The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from July 1990

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from July 1990

LaserMaster buys The Company; plans retail font product line. (LaserMaster Technologies Inc.)
July 16, 1990... Plans retail font product line LaserMaster Technologies, Inc., known for its fast (but not-quite-PostScript) plain-paper printers, has purchased The Company. The Company will become a division of LMT and will be renamed Digital Typeface...

Medium-resolution printers: new plain-paper alternatives. (includes a related article on print quality comparisons) (Hardware Review) (overview of six evaluations of plain-paper printers)
July 16, 1990... AT THE SEYBOLD SEMINARS held in March of this year, Systems linked the genesis to the invention of a large-format, high-quality (at least 1,000-dpi), inexpensive and fast (20-ppm plus) plain-paper printer. He spoke fervently and with deep...

Chelgraph PPT 600. (Hardware Review) (one of six evaluations of plain paper printers)
July 16, 1990... WE ATTENDED to get one of each of the 600-dpi print engines on the market today for this review, so we were glad we were able to waylay a Chelgraph PPT 600 on its way to ANPA. In the few days we were able to work with it, we made some...

Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet III. (Hardware Review) (one of six evaluations of plain-paper printers)
July 16, 1990... THE HP LASERJET III is a replacement for the now-defunct Series II, equipped with enhanced resolution and an Adobe PostScript cartridge option. Even though it has been compared by some magazines and publications with 600-dpi printers, HP says...

LaserMaster LM1000. (Hardware Review) (one of six evaluations of plain-paper printers)
July 16, 1990... WE HAVE OBJECTED in the past to LaserMaster's refusal to support PostScript fully in their products, but there are some solid reasons for considering the purchase of an LM1000. First of all, it is fast-it consistently outperformed most of the...

Monotype PaperMaster. (Hardware Review) (one of six evaluations of plain-paper printers)
July 16, 1990... MONOTYPE'S PRODUCTS are sold worldwide by direct sales offices and through distributorships. The company's main office is in England, but it has a U.S. facility in Elk Grove, IL. Early this year, Monotype was acquired by Point Plus of the...

Printware 720 IQ. (Hardware Review) (one of six evaluations of plain-paper printers)
July 16, 1990... PRINTWARE IS A mid-size, privately held company with about 120 employees, headquartered in St. Paul, Minesota. It was founded in 1985 by a group of former Sperry employees with the financial backing of Deluxe Check Printers and 3M. They used...

Tegra-Varityper: VT600W, 5060W and 5100. (Hardware Review) (one of six evaluations of plain-paper printers)
July 16, 1990... THE VARITYPER VT600 is a venerable Machine, and one that we have worked with before (see Vol. 2, No. 7). The machine has sometimes been stigmatized as a souped-up 300 x 300-dpi imager. But as far as we can determine, the unit we tested is a...

Factors affecting print quality.
July 16, 1990... Because there are so many print samples in this issue, we felt it appropriate to review briefly how the marking engine affects print quality. For more information on this complex and important topic, we refer you to the several excellent...

About the benchmarks. (plain-paper printers)
July 16, 1990... How and why we did what we did The hardware and the software. In our never-ending quest for the best possible tests, we have added a few new ones to our core test suite of the now infamous Seybold PostScript Benchmark files. In addition,...

Comdex Lite and PC Expo: collage of PC peripherals.
July 16, 1990... FALL COMDEX is the big show for product announcement, and technology introductions. Spring Comdex is far smaller; we go to see how last fall's announcements have turned into real products. PC Expo, an east-coast regional show, is likewise...

Warner New Media debuts The Megillah: prototype for 'television with a steering wheel'. (laser disc player for multimedia)(The Latest Word) (product announcement)
July 16, 1990... Prototype for `television with a steering wheel'. What the world is waiting for is a low-cost, universal multimedia platform, right? Not really. The world already has that-it's called television. The trouble with television is that it is...

IBM creates Multimedia division: to stress educational tools, business training materials. (Multimedia and Education Division will be headed by Lucie Fjelstad) (The Latest Word)
July 16, 1990... To stress educational tools, business training materials IBM vice president Lucie Fjeldstad flew in to join our Digital World Conference on the second day. She announced that IBM has decided to make a major corporate commitment to...

