Electronic Publishing articles from June 2000

Electronic Publishing archives from June 2000

Alive and well.
June 1, 2000... KEITH HEVENOR A study I saw recently predicts that the worldwide volume of print will exceed $1 trillion by 2004. No matter how you break it down, that's a lot of print. According to this study, which was released by Boston-based I.T....

Epson unveils the Stylus Pro Series.
June 1, 2000... Epson America Inc. (Long Beach, CA) announced its new Stylus Pro 7500 and 9500 Series printers, which utilize the company's newly designed engine mechanism. Moreover, the company has started shipping the Epson Stylus Pro 7000 inkjet printer....

Western Lithotech presents platesetter.
June 1, 2000... Western Lithotech (St. Louis), a Mitsubishi Chemical Company, premiered its new DiamondSetter 610SP-100 platesetter. An automated CTP device designed to image high-quality color and black-and-white plates, the DiamondSetter 610SP-100...

Gretag debuts the PlateJet Sapphire.
June 1, 2000... Gretag Imaging (Vancouver, BC) amended its CTP product family with the new PlateJet Sapphire 8-up platesetter. Designed and manufactured by Cymbolic Sciences, part of Gretag Imaging's Professional Imaging Division, the PlateJet Sapphire...

ECRM unleashes the DesertCat 8.
June 1, 2000... ECRM (Tewksbury, MA) announced its first product release to take advantage of the external-drum CTP imaging technologies it acquired from Optronics International. Priced at $179,500, the DesertCat 8 eight-up thermal platesetter...

SGI launches three Visual Workstations.
June 1, 2000... Targeting creative professionals, Silicon Graphics (SGI; Mountain View, CA) introduced a new family of IA-32-based Visual Workstations, comprising the 230, 330, and 550 models. The Silicon Graphics 230 sports a single Pentium III, an...

Pageflex releases XML-based Persona.
June 1, 2000... Pageflex Inc. (Cambridge, MA), a subsidiary of Bit-stream, introduced its Persona XML-based variable-data publishing application for Windows NT. Offered at a price of $1995, Persona enables users to create personalized documents in PDF and...

Authentica extends protection products.
June 1, 2000... Authentica Inc. (Waltham, MA) recently added two new offerings to its line of digital content protection solutions, WebVault and MailVault. WebVault furnishes content providers with permanent, active control over who is permitted to...

Agfa announces its Chromapress CSi.
June 1, 2000... Agfa Corporation (Wilmington, MA) recently premiered its Chromapress CSi sheet-fed digital printing system. A One-Pass-Duplex digital printing system, the Agfa Chromapress CSi is capable of producing up to 960 duplex A4 color impressions...

ibooks.com provides book content online.
June 1, 2000... An e-publishing company for online reference books, ibooks.com (Austin, TX) provides users a service for browsing, evaluating, purchasing, and using digital reference books from leading publishing and technology companies online. Although a...

QMS debuts its magicolor 6100 iLaser.
June 1, 2000... QMS (Mobile, AL) released a new large-format, color laser printer, the QMS magicolor 6100 iLaser. Designed for desktop publishing, graphic design, and prepress proofing applications within Macintosh workgroups, the 11x17-inch/A3 iLaser boasts...

More alphabet soup.
June 1, 2000... Over the past few months, I have written about the effects of the Internet and e-commerce on the ways we do business and our changing workflow. Yet another change is occurring both within and on the outer edges of our business. It is the ASP....

Asset protection takes center stage.
June 1, 2000... Never has there been a marriage made in heaven such as that of the Web and image-driven commerce. If you use images to represent merchandise for sale, or to promote your brand or drive traffic to your products and services, using the Internet...

Dan Whittle.
June 1, 2000... It's really no surprise that Dan Whittle, who received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania and wrote his thesis on laser interaction with metals, now heads a company that produces platesetters. "It's funny how some of the...

Living LARGE.
June 1, 2000... Competition among vendors to produce wide-format printers capable of generating the smallest dots and handling the widest media is largely over. The real winner of this contest is the user who now has a broad selection of excellent products...

EP Resource Guide to Superwide printers.
June 1, 2000... Traditionally, superwide-format printers, up to 16 feet wide, employed airbrush technology to paint images on vinyl at resolutions of less than 25 dots/inch. The low-resolution output was suitable for viewing only at a distance. Typical...

Hitting the gig time.
June 1, 2000... TODAY'S MARKET IS RICH WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF NETWORKING SOLUTIONS THAT PAVE THE ROAD TO A SMOOTH, SUCCESSFUL WORKFLOW. it wasn't long ago that the only fast way to move large files was to save them to removable media, carry the media to the...

