Output to dominate Seybold expo. (new products at Seybold San Francisco exposition)

The usual suspects will line up to display high-end imaging wares at Seybold San Francisco this week with output devices expected to dominate this year's show.

> RIPs. Canon U.S.A. Inc. will introduce the ColorPass 1000 RIP server as well as its Color Copier 700 and 800 models. The 7-page-per-minute Color Copier 800 supports automatic duplexing.

ColorAge Inc. and ColorBus Inc. will demonstrate RIP servers that can drive multiple color copiers. ColorBus will introduce CopiPress, a device that can fuse color-copier images to cardboard, cloth, metal and wood.

Power Mac RIPs based on Adobe Systems Inc.'s CPSI (Configurable PostScript Software Interpreter) Level 2 will include PrePress Solutions Inc.'s Panther imagesetter systems and SuperMac Technology Inc.'s Splash models. ECRM Inc. will demonstrate its $7,500 Power Mac RIP, a new version of its Harlequin-based Level 2 RIP for ECRM's ScriptSetter imagesetters.

Agfa, a division of Miles Inc., will demonstrate three new RIP models and CristalRaster 2.5, the latest version of its stochastic screening technology. It will also show the entry-level Elan 500 imagesetter and the Agfaproof System 2 contract-proofing processor.

> Dye sublimation. Eastman Kodak Co. will show the XLS 8600 PS, a dye-sublimation printer that adds a protective coating to full-bleed, letter-size output. Sony Electronics Inc. will show two new dye-sublimation printers with PostScript and networking options.

> Environmental printing. Several vendors will offer strategies for reducing chemical waste. LaserMaster Corp. will introduce PressMate, a 2,400-dpi thermal printer that outputs dry-process film and four-color proofs. CalComp Inc. will demonstrate its large-format EcoGrafix Film Imaging System, aimed at the newspaper and screen-printing markets. Ultre, a division of Linotype-Hell Co., and Autologic Inc. will show imagesetters that can use 3M Corp.'s heat-activated Dry Image film and paper.