COLE'S NEWSWIRE, June 16, 1999

June 16, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 25

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ATEX MEDIA SOLUTIONS INC.
Atex, a publisher systems supplier based in Bedford, Mass., has announced the recent sales of its editorial and advertising products to two publishers, the DELAWARE STATE NEWS in Dover, Del., and American Lawyer Media Inc. of New York.

The DELAWARE STATE NEWS purchased a DewarView editorial and production system, with 22 editorial workstations and 14 pagination seats, and 17 Enterprise advertising seats. The new system replaces a legacy Atex J-11 system.

American Lawyer Media will install 80 Enterprise seats in offices in New York and Miami. The company publishes 21 national and regional legal periodicals.

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

CASCADE SYSTEMS INC.
Cascade, a supplier of archive and workflow solutions based in Acton, Mass., has announced the recent sale of its products to four newspapers: the 100,000-circulation LA OPINION of Los Angeles, which bought the MediaSphere archive system; DAILY HERALD of Arlington Heights, Ill., DataFlow, MediaSphere, AdXChange and PhotoTrak; 200,000-circulation EL NUEVO DIA, San Juan, Puerto Rico, MediaSphere, and 202,000-circulation RICHMOND (Va.) TIMES-DISPATCH.

Cascade is on the Web at http://www.cascadenet.com/.

CCI EUROPE
CCI, a Danish publishing systems supplier with U.S. offices in Kennesaw, Ga., has announced the recent sale of its CCI AdDesk sales and advertising system to Associated Newspapers Ltd. of London, which publishes the 2.3 million national DAILY MAIL, 2.3 million MAIL ON SUNDAY and 450,000 EVENING STANDARD.

Eventually the 500-seat system also will be used to produce ads for the LONDON METRO, a 320,000-circulation free morning daily distributed at subway stations.

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

THE COLE GROUP
The publishers of this newswire will be providing live coverage of the NEXPO '99 trade show and conference on its web site at http://www.colegroup.com/nexpo99/.

Writers from The Cole Group will be providing stories today through Thursday from the Las Vegas, Nev., meeting. Already on the web site is a look at Sunday's "bonus" workshop, on project management.

EDGIL ASSOCIATES
Edgil, an advertising and business solutions supplier based in Chelmsford, Mass., has introduced EdgBiz.com, a web publishing tool for on-line entry of classified ads, including payment processing.

Using Account Manager, the newspaper behind a web site running EdgBiz.com can manage such things as a contract database, pricing information and discount rates. Ads entered on-line can be published both on the Web and in print, as EdgBiz.com can move ad data to a newspaper front-end.

Edgil is on the Web at http://www.edgil.com/.

HARLEQUIN
Harlequin, an imaging systems software provider based in Cambridge, Mass., has announced an OEM agreement with ProImage America Inc. of North Andover, Mass., under which ProImage will use the Harlequin ScriptWorks Scalable Open Architecture RIP (SOAR) technology in the NewsWay line of imaging systems.

The PostScript LanguageLevel 3 product will be integrated into NewsWay, a workflow automation and production management system.

Harlequin is on the Web at http://www.harlequin.com/. ProImage is at http://www.newsway.com/.

INFORMATION PRESENTATION TECHNOLOGIES INC.
IPTech, a production solutions supplier based in San Luis Obispo, Calif., has announced that its ImpozeIt page imposition product now supports Adobe Acrobat 4.0, allowing for Portable Document Format (PDF) workflow and the automatic processing of PostScript files into PDFs.

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

PUBLISHING PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL
PPI, an advertising systems supplier based in Bedford, N.H., has announced the recent sale of its AD2000 advertising system to THE NEWS-GAZETTE of Champaign, Ill.

The 42-seat Windows NT system replaces an advertising System/55 by System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento. It will manage retail and classified ad order entry as well as accounts receivable, and has an interface to Northwood Publishing's ClassPage pagination system.

PPI is on the Web at http://www.ppius.com/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
SII, a publishing systems supplier based in Sacramento, has announced that Quark Inc. of Denver will provide Quark CopyDesk software which SII will use to integrate Quark XPress into its new editorial system, Insiight. The system will have common hyphenation and justification for all users, based on the Quark composition engine.

SII also announced the sale of its System/77 pagination solution to the 380,000-circulation MIAMI HERALD and EL NUEVO HERALD, the Spanish-language paper. The system includes 60 Coyote pagination clients. Also, SII has sold System/77 to community newspapers operated by Media General of Richmond, Va., including the HICKORY (N.C.) DAILY RECORD and DANVILLE (Va.) REGISTER & BEE.

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

TRENDWATCH
TrendWatch, a monitor of trends in the graphic arts industry based in Harrisville, R.I., has found that Macintosh workstations continue to be the No. One planned purchase for printers, with 40 percent of those surveyed saying they plan to invest in Macs in the next 12 months.

The survey found that larger printshops than before are planning to buy Macs, with plants of 10-19 employees taking the lead. The Mac purchase rate is even higher with service bureaus (53 percent) and separators (64 percent).

TrendWatch is partnering with The Cole Group to produce the TrendWatch/Cole Group Newspapers surveys, a five-year research project to determine the buying trends in newspaper capital equipment and consumables. The Cole Group, publishers of this newswire, has recently released COLE'S NOTES -- TRENDWATCH NEWSPAPERS 1998.

TrendWatch is on the Web at http://www.trendwatch.com/.

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