Electronic Publishing articles from September 2003

Electronic Publishing archives from September 2003

Something old, something new.(Editorial)(Gutenberg Bible online)
September 1, 2003... What would Johann Gutenberg think if he were able to see scholars, students, or anyone at all, for that matter, sitting in front of a computer screen studying the pages that he painstakingly created more than 500 years ago? Certainly he would...

Esko-Graphics platesetter images polymer and silver plates.(tech news)
September 1, 2003... Esko-Graphics (Ghent, Belgium) added to its family of violet PlateDriver CTP systems two high-speed models capable of imaging violet polymer and violet silver plates. Utilizing a 40mW FreeBeam laser, the PlateDriver 4HS exposes up to 46...

Collection time remains nearly the same.(Economy Survey)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
September 1, 2003... The results of the IPA Quarterly Economic Survey for the fourth quarter of 2003 reveal that although collection time will hold steady for almost three-quarters respondents, capital spending will increase for a slight majority of them. Visit...

Apple unleashes Power Mac G5.(tech news)
September 1, 2003... According to Apple (Cupertino, CA), its Power Mac G5 features the world's first 64-bit desktop processor and the industry's first 1GHz front-side bus, making it the world's fastest personal computer. Powered by the PowerPC G5 processor...

Fujifilm announces two new printing plates.(tech news)
September 1, 2003... The Graphic Arts System Division of Fuji Photo Film GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany) is shipping two new printing plates. The Fujifilm Brillia LH-PCE is a burnable, positive-working thermal plate featuring Laser Heatmode Positive Compatible...

Agfa launches new platesetters, film.(tech news)
September 1, 2003... With the Elite versions of Agfa's (Ridgefield Park, NJ) :Xcalibur VLF large-format and :Xcalibur 45 8-up CTP platesetters, users can image with screening solutions including FM (:CristalRaster), XM (:Sublima), and AM (:Agfa Balanced...

Fusion's new DigiPage produces plate-ready files.(tech news)
September 1, 2003... Fusion Systems International (Portland, OR) is shipping DigiPage 4.0 for Mac OS X, which combines new RIP technologies--including the new TrapPro automated raster object-based, inline trapping solution--with Apple's Mac OS X operating system....

Creo intros new Leaf Valeo, enhances UpFront software.(tech news)
September 1, 2003... Creo Inc. (Billerica, MA) announced a new Leaf Valeo digital camera back and a new version of its UpFront digital production planning software. The Leaf Valeo 22 boasts, a 22-megapixel CCD and several features designed for in-studio and...

New Canon camera combines creativity with portability.(tech news)
September 1, 2003... Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Lake Success, NY) launched its new PowerShot G5 digital camera. Housed in a rugged black enclosure, the PowerShot G5 features a 1/1.8-inch, 5-megapixel CCD sensor that captures 2592x1944-pixel images with high detail and...

Supplier acquisitions heat up over the summer.(tech news)(graphic arts industry)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... A recent flurry of acquisition activities includes news coming from X-Rite, Enovation, Punch, and SAVVIS, among others. A number of the announcements came out within a few weeks of each other and signal the beginning of another busy fall...

Corrections.
September 1, 2003... The "PDF for Print" article in the June 2003 issue misidentified the Fuji Photo Film RIP solutions. The correct names for the products are the CV5 and the CVx5. For more information, visit www.fujifilm.com. Also, the Resource Guide to...

Enfocus Software creates online resource for PDF specs.(tech news)
September 1, 2003... Enfocus Software (San Mateo, CA) launched a new website, www.CertifiedPDF.net, that acts as an online resource for PDF specifications and related content and is designed to ensure that users involved in PDF workflows reliably share the most...

Ricoh releases new Aficios.(tech news)
September 1, 2003... Ricoh Corp. (West Caldwell, NJ) is offering the Ricoh Aficio CL7000 Color Laser Printer Series, as well as the Ricoh Aficio 2035/2045 series of multifunction products. The Aficio CL7000 Series comprises the CL7000 printer and CL7000CMF,...

