The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems articles from March 1999

The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems archives from March 1999

Adobe, Quark Face Off In Keynote Presentations.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 29, 1999... LAST FALL, QUARK astounded the industry by offering to buy Adobe. As things turned out, the offer went nowhere: Adobe brushed it off as a PR stunt, attenders at the Seybold San Francisco conference reacted with a strange mixture of...

Inexpensive Ink-Jet Proofing.(Product Announcement)
March 29, 1999... Anyone interested in proofing had a great opportunity to catch up with the state of the market in Boston. The activity was focused on desktop ink-jet machines. The most important announcement was Adobe's PressReady product. Adobe...

Two-Sided Proofers.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 29, 1999... Although the double-sided proofer market has not blossomed at a breakneck pace, it nonetheless continues to pick up steam. After our most recent survey of this market (see Vol. 28, No. 7), we looked for news at the Seybold Seminars event,...

ICC Approach Mostly Works Well.(Monaco's EZcolor, ICC's Photoshop 5.0)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 29, 1999... The Boston event hosted several color management sessions as well as a "Color Management Day." The normal centerpiece of such sessions at past events-the ICC profile standard-got second billing this time. The real star was Photoshop 5. ...

Measuring Tools and Software.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 29, 1999... It was a quiet show as far as new measuring instruments were concerned. The only really new one was the X-Rite DTP41/T, a transparency version of the popular DTP41 strip-reading colorimeter. It is intended for use mainly with film recorders...

Start of a Desktop Revolution?(Technology Information)
March 29, 1999... There certainly is a lot going on in color management and color proofing, enabled by the ICC standard, the advancements in ink- jet printing, and the new features in Photoshop. Certainly, there are still limitations. We listed some of the...

Profiling Your Equipment: Why Output Takes Priority.(Technology Information)
March 29, 1999... Color management holds the promise of maintaining consistent colors from the original scene through to the printed page (to the extent that the original colors can be faithfully reproduced in print). To achieve this, profiles need to be...

Asset Management: The Forward March Continues.(Seybold Seminars, Boston 1999)(Industry Trend or Event)
March 29, 1999... ASSET MANAGEMENT continues to flourish as an area of broad interest and advancement. Developments on display in Boston included the use of Web browsers to create cross-platform systems, the ability to access and search metadata, and the...

Large-Format Printers and RIPs.(HP DesignJets 1000, ColorSpan DisplayMaker XII, Epson Stylus Pro 9000)(Product Announcement)
March 29, 1999... THERE WAS NO new trend or single theme in large-format printing, but there were significant new products from four companies, including HP, Epson and ColorSpan, raising the standards for speed, quality and versatility in this market. In...

Imagesetters: Speed Is In.(Product Announcement)
March 29, 1999... News from the imagesetter market centers on one issue: high- speed, eight-page machines, where three new devices were on display: the Screen Tanto 5120, the Agfa Avantra 44XT and the Fuji Sumo (called the Multi-Laser when the technology was...

High-Resolution RIPS.(Harlequin's ScriptWorks 5.1)(Product Announcement)
March 29, 1999... The most interesting news in the high-resolution RIP area was the return of RIPit Computer with a nice, low-end package built around an Adobe interpreter. On the Harlequin front, most suppliers were awaiting the availability of version 5.1 of...

Quark shift ousts Bland, Dressel; cuts into QMI.(Company Operations)
March 29, 1999... New structure cuts costs, but Quark calls it 'reinventing' itself for the future In an abrupt shift in company structure, Quark has removed several of its top executives, including its chief operating officer, Chuck Bland, and its vice...

Xaar buys ink-jet firm, gets Olympus funding.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 29, 1999... Modular Ink Technology acquired Xaar plc, the innovative ink-jet printing technology company based in Cambridge, UK, has announced two agreements aimed at expanding its current level of activities. First, it will acquire one of the major...

Farrukh-DK&A merger unites imposition lines.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 29, 1999... Full line will address designers, printers Farrukh Systems of the UK and DK&A of the U.S., both privately held companies producing imposition software, have agreed to merge. The merged company will be known as DK&A Pre-Press, Inc. ...

Heidelberg to buy Kodak printer business.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 29, 1999... NexPress expands to black-and-white Kodak and Heidelberg announced an agreement whereby Heidelberg will acquire Kodak's Office Imaging business, which includes the division's printer, copier-duplicator and roller assembly operations. The...

