The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems articles from September 1996

The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems archives from September 1996

Eskofot DPX 420 price: $69,900. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Eskofot has informed us that the prices we quoted for its DPX 420 Laser platesetter in our report on imaging polyester plates (Vol. 25, No. 22) were out of date. The new prices, which went into effect early this year, are as follows: A DPX...

T/R users support variable data. (T/R Systems' MicroPress) (Product Information)
September 30, 1996... In our recent overview of the market for high-speed digital printers (see Vol. 25, No. 22), we omitted T/R Systems from our chart comparing the handling of variable data by the current crop of systems. Francis Rowe, CEO and vice chairman,...

Konica proofer made in Japan. (Konica EV-jetcolor digital color proofer)(Correction Notice)
September 30, 1996... Contrary to our report from the Nexpo show (Vol. 25, No. 20, p. 11), the Konica EV-jetcolor digital color proofer is not manufactured by ECRM. Konica informs us that it is made in Japan. We apologize for the error.

Sysdeco and the Norwegian market. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... In our last issue (Vol. 26, No. 1, p. 23), we commented that Sysdeco's loss of a key Norwegian newspaper endorsement could be a "devastating blow" to Sysdeco because it comes in the company's home country, although Sysdeco has moved its...

What has WYSIWYG done to us? (Technology Information)
September 30, 1996... FOR 11 YEARS I have been an enthusiastic participant and propagandist in the DTP revolution. But now I want to reflect on how we were seduced by WYSIWYG's illusion of control and how we lowered our expectations and typographic standards and...

Heidelberg succeeds in Linotype-Hell stock bid. (Company Business and Marketing)
September 30, 1996... Finds enough sellers to gain control The proposed deal under which Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG of Germany will acquire Linotype-Hell has passed its key hurdle. A majority of the independent shareholders of Linotype-Hell have agreed to sell...

SII adds 6 executives as it charts its future. (new executive team includes Rick Sanders, Jim Rentz, John Drom, David Page, Anne Markle and Rich Hardesty) (Company Operations)
September 30, 1996... Sanders, Rendt return in VP slots System Integrators, under the direction of new CEO Frank Washington, has taken a big step aimed at getting it back into a leading role as a supplier to the newspaper industry. It has filled six key management...

SII offers plan to boost 3rd-party integrators. (introduces System Integrators Ad Management, SII Ad Integration Layout System, Coyote/3 workstations)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Also adds pair of Coyote workstations System Integrators has launched an effort to make it easier for software developers to integrate their products with SII systems. As a first step, it introduced a program for certifying such...

SII and CE Engineering settle suit over rights. (CE Engineering also introduces Decade 4.0) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... As CE introduces new version of Decade System Integrators and CE Engineering have agreed to settle their lawsuit over intellectual property rights "in the interest of providing customers with continued excellent service and products," they...

Screen and Harlequin sue Scitex over trapping. (Dainippon Screen and Harlequin dispute over raster trapping technology) (Industry Legal Issue)
September 30, 1996... Patent on raster trapping challenged Dainippon Screen and Harlequin have filed a lawsuit against Scitex and its subsidiary, Printing Technologies Associates, asking the court to rule that their respective trapping products don't violate...

Deutsche Bank is found to own 51% of Sysdeco. (ownership via Morgan Grenfell subsidiary in UK) (Company Financial Information)
September 30, 1996... May be forced to offer to buy other 49% The trials and tribulations of Sysdeco continue. This time, though, the company appears to bear no responsibility for what has happened: the inadvertent discovery that 51% of the company is now owned by...

Blenheim combines DB, Unix, Net Expos for '97. (new event to be called IT Forum, will be held in New York City) (Calendar of Events)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Blenheim is combining three of its existing events--Unix and Windows NT Expo, DB Expo in New York, and the Internet+ Intranet Expo--into a new event, called IT Forum, to be held Sept. 16-17, 1997, at the Jacob Javits Center in New York. The...

Hyphen is alive and well and living down under. (Hyphen Asia Pacific Pty Ltd doing business in Australia) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 30, 1996... Although the Hyphen companies operating in Italy, the UK and the U.S. went out of business a year ago, the Hyphen name lives on. The company, trading under the name Hyphen Asia Pacific Pty Ltd., has continued to function and is building up a...

