, spanning more than three decades, began as a sales representative for DuPont in 1970. After being promoted within DuPont to such positions as sales manager and product manager, he accepted a...

PDF advances.
August 1, 2001... The latest release gives users a lot to like about Acrobat, and keeps the format in the spotlight Attempting to predict the future of graphic arts workflows can be a truly challenging exercise, even for the most experienced experts in the...

Personalized printing software.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Print buyers are well aware that personalized materials lend to customer loyalty and retention, as well as such rewards as an increased response rate. Many businesses, as a result, opt for print providers that offer personalization on demand....

Standing out from the herd.
August 1, 2001... A new breed of hardware and software solutions help print providers and their customers differentiate themselves from their competition. In his book The Age of Spiritual Machines, Ray Kurzweil writes, "When upstart technologies threaten to...

Fate and the false profile.
August 1, 2001... One of the best ways to improve a bad RGB image is also one of the most paradoxical. It's a change, but it's not a change, it's color management, but it isn't color management, and it's a misuse of technology, but it works. Some scientists...

Expanding your service umbrella.
August 1, 2001... Service providers must prepare to deliver media-independent content to ensure their long-term survival. Permeating our digital document vocabularies are terms such as schema, query, DTD, and XML. As a printer or digital service provider,...

Production firm finds recipe for success.
August 1, 2001... Company relies on Kodak Approval and Recipe Color for consistent, high-quality, color proofs. Peter Ksiezopolski, known in the industry as "Peter X," is no stranger to emerging technologies. In the course of his career, his graphic design...

Workflow with a TWiST.
August 1, 2001... jk Creative Printers benefits from Blanchard Systems' guidance and DALiM's TWiST workflow solution. J k Creative Printers uses the workflow tools at its disposal to deliver high-quality, four-color printing to its customers, productively...

Printer turns to Presstek for CTP.(Printing Images)
August 1, 2001... Printing Images employs ProFire technology for a smooth transition to CTP. Imagine taking a Ford automobile for a test ride and loving its on-road performance, only to find out it has a Chevrolet motor under the hood. Chances are, you...

IP to the extreme.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Group Logic's ExtremeZ-IP assists users in increasing connection speeds by two to three times. Group Logic is a software company--located just over the Potomac from Washington, D.C., in Arlington, Virginia--that specializes in software for...

Super-cool scans.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Nikon's Super Coolscan 4000 ED film scanner offers high resolution and powerful software. The Nikon Super Coolscan 4000 ED film scanner, surrounded by Styrofoam peanuts, was well protected in the sturdy box in which it was shipped. Upon...

Icon art.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Artlcons 2.5 from Aha-soft (Krasnoyarsk, Russia) is designed to assist professional and amateur graphic artists in creating, editing, and managing icon files. Among the painting tools provided by Artlcons are a spray can, pencil, brush, and...

10k MatchPrint.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Imation Corporation (Oakdale, MN) unveiled Imation Matchprint Color RIP software for Epson's new Stylus Pro 10000 large-format inkjet printer. Also available for the Epson Stylus Pro 9000, 7000, and 5000, Imation's latest software release is...

Copier control.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Independent RIP developer and integrator Xitron (Ann Arbor, MI) introduced its XiCopy system. Xitron's XiCopy supports a range of color copiers from such makers as Canon, Minolta, and Lanier through a single user interface, as well as manages...

Your print link.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... PrintLink (Rochester, NY)--a nationwide staffing firm dedicated to print, prepress, document management, and e-media technologies--is offering a money-back guarantee on all new hires. Specifically, if a job candidate hired through PrintLink...

PrepressInterface's facelift.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Heidelberg USA (Kennesaw, GA) announced version 3.0 of its Prepressinterface. Designed to cut setup time and waste, PrepressInterface sports an open interface architecture based upon the Print Production Format (PPF) standard of the CIP4 Group....

Thousands of new images.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Corbis Stock Market (New York City) introduced American Mosaic 6, a collection of more than 3000 images on a single, e-commerce-enabled CD. American Mosaic 6 is composed of images of multicultural people and lifestyles in several different...

Samsung for SOHO.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Samsung's Digital Information Technology Division (Rancho Dominquez, CA) premiered its ML-1650 laser printer. Capable of up to l7ppm output, the Samsung ML-1650 is designed to provide small- and home-office users quality laser prints at a cost...

e-Studio additions.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... The Electronic Imaging Division of Toshiba America Business Solutions (Irvine, CA) debuted two multifunction peripheral (MFP) digital copiers for small- to mid-sized workgroups. The e-Studio20 and e-Studio25 each serve as a copier, printer,...

Burn CDs, burn.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... LaCie (Hillsboro, OR) announced the availability of a $30 rebate on its l6xl0x40x CD-RW drive, reducing the price to $299. The new drive incorporates the company's "BURN-Proof" (Buffer Under RuN) technology, designed to enable users to burn CDs...