Danka Debuts 110-ppm Kodak Printer.(Product Announcement)
March 29, 1999... New line to give DocuTech competition Danka has unveiled a high-speed monochrome printing system developed in partnership with Kodak's Office Imaging business, which is soon to be part of Heidelberg. Called the DigiSource 9110 Network...

Dicomed's 'last shot' is a whimper: doors closing.(Company Operations)
March 29, 1999... Sienna reportedly picking up parts Dicomed, the innovative developer of digital cameras and, earlier, image-editing software, appears to have reached the end of the road. With its key Itochu partner losing interest in the new...

GretagMacbeth acquires color-measuring firms.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 29, 1999... Talia and Viptronic GretagMacbeth, one of the leading suppliers of color-measuring instruments, has bolstered its position by acquiring two Italian manufacturers of color-measuring instruments: Talia Tecnoequipe, serving the textile...

PEOPLE.(executive appointments)(Frances Lamy,)(Frank Loversky)(Ray Boelig)(Vic Stalam)(Gustavo O. Berges)(Andreas Poliza)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 29, 1999... Frances Lamy, one of the founders of Dalim Imaging Software, has joined GretagMacbeth as VP of digital imaging. He's based in the U.S., reporting to Ron Anderson, president and CEO. Among those reporting to him is Stephan Brues of Logo, which...

Danka to Sell Outsourcing Business to UK Finance Group.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 29, 1999... Danka has signed a letter of intent to sell its outsourcing business, Danka Services International (DSI), to Schroder Ventures, a London-based international financial organization. Under the terms of the letter, Danka will retain a minority...

Xerox Colorgrafx 54e Eyes Production Work.(large format printer)(Product Announcement)
March 29, 1999... New print head; 50% speed increase Xerox Colorgrafx has introduced a new version of its wide-format electrostatic printer with a new, full-screen user interface and a rated maximum imaging speed of 600 sq. ft. per hour. The printer,...

Photokina and Beyond: Digital Photography Trends as 1999 Unfolds.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 8, 1999... IT MAY HAVE GONE unnoticed by many people that six companies brought out new professional digital cameras in 1998-and that some of them advanced the technology to new levels. In this report, which originated at the Photokina show last fall in...

Heidelberg Prepress: Deals Start to Pay Off.(takeover of Linotype-Hell)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 8, 1999... ACQUISITIONS are rarely easy to manage. In the case of Heidelberg's takeover of Linotype-Hell, which was intended to give the acquiring company a full range of prepress equipment, there were some especially complex circumstances to work out....

Quark Sheds Label As One-Product Firm.
March 8, 1999... THE FIGHT FOR THE MINDS and hearts of publishing professionals is advancing in earnest. The latest evidence, unveiled in a keynote address at the Seybold Seminars event in Boston, is a barrage of new technology aimed at establishing Quark...

Gable Named Seybold VP/GM.(Gene Gable at Seybold Seminars)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 8, 1999... Gene Gable, former publisher of Publish magazine, has been named vice president and general manager of Seybold Seminars. Details on page 28.

Digital Photography: An Exciting '98 Brings Promise for '99.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 8, 1999... DIGITAL CAMERAS are evolving rapidly, driven by progress in enabling technologies such as sensors and storage devices. This was the pattern throughout 1998, and it appears to be set to continue well into 1999. Digital cameras in the...

State of the industry as seen at Photokina.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 8, 1999... The latest edition of Photokina-the photographic industry's biggest worldwide trade fair, held every two years in Cologne, Germany-was a reassuring show for a photographic industry that has had its share of ups and downs over the last few...

Imagek digital film: still coming 'soon'.(EFS-1 Electronic Film System )
March 8, 1999... For a year now, we've been waiting for Imagek's EFS-1 Electronic Film System for converting conventional cameras into digital models (see The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing, Vol. 2, No. 7). This could have been a real killer product-...

We see new digital cameras of one sort or another almost every week. Most are low-resolution models intended for consumer and business use. In contrast, professional digital cameras are fewer and farther between, have longer product lives and are often supplied as digital backs for well-established professional bodies and lenses, originally designed for use with film. They are produced in much smaller quantities and are therefore much more expensive to buy.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 8, 1999... Because of the high cost of area-array sensors, many of which were originally intended for military use, some professional digital backs use less-expensive linear arrays that traverse the image plane like a very slow focal-plane shutter,...