Peerless to go public. (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Peerless Systems, maker of printer controllers, has filed to make an initial public offering of 3.75 million shares of common stock--2.5 million by the company and 1.25 million by selling stockholders. The offering, expected to take place late...

SSF: High-res imaging, large-format color shine. (Seybold San Francisco Conference) (Industry Trend or Event)
September 30, 1996... LaserMaster, trapping, dry film impress It wouldn't be right to say "print is back," since it never went anywhere. But it would be appropriate to comment that two areas demonstrating a lot of vitality these days are high-resolution imaging...

Digital Collections changes its name. (now called Digital Arts and Sciences Corp) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... To better reflect its entry into the medical and corporate computer software markets, Digital Collections Inc., traditionally a software developer and CD-ROM publisher for museums and the fine-arts market, has changed its name to Digital Arts &...

XyUsers to meet in October. (12th Annual XyUsers Group meeting slated for Oct 28-30 in New Orleans) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... The 12th annual meeting of the XyUsers Group (users of Xyvision and Contex systems) will be held Oct. 28-30 in New Orleans. It will include 40 educational sessions and the XyVisionary contest. Elizabeth Crawford (executive director), XyUsers...

Fujitsu licenses XSoft technology. (Information Visualizer technology for Fujitsu's Oasys-Win word processing software) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... The Middleware Division of Fujitsu is licensing XSoft's Information Visualizer technology, developed at Xerox PARC. First used in XSoft's Visual Recall document management system for Windows, Information Visualizer will be incorporated into the...

DPI's Guide to Digital Printers. (reference book available from Digital Printing and Imaging Assoc) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... The Digital Printing & Imaging Association (DPI) has published its Guide to Digital Printers. A keyword index lists worldwide DPI-printer member companies under 93 different product categories. An alphabetical section lists company names,...

People. (industry executives appointments) (News Briefs)
September 30, 1996... Following the recent death of the company's founder, chairman and CEO Joseph Gerber (see Vol. 25, No. 22), the board of directors at Gerber Scientific has announced key appointments. George Gentile, most recently Gerber's president, COO and...

Publishing Partners International. (Advertising Management System selected by Gannett) (Installations) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Gannett has selected the Advertising Management System from Publishing Partners International (PPI) for a pilot project at USA Today in which all classified advertising, including that from Europe and Asia, will be consolidated at the paper's...

Xyvision. (Parlance Document Management systems installed by Tweddle Litho) (Installations) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Tweddle Litho (Clinton Township, MI) has installed two Xyvision Parlance Document Management systems to manage its editorial process, information storage and retrieval, language translations, and document versions for automotive repair and...

4Sight. (installs ISDN Manager at TL Enterprises) (Installations) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... 4Sight reports reaching a new milestone for its U.S. operation: its 2,000th customer. It installed ISDN Manager at TL Enterprises, a subsidiary of Affinity Group, to enable it to handle its publications completely digitally. TL Enterprises is...

QMS. (US Air Force contracts for QMS Magicolor CX printers) (Installations) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... QMS has been named to provide an estimated $3 million in QMS Magicolor CX printers and consumables as part of the $950 million U.S. Air Force Workstation (AFWS) procurement contract.

Layout Ltd. (installs Quark Publishing System at Beirut Daily Star) (Installations) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Layout Ltd., has installed a complete Quark Publishing System at the new premises of the Beirut Daily Star. Layout Ltd. is the developer of QPS Xtensions supporting Arabic.

Amicus Systems. (installs custom composition systems in Eritrea, Japan) (Installations) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Amicus Systems has installed its first composition system in Eritrea. Located at the Franciscan Printing School in Asmara, the networked PC system uses the Ge'ez script, which is an alphabet with more than 400 characters. In addition, the...

Mediasystemen. (installs Forum News editorial system for Dutch publisher Boom Pers Drukkerijen in Meppel) (Installations) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Mediasystemen has been awarded a contract to install a PC-based Forum News editorial system at the site of the Dutch publisher Boom Pers Drukkerijen in Meppel and to upgrade editorial workstations in eight remote offices. The main system...

Applied Graphics Technologies. (Digital Link image processor installed at Columbia House) (Installations) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Applied Graphics Technologies has been awarded a three-year contract to manage all imaging and print preproduction operations for Columbia House, the world's largest direct marketer of entertainment products. AGT will manage and staff the...

