Electronic Publishing articles from December 2000

Electronic Publishing archives from December 2000

Survey says.(Editorial)
December 1, 2000... The idea seemed simple enough. We figured the best way to gauge our readers' interest and involvement in the subject of e-commerce was to conduct a survey. However, as we sat down to put the survey questions together, we quickly realized that...

CreoScitex launches workflow tools. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... CreoScitex (Burnaby, BC) unveiled many new product enhancements including advancements in its Brisque family of products and in its workflow management tools. Brisque Extreme 4.0 is an update that offers enhanced multi-device support. 4.0...

Graph Expo revisited. (Tech News).
December 1, 2000... Just six months after Drupa 2000, the industry gathered again to share innovations in printing and converting technology. Though DRUPA was an impressive act to follow, Graph Expo 2000 delivered. This edition of Tech News is dedicated to the new...

Capital spending and accounts receivable hold steady. (IPA Economic Survey).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The IPA Quarterly Economic Survey indicates that the majority of respondents are seeing little fluctuation in their business' accounts receivables and capital spending. Companies were polled about the length of collection time their accounts...

Xerox Corp. provides personal imaging. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Xerox Corporation (Rochester, NY) unveiled new products in its tradition of developments for digital printing. Pixography Solution is a "personal imaging center" that enables customers to create documents in a retail or quick-print environment...

Vio unveils latest product advancements. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Among the new products that Vio (Newark, NJ) made public was a new online quality assurance application. Vio Quickcut is a comprehensive "preflight" tool for electronic documents, automatically performing about 80 different checks on a file,...

Minolta introduces printing systems. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Minolta Corporation (Ramsey, NJ) launched a number of new products to extend its offerings in printing systems. Two new printer/copiers were announced: the DiALTA Di550 and the DiALTA Di750. The DiALTA Di550 is aimed toward workgroup users,...

Digeno intros eProcurement solution. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Digeno (Chicago), a new company headed by industry veterans, announced the launch of an Internet-based management system for printing. Supported by R.R. Donnelly, this B2B solution will provide an Internet tool to small printers and...

Kodak Polychrome Graphics expands. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Kodak Polychrome Graphics (Norwalk, CT) presented a number of new products, building on its array of proofing and printing technologies. The company announced new plate technologies, the SDE2+ and the ProTherm P3000. The ProTherm P3000 is...

DuPont demonstrates proofing line. (Tech News).(DuPont Color Proofing)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... DuPont Color Proofing (Wilmington, DE) anounced a number of new products for digital color proofing at Graph Expo, including three new proofing systems and supplemental software. The DuPont Cromalin Digital i Generation Digital Proofers...

Adobe announces Network Publishing. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Adobe Systems Incorporated (San Jose, CA) has a vision for its business--to provide access to rich, personalized content anywhere, anytime. The company revealed in a press conference at the Tech Museum of Innovation its strategy to bring this...

Purup Eskofot displays prepress tools. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Purup Eskofot (Kennesaw, GA) introduced new scanning and software technologies for "straightforward prepress." The Eskoscan F14 is a scanner aimed at the smaller-format markets and optimized for A3. This scanner is equipped with a 14,400-CCD...

Screening and workflow solutions debut. (Tech News).(Screen)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Screen (Rolling Meadows, IL) debuted products to alleviate workflow problems and introduced a new screening method for printers. The company unveiled Fairdot, a halftone screening technology that combines AM and FM screening methods to...

A.B. Dick presents its new products. (Tech News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... A.B. Dick (Niles, IL) presented its ScanMaster digital scanning solution and the Open Proof and EasyTrap software during Graph Expo. The company worked with partner ENCAD to create Design U., a turnkey solution for the wide-format custom...

Calendar.
December 1, 2000... December 3-5 GATF Color Management Conference Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (GATF) three-day educational conference Embassy Suites Paradise Valley Phoenix, AZ 412/741-6860 December 7-8 Adobe Acrobat 4...

Another year flies by. (What's New).
December 1, 2000... It's hard to believe that the "Year 2000" is almost history. Not one of the many problems anticipated reared its ugly head. All those prognostications of gloom, doom, and global computer failure vanished with the ticking clock nearly 12 months...

Web Photo Services -- internet bubble or sea change? Part III. (Future Image).
December 1, 2000... In the previous two installments of this column, reviewed some of the background behind Future Image's recent research study of the sector, entitled "Web Photo Services 2000--A Competitive Analysis." I described where each key company...