Leaf Volare: new CCD, Active Cooling.(Scitex Leaf 's digital camera back )(Product Announcement)
March 8, 1999... The Scitex Leaf Volare, first shown at Seybold San Francisco '98, is a high- quality digital camera back for color still life and studio photography. It can be coupled with Sinarcam, Hasselblad, Mamiya or Fuji 645 cameras and is the first to...

Dicomed switches CCDs for LittleBigShot.(digital camera )(Product Information)
March 8, 1999... As its name suggests, the LittleBigShot is the baby brother of Dicomed's BigShot, the exclusive user of the enormous 6x6cm, 4,096x4,096-pixel CCD from Loral Fairchild. This is the only chip that not only fills but overfills the former film...

Phase One LightPhase: exquisite images.(digital camera)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
March 8, 1999... Just after Photokina, Allan Hansen of Phase One hand-carried a preproduction LightPhase camera and a Macintosh computer from Phase One's headquarters in Denmark for us to test. Neither Phase One nor Philips will confirm or deny whether the...

Megavision previews S3.(digital camera back)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 8, 1999... The S3 is MegaVision's latest camera back, also employing the 24x36mm chip. It was shown at Photokina in prototype form. The camera will have 16-bit output, capturing 36-bit RGB color images and providing a final 18-MB calibrated RGB file in...

The market for high-resolution digital cameras is small and there are a lot of players, many of whom produce their own versions of backs housing similar chips. The design standards for top-of-the-line digital cameras were set by the original Leaf DCB in 1992, after which they have risen, not fallen. All of the manufacturers of professional digital cameras listen to users and understand what they need. For most applications, the choice is like choosing between a Rolls Royce and a Bentley-you have a personal preference, but would be very glad to have the other if the first choice was not available.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 8, 1999... Like those well-built cars, digital cameras last almost forever, so it is not a case of being able to sell this year's model-unless it has major improvements. Many of the studios with the money to buy $25,000 digital cameras have already made...

2-Megapixel Cameras Headline PMA.(Photo Marketing Association annual show, Las Vegas, Feb 1999 )(Industry Trend or Event)
March 8, 1999... The Photo Marketing Association (PMA) annual show, held in Las Vegas last month, featured more new developments in digital photography. Among the highlights were these items, which will be covered in detail in this publication and The Seybold...

Heidelberg Prepress: Taking Stock Of the Changing Organization.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 8, 1999... THE ACCELERATING pace of change in publishing technology in recent years has been accompanied by similarly rapid changes in corporate structure, as acquisitions and reorganizations are implemented to enhance a company's market position....

GIF files as needed.Wrapture for packaging.(Quark's graphic arts tool)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 8, 1999... Xpress is widely used in most prepress markets, including packaging, but Quark has never developed packaging-specific features. The project with the internal name Wrapture would change that. This software provides specialized graphic arts...

New interface for Quark DMS.(enhancement of DTP software with Island Graphics ImagePump interface)(Product Announcement)
March 8, 1999... The Quark Digital Media System for managing assets, which currently is undergoing field testing, is being enhanced via the addition of a powerful Web client that includes the Island Graphics ImagePump interface. The ImagePump system was...

DMS remain much as we have reported in the past.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 8, 1999... A key one is the ability to "deconstruct" Xpress documents into reusable components, which are managed by the underlying database (initially Oracle 8). It's important to note that Quark DMS isn't limited to managing Xpress documents and their...

Thousands of pages per minute at Scitex Digital; New ink-jet device targets book printing.(Scitex Digital Printing's VersaMark)(Product Announcement)
March 8, 1999... Scitex Digital Printing has developed a digital book-printing system capable of printing 3,800 book pages per minute at 300x600 dpi. Called the VersaMark, it was unveiled at BookTech '99 in New York on Feb. 16. The machine was printing sample...

Dalim bought by group of distributors and users.(Dalim Imaging Software)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 8, 1999... OneVision offer fails in final stages Dalim Imaging Software has been taken over by a group of distributors and users, ending months of turbulence and uncertainty as a parade of suitors attempted to acquire the software rights. The most...