Autologic Information International. (installation activities in Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Latin America and Singapore) (Installations) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Autologic Information International has reported these installations: * In Australia: Advertiser Newspapers, Ltd. (Adelaide)--NT Intel RIP, APS-6/3850 laser imager; John Fairfax Holdings Pty. Ltd. (Sydney)--2636S scanner, APSCom receive...

Oct. 23-25, 1996: America West Newspaper Operations and Technology Conference. (slated for Reno, NV) (Calendar of Events)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Oct. 23-25, 1996: The first annual America West Newspaper Operations and Technology Conference is taking place at the Reno, NV, Hilton. Sessions for this western version of America East (not organized by the same management) feature Pagination:...

Oct. 27-29, 1996. (Annual Conference of NPES slated for Reston, VA) (Calendar of Events)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Oct. 27-29, 1996: Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator and language maven William Safire will be the keynote speaker at the Annual Conference of NPES, the Association for Suppliers of Printing and Publishing Technologies, being held in Aventura,...

Nov. 12-14, 1996: Documation Canada. (slated for Toronto) (Calendar of Events)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Nov. 12-14, 1996: The Documation Canada conference and exhibition on document management will be in Toronto. (514) 288-7501; www.interdoccorp.com.

Nov. 18-22, 1996: EPM Vietnam '96. (in Ho Chi Minh City) (Calendar of Events)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Nov. 18-22, 1996: The international industrial fair and exhibition, EPM Vietnam '96 (standing for engineering, production and machinery), will be held in Ho Chi Minh City. Hannover Fairs Asia, 84 Amoy St., 3rd Fl., Singapore 069903; phone...

Nov. 19-22, 1996: Color Imaging Conference. (scheduled for Springfield, VA) (Calendar of Events)(Brief Article)
September 30, 1996... Nov. 19-22, 1996: The fourth annual Color Imaging Conference of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology and the Society for Information Display, at the Radisson Resort, Scottsdale, AZ, will focus on the creation, transmission,...

Imation. (net loss for second quarter) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Imation, recently spun off from the 3M Printing and Publishing division, reported a net loss for its second quarter of $37.8 million on revenues of $561.2 million. This includes pre-tax restructuring charges of $43.5 million and a special...

Electronics for Imaging. (second quarter earnings) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Record second-quarter earnings of $13.9 million were reported by Electronics for Imaging on revenue of $69.0 million. For the same period last year, revenue was $44.8 million with net income of $8.3 million. For the first six months, revenue...

Eastman Kodak. (second quarter sales) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Second-quarter sales for the Commercial Imaging segment of Eastman Kodak increased by $28 million to $2.1 billion, with earnings from operations of $209 million, an increase of $28 million. Total sales for Kodak were $4.1 billion, with net...

Silicon Graphics. (record revenues for 1996) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Silicon Graphics reported record revenue of $2.8 billion and net income of $245 million for its 1996 fiscal year, excluding the effect of the Cray Research acquisition in the fourth quarter. Fiscal 1995 saw revenue of $2.2 billion and net...

For your calendar. (Calendar of Events)
September 9, 1996... The Imaging Expo '96 conference and exhibition (Sept. 30-Oct. 2, New York) will address imaging technologies and document and workflow management. Phone (800) 44 IMAGE, fax (215) 643-3894. Register online: www.cardinal.com/imexpo. SGIA...

Krause LaserStar: long-term commitment to computer to plate. (LS140C, LS 1100C, LS140C, LSIN, LS170C computer-to-plate systems) (includes related article on pricing of LaserStar systems) (Product Information)
September 9, 1996... FOR MANY PEOPLE visiting Drupa last year, the sight of the huge Krause LaserStar LS140C fully automated computer- to-plate system was something of an eye opener. Although many people didn't know it, this was the third generation of CTP system...

Writing to fit: the issues and North Atlantic's answer. (North Atlantic Publishing Systems' HNJEngine DTP software) (Product Information)
September 9, 1996... IT HAS TAKEN a long time, but it appears that the tide finally is turning in favor of giving writers and editors true write-to-fit capabilities. People are recognizing that writers and editors working in a word processing program often need to...

