The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from July 1991

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from July 1991

Intel memory for HP. (memory expansion cards) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Continuing to add to its line of memory expansion products, Intel has introduced memory expansion cards for the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIP, III, IIID and IIIP printers. Like other HP printer memory expansion products, the Intel Matched...

GP cuts SpectraStar prices. (General Parametrics' SpectraStar 400 series of color thermal wax transfer printers)
July 22, 1991... General Parametrics has announced lower prices for its SpectraStar 400 series of 300-dpi color thermal wax transfer printers. The SpectraStar 430, which includes 6 MB of RAM, hardware PostScript-compatibility and a 20-MHZ 80960 processor,...

CD-ROM publishing software. (Meridian Data Inc.'s Personal CD Publisher) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Meridian Data has introduced a software-only version of its CD-ROM publishing system. Called Personal CD Publisher, the $2,795 package runs on '386 PCs. It allows the user to organize files on a hard disk using a "virtual ISO 9660 format."...

PostScript output tests.
July 22, 1991... The Australian Institute for Graphic Arts Research (VFG-GLV) in Vienna, Austria, has developed a PostScript Test Target for verifying the output quality of PostScript imagesetters. The test kit, which is offered in Mac and PC formats,...

Memory upgrade for IIIsi. (Pacific Data Products, HP LaserJet IIIsi laser printer) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Pacific Data Products has announced a single inline memory module (SIMM) upgrade for the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet IIISi printer. One-megabyte and four-megabyte versions of the module are available. The 1-MB version costs $136; the 4-MB...

Apple boosts CD-ROM. (AppleCD SC Plus CD-ROM drive) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Apple has announced an improved CD-ROM drive, called the AppleCD SC Plus. It feature automatic lens cleaning and remote setting of the audio volume control by software. Apple also claims that the new drive is 25% faster. At $799, it is...

SuperMac 24-bit card. (SuperMac Technology Inc.'s Spectrum/8 24 PDQ) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... SuperMac has introduced an accelerated 8/24-bit Macintosh display card priced at $1,399. The Spectrum/8 24 PDQ comes in two versions, one for NuBus models and the other for the Mac IIsi. (The IIsi version includes an adapter for the Mac's...

Aldus helps designers enhance color images. (Gallery Effects volume 1: Classic Art) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Aldus recently demonstrated an add-on software package called Gallery Effects, volume 1: Classic Art. Gallery Effects gives a graphic designer a way to transform color, gray-scale and bitmap images into sophisticated art. Designers can...

Apple and IBM gang up on Microsoft.
July 22, 1991... BELATEDLY RECOGNIZING that market share in the '90s depends on setting the software standards for the desktop, Apple and IBM have joined forces to develop a portable, open operating system. It will run on a range of central processors,...

A desktop view of compound documents.
July 22, 1991... TWO MONTHS AGO, in an article prompted by the announcement of the Advanced Computing Environment (ACE) initiative, we outlined the components we believe will be necessary to achieve a "professional-level desktop" that will serve desktop...

The Apple/IBM alliance: doing the unthinkable. (includes related article on major points of the Apple/IBM deal)
July 22, 1991... AFTER WEEKS OF intense meetings, "secret" trips by Apple executives in IBM corporate jets, and rampant press speculation, IBM and Appel have agreed to form what amounts to an "anti-Microsoft" alliance. On July 2, the two companies signed a...

Apple, Microsoft, IBM and consumer electronics.
July 22, 1991... IBM and Apple exchanging technology after long, secret negotiations. . . . IBM selling Novell software (and XyWrite, too). . . . Apple talking with Sony about possible joint ventures, technology swaps. . . . IBM cutting deals with Lotus,...

Compound documents: interchange and integration. (includes related articles on PostScript interchange, Publishing Interchange Language and Document Style, Semantics and Specification Language)
July 22, 1991... IT'S THE 1990s. You're running System 7 on your Macintosh, creating a monthly sales report. Of course, you "subscribe" to other key sales information in order to prepare your report. Unfortunately, there's one problem. The accounting...

Microsoft refocuses printer software unit.
July 22, 1991... Last month, saying it wanted to focus more on Windows printing solutions, Microsoft reorganized its TrueImage software team. Cal Bauer, president of the Microsoft Printer Business Unit, has resigned. The Taiwan-based TrueImage software...

Ventura utilities tag, index, manage files. (Trinity Software's Ventura Control utilities for Ventura Publisher) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Trinity Software is offering a series of utilities for Ventura Publisher users under Gem or Windows. They are collectively called Ventural Control, and there are currently five functions: Tag and Index speed the preparation of text files;...

