Electronic Publishing articles from November 2000

Electronic Publishing archives from November 2000

Olympic exposure.
November 1, 2000... Everyone likes to get involved with a high-profile project, and when it comes to the vendor community in the graphic arts market, the recent Olympic Games provided a chance to talk about such cases. Any supplier whose products found their way...

Alchemedia unveils clevercontent.com.
November 1, 2000... Alchemedia Technologies Inc. (San Francisco) debuted its Web-based service, Clever Content Creator, during Seybold. Leveraging the protection technology inherent in the company's Clever Content Server, which was released in June, Clever...

IPA ECONOMIC SURVEY.
November 1, 2000... Profit figures indicate uncertainty A full half of the IPA Economic Survey respondents report that profits in the second quarter are down over the previous quarter, while better than 40 percent see a profit increase over the same period...

Ansyr Technology demos Primer PDF.
November 1, 2000... Ansyr Technology Corporation (Seattle) premiered its Primer PDF viewer software application for Palm OS handheld computers. The latest addition to the company's Primer family of PDF-centered products, Primer PDF is designed to assist Palm...

MetaCommunications upgrades products.
November 1, 2000... MetaCommunications (Iowa City, IA) released upgraded versions of its Job Manager and Virtual Ticket software solutions, while also debuting InUnity. InUnity 1.0 is a server-based software application designed to assist graphic arts...

EFI announces future plans, products.
November 1, 2000... On the final day of Seybold San Francisco 2000, Electronics for Imaging Inc. (EFI; Foster City, CA) announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire Splash Technology. The transaction, valued at roughly $146 million, is intended to...

B2BXchange presents VerticalXchange.
November 1, 2000... B2BXchange Inc. (Minneapolis), a wholly owned subsidiary of VirtualFund Inc., demonstrated its Commerce Environment Operating System (CEOS) and Internet-based business-to-business software services. To date, more than 1600 VerticalXchange...

Macromedia unleashes Flash 5 bundle.
November 1, 2000... Macromedia Inc. (San Francisco) has started shipping the newest version of Flash, its professional authoring tool for creating unique and interactive web experiences. Boasting such users as BMW, IBM, and Kodak, Macromedia Flash 5 technology...

Olympus unveils 4-megapixel Camedia.
November 1, 2000... Olympus America Inc. (Melville, NY) presented the Camedia E-10, reportedly the first 4-megapixel filmless digital SLR camera. Offering a choice of image-quality modes, the Olympus Camedia E-10 incorporates an RGB Interlaced CCD capable of...

Sharp demonstrates the new AR-C250.
November 1, 2000... Sharp Document & Network Systems of America (Mahwah, NJ) exhibited its AR-C250 Digital Color Imager copier/printer to the Seybold crowd. Targeted at the mid-volume graphic arts and print-for-pay markets, the Sharp AR-C250 achieves up to...

Color-Art, PDF, and contact corrections.
November 1, 2000... Scott Bury's article in the August issue, "Why not hi-fi color?," wrongly stated that "Progress Printing uses Fuji Color-Art, which has a Hexachrome color set but still only four colors." Licensed by Pantone in 1998, Fuji's Color-Art does...

More than a DRUPA repeat.
November 1, 2000... The past two months have been full of surprises. Graph Expo--expected to he just a North American review of DRUPA--turned out to be an event with some exciting new products. Xerox (www.xerox.com) continues its march deep into the commercial...

Jim Freidah.
November 1, 2000... An electrical engineering degree from MIT and a keen interest in programming led Jim Freidah into the graphic arts industry more than 20 years ago. During college, Freidah worked for a local printer, where he developed software to automate a...

BRIDGING THE GAP.
November 1, 2000... The expansion of digital papers, combined with advances in digital printing technology, help bridge the gap between digital and offset printing. As the variety of digital media increases for digital presses (plateless presses from Xeikon,...