Michael Collette. (Perspective).(Better Light )(Interview)
December 1, 2000... Electronics, jokes Better Light founder and CEO Mike Collette, has been his passion ever since he stuck his parents' car keys in a wall outlet at the age of two. "I haven't been able to let go since," he laughs. A mostly self-taught...

Navigating new options in digital color proofing: whether you prefer inkjet or halftone technology, today's market bears a wide variety of proofing options to meet virtually any need.
December 1, 2000... It's 4:00 p.m. on a Tuesday in Nashville. A designer is hovering over the inkjet printer in the corner, overnight envelope in hand, waiting for the last page of the latest round of catalog page layouts to drop onto the tray. The client says the...

EP Resource Guide to DFEs and servers.(product introductions)
December 1, 2000... A multitude of hardware and software tools are available to today's professional that increase workflow efficiency and productivity by enhancing printer performance and file throughput. Although today's market bears a plentitude of options,...

Make your content work for you: with the right strategy and today's automated repurposing tools, many publishers and service providers are expanding their horizons.
December 1, 2000... Wall Street has always been a place for the bold. Its soaring highs, gloomy depths, and endless maneuverings have been minutely recorded in movies and newscasts, books and magazines, PBS roundtables, and daily newsprint. The Daily Deal, a bold...

Acronyms 101: a look at the origins of this graphic arts alphabet soup. (Workflow).
December 1, 2000... This is the PDF Workflow department--so why is this an article about acronyms? Because PDF is yet another example, and we're often asked by readers to define these acronyms and put them in context. We'll do this over the course of the next few...

Digital photographer delivers crisp, color-accurate images: with color-management software and PhaseOne digital cameras, Jack Bingham streamlines his workflow. (In the Field).
December 1, 2000... Whether he's photographing boots for Timberland on location or flexible, five-inch Bendo dolls for Kid Galaxy or huge web presses for Heidelberg, digital photographer Jack Bingham uses a digital workflow that enables him to deliver sharp,...

Hip CD-ROM seen by nearly 1 million people: Mudpuppy Studios and Riffage Inc. produced a modern music CD-ROM with Illustrator 9. (In the Field).
December 1, 2000... Hips are swinging, lights are flashing, flames are flying to modern music as simple animated movie posters pulse on a movie screen. This is Movie Madness, an MP3 music CD-ROM featuring more than 100 artists that is being distributed with five...

Collaborating online shaves days off production: for London-based K9 Group, Wam!Net's WorkSpace and network improve the creative process. (In the Field).
December 1, 2000... Bicycle couriers have one less customer in London these days. "That's one way we used to send design files to clients in the city and to our subsidiaries housed in other buildings," recalls Vince Pittman, technical director at K9 Group, a...

99 layers and counting. (Make Ready).
December 1, 2000... How many times can a program be updated before the new features become superfluous--or until it becomes so unwieldy that major bugs are inevitable? Photoshop 6 and some less successful recent "upgrades" suggest answers. Not all that long...

A correction.
December 1, 2000... In October's Makeready, I regret to report having misstated copyright law regarding things that were originally published around 75 years ago. In 1998, under pressure from a company whose flagship cartoon character a mouse, was about to...

A banner year: the Epson Stylus Pro 7000 series offers consistent color and photographic quality to the creative community. (Epson Stylus Pro 7000/7500).
December 1, 2000... This was a year of exceptional growth in the inkjet arena. Among the multitude of innovative inkjet devices introduced in 2000 is Epson's Stylus Pro 7000 series. To date, this new product series encompasses two wide-format, six-color models,...

Watch your step: Altamira's Geniune Fractals PagePro XT can help streamline design workflows. (Genuine Fractals Pagepro XT).
December 1, 2000... The exceedingly large file sizes common to the workflow of virtually every graphic artist and professional photographer are often viewed as necessary evils. The rationale is essentially that if you want mega data, you must deal with megabytes,...

DCPs from Xeikon. (New Products).(Xeikon America Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Xeikon America (North Billerica, MA) presented its eMerge digital front end and CSP 320 D and third-generation DCP 500 D digital color presses during Graph Expo 2000. The DCP 500 D boasts an enhanced print engine, GUI, and DFE, as well as the...

