Electronic Publishing articles from February 2004

Electronic Publishing archives from February 2004

New year, new features.(Editorial)
February 1, 2004... As we enter 2004, we are pleased to be adding a couple of new features that we hope will make Electronic Publishing even more valuable to you. First up is The Digital Paper Platform, a new monthly department that will focus specifically on...

Xerox unveils new DocuTech platform.(Tech News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Following a $400 million investment in technology that resulted in a completely new platform built from the ground up, Xerox debuted its new DocuTech copier/printer models 100 and 120 during a press event at its Rochester, New York...

Miramar Desktop DNA provides two industry firsts.(Tech News)(Miramar Desktop DNA Enterprise Edition software)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... According to Miramar Systems (Santa Barbara, CA), version 4.7 of its Miramar Desktop DNA Enterprise Edition software is reportedly the only solution that manages the migration of PC DNA--settings, data, and preferences--during Windows OS...

Agfa releases JDF-powered collaborative project management system.(Tech News)
February 1, 2004... Agfa (Mortsel, Belgium) is providing publishers and printers with a new JDF-powered, interactive collaborative project management solution that comprises two applications--:Delano Publish and :Delano Production. :Delano Publish is targeted...

OS X compatibility among new features in FlightCheck Pro v5.(Tech News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... With the latest release of its flagship preflighting software, FlightCheck Professional, Markzware (Santa Ana, CA) is targeting graphic artists, prepress providers, and printers working on the Macintosh OS X platform. In addition to OS X...

New basysPrint platesetter boasts unattended operation.(Tech News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... basysPrint GmbH (Boizenburg, Germany) is targeting its new UV-Setter 710-f2 platesetter at customers who require fully automated plate production. Able to process up to three different plate formats in three (or, optionally, five) magazines at...

Oce duo targets industrial-grade and UV curable digital printing.(Tech News)
February 1, 2004... Available from Oce-USA Inc. (Chicago), the Oce Arizona 600 is a mid-size, industrial-grade, high-volume production inkjet printer designed to produce Scotchprint Graphics that are backed by the 3M MCS Warranty when produced by a 3M Scotchprint...

Xerox expands Phaser line.(Tech News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Xerox (Wilsonville, OR) has added a trio of high-performance, high-quality printers to its popular Phaser printer line. Able to deliver 24 color and black-and-white pages per minute, the new Phaser 8400 color printer features 2400 FinePoint...

Documentum launches new enterprise publishing solution.(Tech News)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... According to Documentum (Pleasanton, CA), companies that use its new Documentum Enterprise Publishing Solution can create content once and simultaneously publish it in multiple languages and formats through traditional print production as well...

Calendar.(Illustration)(Calendar)
February 1, 2004... FEBRUARY PMA/DIMA/PrintImage 12-15 Las Vegas, NV PMA, www.pmai.org MARCH On Demand 8-10 New York, NY Advanstar, 888/824-3004, www.ondemandexpo.com VUE/Point ...

Kevin Kern: VP of product planning and development Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA.(Perspective)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Aside from being VP of product planning and development for the recently merged Konica Minolta Business Solutions USA, Kevin Kern will be the first to admit that he is a technology nut. After graduating college, he worked in sales at Savin,...

CIP4, JDF, and the future of print.(What's New)(Job Definition Format)(Cooperation for the Integration of Processes in Prepress, Press and Postpress )
February 1, 2004... I have been involved with workflow automation in the printing industry since the early 1980s. Two of the many issues on which I have been outspoken are workflow automation and the need for production standards. Recently I became a member of the...

JDF: the evolving standard; This standard is expected to revolutionize the printing industry. It's come a long way, but there still is work to be done.(Job Definition Format)
February 1, 2004... And now, what you've all been waiting for... fresh from the CIP4 headquarters in Switzerland, the only interoperable information standard that reaches across the prepress, printing, and finishing industry--CIP4's JDF 1.2! It's complete!...

Personalized color communications: four firms discuss the benefits of color variable data printing, such as creating marketing campaigns and experiencing up to a 40 percent rate of return.
February 1, 2004... Over the past few years, color variable data printing (VDP) has taken hold among savvy digital printers, service bureaus, marketing firms, and corporations. The effects of this technology are appearing everywhere: on phone bills, financial...

Resource guide to variable data tools.
February 1, 2004... Thanks in no small measure to efficient variable data software solutions, mailboxes once filled with junk mail are now much leaner. No longer must we rifle through mountains of direct-mail pieces to locate something, anything, of value to us....

A study in scarlet: pinks, oranges, and light purples can leave the graphic artist seeing red. Many such pastel shades are too pure to reproduce faithfully in print. Here's how to use LAB curves to create the illusion--and to keep your images in the pink.(Makeready)
February 1, 2004... Trying to deceive a Spanish jewelry merchant into thinking that I had anywhere near the financial resources to purchase one of his carvings, I expressed interest in the material. He told me its name in Spanish, but I didn't understand, and...

Papers impact digital print quality: as digital printers and presses advance, paper manufacturers continue to improve the quality and variety of their digital paper lines.(The Digital Paper Platform)
February 1, 2004... Every company wants to please its customers. And that includes commercial printers and service providers, which are continuously implementing digital presses and printers to keep up with their customers' needs to print shorter runs on shorter...

