The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems articles from April 1998

The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems archives from April 1998

PDF: Can It Move from Wish List To Production Workflow?(Adobe's Portable Document Format) (Company Business and Marketing)
April 27, 1998... PDF, ADOBE'S PORTABLE Document Format, has been somewhat of a prepress enigma so far. It has offered the promise of smaller file sizes to speed transmission, relatively clean files for quick processing and a page orientation that facilitates...

New GATF Variable-Data Forum. (News Briefs)
April 27, 1998... GATF is organizing a new conference on personalized, database printing, to be held June 23-24. The first conference to be held at GATF's new facility, it will address case studies, database preparation, and more, with the help of industry...

Adobe.(Adobe Systems's 1st qtr 1998) (Company Financial Information)
April 27, 1998... Adobe Systems suffered sharp declines in revenues and net income for its first quarter. Revenues were $197.8 million, compared with $226.5 million in the first quarter of fiscal 1997. Net income was $26.7 million compared with $46.5 million for...

EFI.(Electronics for Imaging's 1st qtr 1998) (Company Financial Information)
April 27, 1998... Electronics for Imaging recorded revenues of $82.5 million for its first quarter, up 33.8% from the fourth quarter of 1997, but down 9.3 % from $91.0 million in the first quarter last year. Net income was $4.2 million for the first quarter this...

Oce's.(1st qtr 1998) (Company Financial Information)
April 27, 1998... Oce's net profit for its first quarter rose 25% to 55 million Dutch guilder ($27.5 million), or 2.64 guilders per share, on sales of 1,377 million guilders ($688 million), an increase of 15%. The result included a 2% decline in sales for the...

Encad.(1st qtr 1998) (Company Financial Information)
April 27, 1998... Encad suffered a net loss of $726,000 ($.06/share), on revenues of $23.5 million for the quarter ended March 31, compared with net income of $3.7 million ($.31/share) on revenues of $31.5 million in the first quarter a year ago. The declines...

Splash Technology.(quarterly revenues) (Company Financial Information)
April 27, 1998... Splash Technology reported quarterly revenues of $18.0 million, up 12% from $16.1 million in the same quarter last year. Net income was $2.1 million ($0.15/share), compared with $3.3 million ($0.26/share) for the same 1997 quarter.

DEC.(3rd qtr 1998) (Company Financial Information)
April 27, 1998... Digital Equipment reported net income of $307 million for its third quarter on revenues of $3.2 billion, compared with income of $74.8 million on revenues of $3.3 billion last quarter. Two-thirds of the profit came from the sale of its network...

Compaq Computer.(1st qtr 1998) (Company Financial Information)
April 27, 1998... Compaq Computer reported worldwide sales of $5.7 billion for its first quarter, up 8% from the first quarter of 1997. Net income was $16 million ($.01/share).

Adobe's response.(Adobe Systems Acrobat software) (Product Information)
April 27, 1998... Adobe considers Acrobat to be not only a tool for high-end print production, but also a tool to generate a "digital master file" from an application file. This digital master is a neutral description of a page that can be processed to different...

Agfa Apogee puts it all together.(Apogee Pilot image processor)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Just a year ago, Agfa invited technical personnel from some of the largest printing companies in the U.S. to a PDF seminar. For three days they discussed the shortcomings of PDF and stated their wishes about a PDF workflow to people from Agfa...

BCL extracts text, tables from PDF files.(BCL Computers's Redwing text processing software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... BCL Computers featured Redwing, a utility for extracting text and tables from complex PDF files and inserting the data in spreadsheets, word processors or databases. It is sold by DataWatch, the company that received the Seybold Hot Pick for...

Callas upgrades Toolbox, MadeToPrint.(Callas Software's PDFToolbox 1.1 document editing software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Callas Software, the German developer of Xtensions and plug-ins, released the new 1.1 version of its PDFToolbox, a suite of Acrobat plug-ins designed for prepress use. A new version of the tools supports batch preflight checks, conversion of...

CDC extends Acrobat for documentation.(Computerised Document Control's PDF Fusion portable document software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... In the Adobe Developer Pavilion, Computerised Document Control showed two commercial applications: PDF Fusion and PDF Control. Both products are extensions of the firm's work as system integrators. Both integrate Acrobat with document...

