Electronic Publishing articles from January 2001

Electronic Publishing archives from January 2001

25 years of change.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The ability to adapt to changes in the market without seeming to change too quickly ourselves has been key to the success of Type World...now Electronic Publishing. When TypeWorld began 25 years ago, an editorial on page 2 stated...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2001... FROM EP READERS Yotta, yotta, yotta I read the "Frank Talk" column in the October issue of Electronic Publishing, and feel I ought to comment. While Frank Romano admits that in computing 1000 bytes is really 1024 bytes, he then...

Canon debuts imageRunner.(Canon U.S.A Inc.)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Canon USA Inc. (Lake Success, NY) demonstrated its latest products or the Xplor crowd. The imageRunner 8500 networked office system is a black-and-white digital copier offering optional network printing and scanning functionality. Suitable for...

Approval makes cover shine.(magazine cover design)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... For this, its January issue, Electronic Publishing devised an elaborate cover--which combines metallic ink and foil stamping with the traditional four-color process--in celebration of its silver anniversary. In the past, a color proof for such...

Mixed Q3 sales results.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Recent results of the IPA Quarterly Economic Survey painted a mixed picture for the third quarter of 2000. These companies experiencing an increase in sales and those seeing a decline were almost evenly split during the three-month time period....

Oce presents PageStream.(Oce Printing Systems USA Inc.'s PageStream Triplex and PageStream 110DC-PLUS software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Oce Printing Systems USA (Boca Raton, FL) exhibited its latest releases, including two new PageStream models and a saddle-stitching device, at Xplor's industry event in Miami Beach. Oce announced the expansion of its PageStream family of...

Scitex debuts new devices.(Scitex Digital Printing Inc.'s MPS9500 Miyakoshi Printing System, DataRunnar 520 Mark II and Scitex Data Controller 300)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... During Xplor 2aOD, Scitex Digital Printing (Dayton, OH) introduced two new color printing solutions based on Scitex VersaMark Printing Technology. The MPS9500 Miyakoshi Printing System and the DataRunnar 520 Mark II from Matti Technology...

Xeikon gains attention.(Xeikon America Inc.'s VaryPress T 800)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... Xeikon (Wood Dale, IL) demonstrated personalized and on demand book printing with its color and black-and-white digital printing systems at Xplor 2000 in Miami Beach, Florida. During the conference and exhibition, Xeikon unveiled its new...

Atlas unveils PrintShop tools.(Atlas Software B.V. presents PrintShop ID-Card and PrintShop Visit utilities)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... During Xplor, Atlas Software BV (Harderwijk, The Netherlands) presented its PrintShop Mail production tool for variable-data printing. Available for Macintosh and Windows operating systems, PrintShop Mail includes two new utilities, PrintShop...

A.B.Dick shows ScanMaster.(image scanner)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 1, 2001... A.B.Dick-Multigraphics Company (Niles, IL) just recently introduced its latest innovation, the ScanMaster digital scanning system. For use in digital workflows, the ScanMaster solution is capable of scanning hard-copy pages and sending the...

Lexmark offers forms printer.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Lexmark International Inc. (Lexington, KY) expanded its product line with the addition of the Lexmark Forms Printer 2400 series. Designed specifically to output forms and other business documents, the new Forms Printer 2400 series supports...

Ricoh releases several tools.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Ricoh Corporation (West Caldwell, NJ) also was on hand during the recent Xplor conference and exhibition, highlighting a number of new releases. The company's latest document workflow solutions include input and output devices, and several...

Xerox extends printer line.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Expanding its line of color network printers, Xerox Corporation (Wilsonville, OR) launched its Phaser 790 and 1235 color laser printers at Xplor. The Xerox Phaser 790 tabloid color laser printer reportedly achieves 50 percent faster print...

Konica debuts EV-jetsetter.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Konica Graphic Imaging USA (Glen Cove, NY) expanded its Konica EV-jetsetter imagesetter line with a new model, the EV-jetsetter 9200. Designed with the newspaper market in mind, the Konica EV-jetsetter 9200 images red-sensitive film and...

An Electronic Publishing odyssey.
January 1, 2001... Y2k was here and now it's gone. It was as if all the brouhaha was for naught. In retrospect, I believe all the preparation provided us with great technological strides that will carry us into the 21st century at warp speed. Well, enough of the...

Michael Fitzsimons.
January 1, 2001... Having studied philosophy in college, Michael Fitzsimons considers his background invaluable in helping him appraise the "big picture." After receiving his degree, Michael began his career at Restaurant Associates, where he was instrumental in...

OUTLOOK for 2001.
January 1, 2001... Users prepare for the dawn of another hectic year as outside forces play a more important role. The turn of the century (and Y2K) is a year behind us. And, as the millennium purists pointed out periodically during this past year, the new...

Inkjet printers in production.
January 1, 2001... NEW INKJET PRINTERS PERVADE THE PRINTING MARKET, REPLACING HIGH-SPEED, COLOR LASER DEVICES IN SEVERAL PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS. The latest inkjet technology from companies new to the graphic arts market, as well as from some stalwarts, is...

