The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems articles from March 2000

The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems archives from March 2000

Seybold Seminars Boston 2000: A Flurry of Activity.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 6, 2000... INDUSTRY CONFERENCES and trade shows tend to reflect the level of activity in the industry at the time. It's hard to create excitement when the industry is in the doldrums. On the other hand, when the mood is upbeat or there are a lot of...

Digital Color Proofing Shootout: What We Did, What It Means.(Technology Information)
March 6, 2000... DIGITAL PROOFING is now a central (and controversial) component of the trend toward color-managed workflows, CTP, automated press controls and Internet-enabled collaboration between designers and print producers. To assess the state of the...

An Open Letter from Creo Products Inc.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 6, 2000... The following letter was submitted to the graphic arts community by Gordon Pritchard of Creo Products regarding the Seybold Digital Color Proofing Shootout at Seybold Seminars Boston, Feb. 2000. At the Boston Seybold tradeshow held in...

THE PROOFING SHOOTOUT.
March 6, 2000... Products in the Shootout Adobe Systems-PressReady Best Software-BESTColor CGS-ORIS Color Tuner Compose Systems-ProofJet Creo-Spectrum (output by DCS) DuPont-Digital Waterproof AQ-4 Fuji Photofilm-Luxel 5600...

Seybold Seminars Boston '00 - CTP for the Rest of Us, Color Proofing And Large-Format and Other Printers.(Industry Trend or Event)
March 6, 2000... IN THE AREA of output devices, the news at the Seybold Seminars Boston/Publishing 2000 expo can be divided into four major areas: * Color proofing, where some new products made their debuts and our Color Proofing Shootout culminated in...

Drupa Prelude - Purup-Eskofot at Drupa: Taking CTP to a New Level.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 6, 2000... AT DRUPA, among its wide range of new and enhanced products, Purup- Eskofot will unveil a new-technology product that could change the face of the CTP market: a new means of imaging conventional UV-sensitive plates at high speed. In a...

Scanview Name Dropped.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 6, 2000... The Scanview name has been dropped in conjunction with with the full incorporation of the Scanview business into the Purup-Eskofot organization. However, the ScanMate name is being retained. The scanner product line obtained with the...

Toshiba enters color race with 25-ppm FC22 600-dpi printer with Fiery Z4: $44,000.(Product Announcement)
March 6, 2000... Toshiba has entered the color laser copier-printer market with a 600- dpi, 25-page-per-minute unit targeted at the Canon CLC 2400 and Xerox DocuColor 30 market. Toshiba's product, called the FC22, is being sold through the company's own...

Xerox to integrate DI press with DigiPath - Offset printing alternative to DocuTech.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 6, 2000... Xerox and Presstek have disclosed that they are negotiating a "non- binding memorandum of understanding" under which they plan to interface Xerox's DigiPath workflow software with Presstek's digital printing technology. No details have been...

Kinko's selects PrimeSource-Xeikon.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 6, 2000... Kinko's has installed Xeikon digital color presses in its Corporate Printing and Finishing Centers (CPFC) in Dallas, New York and Boston, and plans to install 12 more this year, making Kinko's the largest single customer of Xeikon presses in...

Le Monde picks Unisys to replace systems from CCI, SII.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 6, 2000... Le Monde, a national French daily newspaper, has selected Unisys to supply a new system for producing its daily newspaper and supplements. In phase I, Unisys will install the integrated publishing management system for editorial and...

MAN Roland to market Xeikon presses - Color and monochrome units covered.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 6, 2000... MAN Roland has announced plans to sell Xeikon's color and black-and- white digital presses through its own sales channels. This development, based on separate deals between the two companies, will give MAN Roland its first such presses. (See...

MAN Roland Dicoweb to feature Creo imager - On-press imaging to be at Drupa.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 6, 2000... MAN Roland will show its Dicoweb on-press imaging technology at Drupa, the company announced at a pre-Drupa press event. As in the past when the Dicoweb was shown during early development, the imaging technology will be provided by Creo...

Xitron to drive Cobalt 8 violet-laser CTP atDrupa - $139,000 with Harlequin or Adobe RIP.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 6, 2000... Xitron has formed an OEM partnership with Escher-Grad Technologies under which Xitron will package Escher-Grad's Cobalt 8 violet-laser- diode platesetter with a Xitron RIP. The package, to be called the Xitron Cobalt CTP System, will be...