Apple to add multimedia system tools: QuickTime language, new data types. (The Latest Word)
July 16, 1990... QuickTime language, new data types Apple, like IBM, sees extending computing to embrace a much richer mix of data types as being the natural course of events. As you would expect, Apple appears to place far more emphasis than IBM on...

Apple will keep Claris: names Puette as Apple USA prexy. (Robert Puette) (The Latest Word)
July 16, 1990... Names Puette as Appk USA prexy Apple Computer, in a reversal of its earlier announced plans, has decided not to sell Claris Corporation. Previously, Apple had said that it would sen the firm's stock on the open market-that is, take the firm...

DG's Intellibook: two ways to browse. (built on Office Workstations Limited's Guide engine) (Data General Corp.)(The Latest Word) (product announcement)
July 16, 1990... Application of OWL's Guide ideal for creating online documentation Lacking any standard definition of what hypertext is or how it should be implemented, the publishing industry is following the lead of the few vendors delivering products....

Apple announces HyperCard 2.0: staying ahead of Windows. (product announcement)
July 16, 1990... Staying ahead of Windows For the past two years, Apple's HyperCard has been instrumental in proving the mettle of the Macintosh in a variety of interesting applications. HyperCard is an object-oriented programming environment that stands...

HP to recycle toner cartridges. (Hewlett-Packard)
July 16, 1990... Eleven-state test program Hewlett-Packard has begun a six-month test of recycling spent laserprinter toner cartridges. It is not a cartridge refilling program, which most printer makers would like to discourage. Rather, HP will disassemble...

Company news. (Ventura Software Inc.)(Adobe Systems acquires BluePoint Technologies)
July 16, 1990... Xerox Desktop Software, a subsidiary of Xerox Corporation, has been renamed Ventura Software Inc. and has moved to a new location. Although the Xerox subsidiary sells other products, Ventura Publisher is its bread and butter. Xerox evidently...

Going to the electronic grand opera. (Warner New Media's Magic Flute CD-ROM) (Hardware Review) (Trials and Tribulations)
July 16, 1990... CD-ROMs can store both software and music because the underlying data format in both cases is digital. A number of products have recently entered the market to take advantage of that fact, and we think you will see more of them in the future....

Working with words: Inside Information. (Microlytics) (Software Review) (Trials and Tribulations)
July 16, 1990... Inside Information, from Microlytics, is a new Macintosh desk accessory that classifies about 65,000 terms in a structured schema. Based on work by a novelist and editor named Steven Glazier, it is described as "the first new classification...

RadiusTV puts motion video on Mac screens. (Apple Macintosh) (Hardware Review) (Trials and Tribulations)
July 16, 1990... More than just another digitizing board, the RadiusTV system is a hardware/software package that turns your Macintosh screen into a television set with mini image processor. The hardware consists of an Input Processor allowing audio and video...

Tracking utility for PageMaker 4.0. (PMTracker from Edco Services) (The Latest Word) (product announcement)
July 16, 1990... Edco Services has carved a niche for itself by extending the capabilities of desktop publishing software. It is known for its Ventura Publisher hyphenation dictionary, which was incorporated first into the Professional Extension and is now...

Resolutionary war: eight printers that break 300-dpi barrier. (Chelgraph PPT 600, HP LaserJet III, LaserMaster LM1000, Monotype PaperMaster, Printware 720 IQ, and Tegra/Varityper VT600W, 5060W and 5100)
July 16, 1990... ALTHOUGH 300-DPI laser printers have long been the backbone of desktop publishing and are ubiquitous in the modem office, an increasing number of higher-resolution printers have entered the market recently. They are not suited to every...

PC grab-bag: goodies from Spring Comdex and PC Expo.
July 16, 1990... IT WAS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION that the PC-oriented shows this spring would feature Windows 3.0 applications and fast '486 computers. So we went to see what else might be happening. Turns out there's quite a bit. Font rasterizers keep getting...