Electronic Publishing articles from March 2003

Electronic Publishing archives from March 2003

Measurable achievement. (Editorial).(IBM, year 2002 patents)(Editorial)
March 1, 2003... Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it," said Henry David Thoreau. If that's true, perhaps no group of people is as busy as the engineers and developers working on new products and technologies at IBM. During...

Apple announcements garner attention. (Tech News).
March 1, 2003... During Macworld in San Francisco, Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA) unveiled its latest innovative new tools, including two notebook computers and a web browser. Priced at $3299, the Apple PowerBook G4 is reported to be the world's first...

iPA Economic Survey. (Tech News).(Brief Article)(Illustration)
March 1, 2003... ipa ECONOMIC SURVEY Prepress posts profits The results of the IPA Quarterly Economic Survey for the third quarter of 2002 indicate an increase in profits for half of the respondents. Be certain to visit www.ipa.org or phone the...

Lexmark unveils new solutions. (Tech News).
March 1, 2003... Lexmark's (Lexington, KY) latest output device and software solution suite addresses the needs of a variety of users. The T420d is a new small workgroup mono laser printer designed to break the $650 price barrier while offering 22ppm,...

Autologic relocates its offices. (Tech News).
March 1, 2003... Autologic Information International (all), a wholly owned subsidiary of Agfa Corporation, announced a change of address. A supplier of CTP solutions and consumables to the newspaper publishing industry, Autologic has moved its office to 2000...

Extensis announces product updates. (Tech News).
March 1, 2003... While exhibiting at Macworld in San Francisco, Extensis Inc. (Portland, OR) introduced Mask Pro 3, an upgraded version of its award-winning masking and selection tools for Adobe Photoshop. A suite of professional masking tools, Mask Pro 3...

Xerox targets mid-range. (Tech News).
March 1, 2003... With its new DocuColor 3535 printer/copier, Xerox (Rochester, NY) is taking aim at the 30-40ppm space, which includes markets such as in-plant and quick print Providing true 600x600dpi resolution, 35ppm color or black and white with an EFI...

Ricoh Corporation presents its Aficio CL5000. (Tech News).
March 1, 2003... The Aficio CL5000, a new color laser printer from Ricoh Corporation (West Caldwell, NJ), recently made its debut. Carrying a suggested retail price of $2999, the Aficio CL5000 achieves up to 1800x600dpi enhanced resolution and output...

Quark Inc. premiers DDS application. (Tech News).
March 1, 2003... Quark Inc. (Denver) launched the Quark Dynamic Document Server (QuarkDDS) enterprise software application. QuarkDDS enables users to view, edit, and create QuarkXPress pages and templates without requiring that they have QuarkXPress...

Calendar.(Calendar)
March 1, 2003... calendar MARCH PMA 2003 Convention and Trade Show 2-5 Las Vegas Xplor Northeast Region Spring 5-6 Albany, NY Meeting The Presidents Conference 2003 5-9 Key Biscayne, FL Graphic Arts 2003, The...

More on the workflow front. (What's New).
March 1, 2003... Last month I wrote that I was finished with my Graph Expo coverage. Maybe I was just a little hasty! Looking at Agfa's Apogee X made me want to take an even closer look at what is happening with other closed-loop workflow products and...

Mike Williams.(WAM!NET CEO)
March 1, 2003... Just a little more than a year ago, Mike Williams left his position at Lockheed Martin and joined WAM!NET as its CEO. Today, WAM!NET is a $60 million, 400-employee company looking to double its workforce and its revenues in the coming year as...

Xerox Corporation. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... New value-added services are the lifeblood of the printing industry, and will become even more critical in the decade to come. Graphic arts service providers need to offer more than ink on paper because their customers' businesses are...

Mohawk Paper Mills. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Digital color production printing will continue to grow. Printing companies of all sizes are looking to digital color as a key source of future expansion. It appears the future of the printing industry will not be dominated by one mode of...

Where does yellow get its fire?(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Find the answer inside your new Mitsubishi Diamond Pro -- the new standard in monitor performance. To see all the nuances, look into a more advanced breed of monitor. The new Diamond Pro [930.sup.SB] and Diamond Pro [2070.sup.SB] with...

Markzware Software. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... In the past 10 years, it has been quite difficult to work with files that were created in previous operating systems and older versions of layout and photo-editing applications. Content that may need to be repurposed or updated is oftentimes...

Stockbyte. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Quarks position as the page creation tool of choice will be dwarfed by a multiplicity of mature online tools aimed at the mass b-to-b audience, who will not have or need today's skillset. These new tools will incorporate color management,...

GMG. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Workflows are slowly moving to RGB because it is a media-neutral file format. Technology has spawned front-end processes, such as digital photography, that capture images in RGB. Ultimately, these images will be proofed and corrected...

