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The Newspaper Association of America has again combined all its winter operations meetings into a week of sessions called SuperConference, to be held Jan. 10-15 in Orlando, Fla.

Meetings on pre-press, health and safety, post-press, and press and materials will each be held for about two days (some will run concurrently); a top production executive could arrive on Sunday and follow most of the sessions straight through until noon Friday.

Highlights of the pre-press sessions include:

  • A "Y2K Idea Exchange Brunch" and pre-press primers on "Photoshop 5 and Beyond" and "Color Management" will be offered Sunday afternoon.

  • The keynote speaker will be Quark Inc.'s new chief operating officer, Chuck Bland. The NAA says he will share his perspective on Quark's future with particular emphasis on newspapers.

  • A "Hot New Technologies" session will include a variety of suppliers and newspapers that are using the latest technologies in the pre-press arena. Presenters will include Polaroid's new award-winning digital proofing system, PolaProof.

  • Three approaches to pagination will be explored by three newspaper companies in a session devoted to pagination. Associated Newspapers of London (The Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the Evening Standard) developed an off-the-shelf system on its own (see The Cole Papers, November 1998), while the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman migrated to a system from Digital Technology International of Orem, Utah, and Thomson Newspapers is using a workflow revolving around Portable Document Format files to achieve centralized (collaborative) pagination.

  • New members of the NAA/IFRA International Newspaper Color Quality Club will describe how they establish and maintain quality at their newspapers

  • Separate roundtable discussions will focus on computer-to-plate technology and the states of the supplier business and newspaper industry.

  • The head of the Classified Ad Standard Task Force, Jack Stanley of the Houston Chronicle, will discuss the progress in developing a new standard specific to newspapers for the exchange and aggregation of classified information on the Internet.

    Moderators for the pre-press sessions will be Paul Lynch, director of quality assurance at the Chicago Tribune, and Bernie Szachara, director, imaging integration at Gannett Co. Inc. of Arlington, Va.

    For more information on the SuperConference, visit http://www.naa.org/ or call (703) 902-1600.

    -- dmc

    Bit bucket ...
    "You're a journalist! What makes you think you can start a business?"
    -- Partner at venture capital company Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, to writer and author Donald Katz (who started the now-successful Audible Inc.), as quoted in the New York Times

    New ossifers: At the Society for News Design in Providence, R.I., Ed Kohorst, design editor of the Dallas Morning News, has been elected president for 1999. Kohorst, currently SND first vice president, is design editor of the paper; he was named on the News' 1994 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting and also shared in its 1989 Pulitzer for explanatory journalism. Other 1999 Snd officers include Jean Dodd, assistant managing editor for design and graphics at the Kansas City (Mo.) Star, moving up the chairs from second V.P. to first V.P.; Lucie Lacava, of Lucie Lacava Publication Design Inc. of Montreal, Canada, from treasurer to second V.P.; Svenåke Boström of Sundsvalls Tidning in Sweden, from secretary to treasurer, and Jay Small, who steps on the first rung of the ladder to the presidency as secretary. (Small is the general manager of Star/News Online of Indianapolis; before making the jump to new media, Small ran art and design departments at the Indianapolis Star, the Denver Rocky Mountain News and The News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind. He recently became a regular contributor to this very newsletter). ...

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    Confabs: The Java Internet Business-Comdex Enterprise Conference (including Object World) will be Dec. 8-10 in New York. Tracks include sessions on the Java programming language, enterprise applications, data management and systems management. More information and registration is available at (781) 433-1665. ... SGML/XML '98, the annual gathering of the people who invented angle brackets, is Dec. 16-19 in Chicago. For more info, contact the Graphic Communications Association at (703) 519-8160 or visit the web site at http://www.gca.org/. ... MacWorld Expo, the home of Macintosh geeks in the West, will be Jan. 4-8 in San Francisco. The MacWorld/Pro Conference will offer tracks including PDF Day, Color Management Day, Video Day, Publishing Automation Day and networking and communications sessions; the Users Conference will have topics including "Optimizing Your New iMac" and "Center Stage with the Best Minds in the Mac Community." The keynote speaker will be Steve Jobs, once and future chief executive of the company. For more information, call (781) 551-9800 or send e-mail to customer_service@idgexpos.com. ... The annual Harris Publishing Seminar will be Jan. 14-15, right after the pre-press portion of the NAA SuperConference (see story) in Melbourne, Fla. At press time, all we knew was that the topic would be advertising and that the moderator would be the person attached to the first name listed in the upper left-hand corner of this page. ... #

    From THE COLE PAPERS, December 1998, Copyright © 1998, All Rights Reserved.

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