The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems articles from February 1995

The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems archives from February 1995

Scitex: record revenues, higher quarterly profits.(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Scitex: record revenues, higher quarterly profits. Scitex reported record revenues of $194 million, up 13%, and profits of $20.1 million (up from $19.1 million a year ago) for its fourth quarter. For the year, revenues were $704 million, also...

ECRM offers PS 2 Lino RIP kit. (PostScript Level 2)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... ECRM offers ps 2 Lino rip. ECRM has announced a PostScript Level 2 version of its Lino rip kit. It contains an ECRM pc Level 2 rip, an ECRM/Linotype pc interface card, ECRM L driver software and a connecting cable. The rip also provides a...

FSI Xtension aids copyfit, layout. (Freedom Systems Integrators' FSI Tools)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... FSI Xtension aids copyfit, layout. Freedom System Integrators has released FSI Tools, a Quark Xtension designed to speed copyfitting and layout functions. Its features include autofit of a text or graphics box to its contents; automatic...

Diwan to work with Caledonian. (Diwan Science and Information Technology and Caledonian Newspapers)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Diwan to work with Caledonian. Diwan Science and Information Technology and Caledonian Newspapers of Glasgow, Scotland, have formed a partnership to codevelop electronic publishing systems for multimedia management and archiving, based on...

Baseview cuts Receivable price. (Baseview Products ClassManager Plus' Account Receivable software)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Baseview cuts Receivable price. Baseview Products has reduced the price of ClassManager/Plus's Accounts Receivable module. Formerly $1,000 per workstation, this module now costs a total of $500 for up to three workstations, with similar...

People.(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Brian Eastman has been named president of Gerber Systems, a Gerber Scientific company. He most recently served as vp of engineering at Leaf Systems, but has spent the majority of his career with Agfa and Compugraphic, including terms as general...

Dramatic price cut for Live Picture. (HSC)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Product repositioned for broader creative and design market Just as we went to press, we learned that the price of the innovative Live Picture software is being slashed by 75% in an effort to reposition the product for a much broader market....

Agfa unveils high-speed AccuSet Imagesetter. (AccuSet 1500)(Product Announcement)
February 27, 1995... If we measure the success of an imagesetter in terms of sales, Agfa's AccuSet may be on the way to some sort of record. In its first two years, more than 5,000 machines were sold. For purposes of comparison, the Linotronic 300 and 330, which...

Linotype-Hell Updtaes Da Vinci: RISC, CPU, lower price.(Product Announcement)
February 27, 1995... It's been two years since Linotype-Hell introduced its DaVinci high-end PostScript color workstation amid cries that high-performance desktop products would "put high-end color into a coffin and nail the lid shut." But DaVinci has held its...

Creo outlines future: film scanner, larger platesetters. (PlateMaster and Platsetter family) (includes related article on Drupa product development)
February 27, 1995... Creo Products, the Canadian company that began as an optical-storage provider and spent years manufacturing output devices under "private label" deals with other companies, has worked its way into the spotlight in the exploding...

Desktop technology in bloom at Page '95 in Japan. (desktop publishing conference) (includes related article on trends in Japanese publishing)
February 27, 1995... An increase in broad support for desktop publishing highlighted Japan's annual Page conference and exposition, held Feb. 1-3 at the Sunshine City complex in Tokyo. Sponsored by the Japanese Association of Graphic Arts and Technology (JAGAT),...

Keeping tabs on the taking and selling of digital images. (Digital Image conference) (includes related article on Worldwide Publishing Consortium)
February 27, 1995... Photography is the latest of many art forms going digital, and we have been following the progress of digital photography as the technology evolves. Last month, we traveled to the Digital Images conference in London to see how it was affecting...

Sysdeco outlines Atex deal; new team at head.
February 27, 1995... $1 million buys 20%; $5 million loaned Sysdeco has disclosed the details of its acquisition of Atex, including its plans for financing the deal and for minimizing the risk by initially limiting the purchase. In a statement to the press on...

Cymbolic FireSetter joins 8-up drum crowd. (Cymbolic Sciences)(Product Announcement)
February 27, 1995... At the PMA show, Cymbolic Sciences announced its entry in the eight-up imagesetter sweepstakes: the FireSetter. The internal- drum recorder has an imaging area of 25 1/4" x 36 1/4" and accepts film up to 26"x37". The price will be $168,000....