DuPont. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Consumer products companies (CPCs) will continue to compete fiercely for top-line growth for the products they sell. The arena for this competition is the retail store, with CPCs battling for prime shelf space and resulting sales using...

Smart Papers. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Technology changes in printing and printing papers will bring significant and positive changes to graphic arts professionals over the next decade. Clients and customers will become more involved because technology enables them to be part of...

Xinet. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... In the next 10 years, the area that will experience the most growth is variable digital printing. As technology continues to improve, printing will move toward smaller print runs with targeted variable data. The area that will suffer the...

Pictorico. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... My areas of expertise are digital photography and desktop printing, areas most affected by the technological innovations of the past decade. Many art directors and ad agencies expect portfolios to be focused on digital imaging. Photographers...

Monaco Systems Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... We have seen consolidations among many key players in the industry. As niche companies and proprietary systems go by the wayside, a select few firms have emerged as industry leaders by offering a wide range of capabilities within their...

DigitalCustom Group Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Consumers' passion for graphic arts and self-expression is driving rapidly growing business segments. Technologies that burden creativity with inconvenience or high costs will disappear as less-expensive, more flexible tools take the lead....

A.B. Dick. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Technology not only creates the ability to do more in less time, but also is the fuel that ignites the engine of change. The speed at which the industry is changing continues to accelerate and will continue through the next 10 years. ...

Toshiba America Business Solutions. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... In today's business environment, the speed at which images and concepts reach diversified target audiences, and their impact, can determine a company's competitive advantage. Creative projects and campaigns will become more complex, forcing...

Minolta. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The creativity of graphic artists will continue to drive improvements in the tools of the trade, such as digital cameras, printers, copiers, and scanners. Color devices will deliver output that approaches offset quality. Costs will continue...

MediaBin Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Today resellers, distributors, and partners are creating marketing material themselves. In the best situations, corporations have enabled distributed production through controlled processes and workflows, in the worst cases, local outlets are...

ThePlatform for Media Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... In the next decade, we'll see two trends: an increasingly multilayered content-viewing experience, and more intercommunication among content creation and management tools. In the newspaper and magazine business, we are beginning to see...

Epson America Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The future lines between creative, prepress, and printing services are merging into the hands of a single designer. It will be standard for the person behind a project's first layout to use an inhouse printer as the key proofing system. The...

Fuji Photo Film U.S.A Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Industry consolidation will continue at all levels--design and creation, publisher/owner, printer/producer, and manufacturer/distributor--mainly due to the predictable economic forces of an oversupplied market. As CTP manufacturers reduce...

Agfa Corporation. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Today's Graphic Enterprise, a system in which business and production systems are seamlessly integrated, needs the newest technologies to meet customer demands and remain profitable. Over the next 10 years, printers will need to invest in an...

Corel Corporation. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Over the last few years we've been enticed by the promise of life-changing information technologies. Companies such as Corel are investing in ways to make this future a better experience for the consumer and for the publisher. Although...

Global Graphics. (The Digital Decade).
March 1, 2003... Newspapers and magazines, mainly under the impact of interactive TV, are likely to suffer over the next 10 years. Whereas many individual titles will fold, the sector as a whole will continue as it finds the correct blend of cross-media...

DALiM Software. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... It has often been said that the future of our industry is content multipurposing. Other milestones will need to be in place before we can automatically optimize a page for offset, gravure, web, and broadcast at the click of a button. With...

Kodak Polychrome Graphics. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Most of the major developments of the "digital decade" will be extensions of trends already apparent in the industry. In the offset printing arena, computer-to-plate will continue to expand its dominance, becoming the technology of choice for...

Printcafe. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... What vision do successful printers have and why does it seem to elude others? Providing high quality, meeting deadlines, and establishing trust have become the cost of entry. Solve problems for your customers while improving your efficiency...

NexPress Solutions. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Most of us lead a multimedia lifestyle that includes a growing amount of tailored, personal communications. As a result, we demand more from the printed page. Print media must continue to be relevant, current, and rich in graphics, and have...

Pantone Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Technology is accelerating at an astonishing pace. The 1990s saw more technological advances than the previous 100 years. The technological advances of the past 100 years were greater than those of the previous 1000 years. Using this...

MAN Roland Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Over the past decade, the graphic arts industry has experienced unprecedented technological change. While our industry has been a leader in applying microprocessor-driven solutions, it has been slow to adopt computer-integrated manufacturing...

Xeikon America Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... It is a cold Monday morning in March 2013. I pick up my personal news bulletin from the doorstep and read all eight pages, containing relevant business information and coverage of my favorite sports teams--all put together just for me. I...

Comstock Images. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Henry Scanlon I don't think Mozart would have been afraid of the synthesizer. I think he would have used it to make sublime music of which no one had ever conceived. From the vantage point of those of us who supply imagery to the...