Digital Papers.
November 1, 2000... As the following charts demonstrate, a vast array of media is currently available for use in digital printing applications. The first list depicts the substrates qualified for Xeikon-engine-based digital presses as of July 2000, the second...

Thinking outside the box.
November 1, 2000... AS COMMERCIAL PRINTING EXPERIENCES SOME STAGNATION, PACKAGING GROWTH ENABLES DESIGNERS, PREPRESS HOUSES, AND PRINTERS TO TAP INTO NEW REVENUE STREAMS. Over the past few years, the industry has been a hotbed of discussion about change....

Proof positive: PDF for variable data, on-demand printing.
November 1, 2000... PDF technology proves a valuable tool in taking variable and short-run print jobs direct to press. We all know that an accurate press proof is important as a benchmark sample against which to compare the finished job. When we've reached...

Packaging design firm offers clients workflow solutions.
November 1, 2000... Marketing By Design Launches new company to track and maintain data for existing and new customers. How many corporations today focus on the needs of their internal creative departments when installing and implementing IT infrastructures?...

NFL uses WebWare's online ASP to instantly feed images to the media.
November 1, 2000... Internet solution helps the NFL to manage its brand assets and streamline the image distribution process. For Paul Spinelli, director of NFL Photo Service, distributing the NFL team images to the media was no small task. With 31 teams,...

Bringing businesses online.
November 1, 2000... B2BXchange's VerticalXchanges provide companies free Internet, intranet, and extranet sites. Despite the availability of several low-cost, and even no-cost, tools for the design and creation of websites, most small and medium-size...

Unpacking Suitcase 9.
November 1, 2000... Extensis Product Group upgrades Suitcase with Windows and Suitcase Server support. I just might be my IT contact person's worst nightmare. As I have virtually no skills in the hard-drive housekeeping department, my desktop is littered with...

QuarkXPress support.
November 1, 2000... Altamira Group Inc. (Burbank, CA) debuted its Genuine Fradals PagePro XT XTension for QuarkXPress during Seybold San Francisco. Altamira's latest release enables creatives to import, crop, and resize files that have been created using the...

Minolta print management.
November 1, 2000... Minolta (Ramsey, NJ) demonstrated Velocity Balance, an advanced workflow management software solution, to Seybold San Francisco attendees. Developed by Electronics for Imaging, Velocity Balance meshes multiple print engines on a network into a...

Color by Dietzgen.
November 1, 2000... Dietzgen Corporation (Palatine, IL) has complemented its Color by Dietzgen line of media with PosterBright coated color bond. A 6.5-mil high-tech bond, PosterBright inkjet media yields an average 95 percent brightness and incorporates a smooth...

printCafe PCX.
November 1, 2000... printCafe (Pittsburgh) has added job definition format (JDF) to printCafe PCX, an interface specification for e-business solutions and print procurement for printers and buyers. Because JDF is in the development stages of becoming a public...

From 2D to 3D.
November 1, 2000... Having recently acquired PuppetTime and assumed control of Systems In Motion, Cycore (San Mateo, CA) exhibited Photo2Cult software. Jointly developed by Cycore and RealViz, Photo2Cult enables designers to convert 2D photographs or video into...

NEC flat panel.
November 1, 2000... NEC/Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America Inc. (Itasca, IL) released the NEC MultiSync LCD1800 flat-panel desktop monitor. Priced at $2499, the NEC MultiSync LCD1800 boasts an 18.1-inch viewable area, native 1280x1024dpi UXGA resolution,...

ColorQuick solution.
November 1, 2000... ColorQuick.com (Pennsauken, NJ) unveiled its ColorQuick business-to-business solution during Seybold. Targeting the printing and publishing market, ColorQuick is an online service designed to save users time and money through automated...

Corbis collections.
November 1, 2000... Corbis Images (Seattle) released red, a print and online catalog showcasing a comprehensive collection of the company's images. Developed expressly for graphic artists, red incorporates celebrity portraits, photos from Corbis Images' news...