Digital Applications supports privacy.(Redax 1.5 plug-in)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Digital Applications showed its Redax version 1.5 plug-in for editing PDF documents selectively and automatically to protect specific items of content from being disclosed in certain versions. It enables "redacting" text and scanned images in...

Dionis measures PDF. (News Briefs)
April 27, 1998... Dionis has developed plug-ins for measuring various aspects of PDF files. Ari's Ruler (right) provides a facility for measuring distances within a PDF file, such as from one point on a PDF page to the edge of the page or to another element. (We...

One DynaLab reader for multiple scripts.(DynaDoc/PDF portable document software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... DynaLab featured perhaps the hottest product of the day. Called DynaDoc/PDF, it is a PDF viewer that goes far beyond what Adobe's Acrobat Reader attempts. Running under Windows, it enables one reader to handle Roman, Chinese and Japanese...

Enfocus unveils Ferrari, updates CheckUp.(Enfocus Software's CheckUp 1.5 and PitStop 1.5 document management software, Ferrari DTP extension)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Enfocus Software of Belgium showed new versions of its PDF preflight product, CheckUp 1.5; its PDF editor, PitStop 1.5 and a beta version of the server-based, automated PDF processor code-named Ferrari. CheckUp 1.5. The new version of...

5D upgrades NikNak, OddJob and Jaws.(5D Solutions's NikNak 1.1 and OddJob portable document software, Jaws 3.001 printer support software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... 5D Solutions featured NikNak, version 1.1, a fully featured and low-cost PostScript-to-PDF distiller. It runs under Windows 95 and NT, producing fully compliant PDF 1.2 files. It can be used either as a virtual PostScript printer or as a...

Helios places PDF files on pages.(PDF Handshake file format conversion software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Helios PDF Handshake, an extension for EtherShare and EtherShare OPI servers, enables printing of PDF documents with correct colors and using PDF as a high-resolution input format for OPI workflows. The system generates EPS viewfiles from PDF...

Iceni extracts elements for ads.(Iceni Technology's AdStract, a PDF ad content extractor)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Iceni Technology featured AdStract, a PDF ad content extractor that extracts text from PDF files, such as dealer ads, and formats it into a list of items such as autos with their prices. The tags are usable for things like HTML output. Another...

Imation PressWise, OPEN support PDF.(DTP software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Imation announced that its PressWise imposition program now also handles PDF files. It permits the mixing of PDF, EPS and PostScript pages. Imation's OPEN software for handling repetitive tasks in a distributed server environment also handles...

Infodata aids multiple remote users.(Infodata's Virtual File Cabinet document management software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Infodata has developed the Virtual File Cabinet, a family of client-server, intranet-based products that allow users to collaborate on mixed-file-type documents across an enterprise. It utilizes a Web browser interface and allows workgroups to...

Intense Software embeds PDF.(Intense Software's PDF Embedder portable document software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Intense Software announced the release of its PDF Embedder plug-in for Acrobat Exchange. It allows native files used to create a PDF file to be embedded within the same file. The native files-fonts, graphics, page layout files or images-can be...

Lantana adds support for hot folders.(Lantana Research's Crackerjack Pilot plug-in)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Lantana Research, whose Crackerjack output utility has won some prestigious awards since being released last July, announced an important new capability: Crackerjack Pilot, an Acrobat Exchange plug-in that enables the user to set up hot...

OneVision announces new NT editor. (News Briefs)
April 27, 1998... OneVision, developer of the sophisticated DigiScript PostScript and PDF editor for OpenStep and, if it becomes available, Apple's Rhapsody, unveiled a new interactive editor for NT and Rhapsody. Called Solvero, it is an interactive PostScript...

Pre-Press Purifire takes off.(Pre-Press Image Technologies's file maintenance utility software) (Product Information)
April 27, 1998... Pre-Press Image Technologies featured its Purifire conversion utility that accepts files in PDF, PostScript or EPS format and converts them to any of several types-neutralized PostScript, TIFF 6, EPS, run-length-encoded, LZW-compressed, etc....