X-Rite. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Analog proofing is declining at a rapid pace and will continue to decline. Blurring of design, prepress, and photography will continue as digital photography displaces traditional methods. We will see greater integration of media delivery and...

Saepio Technologies. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The graphic arts industry in 10 years will be a much more complex combination of artistic flair, marketing acumen, and technical competency. Driven largely by the mainstream adoption of digital printing technology, the industry will progress...

Latran Technologies LLC. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Driven by new technologies, the graphic arts industry has undergone dramatic change over the past 10 years. All the remarkable advances we've seen are merely a prelude to the exciting developments ahead. Ahead are new solutions that zero in...

Tekgraf Corporation. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Digital inkjet printing will continue to shape, and reshape, the graphic arts industry for years to come. As product quality improves and costs decrease, digital inkjet printing technology will make quality production even more broadly...

Veer. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The future holds opportunity for companies that can lead innovation and establish themselves as not just providers of a product or service, but as partners in the creative process. The Web has become the great equalizer. Nowhere is this more...

Hemera. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... After a decade of technological advances in the publishing world, a back-to-back digital workflow is becoming popular in the royalty-free image industry. Hemera and other image providers are now able to go digital entirely, from the creation...

Electronics for Imaging. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The next 10 years will bring a proliferation of innovative digital printing technologies that make printing faster, more automated, and more efficient than ever. Digital printers will continue to offer increased functionality and connectivity...

Blanchard Systems. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... We can expect more collaborative integration on the supply chain, utilizing JDF and technologies from the CIP4 initiatives. Customers will be more involved with workflows. Why do workflows have to stop at the platesetter? Why not burn plates...

Esko-Graphics. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Reflecting on the past 10 years, it's clear the premise of analog printing has not really changed--it took advantage of new digital technologies. Technologies have evolved the prepress portion of the printing process into what it is today: a...

Oce-USA Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Rapid advances in digital printing technologies are setting the stage for an expansion of business for all printers. The leading trend in commercial printing is the use of digital printing technology. The emergence of digital,...

Matrox Graphics Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Technology will advance at a blistering pace and alter every aspect of the graphic arts industry, bringing a wealth of new opportunities. The processing power of computers will enable increasingly sophisticated content creation packages to...

Photospin Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... In the '80s, ATMs became prevalent throughout the U.S. People thought ATMs would replace bank tellers. In the long run, instead of posing a threat, ATMs presented yet another convenience. Although the industry changed, the options for...

Heidelberg. (The Digital Decade).
March 1, 2003... As Wall Street investors can attest, predicting the future can be a difficult, and risky, exercise. Yet, as Heidelberg looks at what the next 10 years will hold, there are a few certainties. First and foremost, digital printing technology...

WAM!Net. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Analog methods of creating content will slowly disappear, but ink on paper will endure. The Web will become even richer, utilizing features of broadcast and interactive communications, until there's a complete media convergence. Media types...

Nipson America Inc. (Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... A decade ago, the industry realized the impact digital printing could have on print markets in the future. Today, as mainstream marketers, publishers, and financial printers target campaigns with short-run and personalized digital printing,...

Presstek Inc. (The Digital Decade).
March 1, 2003... A critical success factor for graphic arts professionals entering the next decade will be their ability to further increase the efficiency and productivity of their business operation. Print providers will require shorter production cycles,...

Exstream Software. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... As technologies continue to evolve, so will the demand for more personalized communications. Print is not going away; it will be increasingly targeted to the individual. Corporations are recognizing the bottom-line benefits of using valuable...

RealTimeImage Inc. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... By 2013, digital print and remote workflow will have become mainstream, enabling the graphic arts industry to adopt new ways of doing business. We'll see a plethora of new technologies enabling quick, efficient, and almost total customization...

Enfocus Software. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Print, just one facet of cross media, will reach new heights of quality and beauty to be on par with its cross-media cousins. PDF holds enormous promise for many industries, especially graphic arts. Its flexibility, display capabilities,...

Lucid Dream. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... One of the most crucial changes I see is in the area of workflow. Today's production environments typically involve Macs printing pages from Quark to AppleTalk print queues for production RIPs driving imagesetters or platesetters. This has...

IBM Printing Systems. (The Digital Decade).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... The future of print is no longer about adding more capacity, moving to color, or upgrading to the newest technology. It is about enhancing internal and external communications methods, transforming data into information, and leveraging the...

Digital cameras vs scanners: what does the future hold? Many users are making the shift from shooting and scanning film to direct digital capture, yielding efficiencies in quality, turnaround time, and expense.
March 1, 2003... It's commonplace these days to talk about the growing need for digital images in both print and electronic media. As a result, most independent and salaried photographers, graphics professionals, and professional labs are examining the...

