Cole's Newswire April 8, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 11

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  • AGFA-GEVAERT
    Agfa, an imaging systems supplier based in Mortsel, Belgium, has announced a technology and marketing agreement with Xante Corp. under which Agfa's polyester-based Myriad 2 printing plate would be married to Xante's PlateMaker to create a desktop computer-to-plate system for 11-inch-by-17-inch portrait presses.

    The system would use no chemicals to process the plates, which are designed to provide up to 20,000 impressions. List price for each plate is $1.28. The Xante PlateMaker supports PostScript Level 3, provides 1200 dpi resolution and includes Xante's Accurate Calibration Technology (X-ACT).

  • ATEX MEDIA SOLUTIONS
    Atex, a publishing systems supplier based in Bedford, Mass., has announced two sales of its Enterprise advertising system. The buyers are Paddock Publications Inc. of Arlington Heights, Ill., publishers of the DAILY HERALD (132k, morning) in that city, and the ABILENE (Texas) REPORTER-NEWS (40k, morning).

    The DAILY HERALD will install a 45-seat system that includes Contract Manager, Open Quote and Classified Pagination. THE REPORTER-NEWS will put in up to 20 seats for ad order entry and the Atex software Ad Make-up, Logo Manager and Retriever.

    Atex is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.atex.com/.

  • AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL
    AII, an imaging systems supplier based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has announced recent sales of its scanners, APS 3850 imagesetters, GRAFIX RIPs, Output Manager production tracking system and APSCOM communications software.

    Among the 18 recent customers are the ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS (303k, morning) of Denver, which purchased an APS 3850 SST color imager and other equipment; the COMMERCIAL APPEAL (180k, morning) of Memphis, Tenn., which ordered three APS GRAFIX RIPs, three 3850 Aspen SST imagers with on-line APS Transporters and two APS Scan 3750/2 scanners, and the WACO (Texas) TRIBUNE-HERALD (42k, morning) which bought one APS GRAFIX RIP.

    AII is on the Web at http://www.autologic.com/.

  • CCI EUROPE
    CCI, a production systems supplier based in Denmark with U.S. offices in Kennesaw, Ga., has announced that Axel Springer Verlag of Berlin, Germany, has ordered three separate CCI NewsDesk editorial systems to serve 570 users. The systems will be installed at B.Z. (293k, morning), BERLINER MORGENPOST (170k, morning) and DIE WELT (217k, morning).

    The three papers will install Oracle databases and Windows NT workstations running CCI Edit/MS Word, CCI DB Access, CCI ArticleChamp and CCI LayoutChamp. Ads already are being produced on CCI's ad production system. The installations also will link bureaus in Berlin, Potsdam and Bonn.

    CCI is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.ccieurope.com/.

  • THE COLE PAPERS
    Noo Yawk City is the publishing center of the universe, but it's not been kind to Seybold New York, writes COLE PAPERS Editor and Publisher David M. Cole in the April issue of THE COLE PAPERS. Attendance was down and the trade show was smaller, Cole notes. Inside, Correspondent Christopher J. Feola covers Seybold, from an incendiary talk by UPI chief James Adams to the newest offerings on the trade show floor.

    Also inside, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore visits THE TIMES of Munster, Ind., where a news system based on Lotus Notes is being installed, and Correspondent L. Carol Christopher examines distance learning and talks with three affinity groups that are watching out for the interests of journalists everywhere.

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

  • DIGITAL ART EXCHANGE INC.
    DAX, a Boston-based provider of digital connectivity solutions, has announced a series of free seminars about digital asset management. The 90-minute breakfast seminars will be conducted by Patrick White, founder of DAX and president of White and Associates, a printing and pre-press consulting firm. The sessions will address marketing opportunities of digital asset management, connectivity alternatives, pricing options and implementation strategies.

    The sessions will be offered April 21 in Cleveland; April 22 in Cincinnati; May 1 in San Francisco; May 5 in Los Angeles; May 6 in San Diego; May 21 in Chicago; May 27 in Milwaukee; May 28 in Madison, Wis.; June 3 in Philadelphia; June 4 in Washington, D.C.; June 9 in Miami; June 10 in Orlando; June 16 in Boston and June 17 New York.

    For more information, visit DAX on-line at http://www.dax-it.com/.

  • MANAGING EDITOR INC.
    Managing Editor, a production systems supplier based in Jenkintown, Pa., has begun shipping the Windows 95 and Windows NT version of Page Director Ad Layout System.

    Managing Editor also announced 11 recent sales of Page Director ALS, nine sales of Page Director Classified Layout System and six sales of AdForce II. Among the papers buying ALS were the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE (243k, morning) and the ARGUS LEADER of Sioux Falls, S.D. (51k, morning). Purchasers of CLS included the BRADENTON (Fla.) HERALD (38k, morning) and TYLER (Texas) MORNING TELEGRAPH (43k, morning). The FORT MYERS (Fla.) NEWS PRESS (79k, morning) bought AdForce II.

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

  • NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
    More than 1200 newspaper publishers and executives are expected to attend the annual convention of the NAA April 19-22 at the Wyndham Anatole Hotel in Dallas.

    Events planned for the four-day conference include a salute to the Associated Press on its 150th birthday, and addresses from LOS ANGELES TIMES Publisher Mark Willes, Texas Gov. George Bush and Dilbert creator Scott Adams. Panel discussions will focus on strategies for small-market newspapers and "Sixty Ideas in Sixty Minutes."

    For registration information, contact Jeff Sparks, the NAA's registrar, at (703) 902-1792. The NAA is on the Web at http://www.naa.org/.

  • XITRON INC.
    Xitron, an imaging solutions provider based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced it is developing the Xitron Image Processor, a software RIP based on Adobe PostScript Level 3. Running on Windows NT, XIP can accept PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) files and be managed through an intranet browser.

    Now in beta, XIP is expected to ship in the second quarter of 1998. Xitron, a wholly owned subsidiary of Autologic Information International, is on the Web at http://www.xitron.com/.

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