Quite Software shows imposition.(Quite Software's Imposing and Imposing Plus portable document software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Quite Software featured its Imposing and Imposing Plus plug-ins to Acrobat Exchange for imposing PDF files. Both can reorder pages, split or merge even and odd pages, add crop marks and frames, and create two-up booklets from any PDF file....

Sys-Print converts mainframe data.(file format conversion software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Sys-Print converts mainframe ("Sys-Out") data into PDF. The system supports automatic indexing, forms merging, font changing and graphics. The conversion is accomplished on the fly without Distiller. It accepts Xerox DJDE and Metacode, IBM AFP...

Tumbleweed delivers documents.(Tumbleweed Software's Posta, E-mail)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Tumbleweed Software's Posta is a document delivery system for control and protection of important, time-critical documents. It offers real-time tracking capabilities and several levels of security, including encryption, authentication and...

Conclusion.(Adobe's Portable Document Format) (Technology Information)
April 27, 1998... After reading the above-mentioned problem areas, the question arises as to the continued suitability of PDF for the needs of high-end production. The answer is that PDF remains a much better solution for high-end printing production than...

Seybold Seminars New York '98: Digital Cameras and Scanners.(scanner operators and digital cameras) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... BESIDES THE USUAL ASSORTMENT of new scanners and digital cameras, which are detailed below, there were a couple of other new developments of interest in the area of digital input products. First, for the digital camera market, there was the...

Digital Cameras. (News Briefs)
April 27, 1998... High-end professional digital capture is at last beginning to plateau, with the emphasis moving to new accessories and improving software rather than new camera backs. However, there was one new vendor, called BetterLight, with three versions...

BetterLight offers scanning cameras.(Model 4000, Model 6000 and Model 8000 digital cameras)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... In the Calumet Digital Solutions (CDS) booth were two camera companies: veteran MegaVision (see below) and newcomer BetterLight, which has developed a scanning-camera insert for a standard 4"x5" camera. Designed more like a vertically mounted...

Dicomed shoots fashion with BigShot.(digital camera)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Dicomed showed its BigShot 16-megapixel (4,096x4,096 pixels), 6x6cm area array instant capture back in a true fashion-shoot environment featuring New York photographer Lane Pederson, of Photovision Studios. Models were changed every hour...

MegaVision features S2 with BatPac. (BatPac computer battery, S2 digital camera)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... We've been following MegaVision's innovative BatPac portable unit since it was previewed at this show a year ago, and it has now made it to market. It is a storage and power-pack accessory for the recently introduced S2 single-shot professional...

Nikon adds digital imaging products.(Nikon Coolpix 900, Coolpix 600)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... In a press conference in New York, Nikon launched three new digital imaging products designed to combine high quality, affordability and ease of use. All of them are expected to be available in May. Nikon added that it will release other new...

Phase One adds 16-bit capture, ups speed.(Macintosh Image Capture 3.1)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Phase One showed version 3.1 of its Macintosh Image Capture Software, which became available at the end of 1997. It enables ICC profiles to be embedded and supports ColorSync, allowing the attachment of a ColorSync profile to an image file. The...

Sinar Bron adds NT interface for Leaf.(new version of ColorShop)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Sinar Bron introduced an NT interface for the Leaf DCB II and DCB II Live camera backs, including a completely revamped version of ColorShop. The NT software is more than just a port of the existing Mac version. Scitex has taken all the...

More new models from Olympus.(Olympus D-430L, D-600L, digital cameras, P-300 special-purpose printer)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Digital cameras have been coming thick and fast from Olympus. It introduced the 1,280x960-pixel D-340L compact digital camera, with an f2.8 wide-angle lens (equivalent to 36mm focal length on a 35mm film camera), which will focus from 4" to...

Fixing defects: 2 automated approaches.(Applied Science Fiction's Digital Ice)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Applied Science Fiction. Digital Ice automatically eliminates most fingerprints, dust, water spots, tape, scratches and other surface imperfections on the scanned image without any effort on the part of the user. The basic approach is that the...

Scitex.(FinalTouch)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... FinalTouch, a Photoshop plug-in for cleaning up scanned images, was one of the most popular items in the Scitex booth. It is a retouching tool that is based on morphological detection technology. It looks at the basic shapes within a scanned...