Danish firm offers fast, accurate masking tool. (Abraxas International A S Touche)(Product Announcement)
February 27, 1995... Abraxas's Touche runs on pc, Power Mac The Danish company Abraxas Dataselskab A/S has introduced a tool for cutting digital masks of high-resolution color images. Called Touche, its key features are high speed and great accuracy, even on the...

Letraset plug-in for Illustrator distorts type. (Letraset Envelops)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... "Envelopes" also distorts graphics Letraset is offering the enveloping technology used in its LetraStudio program as a plug-in module for Adobe Illustrator. Called Letraset Envelopes, the package lets Illustrator users access more than 200...

Vutek tops large-format printers with 18-dpi unit.(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Airbrush engine, 5-meter roll width We've seen a few large-format printers in our time: Encad, Xerox, Scitex and others that compete in the signage and display market. But none, we think, can measure up to the monster that Vutek has...

Polaroid goes digital with Print-to-Press. (digital package for the studio)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Scanner and film tuned for the press Polaroid does not have any entry in the digital camera field. Recently, though, its Electronic Imaging business unit introduced a complete digital package for the studio. Called Print-to-Press, it...

Silicon Graphics to buy Alias, Wavefront: plans new software unit focused on entertainment and creative design. (Alias Research and Wavefront Technologies)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Plans new software unit focused on entertainment and creative design Silicon Graphics recently announced its intention to acquire Alias Research and Wavefront Technologies, a move that diversifies SGI into the software business and greatly...

Screen appoints three regional presidents.(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... New presidents have taken the reins at three of Screen's four North American regional operating companies. In the East, Jeffrey Angelson has replaced Ken Newton, who was named president and ceo of DS America last month (see Vol. 24, No. 10,...

Binuscan injunction vs. Monaco Systems denied. (trademark and accounting lawsuit)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Other suit-countersuit issues pending The court has made its first ruling in the suit and countersuit case involving Binuscan of France and Monaco Systems, its former U.S. distributor. The case, which involves trademark and accounting issues,...

Barco Graphics. (new installations) (Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Barco Graphics reports two new U.S. customers: * Southern Graphic Systems -- DigiPack prepress systems with DEC Alpha AXP file servers and BG-940 and 2200 workstations at three of its packaging sites. In Newport, KY, the system is used in...

Prepress Systems Prepress Solutions. (Panther sales)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Prepress Systems and its Prepress Solutions sister company report these new sales of their Panther products: * Agricultural Group at Capital City's ABC -- high-speed PantherPro imagesetter for use in producing its 30 monthly titles, most...

Edgil. (AdCentral)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Edgil has installed its AdCentral advertising database system at the Wilmington (DE) Star-News. It will be used to extract a copy of all ads from the front-end ad system, monitor changes to ads and produce reports on demand, including lineage,...

Mission-Critical Technologies. (installs AdFax remote digital advertising delivery and management system)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Mission Critical Technologies has completed the first phase of the first installation of its AdFax remote digital advertising delivery and management system in the Far East. The installation, at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, will...

Euromax. (installs first US system) (Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Euromax, a wholly owned subsidiary in the DDE Group, has made its first sale in the U.S.: a 130-seat system for Journal Newspapers of Washington state, publishers of one daily and 12 regional newspapers (names unidentified) with a total...

IPA Systems Ltd. (sells front-end system)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... IPA Systems Ltd., the IPA Group company formed recently by combining QED Technology and GBT, has sold a pc front-end system to Salisbury Journal Newspapers, a division of Southern Newspapers plc. The order includes a METS editorial system...

T/One. (sells two Merlin Archive Systems)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... T/One has sold two Merlin Archive Systems: * Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch (circ. 210,000) -- dual-90-mhz Pentium server running nt with a 10-gb raid 5 array storage system and licenses for six users. It is being used with an AP Leafdesk....

MDC Max Datwyler. (sells Gravostar direct-to-gravure system to Tronic Gravure of Wigan)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... MDC Max Datwyler has sold a Gravostar direct-to-gravure system to Tronic Gravure of Wigan, UK, for use in packaging printing. It includes the GravoComplete front-end system, which accepts data from desktop publishing software and high-end color...

Freedom System Integrators. (installing systems)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Freedom System Integrators made a rash of system sales and upgrades. These users replaced Mycro-Comps with Freedom Series systems: * News Examiner (Gallatin, TN; circ. 10,000, thrice weekly) -- classified system with 5 workstations, a...

Harris Publishing Systems. (installing systems)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Harris Publishing Systems reports these orders received in December: * Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, AK) -- XP-21 Page Server, Images workstation, Mac server, opi server and PEN editing software; AP Leafdesk; 2100 Pagination and Display Ad...