Heidelberg-Creo plug-in optimizes PDF files - Free software aimed at boosting PDF.(Product Announcement)
March 6, 2000... Creo and Heidelberg have introduced a free plug-in for Acrobat Distiller that enhances and streamlines PDF files. It is user- installable and available for free downloading at www.prinergy.com. The Distiller Plug-In, as it is called,...

Digital Dot moves U.S. office.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 6, 2000... Digital Dot, which markets the DI-Plot proofing system in the U.S., has moved its U.S. office. (Its main office is in Zurich.) Digital Dot U.S.A, Inc., 302-A West 12th St., #222, New York, NY 10014; phone (646) 349-1064;...

Krause: violet-laser CTP, PDF workflow at Drupa - Full-featured PDF imposition included.(Product Information)
March 6, 2000... Krause has followed Purup-Eskofot in announcing that it will demonstrate a violet-laser CTP system at Drupa. The violet-laser technology, which offers the advantages of being able to expose conventional silver-halide plates and reducing...

Xeikon adds lower-cost, sheet-fed press to line - CSP 320D expands market, but is slow.(Product Announcement)
March 6, 2000... At its pre-Drupa function, Xeikon introduced a new sheet-fed, digital color press to expand its product line into smaller print shops and inplant printing operations. The new machine, called the CSP 320D, is a B3-format, four-color digital...

Vio to extend service to new market areas - As Internet customers start to pay.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 6, 2000... Vio, which has about 400 customers for its managed network, has added about 1,000 for its Internet-based service since it launched the Internet gateway. The Internet service has been free, but starting in March it will cost 10 cents per...

Pixelis to upgrade proofing products - Also may announced key partnership.(Product Information)
March 6, 2000... Pixelis, which made its U.S. debut at the Seybold Seminars Boston 2000, will feature new versions of its main products. In addition, we have been informed that Pixelis might announce a strategic partnership just prior to the show. No details...

Karat Digital picks up pace with 6 beta sites - To run live customer jobs at Drupa.(Company Business and Marketing)
March 6, 2000... The recent announcement of the planned merger of Creo and Scitex has aroused concern about the technology used by Karat Digital Press and its ownership following the merger. The company has countered this concern with an assurance that all...

EFI to enter cluster printing market - Also will show new configurations.(Product Information)
March 6, 2000... At Drupa in May, EFI will enter the cluster printer market with the debut of the Velocity Suite product family. The Velocity Suite consists of these main modules: * Velocity Balance, a load-balancing routine that calculates the output...

Imacon to feature new software, scanner line - ColorFlex 1.9 for PC to be featured.(Product Information)
March 6, 2000... Imacon will demonstrate new ColorFlex software on all its Flextight scanners at Drupa-the Flextight Progression, Precision II and Photo. The company, which was recently acquired by Glunz & Jensen, is being run separately from its new parent....

Polaroid Joins Workflow Demonstrations in Print City.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 6, 2000... Polaroid Graphics Imaging, in its first Drupa show since being spun off from Polaroid Corp., will feature its line of proofing systems as part of the larger workflow systems in Print City. (Print City is a cooperative effort by more than 50...

Heidelberg adds to Linoscan scanner line - Five models join earlier F2400 XL.(Product Information)
March 6, 2000... Heidelberg has filled out its new Linoscan family of scanners with the debuts at Cebit of smaller-format, lower-end models. They join the original model, the A3-format Linoscan F2400 XL, which was introduced as a midrange scanner last year....

Advent sets up office in U.S.-again.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 6, 2000... Advent Publishing Systems of the UK has established a U.S. subsidiary: Advent 3B2 Inc., located in College Park, MD. Its objective is both to expand the company's business and to provide better service to its U.S. and Canadian customer base....

Seybold Editor Receives McMillan Award.
March 6, 2000... Stephen Edwards, editor of The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, has received this year's Tom McMillan Memorial Editorial Excellence Award for graphic arts journalism. The winner of this prestigious award (named after the former editor of...

Creo/Scitex: The Picture Keeps Changing.(Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)
March 6, 2000... Following my commentary written for our last issue, I've had an opportunity to give greater consideration to the issues surrounding the acquisition of Scitex's prepress business by Creo Products. I feel I perhaps made the wrong assessment in...

From ultraviolet to infrared.(Editorial)
March 6, 2000... We've seen a lot of discussion of CTP issues lately (including an article by Michael Mittelhaus in your last issue). I'd like to add a few points of my own. The pressman wants to print with plates that behave in the same way on the press...