The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems articles from March 1996

The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems archives from March 1996

Xeikon aids DCP-1 owner sales. (training seminars) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... Xeikon and CAP Ventures have initiated a series of two-day training sessions to help owners of the Xeikon DCP-1 digital color press identify new applications and develop marketing strategies for the on-demand short-run market. The first four...

Gannett, HP to manage data. (Gannett Media Technologies International) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... Gannett Media Technologies International (GMTI) and Hewlett-Packard have formed a sales and marketing relationship to deliver jointly a multimedia information-management system to newspapers and publishers. GMTI's DiGiCol database storage and...

Crosfield users change name. (Crosfield Users Group now called Electronic Prepress Solutions Group) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... At their 1996 Winter Meeting in Dallas, TX, members of the Crosfield Users Group agreed to rename themselves the Electronic Prepress Solutions Group (EPSG). The new appellation will be launched officially at the fifth annual meeting in San...

Kodak ships proofing devices. (Desktop Color Proofer 9000)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... March 1, Kodak began shipping its 12.sup.2 x18.sup.2 continuous-tone, dye-sub Desktop Color Proofer 9000 and its Approval PS color system for producing halftone proofs in PostScript environments.

Organization for self-publishers. (Small Publishers Assn of North America) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... A professional trade organization has been launched to aid self-publishers through education and marketing opportunities. The Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN) -- founded by Tom and Marilyn Ross, authors of The Complete Guide...

Printware upgrades ZapRip. (Product Development)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... The new version of Printware's ZapRip RIP now supports Microsoft Client and NFS network protocols, in addition to Novell and PhoneNet. Also, to facilitate quicker and easier start-ups and upgrades, Printware has significantly automated the...

Opaltone appoints Sicpa. (Sicpa Graphics Imaging Systems) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... Opaltone International, the Australian-based developer of the Opaltone scanner-based hi-fi color process (for six- or seven- color printing) has appointed Sicpa Graphics Imaging Systems as its exclusive sales agent in Australasia. Sicpa also...

Grif in Scandinavia. (Inforum AB to distribute in Scandinavia) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... Grif, the French developer of SGML authoring tools, has appointed Celsius Inforum AB its distributor in Scandinavia. Among Celsius Inforum's customers are Ericcson, Atlas Copco and Volvo. Carrying Grif's products complements its existing SGML...

Purup and Eskofot to merge; LMX holds 51%. (Purup Pre-press) (Company Financial Information)
March 31, 1996... Purup Prepress and Eskofot, the Danish suppliers of imagesetters and scanners, respectively, have announced plans to merge. The combined company, to be called Purup-Eskofot A/S, will have 700 employees and annual revenues of 750 million Danish...

Dinin is back as head of Linotype-Hell U.S. (David Dinin) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... David Dinin, who left a position as president of Linotype-Hell's North American operation two years ago, has been reappointed to the same post. He fills the position that was vacated in February by the sudden departure of Ed LaGraize, the man...

CGATS embraces PDF for digital ad transfer. (Committee for Graphics Arts Technology Standards, Adobe's Portable Document Format) (Technology Information)
March 31, 1996... The graphic arts technical committee working on digital ad exchange has formally adopted Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) as the basis for an industry standard for transferring electronic ads containing a mixture of objects and raster...

SII adapts MediaVu archive for U.S. market. (Systems Integrators) (Product Information)
March 31, 1996... System Integrators has obtained rights to sell the MediaVu image database and has begun localizing it for the U.S. market. MediaVu was written by a Finnish company, GrafiMedia Oy, which is a division of ICL. It is in use at the Helsinki...

Sysdeco sales rise but profits and stocks fall. (Company Financial Information)
March 31, 1996... Sysdeco has announced sales in the U.S., Germany, the UK and Scandinavia. First, the Appleton (WI) Post-Crescent (daily circ. 59,807, Sun. circ. 75,588), a Thomson property, will install DewarView and Enterprise, the first Sysdeco products...

Multimedia integrator aligns with SGI. (Management Process Integrators and Silicon Graphics) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... Management Process Integrators (MPI), a young system integrator focused on publishers, has become a national system integrator of Silicon Graphics equipment. MPI focuses exclusively on working with media companies, helping them to retool...

America East kicks off newspaper season. (trade show season for newspaper production equipment) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... The America East regional newspaper equipment show got under way just as this issue was going to press. It marks the beginning of this year's newspaper shows, to be followed by the UK Brighton show and Nexpo in the spring. Besides our story...