Digital photography service expands business for prepress house: Industrial Color delivers a digital photography service to fashion photographers and ad agencies, helping them cut weeks out of their production cycle.(In the Field)
February 1, 2004... Digital technology has the power to improve the way a business operates. In fact, it can carry a business to a whole new level and usher in a completely new way of running operations and meeting customer needs. Such is the case with Steve...

MIT's Michael Hawley creates world's largest published book: printed on a Hewlett-Packard DesignJet 5500PS printer, this 5X7-foot book costs $10,000, but earns money for schools and children in developing countries.(In the Field)
February 1, 2004... At Acme Bookbinding--the world's oldest book bindery--an MIT digital pioneer, Michael Hawley, carried a huge roll of white paper on his shoulder through a maze of hallways, doorways, and stairwells, past bookshelves and piles of library-bound...

Live-Fire Labs: Nikon Capture 4; Nikon Capture 4 speaks to professional photographers in their own terms.(Reviews)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... Integrated digital image capture can speed workflow significantly, as we experienced on a recent shoot for one of our jewelry clients. Instead of spending hours working with test shots to get everything right before beginning a traditional...

ColorVision price cut.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... ColorVision (Lawrenceville, NJ) has cut by at least 30 percent its Pantone ColorVision color management systems for photography, design, desktop, and prepress professionals. Now users can calibrate every monitor in their home or office to show...

Simplified content management.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... IBM (White Plains, NY) expanded its Enterprise Content Management portfolio with new products, upgrades, and enhancements to its DB2 Content Manager software. According to IBM, the new software delivers broad support for open standards and...

Speedy Savin printers.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Featuring a 32ppm output speed, a 6.5-second first-page-out speed, and 1200X1200 resolution is Savin's (Stamford, CT) MLP32 black-and-white laser printer. Configured with a 10/100 BaseTX interface, the MLP32 plugs into networks, including those...

QuarkXPress to XML.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... With Atomik Xport Personal Edition, from Easypress Technologies (London), users can reportedly turn a QuarkX-Press document into XML with no initial setup. The software features auto DTD generation, box ordering control, and support for...

New InteliCoat papers.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Arches by Magic Digital Fine Art Paper FAP-225T is the latest addition to InteliCoat Technologies' (South Hadley, MA) Magic Digital Fine Art Folio line of specialty coated substrates. Based on Arches mould-made, textured, 225-gram watercolor...

Large-format scanner.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Epson's (Long Beach, CA) new workgroup document imaging scanner, the GT-15000, offers 48-bit color depth and 600X1200dpi true hardware resolution through Epson's Micro Step drive technology and a four-line 600dpi CCD sensor. The 11X17-inch...

Digital color proofing solution.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... MacDermid ColorSpan's (Eden Prairie, MN) Big Color Proof with Production Workflow is a digital color proofing solution that enables users to print color-accurate proofs to a variety of ColorSpan wide-format and common desktop inkjet printers....

Spot color proofing system.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Beyond 4 is an aqueous-based color proofing system designed to add specialty colors to Fuji ColorArt and Fuji FinalProof proofing systems. Beyond 4 requires two pieces of equipment: a coating table and a processor manufactured by Burgess...

High-res film scanner.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Pacific Image Electronics' (Torrance, CA) PrimeFilm 3650u film scanner operates at 3600dpi optical resolution to produce a digital image of approximately 17.9 million pixels at up to 10X14 inches. The scanner uses an LED light source instead of...

Production-oriented solutions.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Caldera Graphics (Paris) offers three lines of imaging solutions for the visual communications market. CopySHOP ($2995) is an integrated desktop Scan-to-Print and/or File-to-Print system driving large-format devices. VisualRIP ($2750) is a...

It whitens and brightens.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... LexJet Corp. (Sarasota, FL) has licensed for use with its DisplayFlex and Backers products a technology, called PreLume, that whitens and brightens digital color images without affecting colors, requiring modification of color tables, or...

Encad intros T200+.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Encad Inc. (San Diego) is now shipping a version of its T200 printer that enables users to print full-color photo-quality images. With the new T200+, users can switch from full-color graphics printing to four-color or monochrome output....

Speedy digital press.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Designed for transaction, direct mail, print-on-demand, identification, and security applications, the Nipson (Elk Grove Village, IL) 8000 SED digital single-engine duplex production press incorporates cold flash fusing, eliminating heating,...

Flexible printer.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... According to Canon (Lake Success, NY), its i860 Desktop Photo Printer also is an all-purpose printer that achieves up to 4800X1200 dpi color resolution and speeds of up to 23ppm. A key feature of the i860 is ContrastPLUS, a five-color ink...

True cost of CTP.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Ever wonder what it really costs to operate a CTP solution? Available now from J Zarwan Partners (Charlottetown, PEI, Canada) is a white paper titled "CTP Plate Making: Understanding the Real Costs." Based on research with users of CTP...

ICC color profiling.(NewProducts)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... With ColourKit v4.0, users can create, edit, and process color profiles. Developed by Fujifilm (Hanover Park, IL) in accordance with the version 4 ICC specifications, this ICC profiling software comprises modules that can be purchased as a...

Mark Twain's folly.(Frank Talk)
February 1, 2004... It was 9 feet long, weighed 3 tons, and had 18,000 parts. Its 109-character keyboard was arranged so that entire words could be assembled by the operator in one stroke, using all fingers of both hands. At the end of each word, a word key was...