Fujifilm news. (New Products).(Fuji Photo Film U.S.A.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Graphic Systems Division of Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. (Itasca, IL) demonstrated a wealth of its products, ranging from platesetters to RIPs to color management, at Graph Expo. The new Saber Luxel P-9600 CTP is an 8-up photopolymer platesetter...

ECRM expansion. (New Products).(ECRM Imaging Systems)(K and F International)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... At Graph Expo, ECRM Imaging Systems (Tewksbury, MA) announced that it has signed an agreement with K&F International. Based on the recent marketing agreement, ECRM combines its worldwide distribution channel and experience with CTP and optical...

Shira showcase. (New Products).(Shira Computers Ltd.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Shira Computers Ltd. (Woburn, MA), having recently acquired AC&C HSH Group and entered into an agreement with printChannel.com, introduced its eP2 onsite web-based server and PuzzleFlow native PDF workflow utility during Graph Expo. The eP2...

Masterfile CD5, Catalog 26. (Uncommon Stock).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Masterfile USA (Chicago) released its CD5 and Catalog 26, titled "The Best of Masterfile." The hard-copy catalog comprises images concerning business, transportation, travel, medical, technology, industry, and more. Suitable for Macintosh and...

Indigo and HP announcement. (New Products).(Hewlett-Packard Company)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... In its 10,000-square-foot booth at Graph Expo, Indigo N.V. (Woburn, MA) demonstrated its line of digital presses and the company's "Fasten Your Seatbelt" theater presentation on digital printing in the 21st century. As part of the "Fasten Your...

Partnership in real time. (New Products).(RealTimeImage partners with InterchangeDigital Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... RealTimeImage (San Bruno, CA) announced that it has partnered with InterchangeDigital Inc., a provider of digital asset management and workflow systems, to provide digital online proofing services to the packaging industry. Based upon the...

New tools from Noosh. (New Products).
December 1, 2000... During Graph Expo, Noosh Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) previewed three new tools: Noosh Direct, Sales Force E-Commerce, and Data Exchange. Noosh Direct enables members to add a collaborative e-commerce system to their own websites. Sales Force...

Cantors SDK. (New Products).(Canto introduces Cumulus Developer Program)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Canto (San Francisco) introduced the Cumulus Developer Program, showing its support of developers' efforts to increase the value of Cumulus. The new program enables users to customize their Cumulus solution, vendors to integrate their products...

DAX demo. (New Products).(Digital Art Exchange extends its Series product line)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Digital Art Exchange (DAX; Charlestown, MA) extended its Series product line with the iSeries VPN (Virtual Private Network). The DAX iSeries VPN reportedly provides the security and peformance benefits of a private network solution and the...

In a Better Light. (New Products).(Better Light unveils Pano/Wide View Adapter)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Better Light (San Carlos, CA) announced the Pano/Wide View Adapter for use with any Better Light digital scanning back. Enabling users to create digital images with up to 6000x65,000 pixels, the system employs a continuously variable drive...

Banta in Chicago. (New Products).(Banta Integrated Media introduces new cross-media publishing and content management products)
December 1, 2000... Banta Integrated Media (Cambridge, MA) released a number of cross-media publishing and content management products. An option for its AutoPrice QuarkXTensicn, AutoPrice Exporter Pro automates the extraction of data from Quark documents for...

Spiral Imaging Products. (Modern Media).(launches new inkjet products for the Epson 9000)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Spiral Imaging Products (Totowa, NJ), a division of Spiral Binding Company, has added inkjet media for the Epson 9000 to its product line. The new media includes 32- and 46-pound presentation papers, high-gloss photo, base papers, and both...

Papyrus. (Modern Media).(introduces Sihl Transparent paper)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Papyrus (Hertfordshire, England) unveiled Sihl Transparent, a 100-percent natural translucent paper intended for use on Xeikon print engines. Sihl Transparent is available in 32- and 500mm rolls and in Premium, Premium White, and Premium...

Legion Paper. (Modern Media).(introduces Somerset Photo Enhanced professional digital art paper)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Legion Paper (New York City) expanded its product offerings with Somerset Photo Enhanced professional digital art paper. In addition to 44x33-inch rolls, Somerset Photo Enhanced paper is offered in four sizes, measuring 8.5x11, 11x17, 13x19,...