Xyvision offers PDM for FrameMaker+SGML. (Parlance Document Manager) (Product Development)
March 31, 1996... In the past few weeks Xyvision has introduced several enhancements to its Parlance Document Manager, including support for FrameMaker+SGML and two new utilities that make it easier for customers to add SGML documents to PDM repositories. The...

GATF CTP study touts Kodak thermal plates. (Graphic Arts Technology Foundation) (Technology Information)
March 31, 1996... A Graphic Arts Technology Foundation study of computer-to-plate technology found the resolution of Kodak's thermal plates to be higher than that of the other CTP plates tested. Seven manufacturers provided plates imaged with a supplied...

Screen's U.S. operation reorganized by function. (Screen USA) (Company Operations)
March 31, 1996... Screen USA (a subsidiary of Dainippon Screen of Kyoto, Japan) has announced that, effective March 15, three North American sales subsidiaries -- Screen East, Screen Midwest and Screen West -- are consolidating under the Screen USA name and...

AIII names seven more to its board of directors. (Autologic Information International) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... Autologic Information International (AIII) has named seven additional members to its board of directors. William Shaw, Al Edwards, Jim Groberg, Jerry Shaw, John Koontz, Paul McGarrell and Ralph Roth will join chairman Charles Ying and vice...

Digital Technology. (orders for equipment purchases) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 31, 1996... * Los Angeles (CA) Times (daily circ. 1,062,202, Sun. 1,457,925) -- Javelin client and database software for a pilot program. Javelin will accept files from virtually any desktop publishing software in several formats -- text, graphics, ads or...

Grif. (Mercedes Benz purchases SGML software) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 31, 1996... Mercedes-Benz has chosen Grif's SGML authoring tools for the first implementatio of the MSR Doc DTD, a DTD developed by a consortium of German car and component manufacturers. The consortium is working on ways to optimize the processes of...

Monotype Systems. (reports sales contracts) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 31, 1996... Monotype Systems has reported sales in the U.S., the UK and Canada. Among the U.S. installations are the following: * Portland (OR) Oregonian -- dual MGS3 system: 2 Sun Sparcstation-20/61 workstations, with 5-GB external backup magnetic tape...

Sysdeco. (reports sales) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 31, 1996... Sysdeco is facing its most serious crisis since its acquisition last year of companies and product lines intended to thrust it into the forefront of international publishing. On the heels of moving its corporate office to the U.S. in...

Ten-Year Technology Forecast of Printing and Publishing.
March 31, 1996... Ten-Year Technology Forecast of Printing and Publishing, edited by John Birkenshaw; Pira International, 238 pages, [Pounds] 1000 ([Pounds] 800 to Pira members). We often act as though prepress systems were affected only by changes in the...

The SGML Implementation Guide: A Blueprint for SGML Migration.
March 31, 1996... The SGML Implementation Guide: A Blueprint for SGML Migration, by Brian E. Travis and Dale C. Waldt; Springer, 522 pp., $49.95 Travis and Waldt are familiar faces on the SGML travel circuit -- making speeches, conducting classes and covering...

Passage Systems opens SGML classes to public. (Company Business and Marketing)
March 31, 1996... Beginning in April, the SGML training classes that Passage Systems previously offered only to its clients will be open to the general public. The courses combine lectures, group discussions and hands-on experience. All courses are held in...

People. (computer executive appointments) (News Briefs)
March 26, 1996... William Monahan has been appointed CEO of the new data storage and imaging company 3M will spin off from its traditional business. The new public company will be operating by July. Eastman Kodak has named Robert M. Unterberger president of...

Aaronson out as SII CEO; COO Williams moves up. (Erika Williams replaces Bill Aaronson as CEO of Systems Integrators Inc) (Company Operations)
March 26, 1996... Bill Aaronson has left his position as CEO of System Integrators after 13 years with the company. He has been replaced on an interim basis by Erika Williams, the former Amdahl executive who joined SII as COO last August. Although her...

Sorensen leaves CCI presidency; Christensen takes over. (Carsten J. Christensen replaces Torben Sorensen as Pres of CCI Europe) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 26, 1996... Torben Sorensen is leaving his post as president of CCI Europe. He will retain a seat on the board of directors and, through chairman Jorgen Bjerregaard, maintain close contact with CCI. A real veteran, he had become president before the...

