Electronic Publishing articles from November 2001

Electronic Publishing archives from November 2001

Projected trends: The company will sell airtime rather than the machines themselves, and a spokesperson claims that the projected images achieve a faster and longer lasting memory imprint. (EDITORIAL).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... First there was print, then there was the Internet. We worried that electronic media would displace print as we know it. As it turns out, we actually produce more print today, even though the Internet is widely used and accepted around the...

Entering the 21st Century: 1997-2000. (TIME LINE).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The words "Y2K bug" struck fear in the hearts of many in the years leading up to 2000. The graphic arts was no exception, having become increasingly digital during the '90s. As the situation became a big media hype, life went on in the graphic...

Xerox unveils the iGen3. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT) made several announcements over the course of Print '01, perhaps the most significant of which was the introduction of the Xerox DocuColor iGen3 Digital Production Press. The new system incorporates the third...

Profits improve slightly in Q2. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... espondents to the IPA Quarterly Economic Survey noted a slight increase in profitability between the first and second quarters of 2001. 43 percent of survey respondents expect the upward trend to continue into the third quarter. In other news,...

From barco graphics and purup-eskofot comes BPE. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Barco N.Y. and Kirkbi A/S finalized an agreement to merge Barco Graphics and Purup-Eskofot into a single entity. The name of the new company, tentatively referred to as BPE, will be released in the first quarter of 2002, BPE's European...

Heidelberg sells nexpress. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Heidelberg's (Kennesaw, GA) booth at Print '01 which was so vast and impressive that it housed its own concierge, could not be missed. First and foremost, the company announced that it is now taking orders for the NexPress 2100 digital...

Two from gretagmacbeth. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... GretagMacbeth LLC (New Windsor, NY) introduced an upgraded version of its ProfileMaker software, in addition to the new iCColor 200 Series automated spectral chart reader. In addition to providing control over black width, gray axis, and...

Imation takes matchprint proofing virtual. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... I mation (Oakdale, MN) launched a number of new proofing solutions during Print '01 Imation Matchprint Virtual Proofing, scheduled to enter the beta stage this month, received considerable attention from Print '01 attendees. The new system...

Agfa introduces proofers. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Agfa Corporation (Ridgefield Park, NJ) introduced not only a new violet-laser CTP solution, but also two proofing systems and an enhanced workflow software tool. Targeted at small- to medium-size printers, the Agfa Palladio is an...

HP invests in indigo N.V. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... On the opening day of Print '01 Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, CA) surprised showgoers with the announcement that it has entered into an agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of Indigo. The agreement to acquire all Indigo equity that...

Canon debuts new models. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... During Print 01 in Chicago, Canon USA Inc. (Lake Success, NY) introduced not only a new addition to its imageRUNNER family, but also a new model in its CLC 1100 Series of color laser copier/printers. The imageRUNNER 105 is a black-and-white...

Riso releases digital press. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Riso Inc. (Danvers, MA) premiered the first model in its new series of digital presses. The 8000 Digital Press incorporates the company's new Zykros technology, which creates a V-shaped path within the printing system to print multiple...

Blanchard OEMs SAN tool. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Blanchard Systems Inc. (New Orleans) attracted Print '01 attendees with news of the company's complete Storage Area Network (SAN) solution. Blanchard Systems announced that it has entered into an OEM relationship with Advanced Digital...

Imacon adds progression III. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Imacon (Redmond, WA) unveiled a new scanner designed expressly to meet the needs of today's prepress market, the Flextight Progression III. The versatile new scanner is capable of scanning reflectives of up to 11.75x16.5 inches in size, as well...

Oce releases new printing systems. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Oce (Chicago) premiered its latest printing systems, the CPS700 and DemandStream 8090cx, at Print '0l. The Oce CPS700 Color Production System implements the company's patented Direct Imaging technology to apply toner from seven base color...

Pitman begins scholarship. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... In the memory of its former president and CEO, Pitman Company (Totowa, NJ) established the Robert Pitman Schmidt Memorial Scholarship at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) with a $50,000 initial endowment During Print '01, Pitman...