Screen helps users embrace PDF.
June 1, 2000... Trueflow relies on the latest Adobe technology to automate workflow. To manage the data stream between design and output devices, prepress companies and printers with their own prepress operations require highly automated workflows....

Imagesetter ups productivity by more than 300 percent.
June 1, 2000... To increase speed and customer loyalty, a commercial printer installs a Fujifilm large-format imagesetter. In the heart of Pennsylvania and at the foot of the Allegheny Mountains, Williamsport is best known as the home of Little League...

Wallpaper composes a Boston memorial.
June 1, 2000... A wall mural at the Boston State House was produced with an inkjet printer and Rexam's paper. Recently, the state of Massachusetts decided to create a memorial at the Boston State House that would honor some of the many accomplishments...

Designers produce print with an impact.
June 1, 2000... For its high-end design, Blackcoffee Design prints proofs on a Tektronix Phaser 780, saving days in production. When the partners at Blackcoffee Design started their company six years ago, they did consume pots of black coffee to power...

Allowing the color problem to fade away.
June 1, 2000... It's easy to acid contrast to an image, if you don't mind butchering its color. A little-known, less-documented Photoshop feature can put your mind at ease. Forget the color! It's easy to get it back, if you know the secret. The millennium...

Music to your eyes.
June 1, 2000... CreoScitex is on target with the EverSmart Jazz flatbed scanner. Scitex and Creo have merged and forecasters have been trying to figure out how the new CreoScitex will handle the Scitex scanner line. Heidelberg, which owns Creo, has long...

Making print magic.
June 1, 2000... The QMS magicolor 6100 N adds pleasing color to business documents. QMS, a member of the Minolta Group, expanded its magicolor series of color laser printers with the 6100. A versatile device, the QMS magicolor 6100 is offered in four...

Savin output.
June 1, 2000... Savin Corporation (Stamford, CT) unveiled several new digital devices. The 2085DP is a network-ready digital output system capable of printing and copying at a rate of up to 85 pages per minute in black and white. Savin's new full-color digital...

Application acquisition.
June 1, 2000... Corel Corporation (Ottawa, Canada) announced its acquisition of MetaCreations Painter, Kai's Power Tools (KPT), KPT Vector Effects, and Bryce from MetaCreations Corporation (Carpinteria, CA). Already offering technical support for these...

Citiplate UV line.
June 1, 2000... Citiplate's (Roslyn Heights, NY) silverless Aqua LHP System aluminum offset plate line is available in four UV-imaging sensitivities and a variety of sizes and gauges. The company also revealed a white paper demonstrating an economical,...

External ZipCD for the Mac.
June 1, 2000... Iomega Corporation (Roy, UT) is shipping its Macintosh-compatible external ZipCD Universal Serial Bus, CD-ReWritable drive. Priced at $279.95, the 4x4x6 drive enables Macintosh users to include up to 650MB of data on a common CD format.

Low-cost lasers.
June 1, 2000... Kyocera Electronics Inc. (Duluth, GA) announced its FS-1200 laser printer, capable of imaging up to 12 pages per minute, and FS-9000 network laser printer, able to output up to 36 pages per minute. The FS-1200 boasts a $649 price point, a...

PostScript RIP option.
June 1, 2000... Rorke Data (Eden Prarie, MN) introduced TIFF/ITeyes, its new freeware application based upon the company's PageComposer file-conversion tool. Enabling Mac users to open and view TIFF/IT-P1 files, TIFF/ITeyes is available for download from...

DocuFLOW suite.
June 1, 2000... SOFHA (Irvine, CA), a provider of OEM digital imaging solutions, unveiled its DocuFLOW advanced print and control software application. Designed for use with input and output devices, DocuFLOW comprises Cluster Explorer, a cluster-printing...

Color control.
June 1, 2000... Color Savvy Systems Limited's (Springboro, OH) ColorControlStation automated color-measurement tool is newly supported by Praxisoft LLC's CompassProfile Printer. In collaboration with Praxisoft, Color Savvy also presented its WiziWYGPro...

Compose yourself.
June 1, 2000... Compose (Sacramento, CA) amended its line of Harlequin-based RIP solutions with the new ProofJet RIP/engine fullcolor printing package. ProofJet comprises the ProofJet inkjet printer, Compose PostScript 3 RIP, Heidelberg's PrintOpen SE, and...

Binuscan upgrade.
June 1, 2000... ColorPro 6.0, the latest version of binuscan's (Mamaroneck, NY) imageenhancement and workflow-management software, is expected to begin shipping by June 15. Version 6.0 features a new interpolation method for high-quality enlargements, full ICC...

