Electronic Publishing articles from June 2001

Electronic Publishing archives from June 2001

Direct-to-trash.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... KEITH V. HEVENOR If you can print and distribute a book or magazine only as you know a reader is interested, you eliminate all the stockpiling of materials and you reduce all associated costs. Over the years, I've heard Frank Romano...

A Colorful Era.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... 1900-1920 One prevalent theme for these years is color. Albert Munsell helped to define color as it is known in the industry by establishing the Munsell System. Printing inks were vastly improved during this time, enhancing printed...

McMillan Foundation recognizes Earl Wilken.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... In a ceremony at Seybold Boston 2001, the Tom McMillan Foundation presented its third annual Award for Editorial Excellence to Earl Wilken. Boasting more than 35 years as a graphic arts industry journalist, Wilken worked as a technical editor...

IPA ECONOMIC SURVEY.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2001... Income and outlay hold steady in Q4 The results of the IPA Quarterly Economic Survey for the fourth quarter of 2001 indicate that collection time on accounts receivable was roughly the same in Q4 as previous months for more than half of the...

Group Logic upgrades MassTransit.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Group Logic's (Arlington, VA) MassTransit 4.0, a "Hot Pick" at Seybold Boston 2001, is presently offered in two versions: MassTransit Professional and MassTransit Service Provider Edition. Version 4.0 of the file-transfer tool adds enhanced...

MediaRights protects data.(Elisar Software Corp)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Maker of digital rights enforcement solutions, Elisar Software Corporation (Albuquerque, NM) demonstrated its MediaRights application while exhibiting at Seybold Boston. While also boasting platform independence, MediaRights enables users to...

BrightVu makes its debut.(Torque Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Seybold Boston attendees were among the first to witness BrightVu, the latest innovation from Torque Systems Inc. (San Francisco). Targeted at marketing, design, and production professionals, BrightVu encompasses MySQL software, compatibility...

Epson unveils new printer.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Epson America Inc. (Long Beach, CA) turned heads at Seybold Boston 2001 with its latest wide-format printer, the Stylus Pro 10000. The new inkjet printer is capable of outputting six-color photographic prints at a maximum width of 44 inches and...

Hahnemuhle launches media.(Hahnemuhle Paper Mill Digital Fine Art Papers)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... During Seybold Boston 2001, The Hahnemuhle Paper Mill (Moorestown, NJ) launched two new grades of its William Turner 100% Rag Mould Made Watercolor paper. Part of The Hahnemuhle Collection of Digital Fine Art Papers, the new natural white...

Vio Worldwide bids farewell to industry.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... After carefully reviewing the business and exploring alternate funding options, Vio Worldwide (headquartered in Herts, England) announced that it will cease operations by the third quarter of 2001. Vio, which has already begun to contact...

Hewlett-Packard debuts printer and media.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) announced new additions to its LaserJet printer and large-format media families. Designed for use not only as a high-volume production printer, but also as a general office device, the new...

Olympus premiers cameras.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Olympus America Inc. (Melville, NY) expanded its line of digital cameras with the introduction of two new models, the Camedia D-510 Zoom and Brio Zoom D-150. Boasting 3X optical and 9X digital zoom with Auto Focus, the Camedia D-510 Zoom...

Extensis improves preflight.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... The Extensis Product Group (Portland, OR) of creativepro.com Inc. continues to expand the functionality of its Preflight Online solution. In fact, according to Extensis senior product manager Joe Schorr, the Preflight Online development team is...

Gretag Imaging premiers Eye-One.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Making a buzz at Seybold was GretagMacbeth LLC's (New Windsor, NY) new Eye-One color-measurement and management solution. Developed specifically to address the needs of the creative market, Eye-One comprises profiling software and measurement...

Prolatus enters the industry.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Seybold Boston set the stage for the debut of Prolatus Inc. (Minneapolis), a new software company catering to the graphic arts industry. Formed by the long-time digital photography and prepress professionals that founded ColorCentric.com,...

FullPress 11.0 supports PDF.(Xinet Inc. releases upgraded products)(Product Information)(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Xinet (Berkeley, CA) recently released an upgraded version of its popular FullPress prepress server solution and its new WebNative Venture database. FullPress version 11.0 adds PDF functionality to its present offering of file-serving,...

The shows of spring.(Trade shows introduce new products)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... One of the annual rites of spring in our industry is Seybold Boston. Over the last few years Seybold has changed from a show that was print-and publishing-centric to one that focuses on the E-economy. Although this distressed many longtime...