Calendar.
September 1, 2003... SEPTEMBER Seybold San Francisco 8-12 San Francisco Graph Expo 28 Oct. 1 Chicago OCTOBER Xplor Global Conference and Exhibit 26-29 Atlanta JANUARY Graphics of...

Tales of a quiet summer.(What's New)
September 1, 2003... The summer of 2003 will certainly go in the record books as one of the quietest summers in our industry in a long time. OK, so most summers are pretty quiet, but this one was almost a "sleeper." If not for CeBit America...

Venkat Purushotham.(Perspective)(NexPress Solutions LLC)(Interview)
September 1, 2003... With experience as a print shop owner, an advanced degree in photographic science, and more than 20 years in various positions at Kodak, Venkat Purushotham was the perfect choice to lead NexPress Solutions LLC, the joint venture formed in...

Beyond prepress and print: value-added services are key to the future success of print providers.
September 1, 2003... There was a time not too long ago (this sounds like an intro to a fairy tale), when sales in the print industry closely followed the ups and downs of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In those simpler days, when a slump in the GDP was...

Resource guide to digital proofers.
September 1, 2003... those in the market for a digital proofing solution should investigate not only output hardware (listed here), but also proofing software engines that drive them, such as those from CGS, Best, GMG, and others. For additional product...

Digital proofing delivers results: thanks to rapidly improving technology in writing engines, inks and toners, software front ends, and media, service providers are relying more than ever on digital proofs to meet the needs of their customers.
September 1, 2003... A host of surveys, studies, and other research has shown that digital proofing is not only accepted, but fully embraced in the industry today. Not too long ago, the perceived mystery surrounding digital proofing and the fact that most...

Artist expands reach with creative tactics: inventive marketing techniques contribute to Stephanie Carter's burgeoning illustration business.(design in action)
September 1, 2003... Stephanie Carter generates such an abundance of artwork in numerous styles that you'd think she were really five people. Well, in a way, she is. Carter, a successful commercial illustrator from Vancouver, whose clients include The Wall Street...

A 100-year-old printer finds success in printing products on demand: new digital technology, including the Heidelberg NexPress 2100, enables a New York printer to offer customers the high rate of returns of one-to-one marketing.(in the field)
September 1, 2003... When a traditional printer gives birth to a digital child you can expect a few growing pains in the offspring and more than a few revisions in the "Book of Best Practices" This is certainly the case with digital@batesjackson llc, the...

Fast-growing Sir Speedy grabs a share of the short-run color market: a Sir Speedy franchise prints quality color products by producing its jobs on cross-platform Mohawk paper on its Canon CLC devices.(in the field)
September 1, 2003... Sir Speedy is the world's largest printing, copying, and digital networking franchise with 580 centers in the U.S. The Sarasota, Florida-based Sir Speedy franchise is ahead of the game by living up to the corporate motto of putting quality...

Changing the face of publishing: FlipPublisher assists users in the development of creative, secure, digital publications.
September 1, 2003... E-Book Systems isn't just. making its mark on the publishing industry with the release of its latest software application, FlipPublisher 1.0, it's also stamping it in 24-karat gold! Not an add-on to the company's FlipAlbum 5 Pro,...

Timely file transport: impressive new accessory is useful for digital professionals on the go.
September 1, 2003... Even in this digital age, I have trouble sharing files between my various workstations. As an example, my homeoffice PC formats and saves important files to a 3.5-inch disk that proves useless on my Mac at work, which supports only CDs and...

PDF tool.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Variform PDF Pro from Lantana (Bethesda, MD) is for users who don't want to write custom Acrobat JavaScript code to manage the variable-data printing and data merging processes. With the $349 plug-in, users can choose data from any ODBC data...

Image processors for cameras.(new products)
September 1, 2003... NuCORE Technology's (Sunnyvale, CA) second-generation image processor chipset for digital still and digital video cameras features CleanCapture technology that reportedly reduces image noise, lowers shutter latency, and results in sharper...

