COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Dec. 10, 1997

Dec. 10, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 50

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CCI EUROPE
CCI, a publishing systems supplier based in Aarhus, Denmark, with U.S. offices in Kennesaw, Ga., has announced that a current customer, THE SUN-SENTINEL (265k, morning), a Tribune Co. property in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., will purchase a CCI NewsDesk Editorial System. THE SUN-SENTINEL now has an Atex front-end feeding an existing CCI NewsDesk Pagination System. The paper produces more than 1800 pages a week on its CCI system.

The new purchase includes the CCI NewsDesk Editorial system and the CCI Electronic Media Server with automatic HTML export functions, to send copy to the paper's web site, http://www.sunsentinel.com/.

CCI Europe may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.cci.dk.

THE COLE GROUP
Tithing isn't just for churches, COLE PAPERS Editor and Publisher David M. Cole contends. There are sound economic reasons for the newspaper industry to adopt a policy of channeling a fixed percentage of revenue into three areas: research and development, training and education. Elaborating on his proposal in the December issue of THE COLE PAPERS, Cole offers economists' arguments for such a plan, and offers examples of industry programs that work.

Also in the December issue, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore provides an update on the newspaper industry's progress in squashing the Year 2000 bug (it's going fairly well), Correspondent Marion J. Love reports from the Founder's Conference at the New Media Center of the American Press Institute (participants included a rock 'n' roll star, folklorist and newspaper types), and Editor Cole explores the values and woes of front-end systems that claim to be either proprietary or off-the-shelf.

For more about the December issue of THE COLE PAPERS, visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

NEWSINC. reports that newspapers do not anticipate sharp increases in ad rates, Correspondent Jon Fine writes in the Dec. 8 issue. Coming off an excellent year for retail and classified advertising linage, many papers are going to ask advertisers for increases of three or four percent, Fine reports. Also, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore reports on the return-to-sender status of a proposed new rule from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, how papers in Chicago and San Francisco used interest-based bargaining to reach record contracts, upcoming new products from Dow Jones Markets and another round of newspaper sales.

For more about the Dec. 8 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

CYBERGRAPHIC SYSTEMS LTD.
The Australian-based publishing systems supplier, which has U.S. offices in Burlington, Mass., has announced the first live use of its NAILS newspaper layout and production product. The first users are at 30 suburban newspapers in metropolitan Melbourne owned by Leader Newspapers.

The papers, which have a total weekly circulation of 1.2 million, work from three sites, with all production centered in Blackburn, a Melbourne suburb. The three offices, linked by DDS Fastway Service, have jettisoned proprietary Atex terminals and installed 46 Pentium 150 megahertz PCs running on Windows NT. The Leader papers will be fully paginated when they complete their Cybergraphic installation in January, 1998, producing 1500 to 2000 pages a week.

Cybergraphic also announced a marketing alliance with MATRIX Publishing Systems of Nottingham, England, under which Cybergraphic will market and distribute the MATRIX circulation, distribution and subscription system in the Asia Pacific region. MATRIX applications, like Cybergraphic's, can run on Microsoft's Windows NT and SQLServer relational database platforms, as well as Intel and DEC Alpha AXP computers. MATRIX products are in use at 22 sites throughout Europe.

Cybergraphic is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.cybergraphic.com.au/.

4-SIGHT INC.
4-Sight, a telecommunications solutions suppler with international headquarters in Bournemouth, England, and U.S. headquarters in Woburn, Mass., has developed transmission capabilities from within several graphic applications, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PageMaker, Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Acrobat and most recently Quark XPress 4.0.

With 4-Sight, trade shops and graphic designers can use 4-Sight's iSDN Manager to transmit files directly from XPress, using a choice from the utilities menu to send via ISDN. 4-Sight's XTension, QX Sender, verifies links between the Quark document and any graphics; additional files also can be enclosed before transmission.

4-Sight also has announced that it will begin offering an ISDN line-ordering service to new clients. Beginning Dec. 15, 1997, iSDN Manager customers will be able to ask 4-Sight to arrange for installation of an ISDN line.

4-Sight is on the Web at http://www.4sight.com/.

KONICA CORP.
Konica, a global provider of imaging solutions based in New York, has announced new plans to serve the graphics imaging market. Three companies will handle marketing, sales and distribution in the Americas, Europe and Pacific Rim.

Konica Graphic Imaging U.S.A., based in Glen Cove, N.Y., will serve North and South America. Konica Graphic Imaging Europe will serve the Continent from Frankfurt, Germany. In fall 1998, Konica Graphic Imaging Asia will open its doors in Singapore, serving the Pacific Rim nations and the Mideast.

Konica manufactures photographic media, chemicals and hardware in Glen Cove. Konica is on the Web at http://www.konica.com/.

NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
The NAA, a trade organization based in Vienna, Va., and its international counterpart, IFRA, have released a new report on computer-to-plate technology, "Stepping Up to Computer-to-Plate."

The report, which is available from David Beck, the NAA's director of media technology at beckd@naa.org, addresses the state of CTP technology, sizes up costs associated with going direct to plate and reports on site interviews at seven newspapers in Europe and North America.

The report was prepared by Bolanson Adeshina, quality assurance manager of THE PLAIN DEALER in Cleveland.

The NAA is on the Web at http://www.naa.org/.

TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
Chicago-based TMS, a provider of content and tools for publishing in print and on-line, has announced plans for on-line coverage of the XVIII Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan. Beginning Dec. 24, TMS will provide multimedia packages for use on the Web, featuring participating countries, major venues, historical notes and profiles of athletes.

TMS is on the Web at http:///www.tms.tribune.com/.

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