The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems articles from April 1995

The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems archives from April 1995

TintPrep for the Mac. (Coddbarrett Associates's graphics software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... TintPrep for the Mac. Coddbarrett Associates has announced a Macintosh version of its TintPrep software for adding color and trapping page elements, stripping pages and adding contone images, and producing PostScript separations. The company...

Pitman to sell ScanMate. (ScanView's color scanners)(Brief Article) (Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Pitman to sell ScanMate. Pitman has signed an agreement with ScanView to distribute its complete ScanMate line of color scanners and ColorQuartet software.

Iris printers for rent. (Iris Graphics and Center Capital Corp to rent Iris color printers)(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Iris printers for rent. Iris Graphics and Center Capital Corp. have launched a program offering one-, two- and three-year rentals of Iris color printers. It offers the advantage of allowing renters to upgrade their machines or change output...

American Color joins Intergraph. (agreement to sell Intergraph's RSG PromoSuite retail software)(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... American Color joins Intergraph. American Color has entered into an agreement with Intergraph's Retail Solutions Group under which it will sell the RSG PromoSuite line for retailers and catalogers for low-cost automation of catalog and retail...

Printware develops new plate. (Platinum plate material)(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Printware develops new plate. Printware has developed a new plate material for use in its 1440 imager. Called Platinum, it replaces the Premium line. The company says it has advantages in resolution, enabling the printing of finer screens and...

International Paper VAR for PrePress. (International Paper Co/ResourceNet International and PrePress Systems)(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... International Paper var for PrePress. The West Region of International Paper Co./ResourceNet International has signed to become an authorized reseller of PrePress Systems equipment, including its Panther line of output devices. The West Region...

DDAP book on open integration. (Digital Distribution of Advertising for Publications Association)(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... DDAP book on open integration. The Digital Distribution of Advertising for Publications Association has released a 74-page book on open process integration. Called The Digital Distribution of Advertising for Publications (DDAP) -- A Practical...

Xante offers Japanese Accel-a-Writer. (laser printer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Xante offers Japanese Accel-a-Writer. Xante has introduced the Accel-a-Writer 8200J, a Japanese version of its 1,200x 1,200-dpi monochrome laser printer based on the 16-ppm Canon LBP-BXII engine. It comes with either seven or 15 Japanese fonts...

New GATF color-control bar. (GATF's Digital Sheetfed Color Control Bar printer support software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... New GATF color-control bar. GATF is offering a new Digital Sheetfed Color Control Bar for Macintosh and dos. The package contains five bars: two 4-color and three 6-color. They sport the advantages of longer use and easy adaptability to...

Purup enters 8-up imagesetter war with the ImageMaker Magnum.(Product Announcement)
April 17, 1995... As crowded as the field of eight-up film imagesetters has grown, it is only appropriate that Purup be among the latest competitors. After all, Purup developed the first internal-drum imagesetter 16 years ago and has been a solid player in the...

Xeikon: the quiet one makes impressive gains with digital press. (DCP-1 digital press) (includes related article about Xeikon)
April 17, 1995... Amid the ongoing promotional hype that pervades this industry, some companies spend much time keeping their image in front of the public, while others maintain a relatively low profile. Such behavior bears no relation to progress in sales and...

Scitex to show early versions of digital press and computer to plate.
April 17, 1995... Unlike last time, when Scitex's pre-Drupa press briefing was held in Israel, this year it took place in the U.S. -- but not at the company's U.S. headquarters in Bedford, MA. Instead, Scitex shipped the press off to Dayton, OH, where it...

Escher-Grad to join CTP crowd at Drupa. (Escher-Grad's EG-2300 and EG-8000 CTP platesetters, and EG-5000 imagesetter)(Product Announcement)
April 17, 1995... Flatbed and drum platesetters Escher-Grad is set to unveil at Drupa a direct-to-plate laser recorder based on its existing flatbed imagesetter, and additional drum imagesetters and platesetters are planned for introduction this year, as the...

USA Today starts online services on Web.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Interaction with reporters and readers USA Today has announced the start of an electronic news service on April 17. Tom Curley, president and publisher of USA Today, claims the service "will set new standards for ease of use, timeliness of...

Delphax in OEM deal for check printing. (Delphax Systems' Gemini print engine to Check Technology)(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Drupa debut for high-speed unit Delphax Systems has signed an oem deal to supply its new, high-speed Gemini print engine to Check Tech- nology of St. Paul, MN, for its next-generation Imaggia MG20 printing system. Gemini incorporates a wide,...