Overnight printing service.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Electronics for Imaging (Foster City, CA) and Mimeo (New York City) launched PrintMe Overnight, an extension of EFI's PrintMe mobile printing solution. By logging on to www.printme.com and submitting print jobs via PrintMe Overnight to...

Prinergy enhancements.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Creo (Billerica, MA) announced new trapping and color management technologies for its Prinergy system. The Creo PDF Trapper features automated and manual, press-ready PDF-to-PDF vector trapping and interactive editing, while the Creo Color...

Assets over the Internet.(new products)
September 1, 2003... With Canto's (San Francisco) Internet Client Pro, users can create dynamic web pages from which visitors can search, sort, select, and download images and documents within Cumulus catalogs using a standard web browser. Visitors also can...

Wireless printing.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Samsung (Irvine, CA) is targeting its ML-2100 series of monochrome laser printers at small and medium-size businesses. Compatible'with Windows and Mac platforms, the 21ppm ML-2150 ($399) features a 166MHz processor, 16MB of memory (expandable...

FireWire/USB hard drive.(new products)
September 1, 2003... EZQuest's (Yorba Linda, CA) first FireWire 800 product, the Cobra FireWire 800/USB 2.0 external hard drive, has a FireWire and a USB port, so it can be used to transfer or back up files on Macs and PCs. The device allows data transfer at up...

Prepress color proofing.(new products)
September 1, 2003... According to Onyx Graphics (Midvale, Utah), its Onyx Proof software enables users to generate color-accurate proofs from small-and large-format inkjet printers. At Onyx Proof's core is Onyx ProofCenter software, which allows color proofing...

Durable banner products.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Selling for 79 cents/square foot is LexJet Direct's (Sarasota, FL) Seventh-Generation UltraBanner 19-mil, blockout scrim vinyl banner solution, which is available in 36-inch-by-40-foot rolls for $95,50-inch-by-40-foot rolls for $132, and...

Reader/writer for USB 2.0.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Asante Technologies' (San Jose, CA) FriendlyNET Gini II UMR206 digital memory reader/writer supports Sony Memory Stick, CompactFlash, IBM Microdrive, SmartMedia, MultiMediaCard, and Secure Digital media. With four slots, the Gini II also...

Publishing tools.(new products)
September 1, 2003... OneVision Software AG (Regensburg, Germany) unveiled Asura 5.2 and Solvero 5.2 for ad reception, processing, and output in newspaper and magazine publishing. With these new versions, output options for PDF, EPS, and DCS are handled by...

Compact camera.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Toshiba's (Irvine, CA) PDR-3340 digital camera combines a compact form factor (3.822x2.522x1.422, 5.2 ounces) with a new 3.2-megapixel CCD, AVI extended-play movie mode, and 16MB of internal memory, plus SD memory card compatibility up to...

Impostrip enhanced.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Ultimate Technographics (Montreal) released Impostrip 6.8 for Mac and Windows. This latest free update for supported Impostrip users provides several workfiow enhancements, including updated PostScript filter lists, support for 1-bit TIFF...

XML tool for QuarkXPress.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Key enhancements to Easypress Technologies' (London) Atomik Roundtrip 1.5 XML software for QuarkXPress are support for attribute-driven and contextual rules along with QuarkXPress special control characters. Added features include a default...

Kodak acquisition.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) signed a definitive agreement to acquire Applied Science Fiction's proprietary rapid film processing technology, Digital PIC, and other key assets. Kodak will integrate Applied Science Fiction's...

Hot off the press.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Sybex Inc.'s (San Francisco) new book, Mac 05 X Power Tools, delves into Apple's newest operating system to uncover the most efficient ways to get things done. Author Dan Frakes covers installation, the Finder, networking, security, Unix,...

Online proofing solution.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Using cyan soft ltd.'s (Cyprus) cyan eProof PDF 3.2 online proofing solution, users can correct and approve jobs over the Internet from various locations. The solution requires no software investment for client computers. What's more, a...