Rexam Image Products. (Modern Media).(expands Magic inkjet product range)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Having recently renamed its initiative to promote digitally printed wallcoverings to Unusuwalls, Rexam Image Products (South Hadley, MA) has greatly expanded its Magic inkjet product line. As well as announcing the availability of Magic inkjet...

Mohawk Paper Mills. (Modern Media).
December 1, 2000... Mohawk Paper Mills (Cohoes, NY) was on hand at Graph Expo, demonstrating its digital paper offerings. Whereas Mohawk Navajo was run in a demonstration of the Heidelberg Digimaster 9110, 50/10 plus Bright White was run in live demonstrations of...

Polaroid Prediction. (New Products).(Polaroid Graphics Imaging L.L.C. introduces its Prediction 2-up proofer)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Having recently relocated its headquarters to Bedford, Massachusetts, Polaroid Graphics Imaging LLC is now shipping its Prediction 2-up, automatic digital halftone proofer to North American customers. Capable of running unattended and of...

Guarding content. (New Products).(ContentGuard Inc. unveils updated software platform)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... ContentGuard Inc. (McLean, VA) announced ContentGuard version 1.3. This updated software platform enables users to safeguard their intellectual property while it supports and manages distribution of digital content. Version 1.3 enables users to...

Hybrid screening. (New Products).
December 1, 2000... Fairdot, a new halftone screening technology developed by Screen USA (Rolling Meadows, IL), made its official North American debut at Graph Expo. Reportedly the first product of its kind in the world, Fairdot combines Amplitude Modulation (AM)...

Gemini and GlobaLink. (New Products).(Flint Ink unveils its Gemini UV ink system and GlobaLink color-replication technology)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Flint Ink (Ann Arbor, MI) premiered its Gemini UV ink system during Graph Expo 2000. Considered a hybrid ink or two-in-one system, Gemini UV reportedly envelopes the gloss and durability of a UV ink as well as the dependability and ease of use...

Color collection. (New Products).(from X-Rite Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... X-Rite Inc. (Grandville, MI) released its Spectrofiler2 color tool. The Spectrofiler2 software application works with a scaning spectrophotometer to characterize a print process from a miniaturized test image. Spectrofiler2 is capable of...

What's on your dashboard? (New Products).(Printable Technologies Inc.)(Markzware Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Printable.com (San Diego) introduced PrintFusion, an online customized printing solution and the latest addition to its Printer's Dashboard e-business control panel for printers. The PrintFusion web-based utility was developed to streamline the...

Matchprint models. (New Products).(Imation Corp.)(Xerox Corporation)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Imation Corp. (Oakdale, MN) supplied Graph Expo attendees the first public demonstration of the Matchprint Professional Server, which was jointly developed with Xerox Corporation. For the production of short-run prints and proofs, the Match...

Velocity packages. (New Products).(Electronics for Imaging)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Electronics for Imaging (EFI; Foster City, CA) currently is shipping two Velocity software packages: Velocity Balance and Velocity Design. Velocity Balance is offered in a Workgroup configuration at a suggested retail price of $10,745 and as a...

Pandora and Color Central. (New Products).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... In addition to celebrating its 15-year anniversary during Graph Expo, ScenicSoft Inc. (Lynnwood, WA) released the latest version of its Color Central OPI and print management utility. The standalone Color Central 3.7 solution, available in...

Double-Up on VLF output. (New Products).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... Exhibiting at Graph Expo, Xitron Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI) revealed a joint venture with Hamillroad Software: Double-Up. Referred to as a plate-utilization optimizer by Xitron, Double-Up enables VLF platesetter users to combine multiple files on a...

No-Cap Color. (New Products).
December 1, 2000... Cadapult Graphic Systems Inc. (Allendale, NJ) announced that it has expanded its No-Cap Color free color printer program to include the award-winning Phaser 780 and 850 printers from Xerox. The No-Cap Color program provides creatives and...

Matt Frantz. (Digital Gallery).
December 1, 2000... For this "Prison" image, Matt Frantz of Cincinatti, Ohio, drew one 24x36-inch illustration of a face and skull and another of prison bars that he scanned into his computer. Using Photoshop layers, he superimposed the images and added color....

The future of print depends on who you ask. (Frank Talk).
December 1, 2000... Most of you reading this article at the turn of the second millennium will see minor changes in print in your lifetime. It will be the generations yet to come who will create a brave new world where paper and pixels co-exist in an uneasy...