Protecting digital content.
November 1, 2000... Vyou.com Inc. (San Jose, CA) released Vyoufirst, a digital rights management software solution that protects streaming media, such as Flash, QuickTime, Real Media, and Windows Media streaming content. Installed on a publisher's web server,...

Not your average bug.
November 1, 2000... ColorVision Inc. (Rochester, NY) launched three new products--the Monitor Spyder, Doctor Pro, and Profiler Pro--during Seybold. The Monitor Spyder encompasses a monitor calibration unit and a choice of either OptiCal or PhotoCal monitor...

XT Connector.
November 1, 2000... Worldweb.net Inc. (Alexandria, VA) released its Expressroom I/O XT Connector, a content extraction plug-in for QuarkXPress. Easing the process of repurposing documents for cross-media publishing, the new XT Connector enables users to convert...

Roland releases.
November 1, 2000... Roland DGA Corporation (Irvine, CA) presented the Hi-Fi Jet Pro in two models, the FJ-400 and FJ-500, during Seybold. Reportedly the first variable-droplet, wide-format printer, the Hi-Fi Jet Pro achieves 1440x1440dpi resolution in eight...

Online resource center.
November 1, 2000... Fatbrain.com (Santa Clara, CA), while demonstrating its web-based Information Exchange service, announced that its customer base had doubled in size in six months. Fatbrain.com provides companies with online resource centers that serve as...

Guard your brand.
November 1, 2000... BrandGuard (Chicago) debuted its Internet-based global brand management and marketing solution, which implements the Enterprise version of North Plains Systems' TeleScope media asset management system. BrandGuard archives a client's digital...

Business Zone.
November 1, 2000... GretagMacbeth (New Windsor, NY) unveiled at Seybold San Francisco a group of technologies for color management and control. Referred to as the iBusiness Zone, the products are focused on the creative and prepress markets. ICSync, an ICC monitor...

Convoq community.
November 1, 2000... Convoq Ltd. (New York City), an application service provider formerly known as DGNonline, debuted several collaborative services available through its web portal at www.convoq.com. Convoq's hosted applications are designed to facilitate...

OpenType release.
November 1, 2000... Adobe Systems Inc. (San Jose, CA) announced the availability of six new OpenType fonts. The OpenType font format was jointly developed by Adobe and Microsoft Corporation to simplify font management, ensure cross-platform compatibility, and...

E-procurement system.
November 1, 2000... At Seybold, lmageX.com (Kirkland, WA) revealed several enhancements to its Corporate Online Printing Center. An online print procurement system, the Corporate Online Printing Center is designed to optimize the management, approval, and delivery...

Printer's Dashboard.
November 1, 2000... Printable.com (San Diego) was on hand during Seybold San Francisco 2000 to demonstrate its Printer's Dashboard e-business solution. A customizable system that combines a web presence with online printing and workflow efficiency services,...

MightyWords subsidiary.
November 1, 2000... MightyWords (Santa Clara, CA), a subsidiary of Fatbrain.com, presented www.mightywords.com, a digital marketplace for unique written content. Incorporating a proprietary digital rights management technology, www.mighty-words.com provides...

WYSIWYG Color.
November 1, 2000... E-Color (San Francisco), a member of the Minolta-QMS Inc. Essential Imaging Partner program, introduced Colorific monitor calibration software. The purpose of this color matching software is to provide consistent color from monitor to printing...

Jaws premier.
November 1, 2000... A subsidiary of Harlequin, Jaws Systems Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) released version 2.0 of its Jaws PDF Creator software. The latest version adds support for PDF 1.3, the ability to embed Base 14 fonts, the launch of Adobe Acrobat Reader...

Online experience.
November 1, 2000... At Seybold recently, printChannel.com (San Francisco) launched a customizable version of its online print procurement solution. MyprintChannel enables print vendors to customize the look of their printChannel ordering workflow. Scheduled to...