Wide-format media.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... As the following chart demonstrates, a broad range of media is available for use in virtually any wide-format application, ranging from window graphics to backlit signage to fine-art prints. And as output technology improves in the areas of...

New ads invigorate Whirlpool brand.
January 1, 2001... The "Just Imagine" advertising campaign bucks tradition for home appliance ads and proves highly successful. In an effort to increase brand awareness, Whirlpool Home Appliances shifted the focus of its advertising campaign from its...

Acronyms 101 -- Part II.(A continuing look at the origins of this graphic arts alphabet soup)
January 1, 2001... A continuing look at the origins of this graphic arts alphabet soup The printing and publishing community has always had a vocabulary of its own. We speak in jargon that no one else understands. In the days of hot type, we talked about...

Commercial printer works faster with CTP and digital proofers.
January 1, 2001... With a CTP workflow--consisting of DuPont digital proofers and Agfa Galileo systems--Earth Color meets tight deadlines at its facilities. Full-service commercial printing requires the coordination of many functions, from prepress to...

Wall murals give car museum a boost.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Large photographic displays printed on Rexam media enhance Yankee Candle's Car Museum. Although The Yankee Candle Company is famous worldwide for its specialty scented candles, it is also famous for something else--its flagship store,...

The proof is in the pixels.(The CreoScitex iProof is positioned to impact the proofing market. )
January 1, 2001... The CreoScitex iProof is positioned to impact the proofing market. CreoScitex has a reputation for producing high-quality, and very expensive, equipment. The IRIS group, owned by CreoScitex, has been at the forefront of digital proofing...

Take a bite out of bills.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Piranha Byte compression solution nibbles away at excessive data transmission and storage costs. I've spent countless hours moving between applications to compress files and save them to specific folders on an internal network, or to...

Heidelberg news.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Heidelberg Digital L.L.C. (Rochester, NY) announced that it has entered into a technology agreement with Objectif Lune, provider of variable-data printing software for digital printing. New Heidelberg-manufactured digital high-volume network...

The Stock Market.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Stock Market represents the work of 300 photographers and offers the creative community over 3 million stock images. The American Mosaic 5 Collection and the European Mosaic Catalog and CD-ROM are currently available to the public. The...

Xeikon complementary presses.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Xeikon (Wood Dale, IL) demonstrated how black-and-white and color printing systems can help to complement each other in providing digital printing solutions. The company unveiled the VaryPress T800, a black-and-white toner-based press employing...

Documents made EZ.
January 1, 2001... ABA Inc. (Middletown, CT) announced new capabilities for its EZ-Letter suite of document publishing solutions. EZ-Letter is comprised of a number of products including EZ-Letter Plus, EZ-Letter PC Link, and the EZ-Letter QuarkXTension and can...

Adobe web alliances.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Adobe Systems Incorporated (San Jose, CA) and RealNetworks are collaborating on a project to develop solutions for authoring streaming media, which will enable users to create media content and publish directly to RealPlayer. Adobe will make...

Workgroup document system.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Konica Business Technologies (Windsor, CT) introduced the new 7415 Workgroup Document System. This digital copier-based, multiple function office product can be configured as a copier, printer, fax, or scanner and offers a print/copy speed of...

A new and improved Infoprint.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... IBM (Boulder, CO) unveiled its new Infoprint Color 130 Plus, which incorporates 38 new technologies with patents pending. Some of these new features are: an IBM AFCCU (Advanced Function Common Control Unit) with a four-way 450MHz RISC...

DDS offers PDF-Manager.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Dynamic Document Solutions, LLC (Fenton, MI) announced the launch of its PDF-Manager from IntelliDoc (Denmark). PDF-Manager is a suite of tools that was created to simplify the PDF-making process and offer a significant time savings. The suite...

Attache Webshare 2.0.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Attache Group Inc. (Rolling Meadows, IL) unveiled its latest web-based document solution, Attache Webshare 2.0. This document solution provides an online document repository and works to improve the control over the production and distribution...

IKON print strategy.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... IKON Office Solutions (Valley Forge, PA) announced that it will add high-end page printers from Canon, Ricoh, and Hewlett-Packard Company to its range of offerings. IKON is expanding on its current relationships with Canon and Ricoh by...

Personalization and PDF.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Datalogics (Chicago) partnered with Adobe to create the Adobe PDF Library, a developers toolkit for creating PDFs directly from within an application rather than using a distilling process. Some options included in the Library are optimization,...

PDF in focus.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Enfocus Software (San Mateo, CA) showcased its suite of PDF tools in Miami. PitStop Professional 4.5 for PDF document workflow enables such capabilities as global changes in large PDFs and the ability to modify RGB color problems. PitStop...

