Electronic Publishing articles from August 2002

Electronic Publishing archives from August 2002

It's what we do. (Editorial).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... When I started with this magazine in 1990 (many of you will recall that it was called TypeWorld back then), our tagline was "The First and Only Newspaper for Electronic Publishing." At that time we were indeed a newspaper, and for us the term...

Xerox unveils three new devices. (Tech News).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... In positioning its new DocuColor 6060, Xerox (Rochester, NY) cites a range of customer requirements, such as faster speed on heavy stocks, higher paper capacity, higher performance with variable data, and the ability to do more preventative...

InteliCoat announces identity. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... InteliCoat Technologies LLC (South Hadley, MA) makes its debut, following the completion of Sun Capital Partners Inc.'s acquisition of Rexam Image Products, the precision coating division of Rexam PLC. One of roughly 30 companies in the...

Auto FX Software unveils DreamSuite Series Two. (Tech News).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... New to Auto FX Software's (Birmingham, AL) line of visual imaging software solutions for creative professionals is DreamSuite Series Two. DreamSuite Series Two can be used as a standalone application or as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop...

Where does yellow get its fire?(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Find the answer inside your new Mitsubishi Diamond Pro[R]--the new standard in monitor performance. To see all the nuances, look into a more advanced breed of monitor. The new Diamond Pro [930.sup.SB] and Diamond Pro [2070.sup.SB] with...

Papers from Appleton Coated. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... In advertently omitted from the Resource Guide to Digital Papers in the June issue, Appleton Coated LLC (Kimberly, WI) provides coated papers for sheetfed digital devices. Part of the Fine, Specialties, and Coated Papers division of Arjo...

Tekgraf releases DoubleProof. (Tech News).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Tekgraf Corporation (Greenville, SC) introduced its TDS DoubleProof, reportedly the industry's only automated double-sided imposition and single-side color proofer. The TDS DoubleProof, developed with the help of Fujifilm Electronic...

Pantone division makes debut. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Pantone Inc. (Carlstadt, NJ) recently announced the formation of a new division, Pantone Custom Color Services, focused on providing custom color standards to virtually any industry requiring accurate color. Under the direction of...

TrueSpectra announces Image Server 4. (Tech News).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Dedicated to helping companies deliver the correct image in the correct format cost-effectively, TrueSpectra (San Mateo, CA) upgraded its Image Server to version 4. TrueSpectra Image Server 4 is a server software application that automates...

BarcoView upgrades calibrator. (Tech News).(advertisement)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... BarcoView (Atlanta) announced that it is shipping its Persona al Calibrator V Wave II, a 21-inch, entry-level calibrated display with the company's own ASIC Wave II technology. The Wave II chipset in the new color-accurate, calibrated...

Kodak Approval gains donor. (Tech News).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... With the release of a blue spot-color donor for the Kodak Approval XP, Kodak Polychrome Graphics (Norwalk, CT) expands the gamut of blue-dominant spot colors attainable with the popular digital halftone proofer and Kodak Approval Recipe Color...

PC Expo: the next printing show? (What's New).
August 1, 2002... PC Expo--usually a semi-yawner of a show for the printing industry--was an exciting surprise for me this year. Not only was I able to see a number of products that fit the "print-for-pay" business, but I also discovered a number of hardware...

Gene Gabl.(Seybold)(Interview)
August 1, 2002... With a degree in writing, Gene Gable began his career as a journalist and publisher at small newspapers in the late '70s, at a time when those publications were beginning to bring composition in-house. Working for small operations, he found...

Real-world Digital color proofing: in the past, printers looking to adopt a fully digital, computer-to-plate workflow have struggled with a lack of digital proofing options. Not anymore. Many providers seem to have found the solution.
August 1, 2002... Digital proofing works. That statement may not have been popular just a few years ago, but most people using the technology today would agree. Printers now have a choice of systems that give them proofs that accurately and consistently...

Resource Guide to digital proofers.(Directory)(Illustration)
August 1, 2002... RESOURCE GUIDE TO digital proofers As these two pages indicate, a wide variety of digital proofing devices are available to today's professional. For more information about these devices, visit www.onlinecenter.to/ep or any of...