Kodak shows the new 5260. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Kodak Professional (Rochester, NY) introduced its latest wide-format inkjet printer, designed for high-production and professional service provider environments, to the Print '01 crowd. The first in the company's new line of wide-format...

Exstream presents upgrade. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Exstream Software Inc. (Lexington, KY), out of a new partnership with CreoScitex, has added support for the CreoScitex Variable Print Specification to the latest version of its Dialogue software solution for the creation of customer...

Fujifilm forms new company. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Among the big news at Print '01 was Fuji Photo Film USA Inc.'s (Hanover Park, IL) announcement that it has entered into an agreement to acquire three of the largest Fujifilm dealers: PrimeSource Corporation, Heartland Imaging, and Graphic...

25th anniversary celebrated. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The entire staff of Electronic Publishing wishes to extend its sincere thanks to everyone who attended its reception at Print '01 and, in doing so, helped celebrate its 25th anniversary in style. The anniversary celebration was attended by a...

Printable buys printplanet. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Printable Technologies (San Diego) made several announcements during Print '01, including the acquisition of the PrintPlanet web community and forums. The PrintPlanet.com eCommunity site is home to 18 discussion forums serving the graphic arts...

Calendar. (tech news).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Calendar NOVEMBER Visualizing and Communicating Color 8-9 Rochester, NY Graphics Canada 2001 8-11 Toronto, Canada Publishing on the Web 11-14 Monterey, CA Lithographic...

Hot topics at print 01. (WHAT'S NEW).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Print 01 appeared to come to a halt on September 11, although the show went on with attendance limited to those already in Chicago or close enough to drive. Despite the attack on America six days into the show, more than 66,000 visitors walked...

Gino despeghel. (PERSPECTIVE).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... No stranger to the graphic arts market, Gino Despeghel spent the past 13 years with Graphic Systems, a division of the Dutch group Buhrmann N.V. and an exclusive distributor of Heidelberg equipment in a number of European countries. After...

Signs of substrate sources.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... In the wide-format market, media providers continuously introduce new substrate and ink solutions that help meet the needs of printers and their customers. In fact, in the wide-format inkjet market (24-inch-wide printers and larger), I.T....

Will the real workstation please stand up? The graphic arts industry is, in general, moving away from proprietary hardware in favor of modular, open systems.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... When someone uses the term "workstation," what immediately comes to mind? A Hell Chromacom? Or an Apple G4? Most likely, that depends on your age. Today's graphic arts neophytes are generally unaware that only a few years ago, commercial...

Designing a document strategy: Broadly defined as tools for communication, documents are the means by which a business relates to its customers. (workflow).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... In early human history, primitive tribes documented the movement of bison on cavern walls and outcroppings of rock. The tribesmen painstakingly scribed pictograms in the sediment with stones and bones. The location and timing of the herd's...

Sprinting in poughkeepsie: Spectrum Graphics & Print deploys Digital Plate Master 2340 for a speedy computer-to-plate workflow. (in the field).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... It's a familiar story. If you're a small commercial offset printer competing against the big guys, your edge is speed or you're out of the race. If a client says he wants it by 3:00, you'd better say "3:00 it is" or bust. But it's a fool's...

Affordable color printing helps agency meet tough deadlines, tight budgets: Bringing a color digital printer in-house enables marketing company to quickly respond to clients' printing needs. (in the field).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Remember when color printing was reserved for the rich and famous? When you could not afford to print color with a press run of fewer than 10,000 impressions? Even when color lasers first came out, the cost was measured in dollars per page. You...

Repurpose in an instant: Equilibrium's DeBabelizer Pro 5 saves time and money through automation. (reviews).(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... When looking to trim time and money off their digital workflows, many imaging, publishing, web development, and corporate professionals turn to automated tools. At the same time, an increasing number of firms are repurposing content for a...