Resource guide to high-end scanners.
March 1, 2003... RESOURCE GUIDE TO high-end scanners despite the popularity of digital cameras, scanners maintain a strong following. Below is a sampling of some of the many capable scanners on the market today. For information about any of these...

A toast to distinctive wine labels: rich and polished, a series of wine labels displays a balance of elegance and texture with a high-quality finish. (Design in Action: Wine Labels-Part 1).
March 1, 2003... When Cindy Gander visited Villa Toscano a year ago to enjoy an afternoon of wine tasting in the California Shenandoah Valley, she savored not just the wine, but also the atmosphere. She observed the Renaissance artwork, the Italian-style...

Eureka Printing attracts new business by offering sophisticated trapping: with Lucid Dream's I-Trap solution, this printer handles the most difficult of files and gains a competitive edge. (In the Field).
March 1, 2003... Trapping, in a few words, is both simple and tricky. Simple (in concept), in that spreads and chokes are tried-and-true strategies for assuring better registration on a shifting press so that the white page or component inks don't show...

Trek Bicycle speeds production, tracks jobs with FileMaker pro: by tracking all of its print projects with a database program, Trek Bicycle saves significant time and delivers quality jobs. (In the Field).
March 1, 2003... Even if you have not heard of Trek Bicycle, you probably have heard of Lance Armstrong, a world champion cyclist who has won the Tour de France four times--he rides Trek bicycles. The company produces not only bikes, but also all the...

Contributing web content: Macromedia contribute put me in the driver's seat when it came to updating and contributing content to web pages. (Reviews).
March 1, 2003... Macromedia Contribute 1.0 is a web content contribution product designed to put web publishing in the hands of nontechnical users. With Contribute, administrators, content creators, marketing professionals, and others can edit web content at...

Reliable resource for contribute: Negrino's Visual QuickStart Guide was necessary to fully understand and use Macromedia Contribute. (Reviews).
March 1, 2003... It was kismet! Well, at the very least, it was perfect timing. I was wrapping my brain around Macromedia Contribute for the first time when Peachpit Press announced the availability of Macromedia Contribute for Windows, a Visual QuickStart...

Ileana Frometa Grillo. (Digital Gallery).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2003... Ileana Frometa Grub of Laguna Beach, California, infuses her artwork with bold colors and other influences from her upbringing in Venezuela. Her artwork has appeared in children's books, on the cover of Harald Johnson's new book Mastering...

Gallery opening. (New Products).
March 1, 2003... Formac Electronic Inc. (Berkeley, CA) unveiled the latest addition to its line of LCDs, the Formac Gallery 1740 VGA. In addition to a vast array of Macintosh and Windows systems, the display is compatible with notebook computers having a VGA...

Jaws PDF Editor advanced. (New Products).
March 1, 2003... Global Graphics Software (Waltham, MA) released an upgraded version of its PDF editing and mark-up application, Jaws PDF Editor. Priced at $39 and designed for business and SOHO users, Jaws PDF Editor 2.0 supports PDF 1.4 and 1.3...

Magic showcase. (New Products).
March 1, 2003... InteliCoat Technologies (South Hadley, MA) announced several new additions to its Magic family of substrates. TSG-12 is a 12-mil polycarbonate film designed for frontlit and backlit displays, such as portable trade-show graphics. Compatible...

RIP software upgrade. (New Products).
March 1, 2003... Fujifilm Graphic Systems (Hanover Park, IL) upgraded its CelbraNT RIP workflow to version 5.15. Several new functions have been added to optimize preprinting processes, including object-oriented ICC color management and support for PDF/X....

New Hi-Fi Jet Pro II printer. (New Products).
March 1, 2003... Roland DGA Corporation's (Irvine, CA) FJ-740 is the sixth inkjet printer to join the company's Hi-Fi Jet Pro II Series. The 74-inch, pigment-based printer employs Piezo inklet technology to achieve print resolutions up to 1440x1440dpi....

XML for publishing. (New Products).
March 1, 2003... Provider of XML-based publishing tools, Media Entities Inc. (Boston) announced the availability of XML ToolWorks for QuarkXPress and Microsoft Word. XML ToolWorks is designed to bring the power of XML to the specialized workflows of book,...

Distributing Luscher. (New Products).
March 1, 2003... Enovation Graphics Systems Inc. (Valhalla, NY) has been named as the sole U.S. distributor for the XPose! line of large-format CTP systems from Luscher America Inc. As a result, the XPosel 160 and XPosel 180--CTP solutions that boast 67x54-...

Printing disestablishmentism. (Frank Talk).(Industry Overview)
March 1, 2003... The printing industry is contracting in plants, presses, and people. And that's the good news. In 1992 there were about 48,000 printing companies in the U.S., with about 50,000 plants. Today, we are at about 39,000 plants, run by about 38,000...