EBT donates software to study Net publishing. (Electronic Book Technologies)(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Picks Berkeley, Darmstadt institutions Under a new grant program, Electronic Book Technologies has donated software to two organizations to aid in projects to study publishing on the Internet. The recipients -- the University of California at...

Linotype-Hell simplifies font licensing charges.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Switches to CPU basis Linotype-Hell has abandoned its procedure of licensing fonts for use on a single output device. Effective immediately, a font package may be used on up to five cpus and one output unit on which the fonts are permanently...

Management tool for newspapers, magazines. (Scoop Deutchland's ProductionStation printer support software)(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Dynamic updates of changed pages The fast pace of developments in the prepress area during the last few years has left some issues addressed inadequately. Among them is production management in a desktop-based environment in which newspapers...

1.5-micron photoplotter from Cymbolic Sciences.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Infinite Graphics, a service bureau, has installed a 1.5-micron laser photoplotter manufactured by Cymbolic Sciences. It is one of only four in the world. Infinite Graphics generates artwork with resolutions as small as four millionths of an...

Sysdeco sets structure of Atex-Sypress group.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Shaw in charge; HQ in UK Now that the acquisition of Atex and Sypress by Sysdeco of Norway has been formally concluded (see Vol. 24, No. 15, p. 31), Sysdeco has begun formalizing the structure of the new entity that will run both operations....

AM Multigraphics.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... AM Multigraphics has announced the first installation of a Xeikon DCP-1 digital color press in the New York metropolitan area. The purchaser is the MPC Group, a full-service graphic arts firm in Manhattan with six divisions, including the first...

Heidelberg Presstek.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... EMR Systems Communication, a New York prepress and creative-services company specializing in high-quality advertising materials, has installed a five-color Heidelberg/Presstek GTO-DI direct-imaging press.

Indigo.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Indigo reports these intallations of the E-Print 1000 digital offset color press: * Laser Express (San Diego, CA) -- for print runs of a few hundred pieces for graphic designers and publishers. * Midland Communications, in conjunction...

Integrated Software.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Integrated Software has announced that Edwards Super Food Stores, which has over 74 stores nationwide (mostly in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York) and is a subsidiary of the international company Ahold, has installed Catalog Maker....

Contex.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... The Wace Group has installed a fourth Contex Colour System at its Newcastle (UK) site, where packaging work forms more than 80% of the total production. There are now ten Contex workstations throughout the Group.

Wright Technologies.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Wright Technologies has reported UK sales of Jupiter prepress systems topping Pound sterling 600,000 ($965,000). This brings the UK installed base of Jupiter systems (announced only three years ago) to around 50. Complete inhouse services...

Cascade.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Cascade has announced new installations of its DataFlow and ImageFlow Plus systems. DataFlow -- a print-media production and tracking system that provides data management, job-tracking and workflow management functions -- has been installed by...

Miles 33.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Miles 33 has received an order valued at Pound sterling 300,000 ($480,000) for an Edition editorial system to replace a Hastech system at the Halifax Courier. The 36-terminal system will run on Pentium pcs in a newsroom connected by isdn lines...

CE Engineering Publishing Systems.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... CE Engineering Publishing Systems has signed a multimillion-dollar contract with the Los Angeles Times for a site license to provide Decade 33 and Decade Mac workstations to interface with an existing System Integrators editorial system. The...

Edgil.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Edgil has sold its EdgCapture software to automate credit-card processing to the New York Post, the Akron (OH) Beacon Journal and El Nuevo Dia (Puerto Rico). The Post and the Beacon Journal will be installed with an EdgCapture pc and will...

Dainippon Screen.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... At its pre-Drupa press briefing, Dainippon Screen, which had experienced a sluggish 1993, reported improved results for the first half of 1995, partly as a result of the Japanese market pulling out of recession. Its electronics operation, which...

Moore Corp.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Moore Corp. reports an increase in sales of 3%, or $72 million, in 1994. Sales were $2.4 billion, compared with $2.3 billion in 1993. Contributing to these gains were sales increases in its Forms, Systems and Services and Communications...

Summagraphics.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Summagraphics reported revenues of $22.3 million and earnings of $180,000 ($.04/share) for its third quarter, ended Feb. 28, compared with revenues of $19.5 million and earnings of $679,000 ($.15/share) for the same quarter a year earlier....