Documentum. (Boeing chooses Documentum's Enterprise Document Management System)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Boeing has selected Documentum's Enterprise Document Management System to help author, manage and assemble some of the manuals for the new Boeing 777 airplane. The manuals, ranging in length from 400 to 10,000 pages, are used to train pilots,...

Quark. (Quark Publishing System installation)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... Quark reports installing more than 100 of its Quark Publishing Systems since last July, bringing the installed base to about 250 sites worldwide since the product's release in December 1992. The primary applications are magazines and...

Exploring the New Media: CD-ROM, Internet/Online, and Copyright Issues. (forum on electronic publishing) (For Your Calendar)
February 27, 1995... Exploring the New Media: Cd-rom, Internet/Online, and Copyright Issues. March 30, 31 and April 1, Washington (DC). Speakers at this upcoming forum on electronic publishing include representatives from the Library of Congress, the AAP, Dorling...

Minolta introduces digital camera. (Minolta's Minolta Digital Camera)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 27, 1995... 3-chip sensor back for Maxxum bodies Minolta joined the ranks of camera makers offering a ccd-sensor digital camera. The camera is due for release this summer, at a price that is informally estimated to be $9,000-$10,000. Dubbed simply the...

User group news.(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Sgml Sweden '95, Feb. 22-23. The annual Swedish conference on sgml, coinciding with the annual meeting of the Swedish chapter of the Sgml Users' Group, will take place Feb. 22-23, 1995, at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm....

Iota's Newsware: revolutionary archive and retrieval system. (Iota Industries Ltd Newsware text retrieval software)(includes overview on Iota)
February 13, 1995... Every once in a while we come across a technology, a piece of hardware or a software package that is so remarkable in what it does or in the effect it is likely to have in the market that we take serious note of it. Last June, we saw a new...

Linotype-Hell adds Quasar to drum imager lineup. (Linotype-Hell Quasar imagesetter)
February 13, 1995... In the escalating battle in the drum imagesetter market, where two Goliaths are trying to stave off the thrusts of a host of challengers, Linotype-Hell has just strengthened its position by unveiling a new model at the low end of its range....

Macrex for indexing: great features, rough interface. (Bayside Indexing Service Macrex)
February 13, 1995... In a recent issue (Vol. 24, No. 7), we looked at Cindex, a program for automating the creation of indexes on a pc. We mentioned that its chief competitor was Macrex, marketed in North America by Bayside Indexing Service. Now, in the spirit of...

Indigo unveils digital press for packaging. (Indigo Graphic Systems Ltd Omnius imagesetter) (The Latest Word)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... At a press conference in New York on Jan. 25, Indigo announced a new product: the Omnius "digital press" for packaging applications. This device is a close relative of Indigo's E-Print 1000, which is used for high-speed, full-color digital...

Shaw named Atex COO; Sysdeco deal advances. (Graham Shaw, Atex acquisition of Sysdeco)
February 13, 1995... Graham Shaw has been named chief operating officer of Atex as its impending acquisition by Sysdeco of Norway proceeds toward a conclusion, possibly as early as March 15. But a strange sequence of events has turned what looked like a...

DS's digital camera back launched in Europe. (Dainippon Screen Fotex F10 digital camera)(Product Announcement)
February 13, 1995... Joining its prepress system rivals in embracing digital photography, Dainippon Screen has introduced in Europe a digital camera back aimed at the professional studio photography market. The Fotex F10 competes directly with other high-quality...

Orbotech quits market; Escher-Grad backs users.(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Orbotech, the Israeli company that developed imaging technology for use in manufacturing printed-circuit boards, has abandoned its efforts to convert that technology to the graphic arts. In a move that had been anticipated for months, the...

IPA merges QED, GBT into IPA Systems Ltd. (QED Technology)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... The IPA Group, which owns a family of pc- and Macintosh-based front-end systems for newspaper applications, has combined two of them into a new organization called IPA Systems Ltd. The combining of QED Technology, of Cheltenham, UK, and GBT, of...

SII reorganizes: sets up unit for custom systems. (Systems Integrators)
February 13, 1995... System Integrators has reorganized its operation in an effort to serve different segments of the newspaper and magazine markets more effectively. The thrust of the restructuring is to create separate business units to serve the smaller and...

Documentum to support Lotus Notes. (Documentum Server for Lotus Notes text processing software)(Product Announcement)
February 13, 1995... Documentum plans to release this summer a version of its document manager that is integrated with the Lotus Notes groupware product. The new offering should bolster, and help clarify, Documentum's position at the upper end of the document...