Minolta digital printing.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Minolta Corporation (Ramsey, NJ) previewed the latest additions to its line of digital printing systems--the DiALTA CF2001, DIALTA Di550, and Minolta MicroPress WG. The DiALTA CF2001 is a brand-new copier/printer aimed at the workgroup and...

Raising the Barr.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Barr Systems Inc. (Gainesville, FL) introduced a new line of enterprise reporting and data mining solutions for any company, regardless of size or reporting infrastructure. These solutions will include enhanced availability of online reports,...

Hitachi offerings.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... At Xplor, Hitachi Koki Imaging Solutions (Simi Valley, CA) launched its Hitachi Document Solutions program, which aims to provide turnkey document workflow technologies. The program offers a variety of solutions for a number of areas such as...

Danka distributes solutions.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Danka Business Systems (St. Petersburg, FL) presented a number of third-party software solutions at Xplor. Danka and EFI announced that a collaborative effort will result in development of the next version of the Fiery Document Production...

Mohawk Paper Mills.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Mohawk Paper Mills (Cohoes, NY) now provides a selection of papers--Navajo Superfine, Satin 2.0, and Mohawk 50/50--specifically cut to fit the Heidelberg Quickmaster DI. Mohawk introduced its Xeikon rolls in Navajo 90 cover, the heaviest cover...

Crane & Co., Inc.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Crane & Co., Inc. (Dalton, MA) announced Museo, a bright white paper with a surface texture designed for reproduction of digital photographs and artwork. Museo is lignin-free, buffered to protect paper from acidity, and reproduces a wide gamut...

Roland DGA Corporation.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Roland DGA Corporation (Irvine, CA) introduced new Gloss White Paper and Translucent White Film for Hi-Fi JET and CAMMJET printers/cutters. Gloss White was developed for quick printing and proofing applications as well as poster, displays and...

Mead Paper.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Mead Paper (Dayton, OH) unveiled www.meadware.com, a website that will provide paper, technology, and business solutions to the digital printing world. The site features access to market research, technical bulletins, future offerings for...

Cheer Papers.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Cheer Papers (Hong Kong) presented its line of papers in a variety of surface texture including Leatherette Paper, Pearl Paper Holograhic Paper, Metallic Foil Paper, Colored E-flute Paper, and Tissue paper. The company also showed several...

ATI document tools.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ATI (Milpitas, CA) presented two new software tools for document management and output--doc-Q-manager and doc-U-meant. doc-Q-manager is software for Windows NT printer queue management that enables a user to copy or move a job between printer...

AHT connectivity.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Advanced Hi-Tech Corporation (El Segundo, CA) exhibited its OneRIP print server at Xplor. The OneRIP is a PC-based server that can connect to a wide variety of printers--black and white, digital copiers, and large-format printers. It offers...

PatternStream V2.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Finite Matters Ltd. (Goochland, VA) announced PatternStreamV2, the newest version of its database publishing software. PatternStream was designed to enable nonprogrammers to assemble and publish documents directly from existing databases by...

Font management.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... DiamondSoft Inc. (Mill Valley, CA) announced it is shipping its client-server architecture for streamlined font management--Font Reserve Server 1.0. This system enables multiple users to have access to fonts from a single source, while it...

A.B. Dick showcase.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A.B. Dick (Niles, IL) introduced a new dry-process proofing material called DryMatch, which eliminates the need for processors, chemicals, toners, and water. All that is required to use DryMatch is a laminator and an exposure unit. This...

Digital camera for the masses.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... UMAX (Fremont, CA) presented the AstraCam 1800, a 1.3-megapixel digital camera. The AstraCam stores images on a SmartMedia card and outputs in JPEG format, and it offers an optical resolution of 1280x960dpi. Bundled with the camera is Adobe...

Microtek ArtixScan 2500.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Microtek Lab Inc. (Redondo Beach, CA) has created an all-in-one production scanning solution for graphic arts professionals. The ArtixScan 2500 employs dual-lens technology with a resolution of 2500dpi. Microtek's patented E.D.I.T. (Emulsion...

Arbortext targets e-marketplaces.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Arbortext (Ann Arbor, MI) is currently offering Epic Intermarket, an XML-based B2B commerce solution specifically aimed at e-marketplaces with online catalogs. Epic Intermarket supplies these marketplaces with a way to improve the catalog...

Photo Explorer 7.0 Pro.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Ulead Systems (Torrance, CA) unveiled a media management tool for acquiring, organizing, manipulating, and sharing image, video, and other media files. Ulead Photo Explorer 7.0 Pro offers quick image and video capture with the Digital Camera...

Grant Jerding.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... After years as an information graphics specialist at USA Today, Grant Jerding of Springfield, Virginia, ventured out on his own. He now creates photo collages in Adobe Photoshop and infographics in Macromedia FreeHand for clients such as...

Beyond treeware to e-paper.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The most significant display advance on the road to a paperless world will be low-cost, high-quality flat screens. Electronic publishing demands portable displays--lightweight, rugged, and able to operate for hours using lightweight batteries,...