Document Sciences.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... For the third straight year, Document Sciences reports doubling its revenues, profits and number of employees. The company, a Xerox Technology Venture, didn't disclose the actual figures, but it said it expected to double its sales and profits...

Iomega.(Brief Article)
April 17, 1995... Iomega's revenues for 1994 declined from $147.1 million to $141.4 million, but the company still reduced its net operating loss for the year from $3.3 million (excluding restructuring provisions of $14.1 million) to $1.9 million. For its fourth...

People. (selections, appointments and resignations of industry executives)
April 14, 1995... Information International has hired three industry veterans to bolster its effort to become "the dominant supplier in the output systems business worldwide." They are Max Coeburgh as general manager, international sales; Andy Smith, manager, UK...

Crosfield changes focus, adds two imagesetters, computer-to-plate device. (Crosfield's Celix 2000, Celix 4000 imgage setters and the Celix 8000 computer-to-plate device)(Product Announcement)
April 14, 1995... In pre-Drupa press conferences on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Crosfield and its DuPont parent gave notice of an impending change in the Crosfield business strategy. Within the next two years, Crosfield said, it intends to make...

Linotype-Hell unveils Gutenberg platesetter; new imagesetters and RIPs.(Product Announcement) (Product Announcement)
April 14, 1995... Linotype-Hell continued the phased unveiling of its new products for Drupa with two more events in March: At its annual users' group meeting in Dallas on March 8, it formally introduced its long-awaited Gutenberg computer-to-plate system. Then,...

Digital '95: World Wide Web becomes part of the picture. (Evaluation)
April 14, 1995... For the past several years, the annual Digital conference and expo, run by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), has proved to be an excellent venue for reviewing the state of the art in digital systems for photojournalism. These...

Picture archiving: what course for newspapers? (Digital '95 session about newspaper archives)
April 14, 1995... In the Digital '95 session on newspaper archives, the general consensus was that there is no one "correct" approach to storing photos, but a good solution for newspapers that handle large numbers of photos must address the issues of storage...

Odesta: back in a big way with Livelink, Oracle. (Odesta's LiveLink workflow and document management software)
April 14, 1995... When Odesta was last heard from, Ronald Reagan was president, Berlin was a divided city, and Odesta was a Macintosh and Vax document management pioneer. Now the company has not so much turned around as emerged into public light with an...

Presstek adds 2-up and 4-up 'dry' platesetters. (Presstek's Pearlsetter52 and Pearlsetter74 imagesetters)(Product Announcement)
April 14, 1995... Chemical-free plate systems for Drupa Presstek, the innovative company that developed the on-press plate-imaging technology used with the Heidelberg GTO-DI press, is broadening its product range with two external-drum platesetters. To be...

Komori integrates press, prepress operations. (Komori's PTP-20 and PTP-80 prepress to print system)
April 14, 1995... Higher-speed computer-to-plate unit exptected at Drupa At its recent pre-Drupa press briefing, Japanese press manufacturer Komori outlined its plans to integrate prepress systems with Komori press control systems, resulting in significant...

ECRM, metal firm sue to overturn Tegra sale. (Tegra-Varityper)
April 14, 1995... More than a year after Prepress Solutions took over the assets of Tegra-Varityper, two creditors of the defunct company, ECRM and Precision Metals, have filed suit to overturn the transaction. They claim that the deal was "a sophisticated...

Post-Drupa executive briefing in London. (Future Communications to hold briefing of Drupa conference)
April 14, 1995... Future Communications of the UK has announced plans to hold a one-day briefing in London on the developments at Drupa. Aimed at executives, the May 31 event will include participation by 3M, Agfa, Barco, Dainippon Screen, EFI, Linotype-Hell,...

Sysdeco completes deal to acquire Atex.
April 14, 1995... Just as this issue was going to press, we received word from Norway that the deal under which Sysdeco of Norway would acquire Atex has been finalized. Sysdeco has disclosed the names of the first two members of the executive team that will be...

Oracle adds Open Text for full-text retrieval.
April 14, 1995... Beefing up the text retrieval capabilities of its document-related offerings, Oracle has licensed full-text indexing and retrieval technology from Open Text. Oracle Book will be the first Oracle product to incorporate Open Text's technology....

New transparency scanner from Kodak. (Kodak's RFS 3570 transparency scanner)(Product Announcement)
April 14, 1995... New in the Kodak booth at Digital '95 was the RFS 3570 transparency scanner aimed at photojournalists, color imaging service bureaus, commercial photographers, and corporate or small-business users that want to scan color transparencies in a...