Alphatype sets prices for multi-master fonts. (Alphatype Desktop Publisher's PostScript Library, Alphatype Professional Typographer's PostScript Library) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... UK distribution reorganized Alphatype has announed a plan to offer its font library in two PostScript versions. The Alphatype Desktop Publisher's PostScript Library will be digitized from font masters of a single size, while the...

Ventura to market UK Database Publisher. (Ventura Software's Ventura Database Publisher written by GTG Software Limited) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Ventura Software announced that this fall it will begin marketing a database program, to be called Ventura Database Publisher. The program was written by a UK firm, Graphics Technology Group Software Limited. It has been sold in England...

Magazine Rack: first mass-market CD-ROM. (Information Access Co.) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Ninety bucks, 300 magazines Are you ready to be impressed with a CD-ROM disc that has no multimedia components? The recently released Magazine Rack CD-ROM from Information Access Company delivers the full text (but not page images)...

Dayna offers Ethernet card for slotless Macs. (Dayna Communications Inc.'s DaynaPort E/Z) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Coax, 10Base-T versions Dayna Communications has announced an Ethernet adapter for "slotless" Macintoshes (Plus, Classic, Portable) and single-slot Macs (SE, LC, IIsi) that already have a card occupying their slot, Called the...

LaserJet network interface cards. (HP) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Significant speed increases possible Hewlett-Packard has announced six network-printer interface cards for connecting LaserJet III, IIID, IID and Series II printers to Novell or 3Com 3 + Open local area networks. The cards replace the...

This month in the computer industry.
July 22, 1991... Dos 5 makes a splash. The biggest piece of recent news in the PC industry, other than IBM and Apple cooperating, is the arrival of MS-DOS 5.0. A nice improvement over the legendarily quirky version 4.0 and the older 3.x, it adds features...

Sony shows 3-1/2" rewritable optical disk. (Sony Magnetic Products Group of America, Optical Media Division) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Adds read-only discs in same format Sony has introduced a 3-1/2" rewritable optical disc for desktop computers that holds 128 MB. The drive features 40-millisecond average seek time, which is pretty ho-hum for even a low-end...

Microsoft's BallPoint Mouse saves real estate. (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Responding to the needs of portable and laptop computer owners who want to mouse around on the road, Microsoft recently introduced the BallPoint Mouse, a trackball version of its popular mouse that clamps onto the side of a computer's...

PDP's PacificPage XL: fast and reliable. (Pacific Data Products) (Hardware Review)
July 22, 1991... When we last compared Pacific Data Products' (PDP) PacificPage PostScript clone cartridge for the HP LaserJet family with its competitor from HP, we found it deficient in terms of both performance and quality. Since then, PDP, along with...

Phoenix announces color OEM products. (Phoenix Technologies Inc.'s Color Controller Manufacturing Kit and Color Developers' Kit) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Phoenix Technologies has announced two color printer products aimed at printer OEMs. The Phoenix Color Controller Manufacturing Kit and the Color Developers' Kit are designed to enable printer manufacturers to add color PostScript devices to...

Book review. (Collier's Rules for Desktop Design and Typography)
July 22, 1991... What's more important: what you say or how you say it? Style or substance? Beauty or virtue? We pondered these questions as we read Collier's Rules for Desktop Design and Typography (Addison-Wesley, 1991; $14.95). There's an impressive...

Japanese NetWare. (Novell K.K.'s NetWare 3.1J) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Novell recently formed a joint venture with Softbank, Canon, Fujitsu, NEC, Sony and Toshiba to develop a Japanese version of NetWare. The new company, Novell K.K., has now begun shipping NetWare 3.1J. The documentation and screen messages...

Caere improves Typist. (Caere Corp.'s Typist 1.1) (product announcement)
July 22, 1991... Caere improves Typist. Caere has released the Typist 1.1, an improved version of its handheld scanner and OCR software for the Macintosh. New features include System 7 compatibility; the ability to scan images at 75, 150 or 300 dpi; image...

Dashes' Irish distributor. (Circle Noetic Services' Dashes Xtension to be distributed by CompuSense)
July 22, 1991... Circle Noetic Services, whose Dashes Xtension provides foreign-language hyphenation for Quark Xpress, reports that the product will be distributed by Donal O'Connor of CompuSense. CompuSense is located at 10 Glincool Rise, Ballincollig,...