Binuscan releases latest ColorPro.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... We had seen Binuscan recently (see Vol. 27, No. 12), but the company had a new version of its ColorPro software to release in New York. ColorPro is the client software for Binuscan's Image Processing Machine (IMP), an image-processing engine...

Fujifilm features Lanovia.(C-550 Lavonia scanner)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... The most significant product on the Fujifilm Electronic Imaging stand was the C-550 Lanovia scanner previewed as a technology demonstration at Imprinta and officially launched at Print '97. This A3+ flatbed CCD device uses xyz technology to...

Imacon sets up in U.S.(Danish company makes FlexTight scanner) (Company Business and Marketing)
April 27, 1998... Imacon, the Danish manufacturer of the FlexTight 4,800-dpi CCD scanner, announced a new U.S. division. Headed by Andy Chang, previously responsible for the Umax operation in the U.S., the new division employs eight people and will provide all...

Impak DFS scans rolls of negatives. (intros DFS-200 scanner)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Since its introduction to the publishing industry last year, Impak has improved its 35mm roll-film scanner and launched an additional model. The latest model of this high-speed film scanner now scans rolls or strips of film at a resolution of...

Nikon adds scanner, auto retouching.(Nikon Super Coolscan 2000)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Besides the digital cameras and Digital Ice retouching software mentioned above, Nikon unveiled a transparency scanner called the Super Coolscan 2000. Like its predecessors, it has a small footprint (3.4"5.6"10.8') and provides single-pass...

Umax to bundle Wright Design.(bundling Wright Technologies Wright Design 2.0 in Umax PowerLook, Mirage scanners) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Umax announced an arrangement with Wright Technologies whereby Wright Design 2.0 software is to be bundled with the PowerLook and Mirage scanner lines. There will be no additional cost for the software. Umax expects to begin shipping Wright...

Copydot Scanning Test, Concluded: Judging the Printed Test Sheets.(includes related article on testing methodology, results of copydot scanning project)(Buyers Guide)
April 27, 1998... SIX MONTHS AGO, Seybold Publications and AGI of Sweden embarked on a project to evaluate the state of the art in copydot scanning. We devised a suite of tests, prepared them as images on film, and invited companies with products in this market...

Composition and Layout Systems.(SSNY '98 trade show)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... QUARK XPRESS 4.0 remains an issue as customers that have been happy with version 3 debate whether to upgrade. Meanwhile, though, anticipation is starting to build for the Adobe challenger, code-named K2, which is being shown confidentially to...

Lightbinders to distribute 3B2 in U.S.(SSNY '98 trade show) (Product Information)
April 27, 1998... One of the more interesting developments at the show was the first showing of 3B2 by Advent since it found a new distributor to sell its composition system in the United States. Lightbinders, a supplier of electronic publishing services to...

Datazone shows Mirambo.(SSNY '98 trade show)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Datazone, exhibiting in Adobe's Developer Pavilion, demonstrated its Mirambo database publishing software, which we were unable to see firsthand last fall (Vol. 27, No. 5). Mirambo puts the finesse of FrameMaker publishing at the disposal of...

DeskNet shows new QPOpen, plug-ins. (SSNY '98 trade show)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... DeskNet, a supplier of add-ons to Quark Xpress and QPS, introduced version 1.3 of QPOpen, its software for connecting QPS with the outside world. Areas addressed by version 1.3 and associated new plug-ins include easier scripting, improved PDF...

Insert makes bid in U.S.(SSNY '98 trade show)(Insert International's Calligramme Ads)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Insert International, a French supplier of automatic pagination systems for classified ads and directories, made its first appearance at a U.S. trade show in an exploratory move aimed at getting into the American market. The company has been...

KyTek adds features to Autopage.(SSNY '98 trade show)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Although Autopage long ago encompassed nearly every feature previously incorporated in a long-document pagination program, KyTek continues to find new areas to explore for its Quark Xtension. The latest effort, version 5.2, provides support for...

NAPS launches system for NT, SQL.(SSNY '98 trade show)(North Atlantic Publishing Systems' NAPS Publishing System)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... North Atlantic Publishing Systems introduced a new version of its workflow-oriented publishing system, called the NAPS Publishing System. It is a successor to the Workflow Administrator system that has been installed at Prentice-Hall and Simon...

