Cole's Newswire logo May 6, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 18

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  • ADVANCED TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS
    ATS, a publishing systems supplier based in Wilmington, Mass., has announced that the WILMINGTON (N.C.) STAR (55k, morning) is upgrading its four-year-old Osiris II editorial system to the Windows-based ATS NewsDesk.

    The upgrade includes two Compaq Proliant 2500 servers, with Octopus mirroring software from Octopus Technologies Inc. The newsroom's 50 PCs will be upgraded to Windows 95.

    ATS is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.atsusa.com/.

  • BAYER CORP., AGFA DIVISION
    Agfa, an imaging systems supplier based in Wilmington, Mass., has designated as its color proofing solution the PolaProof halftone dot digital proofer from Polaroid Graphics Imaging, a division of Polaroid Corp.

    Agfa recommends the device for digital halftone proofing in computer-to-plate (CTP) and film imagesetting environments, particularly Agfa's Galileo CTP system. Proofs can be output at resolutions up to 2540 dots per inch and 400 lines per inch, using colors drawn from the Pantone Matching System.

    Agfa is on the Web at http://www.agfahome.com/.

  • CCI EUROPE
    CCI, a production systems supplier based in Aarhus, Denmark, with U.S. offices in Kennesaw, Ga., has announced the sale of its CCI NewsDesk Editorial System to the largest daily in Denmark, JYLLANDS-POSTEN (180k, morning) of Viby. The 388-user system includes CCI modules for copy editing, page design, image and graphics handling, and new media.

    The system will run on UNIX servers with Oracle databases to Macintosh and Windows NT workstations.

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

  • THE COLE PAPERS
    A flying trapeze symbolizes the work of systems and new media people, writes Editor and Publisher David M. Cole as he likens the newspaper business to staging a circus. Inside the May issue of THE COLE PAPERS, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore visits Colorado Springs, site of the first Unisys Corp. installation in the United States. Wetmore reports that the supplier and the newspaper learned a lot about being first.

    Also, writer Julius Duscha visits the West Palm Beach, Fla., site of Cox Interactive Media to report on an enterprise within an enterprise. The use of the Portable Document Format (PDF) draws Wetmore's examining eye; his report includes tips on using PDFs well. And rounding out the issue, Cole assesses the current state of the oft-battered System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento, finding that the long-time systems supplier is on the way back -- it would seem.

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

  • CYMBOLIC SCIENCES CORP.
    Cymbolic, a supplier of computer-to-plate and other imaging devices based in Blaine, Wash., has introduced the LightJet 5030, a medium format (32-inches-by-50-inches) photo printer. Small files may be output to such sizes using on-the-fly interpolation through the Pictographics System Manager XL software RIP.

    Cymbolic is on the Web at http://www.cymbolic.com/.

  • DATA SCIENCES INC.
    Data Sciences, a newspaper business systems supplier based in Silver Spring, Md., has announced the sale of its DSI/Advertising accounts receivable software to the CEDAR RAPIDS (Iowa) GAZETTE (68k, morning). The advertising system will be integrated with DSI/Circulation, a client-server circulation system undergoing beta testing at the GAZETTE.

    THE STANDARD-EXAMINER (62k, evening) of Ogden, Utah, also has purchased DSI/Circulation. Both papers cited the need for managing several publications for selecting Data Sciences. The systems, which run on Oracle7 databases and Windows NT, include the address cleansing and CASS certification system from Postalsoft Inc. of La Crosse, Wis.

  • GEAC PUBLISHING SYSTEMS
    GEAC, an advertising business systems supplier based in Tampa, Fla., has announced multiple sales to papers under the MediaNews Group umbrella.

    Denver-based MediaNews' flagship paper, the DENVER POST (354k, morning), bought GEAC's World Class Series Advertising, Classified and Bad Debt Tracking, and the VisionShift Attachˇ sales force automation tools.

    MediaNews' New England Newspapers Inc. bought advertising, circulation, classified and ad layout modules, putting seven newspapers on the same business platform for the first time. Among the seven papers is the BERKSHIRE EAGLE (30k, morning) in Pittsfield, Mass.

    GEAC is on the Web at http://www.publishingsystems.geac.com/.

  • MEDIALINK WORLDWIDE INC.
    MediaLink, a New York-based video distribution provider, has announced an agreement with New York-based Associated Press under which AP will transmit MediaLink Video News Releases via APTV, the AP's television unit.

    MediaLink has about 1400 clients whose video press releases will be sent to television news outlets in 50 nations. The satellite-distribution agreement will mean an end to videocassette distribution of video releases in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

    MediaLink is on the Web at http://www.medialink.com/.

  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PHOTOSHOP PROFESSIONALS
    Adobe Photoshop users now have a users group and resource for tips on using the photo-handling software from Adobe Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif. Membership is open to web designers, photographers, ad agencies, graphic designers and art departments.

    Annual dues of $99 provide benefits such as discounts on software, a nonstop help desk, a job bank and a subscription to PHOTOSHOP USER MAGAZINE.

    NAPP is on the Web at http://www.photoshopuser.com/.

  • QUARK INC.
    Denver-based Quark has announced it will be revamping its customer service, order fulfillment and manufacturing policies in response to the success of Quark XPress 4.0. The company said that in the last two months, it has begun accepting software registration over the Internet and by phone, increased the size of its customer support staff by 40 percent and begun an upgrade of its phone, computer and order entry systems.

    Quark is on the Web at http://www.quark.com/.

  • SPANLINK COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Minneapolis-based Spanlink, a supplier of call-center solutions to newspapers, has announced sales of its ExtraAgent for Newspapers to the WASHINGTON POST (808k, morning), FLORIDA TODAY (93k, morning) of Melbourne, Fla., and THE RECORD (66k, evening) of Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

    The POST will install ExtraAgent for Circulation and ExtraAgent for Classified. FLORIDA TODAY and THE RECORD are buying the circulation product.

    Spanlink is on the Web at http://www.spanlink.com/.

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