COLE'S NEWSWIRE, March 24, 1999

March 24, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 12

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ATEX MEDIA SOLUTIONS
Atex,a publishing systems supplier based in Bedford, Mass., has announced the recent sale of its Enterprise advertising solution to THE SUN-SENTINEL, the 244,000-circulation Tribune Co. daily based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The 145-seat system will replace an Atex J-11-based system used for classified ad entry and pagination.

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

AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INC.
AII, an supplier of imaging workflow tools and output devices based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has announced that its first quarter revenues rose from $18 million in 1998 to $18.7 million in 1999. Net income was up from $13,000 last year to $30,000 this year

AII also announced the sale of a second APS 3850 computer-to-plate platesetter to M. Dumont Schauberg, a German company that publishes two Cologne newspapers, the 469,000-circulation EXPRESS and the 173,000-circulation KOLNISCHE RUNDSCHAU. The papers' first 3850, which can produce more than 100 plates an hour, was installed in December.

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

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a publishing solutions supplier based in Ann Arbor, Mich., and a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., has announced that it worked with 49 sites in February.

Among Baseview's major clients were the WINNIPEG FREE PRESS in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The 128,000-circulation daily completed installation of 83 NewsEditPro IQue workstations and 17 pagination workstations, with technical services provided by Baseview's Canadian distributor, Lazer-Fare.

In the United States, the BOSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL has installed 19 reporter and 12 pagination workstations using NewsEditPro software. In addition to other U.S. and Canadian sites, Baseview was active at newspapers and periodicals in England, Mexico and New Zealand.

Baseview is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.baseview.com/.

CE ENGINEERING INC.
CE, a publishing solutions supplier based in Loomis, Calif., has announced the recent sale of a site license for its Decade PC-based interface to System Integrator Inc. systems to the 245,000-circulation evening DETROIT NEWS. The site license will enable the NEWS to use 212 copies of Decade, making the newsroom system Year 2000-compliant and expanding the paper's use of Decade, which began in 1994.

CE is on the Web at http://www.ceengineering.com/.

CIPHER CONSULTING SERVICES
Sacramento-based Cipher, the preferred provider for Australia's Pongrass Newspaper Systems and ComputerEase of Warren, R.I., has announced recent sales and installations for both companies.

Cipher has completed installation of Pongrass Classified Pagination at two newspapers owned by Howard Publications of Oceanside, Calif. The first was the 11,000-circulation JOURNAL-GAZETTE in Mattoon, Ill., followed by the 34,000-circulation GLENS FALLS (N.Y.) POST-STAR. Next will be the 31,000-circulation STAR TRIBUNE in Casper, Wyo.

In April, Cipher will install ComputerEase's AdControl page layout program at the 284,000-circulation SACRAMENTO BEE. The four copies will run in concert with Quark XPress on Windows-based PCs.

Pongrass is on the Web at http://www.pongrass.com.au/.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
Harris, a publishing systems supplier based in Melbourne, Fla., has announced an agreement with Sacramento-based System Integrators Inc. to market an interface to SII's Coyote/3 client software created by Harris. The interface will allow users to employ the Coyote text editor while accessing an SII front-end from a Harris NewsMaker pagination workstation.

The interface -- a window within the Harris screen -- will keep edited SII versions within the SII database while retaining Harris composition characteristics for hyphenation and justification, column breaks and overset will be retained. Users will be able to pick a story on a Harris page and open it in a Coyote/3 window, and justify it using Harris composition.

Harris is on the Web at http://www.harris.com/hpsc/. SII is at http://www.sii.com/.

INFORMATION PRESENTATION TECHNOLOGIES INC.
IPTech, a pre-press workflow solutions provider based in San Luis Obispo, Calif., has announced the introduction of ImpozeIt, a Windows NT-based page imposition program. ImpozeIt converts PostScript files to Portable Document Format (PDF) files, then uses page-imposition templates to generate flats which are then forwarded to an output device.

ImpozeIt also can convert PDF files back to their original format, including PostScript Level 1 and 2. Files in PostScript Level 3 can be sent directly to IPTech's TurboRIP.

IPTech is on the Web at http://www.iptech.com/.

INSO CORP.
Boston-based Inso, a provider of publishing and content-management tools, has announced a strategic alliance with NSM Jukebox Inc., an Atlanta-based supplier of archive storage systems, and Smart Storage Inc., a provider of network CD/DVD storage and duplication software based in Andover, Mass.

In concert with Inso's MediaBank digital asset management product, NSM's Satellite and Galaxy archiving systems and Smart Storage's network storage software will create a system capable of storing and retrieving as much as 1.7 terabytes of text, image, movie, audio and video files.

Inso is on the Web at http://www.inso.com/. NSM Jukebox is at http://www.nsmjukebox.com/. Smart Storage is at http://www.smartstorage.com/.

MEDIASTREAM INC.
MediaStream, an archiving solutions supplier based in Philadelphia, has announced that two newspapers have joined its NewsLibrary service, which provides on-line access to newspaper archives for $1.95 per article.

The two papers are the 284,000-circulation SACRAMENTO BEE and the 237,000-circulation all-day BUFFALO (N.Y.) NEWS. Archives at both papers will be accessible through the NewsLibrary site at http://www.newslibrary.com/. The BEE also will make its archive available through its site, http://www.sacbee.com/.

MediaStream receives data from participating newspapers at its SAVEcentral system in Philadelphia. It handles billing, collection and marketing for NewsLibrary participants. MediaStream is on the Web at http://www.krmediastream.com/,

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
SII, a publishing systems supplier based in Sacramento, has announced the recent sale of its System/77 advertising solution to the 378,000-circulation SAN DIEGO (Calif.) UNION-TRIBUNE. The ServerNet-based system will support 150 advertising clients. Installation is scheduled to begin in May.

SII is on the Web at http://www.sii.com/.

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