CGS enhances ORIS Works.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Version 4.4 of the hotfolder-based ORIS Works workflow automation system from CGS Publishing Technologies Int'l. GmbH (Minneapolis) supports industry-standard PDF/X-la and PDF/X-3 files, and includes ICC color management, job tickets, and...

New TrendSetter interfaces.(new products)
September 1, 2003... Xitron (Ann Arbor, MI) announced new interfaces for the Creo and Heidelberg TrendSetter line of external-drum, thermal platesetters, driving both the 4-up and 8-up versions at full speed. According to Xitron, the interfaces give users the...

Font management and repair.(new products)
September 1, 2003... According to Insider Software (Carlsbad, CA), version 1.3 of its FontAgent Pro is the world's first OS X-native font management and repair utility and the only font manager to offer auto-activation in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,...

Getty revamps collection.(Uncommon Stock)
September 1, 2003... Getty Images (Seattle) recently expanded its royalty-free product offering under the name Photodisc, with improvements including easier accessibility, larger file and comp sizes, and more globally relevant imagery and illustrations. The...

Photos.com boosts inventory.(Uncommon Stock)
September 1, 2003... ArtToday.com (Tucson, AZ) has added 10,000 new stock photos and photo objects to its photos.com website. As a result, subscribers now have access to more than 50,000 premium, royalty-free stock images, including photo objects with clipping...

Rubberball adds 3 CDs.(Uncommon Stock)
September 1, 2003... New CDs from Rubberball (Orem, Utah) include "Silhouettes of Adults 2," "Silhouettes of Youth," and "Photo Caricatures Volume 7." The Adults CD offers diversity in race and attitude, while the Youth CD captures energetic adolescents full of...

Veer expands library.(Uncommon Stock)
September 1, 2003... Two new libraries have been added to the Veer (Calgary, Alberta) stock visual collection. Nonstock Photography and Spots Illustration expand the company's rights-managed and royalty-free offerings, respectively, and address very different...

For more than 150 years, Heidelberg has been developing innovative solutions for the print media industry.(Company Profiles)
September 1, 2003... Heidelberg develops solutions for print media needs from start to finish: prepress, sheetfed, digital and web press systems, postpress, consumables and remarketed equipment. The company is a leader in Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)...

Solving the digital dilemma. Introducing the Noritsu dDP-411 Digital Dry Printer.(Company Profiles)
September 1, 2003... Over the past several years, a growing number of commercial photographers serving government, ad agencies and corporate America have been turning to high-end, professional quality digital cameras as their preferred capture device for...

Latest business advantage not found in MBA textbook.(Company Profiles)
September 1, 2003... There's a hidden revolution taking place right before your eyes. While many people aren't looking close enough to put it to work-those that do are reaping rewards from an important new business advantage. Take a loupe to the newsstand...

Innovative products demonstrate Screen's commitment to the industry.(Company Profiles)
September 1, 2003... For more than a generation, Screen (USA) has been best known for serving the prepress needs of printers. Over the years, Screen has continually added new products, services and capabilities, including color scanners, imagesetters,...

The number one name in digital printing: Printable Technologies, Inc.(Company Profiles)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2003... About Printable Printable is the leading provider of online technology to print suppliers and print management companies, enabling them to offer online ordering, tracking and output of variable data, on-demand and inventory print items...

FINALPROOF TPM hits the market.(Company Profile)
September 1, 2003... Fujifilm has introduced its high-resolution FINALPROOF TPM (thermal proofing material) to the graphic arts market, in conjunction with Creo proofing devices. FINALPROOF TPM is the cleanest, most consistent halftone proofing media available,...

Helvetica and Max Miedinger.(Frank Talk)(Biography)
September 1, 2003... One name is well known and the other is not. This is the story of both the font and its designer. Max Miedinger (1910-1980) trained as a typesetter in Zurich from 1926-1930, and attended evening classes at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. He...