COLE'S NEWSWIRE, May 29, 1996

May 29, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 23

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AGFA DIVISION, BAYER CORP.
Boston-based AGFA has introduced the SelectSet Avantra 30, a laser imagesetter with an output format of 30-by-25 inches to film, paper or Setprint polyester plate. A standard punch system places punch marks along the 30-inch side of the chosen medium; custom punches are available.

The Avantra's 30,000-rpm motor can produce more than 30 flats per hour at 1200 dpi. The device also features DualSupply media cassettes, keeping two kinds of 250-foot rolls of media on-line at all times.

APS SOLUTIONS
APS Solutions of Milan, Italy, has announced that IL GIORNO (100k daily) of Milan has purchased an AP Preserver Archive System from APS Solutions which will be installed in the library department. A.P.S. Solutions srl is the Associated Press Phototechnology representative for Italy.

Its address on the World-Wide Web is .

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced these upgrades and installations (not all products are listed for each site):

-- SEDALIA (Mo.) DAILY DEMOCRAT (13k evening): Page Director Ad Layout System.

-- HENDERSON (N.C.) DAILY DISPATCH (10k evening): AdForce II.

-- NORMAN (Okla.) TRANSCRIPT (14k evening): one IQue Server package, eight pagination packages, two copies of WireManager IQue, one copy of CommLink/Plus and one Baseview Library System five-pack.

-- LEIGHTON (Pa.) TIMES NEWS (16k evening): four copies of ClassManagerPro, one copy of ClassFlow.

-- THE MOUNTAIN PRESS, Sevierville, Tenn. (10k morning): six copies of ClassManagerPro, one Classified Accounts Receivables module and one copy of ClassFlow.

EVERYWARE DEVELOPMENT CORP.
EveryWare Development Corp. of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, has announced immediate availability of Butler SQL version 2.0, EveryWare's client/server SQL database for the Macintosh and Power Macintosh.

Butler SQL is based on open standards, including the Data Access Manager (DAM), ANSI SQL and the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) standard. Butler SQL has been optimized for ODBC, a database access standard developed by Microsoft. By supporting ODBC, users realize a three to four times speed improvement over Butler SQL 1.5 when retrieving large sets of data, as well as enabling Windows clients to access Butler SQL.

EveryWare also has announced that it has finalized an agreement with Sterling Software Inc. to bundle a copy of its high-performance SQL reporting tool, CLEAR:Access, with every copy of Butler SQL. CLEAR:Access is a visual query and reporting environment for data retrieval and report generation.

Butler SQL version 2.0 for the Macintosh and Power Macintosh is now available on CD from authorized value added resellers throughout North America, mail order catalogs or directly from EveryWare at a retail price of $695 for a five-user version or $1,995 for an unlimited user version. The user license is based on concurrent access to a single database server.

EveryWare can be visited on the web at http://www.everyware.com/.

SCITEX CORP.
Scitex, an Israeli color systems supplier with offices in Bedford, Mass., has announced that its subsidiary, Pitango Inc., will release in August a multimedia authoring package called ClickWorks.

The shrink-wrapped product will allow publishers to work with content databases to create digital publications that require frequent updating and fast production cycles, such as sales kits, travel guides, training materials and catalogs. ClickWorks will offer database connectivity, a range of output options, an easy-to-use interface, modular structure and such text-handling features as justification and importing from common word processors.

ClickWorks will retail for less than $1400 in the United States. Its editing environment runs in native mode on the Power Macintosh; the runtime environment runs on the Mac, PowerMac and Windows.

T/ONE INC.
T/One, an image archive supplier based in Quincy, Mass., has introduce Merlin Light, a version of its popular Merlin archiving system scaled down in cost and architecture to meet the needs of smaller newspapers.

Priced at $35,000, Merlin Light runs on either Windows or Macintosh clients from a Windows NT server. Text searches include support for exact match, phonetic and wild card requests. The system accepts all standard file image formats, and supports all IPTC caption and header fields.

Using a single Pentium processor and starting with a four-gigabyte storage array, Merlin Light can be expanded, with more storage capacity and an upgrade to a standard Merlin system as options. Six months of support, three client licenses and RoboWRAP! image routing software are included.

TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
Chicago-based TMS, in concert with Excite Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., has introduced Excite's Web Hotlist, a package of reviews about sites and activities on the World-Wide Web. Veteran editor James Bellows heads a team of 30 reporters who prowl the web for items and issues to review.

TMS distributes a twice-weekly feature package that includes 20- to 40-word "best of web" reviews, weekly themed reviews and columns by Digby Diehl and Adam Turtletaub. The content may be printed, or posted on a client's web page.

Tribune also offers Excite's audio report about the web via its Voice News Network subsidiary for use in newspaper audiotex systems.

Excite may be visited at http://www.excite.com.

X-RITE INC.
Grandville, Mich.-based X-Rite has announced that its DTP12 Automatic Strip Reading Densitometer has been incorporated into the new Itek Graphix DPM 2000 Digital PlateMaster platesetter. The densitometer will be used to automatically calibrate polyester and paper-based plates, film and paper media.

Similarly, X-Rite has announced that Eastman Kodak Co. will bundle X-Rite's DTP32 strip reading densitometer as an option in Kodak's line of color servers. Listing for $2495, Kodak will also offer the DTP32 -- which calibrates and controls color proofing systems, copiers and printers -- as a standalone product.

X-Rite also has begun a series of seminars and workshops on basic and advanced densitometry. Sessions are scheduled through December in cities in the United States and Canada. For information about the $149 all-day sessions, fax T. Hielkama at (616) 534-8960.

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