COLE'S NEWSWIRE, June 2, 1999

June 2, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 22

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CE ENGINEERING PUBLISHING SYSTEMS INC.
CE, a publishing systems supplier based in Loomis, Calif., has announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Sales Development Services Inc. (SDS) of Columbus, Ohio. Under the agreement, the two companies will pool their resources to provide electronic tear sheet services and claims documentation for co-op advertisers.

SDS operates AdMall.com, a subscribers-only service for advertising sales staffs to use in seeking new sales. Among its services is a co-op processor feature which sales reps use to generate completed forms that are submitted to manufacturers for co-op reimbursement.

CE is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.ceengineering.com/. SDS is at http://www.sdsinc.com/.

THE COLE PAPERS
Jackpot -- that's what newspaper technologists have in store when they arrive in Las Vegas for NEXPO '99, the annual trade show and conference sponsored by the Newspaper Association of America, writes COLE PAPERS Editor & Publisher David M. Cole.

NEXPO, which this year will run Monday-Thursday, June 14-17, will feature three new editorial front-end systems from Atex Media Solutions, Digital Technology International and System Integrators Inc. The systems, Cole says in the annual NEXPO preview issue of THE COLE PAPERS, herald the ebbing of the Fourth Wave and the arrival of the Fifth Wave -- a mix of proprietary-like software with the best applications available.

Inside the June issue, Cole offers his 60 top pre-press booths to visit, along with the seven best booths on the show floor. The centerspread of the issue is a color map of the Las Vegas Convention Center show floor, indicating where major exhibitors are located and how to find the 60 top booths listed in THE COLE PAPERS.

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

GROUP WEST SYSTEMS LTD.
Group West, a system integrator and outsourcing provider based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, has released WebPub Lite, an application for placing classified ads over the Web.

Designed for newspapers with a circulation between 20,000 and 50,000, WebPub Lite can accept a classified ad request, calculate the cost and pass along the ad to the newspaper, where the buyer may view the ad on the paper's web site.

Group West is on the Web at http://www.groupwest.ca/.

PREPRESS SOLUTIONS INC.
PrePRESS Solutions, an imaging device manufacturer based in Billerica, Mass., has announced that it has named Monotype Systems Inc. of Rolling Meadows, Ill., as its exclusive sales and marketing agent. Monotype also has been licensed to use PrePRESS Solutions' software in its products.

Monotype's parent company, IPA Systems of London, England, invested in PrePRESS Solutions in April.

PrePRESS Solutions is on the Web at http://www.prepress.pps.com/. Monotype is at http://www.monoexpress.com/.

SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION CO.
SCC, an Atlanta-based supplier of archiving and digital asset management tools, has announced the recent installation of its MediaServer workflow solution at the 38,000-circulation TUSCALOOSA (Ala.) NEWS. The installation includes a license for 40 MediaGrid clients, which are used to access Associated Press photos and local images.

Overseas, SCC recently installed its MediaServer package at the 89,000-circulation SHEFFIELD STAR in England. The paper will use MediaServer as a production database for photos, and as an archive for images and text. Two other British papers, the 50,000-circulation LANCASHIRE EVENING POST and 103,000-circulation YORKSHIRE EVENING POST, recently upgraded their SCC 18-month-old installations.

The installations come as SCC introduced version 3 of MediaServer, as well as major upgrades to its MediaGrid search client and MediaFactory server interface.

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

SOFTQUAD SOFTWARE INC.
SoftQuad, a supplier of web production tools based in Toronto, has begun shipping XMetal 1.0, software for generating documents in the eXtensible Markup Language (XML).

SoftQuad, which makes the HoTMetaL line of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) products, says XMetal supports scripting in Windows and allows users to write in both XML and the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).

SoftQuad is on the Web at http://www.softquad.com/.

WHALEMAIL CORP.
WhaleMail, an Internet services provider based in Lexington, Ky., has introduced WhaleMail, a service for sending large files -- up to 50-megabytes -- to one or several recipients via its web site at http://www.whalemail.com/.

A user posts a file to whalemail.com, lists recipients' addresses and approves the file transfer, which WhaleMail carries out on a server optimized to transfer files of at least 3-megabytes.

WhaleMail, which did not list prices for its file transfer service, invites new users to sign up at http://www.whalemail.com/users/index.cfm.

X-RITE INC.
X-Rite, a manufacturer of color calibration devices based in Grandville, Mich., has announced that it is now the exclusive world-wide distributor of the Acme Plate Reader under the label CTP11 Acme Plate Dot Meter.

The device, which will sell for less than $2000, is designed for use in getting accurate dot measurements from lithographic printing plates, a task most densitometers cannot handle.

X-Rite is on the Web at http://www.x-rite.com/.

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