Kodak Polychrome in Japan.(Dainippon Ink & Chemicals and Eastman Kodak's joint venture)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 8, 1999... Dainippon Ink & Chemicals Inc. and Eastman Kodak have confirmed that they will launch a joint venture in prepress operations on April 1. To be called Kodak Polychrome Graphics Japan Ltd., the joint venture will be a Japanese unit of...

ACI offers editorial system for print, Web Debuts at Interactive Newspapers.(American Computer Innovators' OpenPages)(Product Announcement)
March 8, 1999... American Computer Innovators (ACI) has formally debuted a new version of its OpenPages editorial system designed to handle both print and Web publishing concurrently. The system, which goes by the name Composer, made its debut at the...

Gable Named VP and GM of Seybold Operation.(Gene Gable)(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 8, 1999... Gene Gable, who has been serving as the publisher of Publish magazine, has joined Seybold Seminars, effective March 1, as vice president and general manager of the Seybold Seminars and Seybold Publications operations. He replaces Bruce Gray,...

Latest Heidelberg A4 scanner targets quality.(Saphir HIRes flatbed color scanner)(Product Announcement)
March 8, 1999... Saphir HiRes features moving plate Heidelberg has introduced a new scanner in its CPS line: the Saphir HiRes, an A4 device that features a moving plate and stationary optical system to maximize quality. It also features 42-bit color...

Haworth, ex-Dicomed, heads CGS office in U.S. Ex-Dalim team also joins German firm.(Trevor Haworth joins CGS Publishing Technologies International)(Company Operations)
March 8, 1999... Trevor Haworth, former president and CEO of Dicomed, has been named president and CEO of CGS Publishing Technologies International, which has just opened a new U.S. office in Minneapolis, MN. The two companies (Dicomed and CGS) shared a booth...

3 get wide-format posts at Agfa.(Agfa's Graphic Systems Div., Frances Cicogna, Jeff DiToro, Scott Puckett)(Company Operations)
March 8, 1999... Agfa's Graphic Systems division has named three people to its Industrial Imaging Systems effort, responsible for the AgfaJet wide-format systems: Frances Cicogna, formerly of Mitsubishi, is eastern region support specialist in Teterboro, NJ;...

Barco North America restructures by markets 1998 acquisitions served as catalyst.(Company Operations)
March 8, 1999... Barco Graphics, which acquired four U.S. businesses last year, has restructured its North American operations in accord with the acquisitions. The result is a structure focusing on target markets reflected by its acquisitions of Gerber in the...

IPTech to supply RIPs for Indigo presses.(Information Presentation Technologies' TurboRIP RIPs)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 8, 1999... Adobe interpreter, Java interface Information Presentation Technologies (IPTech) is providing TurboRIP RIPs to Indigo for use in driving its line of digital presses, including the E-Print Pro, TurboStream, UltraStream and Omnius...

Xerox copier integrates novel binding features.(Xerox 5885 Departmental Copier)(Company Business and Marketing)
March 8, 1999... But not offered yet on digital machines Xerox has developed an 85-page-per-minute (ppm) copier with sophisticated binding capabilities that turn it into a $50,000 printing press and bindery. The binding accessory, offered for the...

A tale of two digital press manufacturers.
March 8, 1999... Xeikon and Indigo report year-end financials with varying results The 1998 financial results for both Xeikon and Indigo are in. While both companies made substantial gains over the prior year, Xeikon now seems to be over the hump and should...

Presstek suffers loss of $5.8 million in shortfall.(Product Announcement)
March 8, 1999... Presstek reported revenues for its 1998 fourth quarter of $16.6 million, compared with $26.4 million in the fourth quarter of 1997. The company reported a net loss for the quarter of $5.8 million ($.18/share), compared with fourth- quarter...

Heidelberg dealing to buy Kodak printer unit.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 8, 1999... Ex-Danka imaging business for sale Heidelberg has confirmed that it is in negotiations with Eastman Kodak to buy the office imaging division that had been handled by Danka, according to the German magazine "Manager." The transaction, for...

Nur's wide Fresco targets screen printing.(Product Announcement)
March 8, 1999... Higher resolution, drop-on-demand ink jet Nur Macroprinters of Israel, a supplier of wide- and grand-format printers for the production of billboards and other displays, has launched a new line of device: the Nur Fresco (see photo,...