Worth another look: Microsoft Publisher boasts new tools of benefit to users and service providers. (reviews).(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
November 1, 2001... In the not-so-distant past, the world was not as open, as forgiving, as it is today. You couldn't take just any file to any prepress or print firm. And you learned quickly that the world could be a harsh place if you were a Publisher user. It's...

MarkUp the proof. (new products).(proofing solution introduced by Prolatus)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2001... Prolatus (Golden Valley, MN) demonstrated its patent-pending MarkUp proofing solution for Print '01 attendees. Markup captures the marks made on a hard-copy proof, creates a digital image file, and delivers the marks to the proofer's prepress...

News fromTorque Systems. (new products).(DAX2 file transfer system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2001... At Print '01, Torque Systems (San Francisco) unveiled its DAX2 file-transfer system, targeted at replacing point-to-point ISDN and other legacy proprietary systems. The DAX2 solution encompasses a T1 connection, hosted or local storage space,...

Inks unveiled. (new products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2001... MacDermid Colorspan Inc. (Eden Prairie, MN) introduced new inks for use with its DisplayMaker Mach 12, Series XII, and Esprit wide-format inkjet printers. Newly available for the DisplayMaker Mach 12 are PermaChrome Pigmented Inks and...

Lite RIP is still a xenith. (new products).(from Xitron)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2001... Xitron (Ann Arbor, MI) presented its new Xenith Lite RIP during Print '01. An entry-level version of the company's popular Xenith Workflow Extreme RIP, Xenith Lite is based on the Adobe PostScript 3 interpreter and supports more than 150 output...

Pantone upgrades. (new products).(HexWare)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2001... Pantone (Carlstadt, NJ) demonstrated the upgraded version of its HexWare software toolset, which includes the latest versions of the HexImage plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and the HexVector plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. Assisting designers,...

Virtual update. (new products).(MetaCommunications upgrades Virtual Ticket to 4.0 version)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2001... MetaCommunications Inc. (Iowa City, IA) upgraded its Virtual Ticket electronic job ticketing and DAM system to a new production platform for printing, publishing, and creative applications. Complete with electronic document, workflow, and DAM...

Break out the black light. (new products).(DayGlo Color Corp.'s fluorescent inks)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2001... Psychedelic, wide-format prints graced DayGlo Color Corporation's (Cleveland) Print '01 booth. Together with Encad, DayGlo announced the availability of DayGlo Fluorescent Inks for Encad's line of wide-format printers. The dye-based inks are...

Comprehensive e-commerce. (new products).(Printanet from httprint and KBA)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2001... At Print '01, httprint (San Francisco) and KBA announced Printanet, designed to speed and smooth the print management process through an integrated, Internet-based workflow. The new e-commerce tool incorporates httprint's e-commerce front end...

Delivering print I/O. (new products).(printChannel.com, Indigo)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... While exhibiting at Print '01, printChannel.com (San Francisco) revealed that it anticipates offering the first commercial release based upon its print I/O platform this month. During the show, printChannel.com and Indigo partnered to...

Violets are. (new products).(Mitsubishi Imaging introduces new CTP solutions)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Mitsubishi Imaging (MPM; Rye, NY) amended its line of CTP solutions with its newest product release, the Silver DigiPlate Alpha Violet CTP aluminum plate. For use with CTP platesetters with 400- to 430nm violet lasers, the new plate achieves...

Moving pictures: UNCOMMON STOCK. (new products).(new collections from Videometry Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Videometry Inc. (San Francisco) added three new titles to its extensive library of royalty-free stock footage designed for multimedia use. The company's three latest collections include Abstracts Volume 1--Backgrounds & Edit Effects, People...

Two new versions. (new products).(Global Graphics Hardware ScanExact II and Cirrus 2)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2001... At Print '01, Global Graphics Hardware (Waltham, MA) premiered its Cirrus 2 entry-level CTP device and ScanExact II scanning software. An internaldrum, B3-format platesetter, the Cirrus 2 comes complete with a Harlequin RIP and SDT 650...