Imaging without wires--Part III.(exchange images and video using wireless digital recording device)(Brief Article)(Column)
June 1, 2001... There's a new technological revolution about to hit the imaging business and change it in ways considerably more profound and pervasive than any to date. It's the always-on, accessible-anywhere, high-bandwidth version of the Web. In a few short...

Jim Thrush.(discusses Xitron)(Interview)
June 1, 2001... Jim Thrush was first bitten by the graphic arts bug in high school, where he took several printing classes. His pursuit of the graphic arts resulted in a B.S. in Printing Management from Western Michigan University after which he was hired as a...

WIDE-format OPPORTUNITIES.(wide-format printing offered by several companies)
June 1, 2001... Although in this day and age, it can be a battle just to stay in the game, many industry players are delving into unique, uncharted territories and having a ball. Not long ago, uttering the words "wide format" likely would have conjured up...

Wide and superwide.(format printers, manufacturer and models listed)
June 1, 2001... Wide- and superwide-format printers are beginning to mimic computers in that the technology is advancing at such a rapid pace, older models cannot hold a candle to the latest offerings in terms of media handling, resolution, speed, or price....

INSIDE co or management.(products and standards)
June 1, 2001... The latest on what color management is, how it works, and what tools are available. COLOR MANAGEMENT as a predictive tool has been around for decades: before anyone ever heard of Photoshop, printers and color separators adjusted process...

Capturing legacy content: a primer for action.(electronic publishing products)
June 1, 2001... Just because your older content isn't digital doesn't mean it's worthless. At the recent Seybold 2001 show in Boston, repurposing--a fancy term for legacy conversion--was all the rage. The release of the latest version of Adobe Systems'...

Digital proofing saves hours in production.(Vermilion printing and prepress company)
June 1, 2001... This New England printer finds the right combination of equipment to speed time to press. When Nashua, New Hampshire, printer Souhegan Color merged in January 1999 with Eastern Rainbow of Derry, New Hampshire, one of the nation's leading...

"A different kind of printer".(digital textile printing)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... With a Carolina Textile Printer, this service provider finds its niche: it outputs textile samples and indoor signage and banners on a variety of fabrics. After spending years in the textile and fashion garment business, Dale Youngman and...

New color printer helps company speed marketing material to customers.(John Hancock Financial Services Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... A Xerox Phaser 790 tabloid color laser printer helps company meet aggressive deadlines while expanding its offerings to customers. To the folks in the Group Insurance Division at John Hancock (Boston), one of the largest insurance and...

Breakfast of champions.(standards for electronic print and publishing industry)
June 1, 2001... A venerable standards-setter releases its ninth edition. Has it kept up with the digital age? Some parts are wise, others dead wrong, but it's always an interesting read. It used to be thought that the healthiest kind of breakfast started...

Resuscitate your workflow.(with CreoScitex's oXYgen)
June 1, 2001... Looking to breathe life into your imaging workflow? CreoScitex's oXYgen might be just what the doctor ordered. One of the catchwords in the imaging business today is "repurposing." What it infers is that an image captured for one...

Certifiably PDF.(Enfocus Software Certify PDF 1.0)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Enfocus Certify PDF 1.0 instills PDF workflows with accuracy, responsibility, and consistency. Once upon a time, a way to track edits to a PDF file did not exist. On those occasions when an error made its way into a file, finger-pointing...

New in wide format.(inkjet printer/press from Durst-Dice America)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Durst-Dice America (Rochester, NY) demonstrated its Durst Rho 160 high-performance industrial production inkjet printer/press for the Seybold Boston crowd. Designed for high-volume photographic, commercial, and screen printing applications,...

Three new eCommunities.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... During Seybold, PrintPlanet.com (Charlestown, MA) launched a new information site. Formerly a division of Digital Art Exchange (DAX) Inc., PrintPlanet.com is the result of a joint venture between DAX and City Information Services,...

Vision of the future.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Seybold Boston attendees got a glimpse of Markzware Software's (Santa Ana, CA) latest innovation, FlightCheck Vision. The company's new preflighting solution enables users to customize their own preflighting workflow using prescripted hot...

Hablador integration.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Hablador CMS 2.5 from Hablador Inc. (Seattle), named a Seybold "Hot Pick," is a browser-based, customizable web content management solution offering support for Internet, intranet, and extranet sites. Hablador CMS 2.5 is Java-based, features an...

