COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Aug. 16, 2000

Aug. 16, 2000
Vol. 6, No. 27

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CANOPY LLC.
Formerly the PrimeSource Digital Print Group, the Seattle-Wash.-based company has announced the introduction of PDF ProofStreamer, a tool giving digital printers the ability to create on-screen preflighting of variable data, imposition and traditional jobs for Xeikon digital presses, before they are delivered to press.

ProofStreamer's PDF technology simulates data merging, layering, collation and imposition, and creates "thin proofs" of all unique job versions, allowing designers and production supervisors to verify that simple short run jobs, or all versions of one-to-one marketing collateral, will impose and print correctly.

Canopy LLC. is on the Web at http://www.canopyprint.com/.

DESKNET INC.
GOLFonline.com, from the editors of Times Mirror Magazine's GOLF MAGAZINE, has selected DeskNetAPS, an independent automation tool providing seamless communication of data throughout an enterprise, to automate its on-line production.

The DeskNetAPS robot drives applications, such as Quark XPress, Microsoft Word or digital asset management repositories, to automate cross-enterprise data exchange and content repurposing for the Web and print. With this new technology, GOLFonline.com saves approximately 50 hours each month, $15,000 per year on its Internet connection and has been able to condense its production cycle from one week to 24 hours.

DeskNet Inc. of New York City is on the Web at http://www.desknetinc.com/.

GROUP LOGIC INC.
The Arlington, Va.-based company has announced the release of MassTransit, version 3.6, the latest edition of the company's high-speed digital file transfer, remote proofing and remote workflow solution. Version 3.6 boosts file transfer performance by more than 20 percent over previous versions, lets users view the Log and Job browser from the Web and expands remote administration capabilities.

MassTransit 3.6 introduces several new customization features such as the duplicate Action button, making configuring a large number of Actions easier and faster, while a new Action event lets users archive information automatically before deleting Log entries (for Macintosh version only). For Windows NT-based customers, the new version ports a key enterprise feature -- file delivery prioritization -- to the Windows NT version of MassTransit.

Group Logic Inc. is on the Web at http://www.grouplogic.com/.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
The STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE (68k) of New York, has increased the speed of page output, consolidated all graphics and automated its workflow process with MAXWorkFlow system.

MAXWorkFlow, from Melbourne, Fla.-based Harris, is a digital workflow solution that allows publishers and printers to perform rapid proofing, high-resolution output, raster down sampling, preflighting, and optimizing of large files for easy storage and handling. The system installation at the ADVANCE was completed earlier this year, and uses Harris editorial and pagination systems, as well as Harris classified pagination system.

Harris is on the Web at http://www.harris.com/.

MANAGING EDITOR INC.
The Jenkintown, Pa.-based software company has announced the release of its upgraded Page Director Classified Layout System (CLS), version 3.0, which reads advertising text and image files from a front-end booking system, builds a run-sheet of the classified items and flows the items to pages according to the pagination rules defined by the publication.

Productivity enhancements included in CLS 3.0 are new dockable palettes for all pagination functions; double-truck support for automatic placement of spread ads; improved functionality for manually repositioning ads; a new message window that records, time stamps and issues feedback for all pagination actions and their results, and a new information dialog providing an explanation for each AppleScript-based custom placement rule written for the CLS installation.

Also included in the upgrade, along with speed enhancements, is MEI's HTML Report Generator Module, which allows users to create custom reports from the CLS issue or select a predefined report from the File menu, which can immediately be viewed within a web browser.

MEI is on the Web at http://www.maned.com/.

PAGEFLEX INC.
Established in 1999 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Bitstream Inc., the Cambridge, Mass.-based company has announced the signing of a distribution agreement with Maximicro of Paris, France, to market and sell Pageflex products primarily in France and North Africa and secondarily elsewhere in Europe. Included in the products are Mpower, giving companies the ability, from a web browser, to design and produce highly customized marketing communications on demand; Web-based marketing-on-demand software, and personal software, offering a client/server-based marketing-on-demand product.

Pageflex Inc. is on the Web at http://www.pageflexinc.com/.

PUBLISHING BUSINESS SYSTEMS
The supplier of newspaper business software systems has announced that the COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE (95k) has licensed its MediaPlus Circulation Management software. The newspaper said that PBS's data structure and reporting tools used in conjunction with the other marketing efforts and information will go a long way in achieving their customer satisfaction goals.

Founded in 1989, PBS provides its MediaPlus software products to more than 400 newspapers in the United States, Canada and Australia. Its business products include Circulation Management, Circulation InSight, Advertising Management, Advertising Insight, Insert Management, Preprint Inventory Management, MediaPlus.Online, Transient Management, Financial Management and Human Resources Management.

PBS is on the Web at http://www.pbs.com/.

WORLD ASSOCIATION OF NEWSPAPERS
POLITIKEN, a daily newspaper based in Denmark, has reworked its traditional ratecard into a pricing system based on impact rather than space. A one-day seminar will be held Sept. 15 to discuss the new system, which more resembles television-advertising practices than newspaper practices and will be organized by the Paris-based World Association of Newspapers (WAN).

Using a database of reader profiles, reading habits, daily circulation and reach, POLITIKEN prices its space according to "Quality Rating Points," which take into account size, color, day of week and position in the paper. WAN will take a group to the Danish paper to examine its research, pricing formulation, software, results in terms of revenues and market share, and development plans.

WAN is on the Web at http://www.wan-press.org/.

YAKALO SOLUTIONS
A new Internet-based office management system, which helps newspapers highlight local communities and real-estate professionals, debuted with the launch of dpohomes.com, DENVER POST ONLINE's new real estate section.

Yakalo Realty Objects is designed to conduct property and agent searches by broker name or by community, for example. Newspapers can also create exclusive database and search parameters with business partners, such as local Multiple Listing Service (MLS) listings only. Yakalo is offering three different packages, including a single-page web site design tool with links to real-estate agents' listings, and tools for creating more sophisticated sites.

Yakalo is on the Web at http://www.yakalo.com/.

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