Koyosha speeds preview.(SSNY '98 trade show)(Koyosha's Enhance Preview XT)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Koyosha debuted a Quark Xtension called Enhance Preview XT (EPXT). It allows Xpress to bypass the low-resolution previews embedded in all pixel-based images and display actual high-resolution data from the files themselves. The high-resolution...

Lowly Apprentice imposes.(SSNY '98 trade show)(Imposer 2.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... A Lowly Apprentice Production featured Imposer 2.0, which manipulates pages in the print stream rather than altering the Xpress document. Since pages aren't rearranged, shuffled or flipped in the original file, the Xpress document is preserved...

Image, Inc., features Gluon.(SSNY '98)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... This consulting company is additionally a reseller of Quark Xtensions. These are predominantly tools for communicating between Xpress pages and databases or the Web. In New York the company introduced a couple of new products that it has...

Extensis upgrades BeyondPress.(SSNY '98 trade show)(BeyondPress 4.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Extensis announced a cross-platform upgrade for BeyondPress, the tool for automatic generation of HTML documents from Xpress pages. BeyondPress will also include support for DHTML (Dynamic HTML) and, because this allows the user to define...

Hardware: Platforms, Networks and More.(SSNY '98 trade show) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... SEYBOLD SEMINARS shows never focus on computer platforms and hardware issues, but there are always a few interesting developments to report. On this occasion, there was the bombshell announcement of the acquisition of 4-Sight by WamNet-two...

WamNet and 4-Sight: a happy marriage?(SSNY '98 trade show) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... WamNet announced on the first day of the conference that it had acquired ISDN connectivity vendor 4-Sight for $40 million in cash and stock. Under the deal, 4-Sight will retain its name on products but will fall under the WamNet banner. 4-Sight...

3Com: Layer 3 switching is the key. (SSNY '98 trade show)(3Com CoreBuilder) (Product Information)
April 27, 1998... 3Com was telling another tale. Building on its base as a supplier of LAN and WAN infrastructure, it was painting a scenario where connectivity was constructed from the inside out. According to 3Com, the basic LAN today doesn't require any...

Hermstedt in North American ISDN service.(SSNY '98 trade show)(Hermstedt's Leonardo, Grand Central Pro)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Hermstedt, a long-time vendor of ISDN services for the Macintosh in Europe, entered the North American market in 1997. It claims that its installations comprise 40% of the world prepress market. Its products are protocol independent, which...

Group Logic releases MassTransit 2.0.(SSNY '98)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Group Logic announced the formal release of MassTransit 2.0, the remote transmission program that was announced at Seybold San Francisco. Aimed at streamlining workflow, it supports multiple hot folders, drag-and-drop functions and the use of...

Miramar puts AppleTalk on a PC.(SSNY '98)(PC LacLAN)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Miramar, which develops cross-platform connectivity systems for the Mac and Windows, demonstrated PC MacLAN, running on an NT server or Windows 95 PC and providing peer-to-peer networking between Macs and PCs. Essentially the server runs a...

Dataviz lets a PC open a Mac file.(SSNY '98)(MacOpener 3.0, Conversions Plus 4.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Dataviz specializes in file conversion, especially transferring files between a Mac and a PC. Version 3 of the company's MacOpener disk-mounting utility for Windows is now available for $59. It automatically adds a PC name extension to Mac...

Apple unveils 300-MHz G3s and more. (SSNY '98) (Company Business and Marketing)
April 27, 1998... Apple reaffirmed its commitment to publishing with an hour-long, high-energy sales pitch by acting CEO Steve Jobs in a special keynote address. Jobs made a number of announcements of new products and technologies that were later shown in...

Intergraph keeps charging after Apple.(SSNY '98)(Intergraph InterServe 80, InterServe 8000, InterServe 8400)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Intergraph has been leading the Wintel charge into the Mac prepress space of late, having introduced a series of "MacFriendly" NT platforms over the past year. In New York, the company introduced three prepress servers-the InterServe 80, 8000...

Acquired Knowledge aids designers.(SSNY '98)(QuickCheck)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Probably best known for its Download Mechanic and Pro software for checking, correcting and previewing PostScript files, Acquired Knowledge has another key role: handling all PostScript training on behalf of Adobe in the U.S. In addition, it...

