The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from October 1990

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from October 1990

Page Makeup Comparison, Part 2. (creating and producing long and structured documents)
October 3, 1990... Page Makeup Comparison, Part 2 IN OUR JUNE ISSUE, we compared the leading Mac and PC page composition programs: PageMaker 4.0, DesignStudio, Xpress and Ventura Publisher. We focused on composition quality and other distinguishing...

Device-independent color from EFI. (Electronics for Imaging) (Desktop publisher firm EFI-developed color publishing tools)
October 3, 1990... Device-Independent Color from EFI AS USERS KNOW, color publishing has always required a lot of expertise, and has thus largely been restricted to craftsmen and adventurers. Electronics for Imaging, a startup firm, is developing...

The Seybold Editors' Exposition preview. (sneak preview of key products at the Seybold Computer Publishing Exposition)
October 3, 1990... The Seybold Editors' Exposition Preview IN THIS SPECIAL edition, which we will distribute at the Seybold Computer Publishing Exposition, we present a "sneak preview" of some of the key products to be displayed from among more than 250 booths...

HP cuts price on LaserJet memory. (Hewlett-Packard's add-on memory boards for IIP, III and IIID LaserJet printers)
October 3, 1990... HP cuts price on LaserJet memory The price of PostScript just keeps getting cheaper. Hewlett-Packard has cut the price for two of the company's add on memory boards for the IIP, III and IIID printers. The one-megabyte add-on board is now $335,...

Errata; Howtek color scanner.
October 3, 1990... Errata Last month we reported that the Howtek's new color scanner, the Personal Color Scanner, is an 8-bit machine, yet we described the La Cie SilverScanner, which has similar capability, as a 24-bit machine. In fact, both machines record 8...

Long document comparison: FrameMaker, Interleaf, Ventura.
October 3, 1990... Long Document Comparison: FrameMaker, Interleaf, Ventura FOUR MONTHS AGO, we presented a comparison of the leading page composition programs for the Apple Macintosh and IBM-compatible PCs. At the time, we noted the latest features that the...

Electronics for Imaging: quality color on the desktop.
October 3, 1990... Electronics for Imaging: Quality Color on the Desktop ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING (EFI) commenced operations in May 1989. It was founded by a few Scitex veterans to develop products for the (then nonexistent) color desktop publishing market....

Next launches 68040-based color platforms. (The Latest Word) (column)
October 3, 1990... Next launches 68040-based color platforms On September 18, Steve Jobs returned to the site of the original Next announcements extravaganza to unveil an expanded line of Next computers, a new release of the NextStep user interface, a growing...

The new Next computers. (The Latest Word) (column)
October 3, 1990... The new Next computers Next introduced a brand-new entry-level machine, two colro boards and an upgrade kit for existing Cubes, giving it a broader family of workstations. NextStation. For most users, the most important computer in the...

QMS PS-410: personal printer for networks. (The Latest Word) (column)
October 3, 1990... QMS PS-410: personal printer for networks QMS's latest entry in the under-$3,000 PostScript pritner market is a 4-ppm munchkin of a machine based on the same P-110 Canon engine as HP's LaserJet IIP and the Apply Personal LaserWriter. Priced at...

Apple/Adobe sign licensing agreement; Type One/TrueType co-existence? (The Latest Word) (column)
October 3, 1990... Apple/Adobe sign licensing agreement On September 4, Adobe held a telephone press conference at which it announced that Apple had signed a letter of intent for a new licensing agreement with Adobe. Not unexpectedly, Adobe was hesitant to...

Timeworks previews Publish-It Easy 2.0. (desktop publishing software) (The Latest Word) (column)
October 3, 1990... Timeworks previews Publish-It Easy 2.0 This month, Timeworks will announce a new version of its Publish-It Easy software for the Mac ($199.95). Like its more expensive ($395) and powerful "big brother," Publish-It, the Easy version contains an...

Defective power supply in LaserJet IIP. (information for customers who bought Hewlett-Packard's printer before March 1990)
October 3, 1990... Defective power supply in LaserJet IIP Hewlett-Packard has acknowledged that some 70,000 LaserJet IIP printers have defective power supplies and has offered to remedy the situation free of charge. The defect poses no hazard to users, but the...