Which workstation? experts offer sound advice on selecting a high-end graphics workstation.
August 1, 2002... As of April 2002, 1 billion personal computers have shipped worldwide, according to Gartner Dataquest's statistics. As outlined in a recent study by Martin Reynolds, a vice president and analyst in Gartner's Dataquest organization, that...

Corel chases the five hundred: the venerable Photo-Paint doesn't get much respect, but it offers most of photoshop's functionality, a practical approach to workflow, and a few quirks. Buy CorelDraw, and they basically throw paint in for free. (Makeready).
August 1, 2002... The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand;" wrote the iconoclastic American scholar Henry Adams. "If he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five...

Packaging the game: creating a dynamic image for the cover of a high-profile console game requires hard work and a team spirit. (Design in Action).(Marc Phares designs Malice character for game package)
August 1, 2002... Her name is Malice. She's a red-haired, feisty teenage girl wielding a giant hammer and she's out to save the world. This brazen heroine stars in a new action-adventure game for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles that is being released this...

PDFs and online collaboration system significantly speed creative workflow: advertising agency streamlines project review and approval process for its clients in the entertainment industry. (In the Field).(BD Fox and Friends Inc. Advertising)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Even the advertising firm BD Fox & Friends Inc. Advertising, which caters to the entertainment industry and has CBS and Warner Home Video as its two biggest clients, thinks about ways to constantly improve its operations and differentiate...

Digital conversion pro: Scansoft's OmniPage Pro X for Macintosh saves time and smooths the paper-to-digital conversion process. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Although I omit it from my resume, I have extensive experience working with poor, inefficient optical character recognition (OCR) applications. In many cases, I found it easier and less time consuming to re-create by hand an entire document,...

House call for fonts: Morrison SoftDesign's FontDoctor 5.1 detects and corrects font problems that threaten busy workstations. (Reviews).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Font problems bring my workflow to a screeching halt. Duplicate, unorganized, missing, conflicting, mixed, and other problem fonts can be detrimental to my performance, as well as that of my Mac. For this reason, I decided to thwart potential...

Focusing on commercial offset, high-speed digital, and office printing environments, Georgia-Pacific (New York City) expanded its printing and imaging paper family, comprising Spectrum, GeoCycle, Eclipse, and Eureka papers. (Modern Media).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Focusing on commercial offset, high-speed digital, and office printing environments, Georgia-Pacific (New York City) expanded its printing and imaging paper family, comprising Spectrum, GeoCycle, Eclipse, and Eureka papers. In fact, the...

A line of Oce'-branded labels is the latest release from Oce Printing Systems USA Inc.'s Supplies Business Group (Itasca, IL). (Modern Media).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... A line of Oce'-branded labels is the latest release from Oce Printing Systems USA Inc.'s Supplies Business Group (Itasca, IL). The Oce Label family comprises stock cut-sheet labels for shipping, mailing, addresses, CDs, and bar codes. The...

Maker of substrates for digital fine art and photographic applications, Parrot Digigraphic Limited (Billerica, MA) presented new gloss and luster photo-base media. (Modern Media).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Maker of substrates for digital fine art and photographic applications, Parrot Digigraphic Limited (Billerica, MA) presented new gloss and luster photo-base media. Well suited to digital photography fine art and graphic designs, the new Ultra...

Portable color. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... X-Rite Inc. (Grandville, MI) presented its latest color-management offering, the 939 Portable 0[degrees]/45[degrees] Spectrodensitometer. Designed for both black-and-white and color validation, the new device takes advantage of X-Rite's...

House call. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Alien Skin Software LLC (Raleigh, NC) announced Image Doctor, reportedly the only solution to offer selection-based image repair. For use with image-editing applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, Image Doctor is a collection of...

Lucis Pro upgrade. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Image Content Technology LLC (Glastonbury, CT) announced the availability of the new Lucis Pro 5.0 digital image-processing software. Priced at $1495 and compatible with Windows operating systems, Lucis Pro 5.0 boasts an expanded toolbar,...

Added fax functionality. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Konica Business Technologies Inc. (Windsor, CT) introduced two new multifunctional document systems, the Konica 7115F and 7118F. Both new devices come complete with the FK-117 Fax Kit, which includes the SuperG3 33.6kbps fax modem,...