Crosfield Xtension aids layout productivity. (Crosfield Digitiser Quark Xtension DTP extension)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Crosfield has developed a Quark Xtension that speeds preparation of page layouts from mechanicals. Called the Digitiser, it runs on a Macintosh and uses a Wacom tablet in conjunction with mechanical layouts. It provides a choice of screen...

Total Recall adds DBMS interface to BRS Search. (Dataware Total Recall DBMS utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Dataware has announced Total Recall, an api for combining BRS/Search, a leading full-text retrieval system, with a variety of relational database management systems (dbms). The product transfers search queries between the Structured Query...

Pesko acquires PTM, Gilbane Report. (Charles A. Pesko Ventures, Publishing Technology Management)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Charles A. Pesko Ventures has acquired Publishing Techology Management (PTM) to form a consulting practice specializing in electronic document management. The new business complements Pesko's primary consulting business, which is focused on...

Linotype-Hell to show profit. (1994 financial results)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Linotype-Hell to show profit. Linotype-Hell says it will report a profit when 1994 financial results are released in April. Without giving details the company said it would better slightly its earlier goal of a break-even year.

Crosfield adds Howtek 4500. (Crosfield Scanmaster 4500 desktop drum scanner)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Crosfield adds Howtek 4500. Crosfield has added the Scanmaster 4500 desk- top drum scanner to its line as the Celsis 240. It supports Macs and pcs, enlargements to 2,400%, on-the-fly usm, etc.

Xerox opens office for Verde. (Xerox Graphics Systems, Verde Digital Film)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Xerox opens office for Verde. Xerox Graphic Systems has set up its worldwide headquarters for executive offices for r&d, engineering, sales and marketing, and operations. It also will serve as the national training and product demonstration...

Art museum goes multimedia. (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Art museum goes multimedia. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has inaugurated a system of interactive kiosks designed both to streamline the task of maintaining its collections and to serve as a public-relations tool. The public can use...

Cascade looks south. (Cascade Systems)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Cascade looks south. Cascade Systems has formed a company to handle its busi- ness in Latin America. Headed by Javier Semerene, formerly of Xerox and Hyphen, it is setting up dealerships. Cascade Systems Latin America, 10430 NW 31st Terrace,...

Service for electronic newspapers. (Televisual Data)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Service for electronic newspapers. Televisual Data has launched a service to take material such as Quark Xpress pages, to produce a daily electronic newspaper and to publish it on the Internet. Televisual Data Ltd., Data Store, Sandbank...

People.(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... We are sad to report the death of Nick Ingram, technical support manager at Dainippon Screen (UK) Ltd. He was killed in a car accident in Saudi Arabia on Jan. 19, while in a taxi en route to the airport. Ingram was well known and liked in the...

Systems Integrators. (Synthesis Classified Pagination system)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... System Integrators has installed its Synthesis Classified Pagination (SCP) system and Scoop opi server at Aftenposten of Oslo, the first European contract for SII's new Professional Services Division (see p. 27).

Atex. (Atex Enterprise systems, News International)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Atex has sold three Enterprise classified systems in Europe. News International purchased one for its UK daily and weekly newspapers, including, initially, Times Supplements' Educational, Higher Educational and Literary supplements. Eventually...

Scangraphic. (Othello imagesetters) (Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Scangraphic has received the largest sin- gle order in its history: 14 Othello imagesetters and online processors to produce the Korean Chosun newspaper (circ. 2.2 million). Chosun produces 850 pages per month on 58 presses at three sites.

Autologic. (Level 2 raster image processors)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Autologic has sold six Level 2 rips running on DEC Alpha platforms to Mirror Group Newspapers for production of the Scottish Daily Record (circ. 750,000) and Sunday Mail. Mirror Group also bought interfaces to Hell Pressfax and Scitex TelePress...

Indigo. (Indigo E-Print 1000 digital imagesetter)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... Indigo has installed an E-Print 1000 digital offset press at F.E. Burman, a repro house in London. It has the first E-rip offline processing station sold in Europe, which independently handles job input, data conversion and file preparation.

Blishen sends photos over mobile phones. (John Blishen and Company)(Brief Article)
February 13, 1995... For photojournalists on the run, John Blishen and Company is now offering a simple system for transmitting digital photos over mobile telephones. Blishen is a UK distributor for Kodak digital cameras. With Kodak's DCS 420 model, intended for...