Imation agrees to acquire Luminous. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Former 3M, Adobe prepress operations Imation, the former 3M data storage and imaging operation that was recently spun off as a separate company, has reached agreement to acquire Luminous, the former Adobe prepress operation that was spun off...

Eskofot 8-page scanner for 'unimposing' flats. (EskoScan 3648 flatbed scanner) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Create single files from imposed jobs Eskofot is set to introduce an eight-page, high-resolution, flatbed scanner for scanning flats, film or paper originals. Called the EskoScan 3648, it scans originals up to 36.sup.2 x48.sup.2 (36.sup.2...

TIFF/IT-P1 PreFlight is DDAP's latest aid. (Digital Distribution of Advertising for Publications Association's graphics imaging utility) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Initially for Mac; Windows to follow The Digital Distribution of Advertising for Publications (DDAP) Association has announced the latest in a series of software development projects to aid in transmission of ads for use in the graphic arts...

Linotype-Hell gets into multimedia ISC. (Independent Software Consultants) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... UK developer creates presentations In its first foray outside traditional prepress applications, Linotype- Hell has acquired the UK multimedia presentation and authoring tool developer, Independent Software Consultants (ISC), the manufacturer...

Alon resigns as head of Scitex Graphic Arts unit. (Shimon Alon) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Also quits VP post; may have been pushed Shimon Alon, who built an impressive 14-year career at Scitex Corp., has resigned his posts as president of the company's Graphic Arts Group and senior executive VP. His departure to take on new...

Copyright awareness campaign launched. (News Briefs)
September 9, 1996... To stop ad and design agencies from using images for client presentations without permission, 16 industry groups and source-book publishers, including Copyright Clearance Center, Graphic Artists Guild, Type Directors Club and the publishers of...

New head for DuPont Printing & Publishing. (Tom Humphrey) (Company Operations)
September 9, 1996... Smith moves over; Humphrey in charge DuPont has shuffled the roles of two of its executives, resulting in a new head for its Printing & Publishing operation. Jerome Smith, who had been serving as VP and GM of the unit for more than four...

HP debuts 40-ppm printer for $14,995. (5000 D640 laser printer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Hewlett-Packard has introduced a midrange printer offering a 40-page-per-minute print speed, a duty cycle of up to 300,000 pages per month, a resolution of 600x600 dpi and a price of $14,995. Called the 5000 D640, it also will have a cost of...

Dataware buys former competitor Ntergaid. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... In a surprise move to strengthen its software business, Dataware has purchased former competitor Ntergaid for about $650,000 in cash and Dataware stock. Ntergaid, based in Milford, CT, specializes in developing software for large, complex...

Norway group says no to endorsing Sysdeco. (A-Pressen's decision on Sysdeco Editorial Systems) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... 8 papers may rethink earlier plan The Norwegian newspaper group A-Pressen (labor press) has notified Sysdeco that it has no intention of entering into an agreement that might lead its 41 members to buy Sysdeco Editorial Systems. Eight of its...

Filmless digital proofs up from 'down under.' (Sandstone Software, distributor of Serendipity Software's BlackMagic) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Australian company offers BlackMagic Australian distributor Sandstone Software has been appointed the international distributor for the BlackMagic filmless digital proofing system from Serendipity Software. The system is for final imposed...

Agfa upgrades Avantra 36 with faster spinner. (Avantra 36S imagesetter)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 9, 1996... Brings restricted device up to 44's spec Agfa has upgraded its four-up Avantra 36 with a faster imaging speed and improved accuracy. The new version, called the 36S, images the same 36.sup.2 x28.5.sup.2 area as the original 36 (which...

QMS supports polyester plates on $3,999 printer. (1660 and 1660E printers)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... QMS has announced the availability of specialized media products that enable its 1660 and 1660E laser printing systems to produce large-format, full-bleed, 1,200-dpi offset or silk-screen printing masters directly from the laser printer. The...

Autotype plates raise quality, ease of use. (Autotype America's Omega polyester printing plates) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... A new antistatic coating on Autotype America's second-generation Omega polyester printing plates allows easier feeding through laser printers, the company says. According to Autotype, the coating is also less toner-scatter-receptive, resulting...