New FontAgent.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Insider Software (Carlsbad, CA) upgraded its font repair and management solution to version 8.5. For maintaining, repairing, and organizing Macintosh fonts, Insider FontAgent 8.5 helps users check for corrupt fonts, partial font families, Type...

E Ink prototypes.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Philips Components (Sunnyvale, CA) and E Ink Corporation demonstrated their first prototypes of high-resolution, active-matrix electronic ink displays for smart handheld devices. The display prototypes incorporate a fiveinch diagonal sheet of E...

Delta-to-PDF conversion.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Lucid Dream Software Inc. (Hoffman Estates, IL) presented a new add-on module for Heidelberg's popular Delta RIP. PDFflow enables users to convert RIPed Delta List files to raster PDF 1.3 files for use in PDF-based workflows, such as those...

Digital backs.(from Imacon)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Imacon (Redmond, WA) launched its FlexFrame 4040 digital camera back, as well as a digital back solution for use with its Frame 3020 digital back. The FlexFrame 4040 offers a 16-million pixel chip, ColorFlex software, 16 bits per color, a...

Automated updates.(from Insider Software)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Insider Software (Carlsbad, CA) unleashed a carbonized version of its software-update solution. Designed to update Mac OS X and OS 9 applications, Insider UpdateAgent X runs on both Mac OS X and OS 9 and offers support for virtually all...

Two from Riso.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Riso Inc. (Danvers, MA) recently unveiled two new high-speed digital printer-duplicators, the RP3700 and RP3790. Both new output devices offer an integrated system controller for connecting to stand-alone or networked Mac or Windows systems,...

.EDIT on the Internet.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Pageflex Inc. (Cambridge, MA) previewed its .EDIT technology, designed to help companies provide its end users, such as remote colleagues or franchise partners, with an Internet-based page-layout tool. For example, a company can use .EDIT to...

Rexam Image Products.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Rexam Image Products (South Hadley, MA) added three media to its Magic inkjet offerings for Raster Graphics' Arizona grand-format printing systems. Rexam's new Magic products include a Tyvek banner material (GFTB9AZ) for long-term outdoor and...

Wasatch Computer Technology Inc.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Wasatch Computer Technology Inc. (Salt Lake City) announced that its flagship product, Wasatch SoftRIP, supports the new Epson Stylus Pro 10000 printer. The latest version of the software solution features support for several color-management...

Roland DGA Corporation.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Until the end of this month, Roland DGA Corporation (Irvine, CA) is supplying new ColorCAMM Pro customers with a package, valued at $500, of resin ink cartridges and MACtac 9800 Series vinyl. The company also released ColorChoice 4.1, an...

Georgia-Pacific Corporation.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Georgia-Pacific Corporation (Atlanta) expanded the weights of the four most popular colors in its Skytone line of printing papers, said to be well suited to annual reports, menus, invitations, and more. The company also released a new...

CRTs for less.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America Inc. (Itasca, IL) reduced the prices of various 17-, 19-, 21-, and 22-inch CRT displays. The recent price cuts, ranging from $10 to $150 reductions, affect models in the company's AccuSync,...

Heidelberg's latest.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Heidelberg USA (Kennesaw, GA) announced that it is now shipping its new Linoscan 2200 double-page, flatbed scanner. Providing creative and prepress professionals flexibility in a single-pass scanner, the new release is suitable for scanning...

Noritsu news.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Noritsu America Corporation (Buena Park, CA) announed the U.S. debut of its QSS-2800 Series. Noritsu Koki and Texas Instruments jointly developed the print exposure engine based upon Texas Instruments Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology...

Artmachine news.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Artmachine Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) formed an alliance with Kelmscott Communications LLC to offer a custom package of services to graphics communications businesses. Ascentra ArtReady service offers Kelmscott Communications Network companies an...

Sharp computer.(Sharp Systems of America)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Sharp Systems of America (Huntington Beach, CA) entered the U.S. notebook computer market with the release of its PC-AR50. The Sharp PC-AR50 notebook computer is equipped with an 850MHz Mobile Intel Pentium III processor with Intel SpeedStep...

CyberResearch PCI card.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... CyberResearch Inc. (Branford, CT) offers a dual-port PCI RS-422/485 card capable of serial communication rates of between 115,000 and 18 million baud. The CYB 218MP card includes an on-board circuit capable of tracking the beginning and end of...

Consistency in diversity.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Monaco Systems Inc. (Andover, MA) and T/R Systems Inc. joined forces to provide service bureaus, magazines, newspapers, and other graphic-intensive businesses with accurate, predictable color from different printers connected to the MicroPress...