Array upgrades Mac scanner interface; Speedscanner now offers calibration. (Macintosh version of AS-1 scanner) (The Latest Word) (column)
October 3, 1990... Array upgrades Mac scanner interface Array Technologies has upgraded its Macintosh interface for its AS-1 scanner, introduced for the PC a year ago at the Seybold Computer Publishing Conference. The new Mac version, called the Speedscanner,...

DEC ports DECwrite to OS/2; compound editor, presentation package show strength of CDA. (Compound Document Architecture) (The Latest Word) (column)
October 3, 1990... DECports DECwrite to OS/2 Digital has introduced DECwrite for OS/2, a port of its workstation compound document editor to the PC platform, and DECpresent, a new graphical presentation package for Ultrix and VMS workstations. The two new...

Kodak develops RIP calibration; Prophecy offers imagesetter calibration from the Macintosh. (The Latest Word) (column)
October 3, 1990... Kodak develops RIP calibration Kodak furthered its effort to become known as a vendor of quality color software tools by introducing Presision, a series of software calibration utilities for Macintosh computers. The first program of the...

Editors' guide to new products at the Computer Publishing Expo. (index to companies covered in preview)
October 3, 1990... Editor's Guide to New Products at the Computer Publishing Expo THE ANNUAL Seybold Computer Publishing Conference Exposition takes place October 3-5 at the San Jose Convention Center. It will be the largest Seybold exhibition ever, with...

Color systems. (Computer Publishing Exhibition Preview)
October 3, 1990... Color Systems In this year of the explosion in color, the Computer Publishing Conference will bring together an expansive range of color systems, including some from the high end, some from the low end, some from the old line and some...

Other color products. (Computer Publishing Exhibition Preview)
October 3, 1990... Other Color Products Besides the suppliers of full systems, many vendors will exhibit color scanners, color printers, retouching systems and some other color peripherals, but not high-resolution recorders aimed at producing color separations....

High-resolution I/O. (input/output) (Computer Publishing Exhibition Preview)
October 3, 1990... High-Resolution I/O One of the hot topics of Drupa and this event is the increasing speed of high-resolution PostScript, made possible in part by the Adobe Emerald RIP, which appears in this section except in the case of Agfa, which is under...

Printers, fonts, etc. (Computer Publishing Exhibition Preview)
October 3, 1990... Printers, Fonts, etc. As usual, PostScript and its clones will be a major focus: there will be new emulations, faster controllers, higher resolutions, lower prices. But its new competitor, TrueImage, may steal the spotlight in San Jose. With...

Text composition. (Computer Publishing Exhibition Preview)
October 3, 1990... Text Composition Although we've separated vendors of text-handling software into categories, the world is not really such a well-defined place. Many programs fit more than one category: for instance, Ventura Publisher is also relevant to the...

Specialized editorial features. (Computer Publishing Exhibition Preview)
October 3, 1990... Specialized Editorial Features Text archival/retrieval Micro Dynamics (2310) Micro Dynamics will demonstrate its Multiuser Archival & Retrieval System (MARS), which scans vast amounts of paper and microfilm documents and...

Graphics programs. (Computer Publishing Exhibition Preview)
October 3, 1990... Graphics Programs Graphics appears likely to be one of the quieter categories, although prerelease developments from vendors such as Astral, Silicon Beach and SlideTek will give a taste of advances to come. Adobe Systems (1516) ...

Desktop scanners, OCR. (optical character recognition) (Computer Publishing Exhibition Preview)
October 3, 1990... Desktop Scanners, OCR All three of the high-end OCR vendors whose products we examined in our last issue--Caere, Calera and Xerox Imaging Systems--will have interesting new products to release or preview. But they are not the only exhibitors...

Video. (Computer Publishing Exhibition Preview)
October 3, 1990... Video The Seybold Digital World conference last June reflected the growing overlap and interplay between such fields as computers and video. Several of the latest fruits of that marriage will be wowing visitors. AITech International...

Platforms. (Computer Publishing Exhibition Preview)
October 3, 1990... Platforms Traditionally, vendors of computer platforms use their space to show off interesting applications that run on their hardware. In San Jose, an unusually large assortment of applications will be touting both their own powers and those...

Imaging service bureaus unite; form association to represent common concerns. (The Association of Imaging Service Bureaus) (The Latest Word) (column)
October 3, 1990... Imaging service bureaus unite A group of graphic arts service bureaus has banded together to form the Association of Imaging Service Bureaus (AISB). The nonprofit, international association includes members from image-setter, slide and video...