History of electronic documents to be feted. (1996 Xplor show) (Calendar of Events)
September 9, 1996... The Xplor show will mark the launch of the Electronic Document Systems Foundation commemorating advances in electronic documents. A Trailblazer Dinner on Oct. 19 in Orlando will feature a demonstration of industry memorabilia prior to the...

MCT handles ad images. (Mission Critical Technologies' Adfast/Images printer support software) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... In the fourth quarter of 1996, Mission Critical Technologies is planning to release AdFast/Images, which will send display ads and graphics files to newspapers via modem or the Web. It will attach a single- or multiple- column black-and-white...

Print manager/NT is released. (Prism Software's printer support software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Prism Software Corp. has released Print Manager/NT, designed for Windows 95 and NT platforms. It translates HP PCL printer control commands from Windows applications into a Xerox DJDE/Metacode data stream for printing on these Xerox devices at...

Linotype-Hell adds DeltaHotline, new European Offices. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Having sold more than 1,200 DeltaTechnology RIP systems in the eight months they have been available, Linotype-Hell has set up the DeltaHotline. Those who contact the hotline (at www.linotype-hell.com or [toll free] at 1-888-GET DELTA) will...

GEI is Tecsa's U.S. distributor. (Graphic Enterprises of Ohio) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Tecsa of the UK has appointed Graphic Enterprises of Ohio the U.S. Master Distributor for its large-format scanners and software (including data-compression technology). Tecsa is European Master Distributor for GEI's Image Express OPI server...

Genicom to acquire TI printers. (Texas Instruments) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Genicom has agreed to acquire the assets of Texas Instruments' worldwide printer and related supplies business. It does not plan to assume manufacturing operations from Texas Instruments. Genicom expects the deal to strengthen its position in...

Nikon scanners get Monaco color. (LS-1000 Super Coolscan and LS-20 Coolscan II 35mm film scanners, LS-4500 4X5 film scanner)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Beginning this fall, Nikon will bundle Monaco FlashColor with its LS-1000 Super Coolscan and LS-20 Coolscan II 35mm film scanners, and MonacoColor Expert with its LS-4500 4x5 film scanner. Monaco FlashColor is a Photoshop plug-in for color...

Colorific, Hitachi monitor bundle. (Hitachi Business Systems, free color calibration software for 17MVXPro2, CM2111ME, CM2112MET)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
September 9, 1996... Hitachi Business Systems is bundling Colorific color-calibration software free with its 17MVXPro2, CM2111ME and CM2112MET monitors, now being sold across Europe.

Praxisoft renames system. (MatchLink Color System to CompassLink Color System) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Praxisoft has renamed its new MatchLink Color System the CompassLink Color System. It enables color consistency across printing devices.

Lexmark facility in Scotland. (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... As part of an international capital expansion program to increase its ink- jet products production capacity, Lexmark has opened a new facility in Rosyth, Scotland, that houses both color and monochrome ink-jet cartridge production lines.

PLF to sell for Barco, Phase One. (PLF Imaging Systems, Barco Graphics) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Barco Graphics has selected PLF Imaging Systems (of Central Islip, NY) to be its sole national VAR in North America for Barco's image-manipulation and line-art products, Creator and Strike. Also, PLF will be distributing Phase One's PhotoPhase...

Hexachrome seminars on tour. (Hexachrome Partner Seminars will demonstrate six-color Hi-Fi printing process) (Calendar of Events)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Adobe, Agfa, Apple, Pantone, MAN Roland are among a group of companies sponsoring a tour of Hexachrome Partner Seminars to demonstrate the six- color Hexachrome HiFi printing process and how it can be integrated into production workflow....

Tech Data, InContext deal. (Tech Data to distribute InContext Spider Web page authoring tool and InContext WebAnalyzer Web maintenance software) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Tech Data has agreed to distribute InContext Spider, for Web page authoring, and InContext WebAnalyzer, for Web site maintenance. The latest version of Spider features One-Button-Publishing, for one-click, direct posting of finished pages to...

IDT, Adobe spur development. (Integrated Device Technology's development of PostScript products) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... To accelerate printer manufacturers' development of PostScript products, Integrated Device Technology (IDT) has agreed to provide Adobe's OEM "CoDevelopers" with advanced reference platforms for MIPS-based RISC processors, including IDT's Orion...