Savin laser printer.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Savin Corporation (Stamford, CT) unveiled the Savin SLP32 black-and-white network laser printer. Capable of up to 32ppm at 600dpi resolution, the SLP32 supports numerous paper types in sizes up to 11x17 inches. Savin also offers a variety of...

Imposition upgrade.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... During Seybold Boston 2001--roughly two months after the release of the previous version-Dynagram Software (Quebec City) demonstrated DynaStrip 3.3. This latest version of Dynagram's digital imposition solution supports the importation of Preps...

Piranha bites again.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Piranha Inc. (Freehold, NJ) exhibited its new Byte 2.0 and Byte Server 2.0 while exhibiting at Seybold Boston 2001 recently. Byte 2.0 not only sports a new Java-based user interface, but also supports Sun Solaris and Intel Linux platforms as...

Virtually accurate.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Imation Corporation (Oakdale, MN) has partnered with RealTimeImage Inc. to develop the Imation MatchPrint Virtual Proofing System. The new color-accurate virtual proofing hardware/software solution incorporates Imation's color proofing and...

Canvas 8 release.(from Deneba Software)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Deneba Software (Miami, FL) announced the availability of Canvas 8 for Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, and NT systems. The company anticipates shipping a Mac version (with support for Apple's OS X) of its popular illustration application in...

Camedia duo.(digital cameras)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Olympus America (Melville, NY) recently introduced the Camedia Brio D-100 and Camedia C-700 Ultra Zoom digital cameras. Geared toward first-time users, the D-100 sports an Auto Focus Olympus lens with digital 2x telephoto, a shutter release...

DAM TeleScope.(from North Plains Systems Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Provider of enterprise-wide DAM solutions, North Plains Systems Corporation (Mississauga, Canada) released TeleScope Enterprise 6.1. Equipped with the company's MIMiX Metadata Interchange Model in XML and Database Brokers database abstraction...

Pretty as a picture.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Corbis Stock Market (CSM; Bellevue, WA) debuted the most recent addition to the Corbis Stock Market Library. The 15th CD in CSM's Idea Disc series, the Portraits collection comprises more than 3000 traditionally licensed images of a variety of...

Myfujifilm.com launched.(Web site of Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Having just relocated to a brand-new building in Hanover Park, Ill., Fuji Photo Film U.S.A. Inc. introduced a website designed exclusively for the graphic arts industry, www.myfujifilm.com. Enhancing the relationship between printers, trade...

Ansyr on the go.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Ansyr Technology (Bellevue, WA) exhibited its Mobile Office, PageSharing, and Components and Tools solutions during Seybold Boston 2001. Offering support for PDF forms, images, digital signatures, and more, Ansyr Mobile Office enables users to...

100x smaller.(LizardTech Inc. partners with Altamira Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... In a press conference at Seybold Boston, LizardTech (Seattle) announced its plans to acquire Altamira's Genuine Fractals technology. Strengthening LizardTech's presence in the digital camera and scanner market, the acquisition transfers the...

Simply BESTColor.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... BESTColor USA Inc. (Westchester, OH), the U.S. subsidiary of BEST GmbH, presented its patent-pending BESTColor ScreenProof solution at Seybold Boston. With support for network and local printers, ScreenProof enables users to produce a...

Mozquito Factory.(Mozquito Technologies)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Having recently opened its first U.S. office in Boston, Mozquito Technologies presented its Mozquito Factory 1.5 and Mozquito Matrix Server 1.5 to the Seybold audience. An XML editor and transformation engine, the Mozquito Factory comprises two...

A visit to Color Central.(ScenicSoft Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... ScenicSoft Inc. (Lynnwood, WA) introduced version 4.0 of its Color Central OPI and print management solution. Providing support for JPEG images and CopyDot files, the Color Central 4.0 upgrade is priced at $750, yet it is free to users of...

Copy and print at 75ppm.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Pitney Bowes Office Systems (Trumbull, CT) unveiled the DL750, a digital copier/printer capable of outputting up to 75ppm and a maximum of 550,000 impressions per month. The DL750 sports an Electronic Document Handler, Job Store Mode, Scan...

MonacoEZcolor.(Monaco Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Monaco Systems Inc. (Andover, MA) unleashed an upgraded version of its MonacoEZcolor color-management application. Designed to assist users in building, editing, and applying ICC profiles, the MonacoEZcolor 2 upgrade features an improved...