Extensis upgrades preflight programs.(SSNY '98)(upgrades to Preflight Pro, Preflight Designer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Extensis announced upgrades to its two preflight software products. The new versions of Preflight Pro and Preflight Designer now support PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Xpress, FreeHand and MultiAd Creator in native mode. It is also possible...

Markzware offers new interface.(SSNY '98)(upgrade for FlightCheck)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Although Marzware did not show a new product, it demonstrated a new interface for its FlightCheck preflight checking software and FlightCheck Connect, the less fully featured version of the software suitable for less knowledgeable users....

Linotype finds gold with FontExplorer.(SSNY '98)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... In one of the font industry's more innovative developments in a long time, Linotype introduced a product to help a designer pick just the right font for the job. It is a CD-ROM that contains everything you need to know to make a selection....

ITC puts fonts on the Web.(SSNY '98) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... ITC has taken a different tack: It has put its font-search tool online. Using any JavaScript-capable Web browser, you can enter a small amount of text, pick a font and a size, and click. The ITC server will render your text in the requested...

DiamondSoft deals with Bitstream.(SSNY '98) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... DiamondSoft, the developer of a sophisticated font management system for the Macintosh, has struck a deal with Bitstream to take over the version for Windows. Called Font Navigator (the Mac version is Font Reserve), it stores fonts, displays...

Street Logic manipulates type on Mac.(SSNY '98)(Street Logic Software's Type Chameleon)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Exhibiting in the Palos booth, a small developer named Street Logic Software showed a new type-distortion program that runs as a Photoshop plug-in. Called Type Chameleon, it enables the operator to distort type by dragging points interactively,...

Diehl works with document managers. (SSNY '98)(Diehl's Revision Master)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Diehl's Revision Master is a document control application that runs under Windows 95. Launched at the New York event, this document-tracking tool is a less expensive alternative to enterprise document management systems, and although it is less...

Intense does duotones.(SSNY '98)(Intense Software's Powertone)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Intense Software has a neat Photoshop plug-in called Powertone that makes a different kind of duotone from Photoshop's internal routine. As you may know, Photoshop's own duotones start out as gray-scale images. Photoshop outputs the same gray...

Logos uses AI in language translation.(SSNY '98) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Logos develops translation software, such as to translate from English into French, German, Spanish or Italian, or from German into French, Italian, English and Spanish. Running under Windows, the software is designed for high-volume...

Creo adds flexo imager to CTP line. (Creo Products Thermoflex)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... ThermoFlex to be shown at InfoFlex Creo Products is moving into the flexographic platesetting market. It has developed a version of its VLF platesetter for imaging flexographic plates. The machine, called the ThermoFlex, will be introduced at...

Heidelberg offers new film imagers, scanners.(Herkules Basic, Herkules Elite, Delta 5, Topaz IX, QuickStep, Davinci TransMaster)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... New Delta RIP supports dual workflows In an impressive display of new technology, Heidelberg has unveiled two new imagesetters, a new version of its Delta RIP, two new scanners and new capabilities for its DaVinci workstation with extensive...

Xerox to cut 9,000 jobs to boost digital effort. (Company Operations)
April 27, 1998... Must compete with IBM, Compaq, HP Xerox has announced plans to cut 9,000 jobs in a move to save $1 billion and make its digital operation competitive. The cuts, which will be spread across Europe and the Americas, are required as the size of...

Xerox adds four 96-ppm 600-dpi DocuPrints.(Xerox DocuPrint 96 IPDS Printing System, DocuPrint MICR IPS, DocuPrint 96 NPS, DocuPrint 96 MICR NPS)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Xerox has announced four new 96-ppm additions to its high-speed DocuPrint digital printing line. They are: * DocuPrint 96 IPDS Printing System (IPS) for IBM's AFP architecture. * DocuPrint MICR IPS, also for AFP. * DocuPrint 96 Network...

QMS drops prices for 2060 line. (Product Information)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... QMS has reduced prices for its 2060 family of printers. Starting at $1,999, the network-ready printers operate at 20 ppm in formats up to 13"x19". The 2060s provide up to 1,200x1,200-dpi printing with duplexing on pages up to 11"x17".