PNY card. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... PNY Technologies (Parsippany, NJ) unveiled the Verto GeForce4 Ti 4200 graphics card, the latest release in the company's GeForce4 Titanium series. The new card boasts 64MB DDR high-speed memory at 500MHz. Additionally, the Ti 4200 sports...

Photoshop 7 support. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Applied Science Fiction (Austin, TX) updated its Digital ROC and Digital SHO automatic image-correction and enhancement plug-ins with support for the latest version of Adobe Photoshop. Digital ROC and Digital SHO version 1.0.1 provide support...

Linking FileMaker and QuickBooks. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Happy Software Inc. (Saratoga Springs, NY) unveiled its FileBooks Link plug-in for FileMaker Pro versions 4.0 through 5.5. The new release enables users to exchange data between FileMaker Pro for Windows and QuickBooks Pro 2002 for Windows....

Zebra partner. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Zebra Technologies (Vernon Hills, IL) revealed that Create!form International is a certified member of Zebra's Systems Integrator (ZSI) Program. Create!form plans to integrate Zebra's Bar-One Developers' Edition in its output solution. As a...

Ariba-httprint interoperability. (New Products).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Participating in the Ariba Solution Development Alliance Program, httprint (San Francisco) is working with Ariba to provide interoperability between httprint's Print e-Procurement and Ariba's Spend Management systems. As a result, joint...

Jaws alert. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Global Graphics Software (Waltham, MA) recently debuted its Jaws PDF Editor, targeted at business and SOHO users. Developed in response to strong customer demand, Jaws PDF Editor can function as a standalone application or as a companion tool...

Stock-image septuplets. (Uncommon Stock).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Comstock Images (Mountainside, NJ) amended its expansive line of professional stock photography with seven new royalty-free discs. Each new addition to the company's stock-image collection includes 104 images in low resolution for camping and...

Controlling file quality. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Gluon Inc. (Maplewood, NJ) unveiled an upgraded version of its award-winning QC System. A quality-control solution for use with QuarkXPress, QC System version 5 includes QC, QC Collect, and the QC Bureau Utility. QC, complete with new...

AG Neovo. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... While exhibiting at PC Expo in New York City, AG Neovo (San Jose, CA) presented its line of flat-panel displays. The AG Neovo display product line includes the high-performance X Series, stylish S Series, multimedia M Series, and affordable F...

Portfolio preview. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... A "preview release" of Portfolio 6 for Mac OS X from Extensis (Portland, OR) is now available. The company anticipates releasing the final Mac OS X version of its digital asset management application this summer. Although suitable for use in...

Ordering interface. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... The CT-1, a new release from Noritsu America Corporation (Buena Park, CA), is a counter top consumer terminal for taking various digital print orders. Print providers can connect the CT-I via Ethernet to Noritsu Digital Lab and Digital...

VEEjet from Scitex Vision. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Scitex Vision America Inc. (Marietta, GA) debuted the Scitex VEEjet wide-format, flatbed printer during FESPA in Madrid. Targeted at screen and digital printers, the new output device accommodates flexible and rigid substrates of up to 40mm...

Labels for CDs and DVDs. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Labelblank Corporation (University Park, IL) expanded its product line with a new selection of CD and DVD labels. The company offers eight new configurations, including crescents, mini CD labels, standard sizes, and labels for the spines of...

More products from Pitman. (New Products).(advertisement)
August 1, 2002... Pitman Company (Totawa, NJ) amended its product line with a family of more than 27,000 office and industrial products. With these latest additions to its product family, Pitman Company not only boasts the largest catalog offering of office...

The future of graphic arts education. (Frank Talk).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Every industry needs an educated workforce of the present to advance into the workplace of the future. This is a challenge for industry and education alike. In 1980, U.S. graphic arts colleges had hundreds of students enrolled, most of whom...

IPA Economic Survey.(International Prepress Association)(Brief Article)(Illustration)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... Profits up for slight majority As noted last month, the results of the IPA Quarterly Economic Survey for the first quarter of 2002 are indicative of a recovering economy. Just as the sales figures presented last month exceed those for...