Versaware news.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Versaware Inc. (New York City) demonstrated its Digital Content Exchange Network (DCEN) for publishers at the most recent Seybold. Versaware enhances printed and electronic content supplied by a publisher, preparing it for delivery to web...

ColorBlade ships.(graphics software)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Studion Inc. (New York City) exhibited its ColorBlade plug-in for Adobe Photoshop at Seybold Boston 2001. Described as a color appearance matching tool, ColorBlade assists professional photographers and their clients in preparing files for...

My media is sealed.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... SealedMedia (San Francisco) demonstrated its content-sealing and licensing solution in its Seybold booth. A production-ready system for sealing and managing the use of online content, SealedMedia's technology protects a variety of digital...

Not brain surgery.(graphics software from Visual Infinity)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Visual Infinity (Toronto) premiered Grain Surgery 1.0 during Seybold. A suite of Adobe Photoshop plug-ins, Grain Surgery includes a number of specialized filters designed to remove, add, or match film grain and noise in digital images while...

Sensitive to pressure.(pressure-sensitive pen sensor)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... During Seybold, Wacom Technology Corporation (Vancouver, WA) demonstrated its PL500 LCD Interactive Pen Display, coupled with GretagMacbeth's Eye-One spectrophotometer system for a variety of monitors, including flatpanel displays. Wacom also...

Xante's CLP.(color laser printer)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Xante Corporation (Mobile, AL) released the ColourLaser, its latest color laser printer. Providing high-quality, continuous-tone output at 175 lines per inch with 256 shades of each CMYK color, the Xante ColourLaser offers 13x19-inch oversized...

Intuitive text.(online conversion tool)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... A provider of services for Internet and ePublishing initiatives, SoftWin (Bucharest, Romania) launched an online conversion tool, located at www.intuitext.com. SoftWin's intuitext content structuring and conversion service automatically...

LucisArt debuts.(image-processing application)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... Image Content Technology (New Britain, CT) launched LucisArt, an image-processing application. Designed for use by photographers, graphics designers, and artists, LucisArt is a plug-in to Adobe Photoshop for Windows. Capable of correcting...

Managing PDFs.(Dynamic Document Solutions L.L.C.)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... PDF Day at the Seybold conference in Boston spotlighted a number of innovative PDF tools, including IntelliDoc's PDF-Manager, available from Dynamic Document Solutions LLC (Fenton, MI). The PDF Manager is a suite of six productivity tools...

Scrounging to organize photos.(Scrounger Enterprise workflow tool for digital images)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... MerlinOne (Quincy, MA) presented the Scrounger Enterprise NT-based workflow tool for digital images while exhibiting at Seybold Boston. Designed to address workflow issues as companies migrate to digital photography, Scrounger Enterprise is an...

First stop, ProfileCity.(standalone profiling application)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... ProfileCity.com (Cardiff by the Sea, CA) unveiled ICC Scan, its first standalone profiling application. A Photoshop plugin, ICC Scan provides users a one-button color profiling tool for use with virtually any scanner. ProfileCity is now...

Mohawk Paper Mills Inc.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Mohawk Paper Mills Inc. (Cohoes, NY) introduced its latest swatchbook of premium papers for digital printing applications. Mohawk's digital swatchbook sports a new look and an expanded selection of digital papers. Among the recent additions to...

Georgia-Pacific Papers.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Georgia-Pacific Papers (Atlanta) released a swatchbook and two brochures showcasing its paper line. The new full-color, fold-out swatchbook highlights Georgia-Pacific's family of high-performance technology papers. Whereas color-coded tabs and...

Agfa Consumer Imaging.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 1, 2001... Agfa Consumer Imaging (Ridgefield Park, NJ) presented the next generation of its Agfacolor Professional Laser Paper. Agfacolor Professional Laser II Paper boasts an improved High Density Emulsion System (HDES), which helps achieve higher...

DuPont Teijin Films.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... DuPont Teijin Films (Wilmington, DE) announced that it has entered into a co-marketing agreement with LexJet Direct to market and promote LexJet Direct ChromaPro Professional Photo Film. This desktop inkjet media incorporates DuPont Teijin...

All the news that's fit to watch.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2001... In 1970 there were 122 newspapers per 100 households; in 2000 there were 50 newspapers per 100 households. In 1970, 75 percent of adult U.S. citizens read a newspaper; in 2000, 56 percent of adult U.S. citizens read a newspaper. Today, one-...