Monotype to sell Scitex products to newspapers. (Monotype Systems agrees to distribute Scitex America's printing products) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 26, 1996... Monotype Systems has taken over the sales and support of all Scitex product lines to newspaper customers in the U.S. and Canada. Under the terms of a deal signed between Scitex America and Monotype Systems of the U.S., Monotype has begun...

Managing Editor gets sales rights to HexBase. (Managing Editor Software to distribute HexMac's HexBase Web database software) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 26, 1996... Managing Editor Software has obtained distribution rights to the HexBase World Wide Web database product developed by HexMac of Germany. It plans to make HexBase's database facilities available to its newspaper customers to put their classified...

Adobe spinoffs continue as Datalogics, Curo exit. (Adobe Systems divests from Datalogics and Curo Technology International) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 26, 1996... Adobe Systems, which already has divested itself of many of the product lines it acquired when it bought Aldus, is following the same path with the secondary businesses it acquired with Frame Technology. It is splitting off Datalogics and Curo...

ArborText to port SGML editor to OS/2 for IBM. (ArborText develops OS/2 version of Adept SGML editor)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 26, 1996... ArborText has announced that it is developing an OS/2 version of its Adept SGML editor, the result of a large order from IBM. IBM will be using Adept to create documentation, initially at a North Carolina facility of its Network System...

B2 press formats: the Herkules size issue. (four-up imagesetter dimension standards) (Technology Information)(Brief Article)
March 26, 1996... The spec wars involving the new crowd of four-up imagesetters have added a new dimension: the ideal size for an imagesetter producing film or polyester plates for use with B2-size presses. The dispute is particularly heated because these...

97 laid off as Triple-I, Autologic restructure. (Autologic, Information International Inc. will restructure before planned merger) (Company Operations)
March 26, 1996... Autologic and Information International have enacted a round of restructuring as part of their formal merger, which was announced last June and completed on Jan. 30. The restructuring resulted in layoffs totaling 97 people. They were announced...

Xerox Verde film unit seeks partner or buyer. (Xerox Graphic Systems seeks partners for manufacturing, acquisition or joint venture) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 26, 1996... Xerox Graphic Systems is looking for "strategic alternatives" in the pursuit of its Verde (chemical-free) Digital Film project. Citing problems in manufacturing, Mel Ettinger, who has headed the XGS operation since it was formed, said it was...

Online job hunts, with CText ads plus agents. (CText's CareerSite Web-based job placement service) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 26, 1996... CText is bolstering its classified advertising system by incorporating facilities to enable a newspaper's readers to perform online job searching on the World Wide Web. The technology comes from Virtual Resources, a developer of interactive...

Steamline searches, sells, delivers online. (University of Bath's Bath Information and Data Services' Steamline Internet-based magazine distribution system) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 26, 1996... Bath Information and Data Services (BIDS) has launched Steamline, an Internet magazine distribution system that supports both subscriptions and single-copy purchases. Steamline's first client is Blackwell Science, the largest publisher of...

Amicus launches Adept keyboard for Windows. (Amicus Systems' Adept computer keyboard)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 26, 1996... Amicus Systems of the UK has introduced its Adept keyboard to enable non-Roman languages to be keyed into standard Windows packages, such as Xpress, PageMaker and Word. The driver, which works with standard 102-key keyboards and interfaces with...

For your calendar. (calendar of computer industry trade shows) (Calendar of Events)
March 26, 1996... Although remaining in Philadelphia (PA), the 1997 Graphic Communications 3 show has been moved to May (to May 15-17, 1997) in order to offer GC3 attenders free admission to ID Expo and MDCC, a bar-coding and automatic-identification show. GC3...

MediaWell formed from Meta-Generics. (MetaGenerics Ltd forms MediaWell Ltd) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 26, 1996... MediaWell Ltd., in Cambridge (UK), has been launched as a spinoff from Meta-Generics Ltd., with the support of its international parent, Generics Group PLC. It will concentrate on the design and development of software applications for the...

Folio, InContext bring SGML to journals. (Folio, Incontext jointly develop SGML Journal Publisher SGML editor application) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
March 26, 1996... Folio and InContext plan to co-develop and market a turnkey SGML system they hope to bring to journal publishers this fall. The package, tentatively called the SGML Journal Publisher, will integrate an inexpensive version of InContext's SGML...