Color accuracy.
November 1, 2000... Praxisoft LLC (Sterling, VA) presented several color-matching tools at Seybold. The Mach 1 ICC-based RIP incorporates a proprietary microweave technology, a photorealistic dithering pattern, and the company's own VectorPalette technology....

Kodak input and output.
November 1, 2000... Kodak Professional (Rochester, NY) unveiled two new film scanners and a large-format printer during Seybold in San Francisco. The RFS 3600 scans negative and positive 35mm film and boasts a 3600dpi maximum optical resolution, dynamic range of...

DIG35 spec.
November 1, 2000... During Seybold Seminars, the Digital Imaging Group (DIG; Millbrae, CA) released the DIG35 Metadata Specification, the result of 18 months of collaboration between such DIG35 member companies as Adobe, Eastman Kodak, and more. A platform,...

Vio Enabled FlightCheck.
November 1, 2000... Markzware (Santa Ana, CA) and Vio announced the release of their collaborative product, Vio Enabled FlightCheck, at Seybold San Francisco. Markzware's FlightCheck will preflight and collect a job and then send it on to the receiver through the...

FLEXSTOR.net.
November 1, 2000... FLEXSTOR.net (Eden Prairie, MN) has released a newly enhanced version of FLEXSTOR.db, an architecture for consistent database and content management. The newly enhanced version offers support for Java technologies and also features XML data...

ImagePump CMS.
November 1, 2000... Xippix (Larkspur, CA), an Internet imaging company, announced plans to create a product in conjunction with GretagMacbeth, provider of color measurement and management systems. ImagePump CMS (color management solution) is an imaging application...

DALiM Software.
November 1, 2000... DALiM Software GmbH (Kehl, Germany) announced it is shipping version 4.2 of its TwiST workflow and LiTHO page composition and retouching software. The new updates include support for a wider variety of file formats including PDF/X, Scitex...

Preview and print.
November 1, 2000... Preview Systems (Irving, TX) announced that Xerox Corporation is distributing its Preview System 500 as part of a complete package, dubbed the Xerox/Preview Digital Color Comping/Proofing Solution, In addition to the Preview System 500, the...

DjVu all over again.
November 1, 2000... LizardTech Inc. (Seattle) revealed a new product at Seybold that offers a new way to create and deliver portable documents. DjVu is a document imaging technology acquired from AT&T Labs that converts any scanned paper document in to a...

Publishing automation.
November 1, 2000... DeskNet (New York City) announced the latest upgrade of its automated publishing technology, DeskNet APS 2.5. This software enables users to manage and control their data by automating the assembly and distribution of documents. DeskNet APS 2.5...

Wireless DRM.
November 1, 2000... RightsMarket Inc. (Calgary, Canada) premiered its digital rights management (DRM) software solution for Windowspowered, handheld devices. Utilizing Ansyr Technology's PDF viewer technology, the RightsMarket DRM system protects digital content...

QuarkCopyDesk debut.
November 1, 2000... Quark (Denver) announced a beta version of QuarkCopyDesk Special Edition, a text-processing and editing application created specifically for writers and editors. QuarkCopyDesk SE incoporates the text-processing and typographic features of...

Corporate communications.
November 1, 2000... Cirqit.com (Whippany, NJ), an application service provider to Fortune 2000 businesses, demonstrated its suite of software applications aimed at streamlining the workflow of corporate business communications. Among the company's many web-based...

digital gallery: Nancy Davis.
November 1, 2000... Nancy Davis of Las Vegas, Nevada, creates illustrations with Macromedia FreeHand on her Umax Supermac for clients including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, and Microsoft. Davis has been using FreeHand for...

Seven phases in the life of a document.
November 1, 2000... A document is any packaged piece of information designed to be communicated. After it is communicated, it becomes knowledge. For instance, the data inside a computer is not a document until it is output in some form intelligible to a human...