Quark's New-Product Barrage Targets Packaging, Web and Catalog Markets.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 8, 1999... QUARK, THE LITTLE COMPANY that grabbed a dominant position in the professional page-layout market, is undertaking a massive project to create a new identity for itself. A year ago, Quark recognized that it faced increasing animosity among its...

Adobe Takes the Wraps Off 'K2': 'InDesign' Set for Battle with Xpress.(Adobe Systems' page layout program)(Product Information)
March 2, 1999... THIS STORY WILL mostly be about Adobe's new page layout program, which was code-named K2 during its development1 and will officially be called Adobe InDesign when it is shipped this summer. There are plenty of new features, including some...

Page Layout Battle Looms; Wraps Come Off 'K2'- 'InDesign' Ready for Xpress.(Product Announcement)
March 2, 1999... WITH THE DEBUT OF INDESIGN (nee K2), Adobe is once again competing seriously for the high end of the page layout market. However, InDesign also fits into Adobe's broader strategy encompassing workflow automation and media-independent...

Scanner Study: Part II High-End Flatbed Scanners Undergo Quality Testing.(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
March 2, 1999... THIS ARTICLE CONCLUDES our report on the results of tests of nine high-end flatbed scanners, which began with an analysis of productivity aspects in Volume 28, No. 9. As you will see from the results in this issue (and four pages of sample...

Hot Picks for Seybold Seminars Boston Show.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 2, 1999... The editors of Seybold Publications have made their Hot Picks for the annual Seybold Seminars spring expo in Boston. Topping a star-studded list is Adobe's InDesign (formerly code-named K2), which makes its world debut. Beginning on page...

Concluding a Two-Part Study Testing the Scanning Quality Of Nine High-End Flatbeds.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
March 2, 1999... THIS ARTICLE concludes our report on our tests of nine high-end flatbed scanners. We began with an analysis of productivity aspects of scanning (see Vol. 28, No. 9). Here we focus on the interlocking issues of resolution and image quality....

International Color Consortium.(group of scanner vendors)(Industry Trend or Event)
March 2, 1999... The International Color Consortium (ICC) is an international committee comprising most of the major suppliers to the industry-Adobe, Agfa, Apple, Heidelberg Prepress and many others. It was set up in 1993 to develop a standard means of...

Pixel Perfect: A Buyers' Guide to High-End Flatbed Scanners.(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
March 2, 1999... This article contains a subset of a more comprehensive study performed by Paul Lindstrom and Laurel Brunner. The full results, with several pages of output samples for each tested scanner, are contained in a separate publication called "Pixel...

The Latest Word.(Adobe K2, Quark Digital Media System, Epson Stylus Color Pro 9000 hot products at )(trade show)(Product Announcement)
March 2, 1999... K2 debut leads star-studded Hot Picks as Seybold Seminars moves to Boston Quark, Scitex launch asset managers; Epson enters new printer markets Brand-new products and new directions from Adobe Systems, Quark, Scitex and Epson head a...

Workflow and Asset Management.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1999... The hot area of asset management is bracing for two new entries: Quark, which has added an important capability to its offering as it nears a formal release, and Scitex, which will show its entry for the first time.

Quark DMS with Island Graphics ELT.
March 2, 1999... Among our Hot Picks at the last two Seybold Seminars expos were an asset management system from Quark and an image-handling application from Island Graphics. The Boston event will feature the first showing of a new effort to integrate...

Internet-related products.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 2, 1999... More Hot Picks, related to Internet publishing, are featured in The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing. They include Mediasurface's Mediasurface 2.0 and WorldWeb.net's Xpressroom. v

Gretag set to acquire Cymbolic Sciences; Move could aid both companies.
March 2, 1999... Cymbolic Sciences and Gretag Imaging have announced that they are negotiating the terms of a potential acquisition of Cymbolic Sciences by Gretag. The acquisition is expected to be completed by the end of March, after which Cymbolic will...

OneVision agrees to acquire Dalim; Due-diligence procedures under way.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 2, 1999... OneVision, the German developer of PostScript and PDF editing utilities, has agreed to acquire Dalim Software, the German developer of image-editing and workflow products. The deal is subject to the successful completion of due- diligence...