B2B Paltalk.
June 1, 2000... Paltalk's (New York City) Voice Over Internet Protocol software is now available for business-to-business communications. Businesses can recieve a free, co-branded version of the Paltalk video and voice software, which enables Paltalk users to...

NPES study.
June 1, 2000... NPES--The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing, and Converting Technologies (Reston, VA) revealed the findings of its recent study, The Future Markets Prepress Equipment and Systems in the U.S., 2000-2005, conducted by Strategies...

Acquisition by Aquent.
June 1, 2000... Aquent (Boston) intends to acquire Houston Creative Connections Inc. (Houston), an agency that has provided creative services to a variety of industries since 1985. The acquisition is said to extend Aquents' client and talent base, enabling the...

Consumables price cut.
June 1, 2000... In an effort to lower digital print production costs, Xiekon (Wood Dale, IL) reduced the price of its color toners and developers. Resulting in a reduced cost per printed page, Xeikon color toners and developers, including the company's new...

Dot-com cooperation.
June 1, 2000... PaperExchange.com Inc. (Boston) and Noosh Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) announced an agreement to jointly develop a standard online paper specification format, designed to furnish noosh.com users easy access to PaperExchange.com's e-marketplace for...

RIP on turbo.
June 1, 2000... Information Presentation Technologies (IPTech; San Luis Obispo, CA) upgraded its TurboRIP multi-platform RIP with Adobe PostScript 3 to version 2.1. IPTech's Windows NT-based TurboRiP 2.1 features in-RIP trapping technology, an improved...

A Monster Floppy.
June 1, 2000... Caleb Technology (Boulder, CO) has released the Monster Floppy, its advanced portable media (APM) device. The Monster Floppy can accommodate up to 144MB of data, 100 times more than a standard 3.5-inch floppy disk. Backward-compatible with...

Charrette.
June 1, 2000... Charrette (Woburn, MA) released its Optix inks and Graphix media, both of which are compatible with the Epson 9000 printer. The Graphix media line comprises Graphix Proofing Paper, a 200-gram coated paper with a low-gloss finish, and Photobase...

Xerox Corporation.
June 1, 2000... Xerox Corporation (Rochester, NY) unveiled five new media choices, which historically have been available only for offset devices, designed specifically for digital printing equipment. The new media includes Digital Laser Harlequin glossy,...

Hewlett-Packard Company.
June 1, 2000... Hewlett-Packard Company's (Palo Alto, CA) Colorlucent Backlit UV printing material was awarded the Digital Printing and Imaging Association's (DPI) VISION Award for best new product developed over the past year. HP Colorlucent Backlit UV...

Rexam Graphics.
June 1, 2000... Rexam Graphics (South Hadley, MA) announced its DMBPC12, a 12-mil frontlit/backprint film that is designed to work with transmitted and reflected light DMBPC12's Lexan polycarbonate base ensures the film's rigidity, whereas its polycarbonate...

Baseview for publishing.
June 1, 2000... Baseview Products Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI) unveiled its ArchivelQue publishing solution, which assists in the creation of a digital asset library. The company also offers NewsEditPro IQue with wordcount, spell-check, and thesaurus features;...

ePage transformation.
June 1, 2000... Electronic Page Solutions Inc. (ePage Solutions; Atlanta) introduced Trans-META to its line of electronic statement presentment (ESP) tools. For mainframe users printing on Xerox equipment, Trans-META is designed to transform statements,...

Internet image manipulation.
June 1, 2000... Andromeda Software (Thousand Oaks, CA) launched www.eFXservices.com, an image-manipulation site powered by its plug-ins. It's configurable Change Image page provides one-click photo corrections and enhancements. Other features are batch and...

Inkjet -- finally.
June 1, 2000... For each of the past 30-plus years, I have attended at least one meeting at which inkjet is named the technology of the future. That future is finally arriving. Two different types of inkjet technology exist today: continuous-flow and...

Online collaboration.
June 1, 2000... Two online entities serving the graphic arts industry, PagePath Technologies (Bensenville, IL) and GOprintercom (Carol Stream, IL), formed an alliance dedicated to furthering business-to-business activities on the Internet. In addition to joint...

dotCool dot-coms.
June 1, 2000... dotCool Inc. (Bonita Springs, IL) debuted its dotCool Builder 2.0 website creation software. Designed for the non-technical user, dotCool Builder 2.0 boasts an auto-layout feature, a built-in image editor, and a library of more than 500...

Artville additions.
June 1, 2000... Artville's (Madison. WI) Spring 2000 royalty-free catalog and Resource Book 4, which ships complete with Resource CD4, are now available. The lastest catalog showcases the company's 15 new collections of illustrations, backgrounds, and...