Kieler Zeitung Verlags und Druckerei publishes KIELER NACHRICHTEN (115k, morning tabloid), KIELER EXPRESS (223k, weekly) and KIELER EXPRESS AM WOCHENENDE (202k, weekly).

The initial installation will include 33 seats, with such CCI products as CCI ClassChamp for paginating classified pages, CCI DB Access for tracking ads and CCI Edit for ad composition.

The German publishing company may be visited on the Web at http://www.kn-online.de/. CCI Europe may be visited on the Web at http://www.cci.dk/.

Konica Imaging USA Inc., a subsidiary of Konica Corp. based in Glen Cove, N.Y., will use the management product on Power Macintosh-based systems. Optronics International Corp. of Chelmsford, Mass., will use ScriptWorks in association with its Aurora computer-to-plate product line and related systems.

Konica is on the Web at http://www.harlequin.com/.

Both customers initially will interface to SII advertising systems, and then to their newly selected advertising systems (from Harris Publishing Systems Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., at the DAILY OKLAHOMAN, and from Atex Media Solutions of Bedford, Mass., in Helsinki).

The BOSTON GLOBE hosted the first Mission Critical User Group Meeting Sept. 7-9. More than 35 customers attended the two-day session.

Mission Critical is on the Web at http://www.mctinc.com/.

-- Port Washington, N.Y.-based Recognition Systems Inc. will offer Monotype products to commercial printing industry customers in the northeastern United States. Recognition Systems, which is on the Web at http://www.dotworks.com/, is a provider of solutions for managing service bureaus, commercial printers and ad agencies.

-- Miami-based Front Page Pre-Press Inc., which offers data management solutions for service bureaus, printers and publishers, will market Monotype Systems pre-press products to the Latin American publishing market. Front Page Pre-Press is on the Web at http://www.bridge.net/~fpage/.

Monotype is on the Web at http://www.monosys.com/.

Correspondent Jon Fine takes a look at newsprint prices, forecasting that a price increase is due, and it's likely but not certain the planned boost will come to pass.

In addition, NEWSINC. gauges the anticipated price for Cowles Media Co., which publishes the STAR TRIBUNE in Minneapolis, and examines the issue of rating or labeling news content on the World-Wide Web.

And New(s) Media Columnist John Bryan reports on how well, or badly, major newspapers' sites covered the breaking news of the death of Princess Diana.

For more about the Sept. 15 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

Optronics is on the Web at http://www.optronics-intl.com/.

The themes of Gates and Jobs' speeches remain confidential, but each company's Web and Internet publishing strategies, as well as its view of publishing's future directions, are certain to be key aspects.

In addition to Gates and Jobs, the main conference of Seybold San Francisco will include addresses by John Warnock, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Adobe Systems Inc.; Mike Homer, executive vice president worldwide sales and marketing at Netscape Communications; Mark Anderson, president of Technology Alliance Partners and publisher of Strategic News Service; Jim King, a principal scientist at Adobe Systems; Michael Moon, president and director of Executive Education Programs at GISTICS Inc.; Michael Stonebraker, vice president and CTO at Informix Software Inc., and Frank Romano, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

A special one-day session focusing on newspapers and new media will be held Sept. 30. Speakers will include Pete Basofin of the SACRAMENTO BEE, Neil Budde of the Wall Street Journal Interactive, James Calloway of NandO, H. Grady Cooper of the Alameda Newspaper Group, Frank Daniels III, formerly of the NEWS & OBSERVER in Raleigh, N.C., Chris Feola of the American Press Institute, Paul Kessinger of New Century Network, Consultant Steve Nilan, Don Oldham, president of Digital Technology International, Dale Peskin of the DALLAS MORNING NEWS, Consultant Garrett Queen, Bob Ryan of San Jose's Mercury Center and Steve Yelvington of Star Tribune Online.

The program director of the Newspaper & New Media Seminar is David M. Cole, proprietor of The Cole Group (purveyor of fine information about newspapers and publishing technology through consulting and newsletters -- THE COLE PAPERS, NEWSINC. and this very Newswire).

For more information on Seybold San Francisco/Publishing 97, point your web browser at http://www.seyboldseminars.com/ or call (888) 473-9265.

-- SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in New York and Cox Interactive Media in Atlanta have installed SCC's production and archive workflow system, which consists of MediaServer, MediaGrid and MediaFactory.

-- Both the U.S. Department of Defense and New York-based Associated Press purchased world-wide enterprise licenses for SCC products. The Defense Department bought SCC's PhotoGrid PRO for Macintosh and Windows 95/NT, and AP purchased SCC's Plug In Kit (PIK) for Windows, supplementing a Macintosh-based PIK which it acquired in 1995.

SCC is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.swcc.com/.

Color Encore features evaluation of ambient light, monitoring of phosphor aging and a schedule for calibrating systems. Calibration data are stored in a document accessible to system administrators for review.

A five-user license for the Macintosh OS costs $395.

The fall meeting will be held Oct. 26-29. Featured will be workshops on Coyote/3, SIIWebnet, Year 2000, Quark-SII issues and open database concerns.

The Hyatt Regency at Capitol Park is offering rooms for $135 single occupancy and $145 double occupancy. To make reservations, call the hotel at (916) 443-1234 or the Hyatt world-wide reservations service at (800) 233-1234. Ask for the "System Integrators users" group rate.

For more information, call President Mike Kinerk at the MIAMI HERALD, (305) 376-3677, or Secretary Kim Pollard at the TAMPA TRIBUNE, (813) 259-7308.

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