The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from November 1990

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from November 1990

An open letter to our readers: Seybold to align with Ziff. (Ziff Communications Company)
November 5, 1990... An Open Letter to Our Readers: Seybold to Align with Ziff WE WOULD LIKE to share some important news with you. Over the years, we have been fortunate enough to build an organization that we believe occupies a special place in the industry....

CPC '90: gathering on the trail to digital communication. (Seybold Computer Publishing Conference, includes a related article on other conference activities, and on how software vendors are performing, and on the Seybold Summit)
November 5, 1990... CPC '90: Gathering on the Trail To Digital Communication THIS FALL'S Seybold Computer Publishing Conference was te fifth since both it and this journal were launched in 1986. The changes we have witnessed in both the publishing and...

Color production: theory and case studies. (tutorial)
November 5, 1990... Color Production: Theory and Case Studies Just as monochrome "desktop publishing" exploded into the mass market in the late 1980s, color publishing tools are now on the verge of a long-awaited boom. However, many of the same questions apply to...

Desktop color software is here, but expertise is still needed.
November 5, 1990... Desktop Color Software Is Here, But Expertise Is Still Needed WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES between conventional and desktop color separation of scanned images? Under what circumstances might a buyer of color printing want to set up a desktop...

News from CPC '90: desktop color prepress equipment. (Computer Publishing Conference)
November 5, 1990... News from CPC '90: Desktop Color Prepress Equipment OUR EXPERIMENT REPORTED in the article preceding this one makes the point that if you have a precision scanner and recorder, and the time and expertise, quality separations can be made...

Color software and systems. (News from CPC '90) (product announcement)
November 5, 1990... Color Software and Systems Barneyscan polishes three programs Three products highlighted Barneyscan's booth: QuickScan 2.0, a new version of the firm's scanner interface software; CIS Color Access, a separation program; and CIS...

Compression products. (News from CPC '90.) (product announcement)
November 5, 1990... Compression Products One of the main subjects discussed at the conference was data compression, and particularly the JPEG standard. For the first time, though, there were products on the Exposition floor to accompany the discussions. These are...

Color output devices. (News from CPC '90.) (product announcement)
November 5, 1990... Color Output Devices Ilford's digital imager The Ilford Digital Photo Imager, previewed at Siggraph and then introduced at the Seybold show, was one of the highlights in the color area. It is a digital color printer that produces...

Color matching systems. (News from CPC '90.)
November 5, 1990... Color Matching Systems For twenty years, Pantone has marketed the de facto standard color matching system, the Pantone Matching System (PMS). It is widely understood and accepted by artists, designers, press operators and supply salesmen....

New Macs meet the Windows challenge. (Apple Macintosh Classic, LC and IIsi)(includes related article on the Macintosh's floppy disk drive troubles; The Latest Word) (product announcement)
November 5, 1990... New Macs meet the Windows challenge In a long overdue move, Apple Computer introduced three aggressively priced Macintosh computers at the bottom of its product line, filling out its Macintosh family. It also adjusted pricing on some existing...

Light Source, NEC marry Mac to VCR: breakthrough product, new company. (Light Source Computer Images Inc.'s Multimedia Toolkit)(The Latest Word) (product announcement)
November 5, 1990... Light Source, NEC marry Mac to VCR Last month, Light Source Computer Images introduced itself and some of its new technology in conjunction with an announcement of its strategic alliances with Apple Computer and NEC's Professional Systems...

Colorocs ships color printer: plain-paper PostScript under $30K.
November 5, 1990... Colorocs ships color printer Colorocs has begun shipments of its plain-paper full-color printer. The electrophotographic printer, including a clone PostScript interpreter from RIPS, carries a suggested retail price just under $30,000. The...

Design and Technology: Erasing the boundaries. (new books)
November 5, 1990... Design and Technology: Erasing the Boundaries Marrying designers, computers. You can--and should--teach old dogs new tricks. That's the premise underlying Design and Technology: Erasing the Boundaries (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990; $29.95), an...

Power Up announces Express Publisher 2.0: TextEffects module adds rotation, curved setting. (Power Up Software Corp.)(The Latest Word) (product announcement)
November 5, 1990... Power Up announces Express Publisher 2.0 Power Up Software has released version 2.0 of its Express Publisher layout program for the PC. Its strongest enhancement is "TextEffects," which enables type to be rotated in 1[degrees] increments or to...