CTP supplier Misomex files for bankruptcy; Funding needed, but still in business.(Company Financial Information)
March 2, 1999... Misomex International, the supplier of CTP imaging systems, has filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The filing, which the company said was necessitated by a dispute with one of its secured lenders, hasn't prevented...

McMillan Foundation to Aid Graphic Arts, Honor Editor.(Editorial)
March 2, 1999... Colleagues of Electronic Publishing editor Tom McMillan have formed a foundation to honor the veteran journalist who disclosed recently that he suffers from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease). McMillan, 47, has lost...

Briefly.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1999... Arbortext gets $10.25 million Arbortext has received $10.25 million in second-round financing, led by Invesco Private Capital and including investments from Norwest Venture Partners and Access Capital. It will be used primarily to expand...

International Color Management Forum.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1999... The University of Derby's Color and Imaging Institute is running an International Color Management Forum in Derby, England, March 24-25, following a meeting of the International Color Consortium (ICC), held in Derby on the previous two days....

Xerox cuts large printer prices.
March 2, 1999... Xerox is lowering the U.S. list prices of its large-format printers, as follows: Colorgrafx Xpress 36 piezoelectric ink-jet printer, cut 24% to $22,995; Xpress 54, reduced 16% to $36,995; 44-inch 8900 electrostatic printer, cut 28% to...

Kodak in Japanese joint venture.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1999... Dainippon Ink & Chemicals and Kodak have agreed to set up a joint venture in Japan, the details of which will be announced soon. It may involve distribution of Kodak plates in Japan. The two companies are already linked through Kodak...

Jobs to open developer event.(Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1999... Steve Jobs, Apple's interim CEO, will deliver the kickoff keynote on the first day of Apple's 1999 Worldwide Developer Conference, to be held May 10-14 at the San Jose (CA) Convention Center. Jobs and Avie Tevanian, senior VP of software...

Congressional Quarterly taps Reed.(Government Activity)
March 2, 1999... Reed Technology has embarked on a multimillion-dollar project for Congressional Quarterly to develop a unified data repository and content management system for publishing to its Web site, CQ.com, and publishing printed products such as CQ...

Optronics to resell Rampage RIP.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1999... Optronics has signed up as a reseller of the Rampage Ripping system, a software RIP that runs under NT with a hardware board for screening on the fly. It drives Optronics's family of Aurora platesetters.

Xeikon signs Sakata Inx in Japan.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1999... Sakata Inx, a Japanese manufacturer of inks, printing equipment and related materials, has been named a distributor of Xeikon printing systems and consumables in Japan. The venture marks Sakata's full entrance into digital production...

Amiable releases new server RIP.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 2, 1999... Amiable Technologies has released version 2.0 of its PhotoPrint Server, targeted at large-format printing. New features include support for six-color printers (both CMYK-light cyan-light magenta and CMYK-orange-green), enhanced color...

Financial News.(Polaroid reports loss for 4th qtr and year 1998)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1999... Polaroid reported a net loss Polaroid reported a net loss of $75.5 million, or $1.72 per share, on sales of $541.8 million for its 1998 fourth quarter, compared with a net loss of $202.8 million, or $4.51 per share, on sales of $607.6...

Eastman Kodak earned $272 million, or 83 cents a share, for the last three months of 1998.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1999... Eastman Kodak earned $272 million, or 83 cents a share, for the last three months of 1998, compared with a loss of $744 million, or $2.29 a share, a year earlier. Sales dropped 6 percent to $3.56 billion from $3.78 billion. Kodak's...

Electronics for Imaging revenues increase.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1999... Electronics for Imaging revenues for its fourth quarter (ended Dec. 31) increased 105% to $126.7 million, from $61.7 million in the fourth quarter of 1997. Net income was $18.4 million, $.34 per share, up $20.5 million from the loss of $2.1...

Xerox copier integrates novel binding features; But not offered yet on digital machines.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 2, 1999... Xerox has developed an 85-page-per-minute (ppm) copier with sophisticated binding capabilities that turn it into a $50,000 printing press and bindery. The binding accessory, offered for the first time with this class of copier, enables...

$1 million for the same period last year.(Digital PrePrint revenues)(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
March 2, 1999... Digital PrePrint revenues for the fourth quarter of 1998 were $119 million, compared with $128 million in the fourth quarter of 1997. For the full year, Digital PrePrint revenues were $436 million, compared with $438 million last year....