ResourceNet to sell Creo CTP. (ResourceNet International, Creo Company) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... As a Creo dealer in U.S. western states and in Hawaii, ResourceNet, which has facilities in 31 countries and customers in 130 nations, will sell CTP systems, including the Trendsetter, and workflow systems, including the PlateMaster workflow...

Escher-Grad prepress server. (Escher-Grad Technologies' Infinity Universal Prepress Server image processor)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Escher-Grad Technologies has introduced the Infinity Universal Prepress Server, which integrates the functionality of a PostScript file server with OPI picture replacement, image and document management, trapping and imposition in a single...

Creo. (installation of Platesetter 3244 imagesetter at Cohber Press) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Creo has installed Platesetter 3244 units at O'Sullivan Menu Publishing (Parsippany, NJ), for use in printing menus for airlines, and at Cohber Press (Rochester, NY), for use with a Kodak Approval PS proofer in sheet- fed offset printing.

Gerber Systems. (installation of Crescent/42 systems at Performance Printing) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Gerber Systems has installed Crescent/42 systems at Performance Printing (Houston, TX) for color printing; Grandville Printing (Grandville, MI), which employs 225 people and does $30 million in business annually; and Sullivan Graphics...

Dainippon Screen. (installation of CTP systems at Spectra Print and Queenstone Direct) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Dainippon Screen has installed CTP systems recently at two sites: Spectra Print (Stevens Point, WI), a commercial printer that also installed a TaigaSpace prepress system and a TrueRite digital proofer in a $1 million order, and at Queenstone...

Indigo. (installation of E-Print 1000 digital printers at Catalyst Graphics) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Indigo reports installing E-Print 1000 digital printers at Catalyst Graphics (North Huntingdon, PA), which was started by a group of offset printers wanting to get into short-run digital printing; Mutual-Hadwen Imaging Technologies (Ottawa,...

AM Multigraphics. (installation of Xeikon digital color printers at Noalant) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... AM Multigraphics has installed Xeikon digital color printers at Noalart (Marlboro, MA), a full-service print shop; A Color Revolution (Colorado Springs, CO), a print shop serving advertising and public-relations agencies and service bureaus;...

Kodak. (installtion of 1392 demand printers at the Defense Systems Management College) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Kodak has installed three 1392 demand printers at the Defense Systems Management College (Fort Belvoir, VA) for printing its course material, which it says will save it hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, partly through a reduction in...

GammaGraphX. (sale of GGX System 2000 typesetting system to the State University of New York) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... GammaGraphX has sold a GGX System 2000, featuring a 92-ppm Kodak G600 printer, to the State University of New York (Stony Brook, NY) for demand printing of customized course material.

Pindar Systems. (sale of Catalog Management System to J&L Industrial Supply) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Pindar Systems has sold a Catalog Management System to J&L Industrial Supply, to produce its catalog and monthly sale publications. Its 1996 catalog contains 1,100 pages of metalworking tools and supplies. It will import data from an existing...

Sysdeco Media. (sale of DewarView editorial and pagination system to Horwitz Newspapers) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Sysdeco Media has sold an 82-seat DewarView editorial and pagination system running on RS6000 servers to Horvitz Newspapers for production of its Bellevue (WA) Journal American (circ. 32,600) and Kent (WA) Valley Daily News (30,000).

Baseview. (installation of Macintosh software) (News Briefs)
September 9, 1996... Baseview reports installed Macintosh software at 258 sites in its last fiscal year spanning July 1995-June 1996.

Press Computer Systems. (sale of editorial and advertising systems to United Provincial Newspapers) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Press Computer Systems has sold editorial and advertising systems to United Provincial Newspapers for use at its regional publishing centers. PCS will install an Advertising Business System, pagination management and QPS at all sites. A PCS ABS...

Autologic Information International. (installation of imagesetters) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... In the following partial list of recent Autologic Information International installations in the U.S., it is interesting to note that AII is still selling ECRM 108S imagesetters, that the APS-6/108FC Lightning is selling, that the Alpha RIP is...

People. (People)(Brief Article)
September 9, 1996... Colin Murphy has been named VP and GM of the Imaging Division of Augment Systems, maker of high-speed networking products. He previously served as VP of sales at Optronics. Rene Delbar has left Agfa to join Barco Graphics as division manager,...