Find it on the first check. (new products).(Kodak Polychrome Graphics introduces First Check desktop color proofer)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Kodak Polychrome Graphics (Norwalk, CT) introduced the First Check desktop color proofer, in addition to Sword thermal printing plates, during Print '01. Targeted at independent graphic designers, packaging designers, and commercial printers,...

Sent certified. (new products).(Enfocus Software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2001... While demonstrating its PDF Profile and Certified PDF core technologies at its Print '01 booth, Enfocus Software (San Mateo, CA) announced that its latest products--PitStop Professional 5.0, PitStop Server 2.0, and Instant PDF 2.0--support the...

Software from Global Graphics. (new products).(Global Graphics Software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 1, 2001... Global Graphics Software (Waltham, MA) presented an upgraded version of its Harlequin RIP Management System and MaxWorkFlow software. Version 5.5 of the Harlequin RIP incorporates InFlight Checker, a PostScript-based utility that scans incoming...

Madison paper company. (MODERN MEDIA).(introduces new lightweight coated five-pound paper)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Madison Paper Company (Alsip, IL) unveiled Connection, a new lightweight coated five-pound paper with high recycled content. The company, currently undertaking a $130 million modernization project to replace its existing equipment with...

Mohawk paper mills inc. (MODERN MEDIA).(introduces Digital Basics 3.0 tutorial)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Mohawk Paper Mills Inc. (Cohoes, NY) presented its new Digital Basics 3.0 tutorial text authored by Frank Romano, Electronic Publishing founder and chair of the RIT School of Printing and Management Sciences. As well as broaching key issues and...

The packaging resources group of westvaco corporation. (MODERN MEDIA).(introduces Crescendo paperboard)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... The Packaging Resources Group of Westvaco Corporation (Stamford, CT) released its new Crescendo paperboard for the packaging market. Available in 190- to 330-gram versions, Crescendo is an ultra-bright, blue-white packaging paperboard coated on...

Yupo corporation america. (MODERN MEDIA).(introduces translucent text stock)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Yupo Corporation America (Chesapeake, VA) introduced TPGA-90, a new 62-pound translucent text stock. Developed for high-end graphic design, advertising, and marketing projects, TPGA-90 heavyweight stock is said to be highly resistant to tearing...

PPG industries. (MODERN MEDIA).(introduces new Teslin synthetic sheet)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... PPG Industries (Pittsburgh) distributed topographical maps of Illinois printed on its new Teslin synthetic sheet to the Print '01 crowd. PPG's Teslin IJ 1000 WP sheet is a waterproof, tear- and temperature-resistant, silica-polymer printing...

Automatic plate loading. (MODERN MEDIA).(from Presstek Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Presstek Inc. (Hudson, NH) previewed its Automatic Plate Loading (APL) System, optional equipment for the Presstek Dimension200 and Dimension400 platesetters. Scheduled for beta testing later this year, the APL System accommodates up to 12...

MicroPress for everyone. (MODERN MEDIA).(from T/R Systems Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... T/R Systems Inc. (Norcross, GA) introduced its MicroPress X Series, which implements version 6.0 of the MicroPress document production server. Designed to make the new product more accessible to a broader base of on-demand customers, the...

Domtar's titanium. (MODERN MEDIA).(opaque printing papers)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Domtar Corporation (Atlanta) released Titanium Opaque, the latest addition to its line of premium opaque printing papers. The new paper is reportedly well suited to graphics and photography applications in which heavy ink coverage is...

Garry Williams. (digital gallery).(corporate illustrator)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Garry Williams' images catch attention--sometimes at trade shows, and sometimes in print or web ads. It helps that the illustrations scream with a wide range of bright colors, and that they convey a concept in a fun way. "I have a whimsical...

The e-book phenomenon. (FRNAK TALK).(explains electronic files on digital displays)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... An electronic book, or e-book, is the presentation of electronic files on digital displays. Although the term "e-book" implies book-oriented information, other content is also displayable on such devices. Static text and images are typically...