Camedia release.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Olympus America Inc. (Melville, NY) introduced its new Camedia C-4040 ZOOM digital camera. Capable of producing prints of up to 16x20 inches in size, the filmless camera boasts a 4-megapixel CCD and 3x zoom lens with a maximum F1.8 aperture...

PGSF resource.(Print and Graphic Scholarship Foundation)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF; Pittsburgh) unveiled a new resource for employers, Hire Education. Hire Education is a collection of resumes of top honor students whose graphic communications educations were funded in part by...

Large format online.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Distributor of large-format inkjet media for indoor and outdoor applications, Stanpat Direct (St. Paul, MN) launched its website, www.stanpatdirect.com. Visitors to the company's new website can view an assortment of canvas, valeron, tyvek,...

Low-cost Zip drive.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Iomega Corporation (Roy, UT) begins shipping its new Zip 100MB USB VL-Series drive this month. Offered at the low price of $69.95, the Iomega Zip 100MB USB V-Series drive does not require a power adaptor; users simply connect the external Zip...

Lexmark on the desktop.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Manufacturer and supplier of printing solutions, Lexmark International Inc. (Lexington, KY) amended its line of laser printers with the new Lexmark E210. Carrying an estimated street price of less than $200, the Lexmark E210 is targeted at...

Bundling up.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... ColorVision Inc. (Rochester, NY) announced it is bundling Adobe Photoshop Elements with its monitor calibration and printer profiling products, including its popular Monitor Spyder. The company also is distributing its new video, "Solutions for...

B*media update.(Banta Integrated Media)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Previously available only on the Unix platform, Banta Integrated Media's (Cambridge, MA) B*media digital content management software is now offered for Windows NT. Able to be integrated with Xinet's FullPress OPI system, B*media version 2.7...

Ciro Marchetti.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... A British graphic designer, Ciro Marchetti graduated from Croydon College of Art in England in the mid seventies and has worked in Europe, South America, and the U.S. Since 1992 he's been based in Miami as president of Graform Intl....

Print media versus new media.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Accessibility: paper-based materials can be used in any setting without the need for presentation equipment. Electronic access implies machines, but if machines become cheap enough, the argument disappears. Look at cell phones and pocket...

Welcome.(Print 01 trade show)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... In the four years since Print 97, the industry has undergone some dramatic changes. Technologies such as CTP and digital printing have matured, and users have become more concerned with how these tools can affect the bottom line. Purchasing...

Print 01--the final frontier.(printing industry trade show)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Print 01 is the (real) first printing event of the new millennium. DRUPA 2000 was just a warm-up, and we never liked even numbers anyway. Print 01 will encompass most of Chicago's McCormick Place with the largest array of printing equipment,...

Print 01 highlights.(printing industry trade show)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Our industry has been talking about Print 01 as if it is the trek to Mount Olympus (it is an Olympian eight days long). I suspect that Print will be the verification of ideas and technologies previewed at DRUPA. You remember DRUPA, a distant...

Inkjet proofing.(Epson America Inc.)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Among the announcements that may set printers buzzing is Epson's StylusPro 5500, a replacement for the StylusPro 5000. For the first time, this system offers the ability to see dots in a final press proof using drop-on-demand inkjet technology....

Managing color better.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... In the past year, the graphic arts industry has made significant progress in color technologies, including a focus on supporting the communication of color information via the Internet, as well as new automated methods for color measurement...

End-to-end job tracking.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... But what is automated workflow without e-commerce? Avanti Computer Systems will showcase two innovative software solutions for job costing and job tracking, production, and management that it believes go far beyond anything else currently...

Adding E-commerce functionality.(electronic commerce solution from Noosh)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Noosh is planning to show the latest versions of its Noosh.com solution, with greater functionality for printers and buyers. Ned Gibbons, director of sales development, says that attendees can expect to see a brand-new solution from Noosh at...

Online proofing and PDF.(Portable Document Format)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Online proofing technology has evolved rapidly in the last several years, and among the players demonstrating this technology at Print 01 will be RealTimeImage Inc. with its RealTimeProof, a suite of web-based, collaborative proofing solutions...

Polyester comes of age.(plate processor systems)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... At Print 01, Glunz & Jensen (Booth # 5674) will show its latest CTP plate processors, as well as its newest version of film processors and online film processing systems. Additionally, Glunz & Jensen will unveil its new digital input...

CTP workflow with polyester.(Computer-To-Plate prepress and printing process)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Mitsubishi Imaging will also highlight the quality and efficiencies of polyester plates with its Silver DigiPlate polyester platesetting materials and equipment. It will demonstrate a complete CTP workflow, including color management and...

IPA ECONOMIC SURVEY.(International Prepress Association)(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2001... Majority reports reduction in profits Must as respondents to the International Prepress Association's (IPA) Quarterly Economic Survey reported reduced sales, they also indicated a decrease iin profits. In fact, profits in the first quarter...