1. Advanced Technical Solutions: At first a third-party provider of Atex system maintenance, ATS has branched out into producing products for Atex systems as well as developing its own standards-based front-end, Osiris (named after an Egyptian god). New offerings include the Osiris text editor running under Microsoft Windows; Work Station III Windows, which allows a PC running Windows to emulate an Atex terminal, and Work Station III LAN, which links entire networks of PCs to an Atex system. ATS offers a four-piece pagination solution: Quick Layout, a Windows ad dummying/editorial layout package; Status Tracker, which monitors the progress of pages using Windows; Work Flow, for copy flow management, and Mac Station III, under which local or remote Macintoshes may run Atex in one window and pass Ascii text back and forth between Atex and other Mac applications. (508) 689-9161.
2. Apple Computer Inc.: Power is the pitch in the Apple booth this year: Power Books (laptop Macintoshes, the object of my current lust), the new Quadra 950 (announced in mid-May, it's a bigger, faster version of the most powerful Macintosh) and Radius Rockets (the add-on card that with Rocket Share software ensures true multitasking on the Mac). In addition to the product display area, Apple will be running a demonstration theater, and will be promoting the products of companies such as Adobe, AXS, Baseview, Managing Editor, PressLink and Quark. (408) 862-5185.
3. Artificial Intelligence Technologies Inc.: Marvin Berlin and Michael Stock, former CSI programming whizzes, appear at ANPA at their own booth -- the first since their CSI days -- to show a "work in progress": a new circulation system under development for a -- what else? -- "major metropolitan newspaper." The system runs under UNIX in Sybase database software. The company also will show its development tools and a statistical package. (914) 347-6860.
4. Associated Press: Probably the most difficult technical decision facing a newspaper this year is what to do about archiving photos. After months of making prints from the AP Leaf Picture Desk for filing, many papers will want to move to an electronic substitute. The high-end potential solution is the AP Leaf Preserver Archive, which sits on the AP Leaf Picture Desk network, making it accessible to any Leaf workstation (or Mac running a MacLeaf interface card). The Preserver uses an IBM RS/6000 workstation as its heart, running the Informix database under the UNIX operating system. Use this opportunity to find out more about the recent agreement between Leaf Systems and Managing Editor Software to integrate Managing Editor with the Preserver. Also in the AP booth will be the AP MacLeaf Archive, the low-end archiving system based on the Macintosh's HyperCard software; the Agenda '92 pre-designed newspages distributed on the AP GraphicsNet; the newest system software for the AP Leaf Picture Desk, and continuing products such as the Leafax IIId, Leafscan-35 and -45, AP SelectStocks, and AP SelectNews. (The last sorts wire copy according to content, not keyword. The software actually "reads" all incoming stories and puts them in the proper categories based on profiles.) (212) 621-17. 20.
5. Atex Inc.: In 1990, Atex waltzed into ANPA/Tec in an alliance with IBM. In 1991, Atex glowingly jitterbugged into ANPA/Tec with CText. I'm beyond guessing who will be at the elbow of the industry leader this year, but whoever it is, I won't be surprised. Atex says it will show its PC-based editorial front-end -- which is based on CText's OS/2 system, Dateline -- as well as a new Macintosh-based back-end pagination solution called Capriccio. They'll talk, too, about "migration paths" for Atex customers from their existing systems to newly developed platforms. And who knows? Maybe by June 6 the company's executives will have figured out a classified front-end solution. Stranger things have happened. (508) 670-4140.
6. Autologic Inc.: A year of customer-support problems has taken some of the bloom off Autologic's rose, but the company still knows how to design and build imaging systems. A three-ring circus of sorts will be held in the Autologic booth, with "arenas" devoted to papers large, medium and small. Each arena will have what Autologic thinks is the solution best suited to papers of that size. Autologic also will show APS-Scan Link, an interface between high-end drum scanners and the APS-100 PostScript Integrator; the APS-5000 drum recorder, a 15- x 22-inch output device for color reproduction; the APS-SoftPIP/PC, a PostScript interpreter based on an MS-DOS PC; the APS-6/70; 72-pica output devices, and much more. (805) 498-9611.
7. AXS/Optical Technical Resource: What a difference a year makes. Last year, AXS dipped its toe into the newspaper marketplace by being in the Nikon booth with a Macintosh running image-archiving software. This year, AXS will display its wares in its own booth, while Nikon and DataTimes will be showing products that AXS developed especially for them. A leading contender for your image-archiving dollar. (510) 540-5232.
8. Baseview Products Inc.: Consistently adding to its repertoire of Mac-based publishing products, Baseview will be showing its new editorial database system and an array of business systems products, including packages for circulation and classified page layout. The editorial database is said to work on an AppleShare fileserver, which would put it at a cost advantage over competing Mac-based front-end systems. The circulation package provides a database (with telemarketing and subscription generation), a distribution handler (to automate carrier route and single-copy sales) and a preprinted inserts module (which facilitates zoning of inserts). Plus Baseview will show established products such as WireManager, an application that threads wire service copy into the Mac fabric. (313) 662-5800.
9. Collier-Jackson/CompuServe: For the first time in six years, the venerable provider of business systems software will occupy its own booth. It will demo its software running on three hardware platforms: IBM's RS/6000, Digital's VAX and Hewlett Packard's 3000 and 9000 series. (813) 872-9990.
10. Computer Network Integrators Inc.: We keep hearing that the "fourth wave" creates a need for a supplier who will integrate off-the-shelf software and standard hardware into true publishing packages. Run by former Atex executives, CNI is among the first to rate as a true integrator. At its first ANPA/Tec, CNI will be showing integrated systems for editorial, classified, pagination and display advertising, as well as color and graphics systems. The company has developed a page-element tracking system based on Novell's Btrieve database, giving the paper an SQL-compliant database that will also work in conjunction with products such as Publication Administrator, from North Atlantic Publishing Systems. PA is a document management and tracking system for Quark XPress, based on Acius's 4th Dimension database. It creates and updates tracking information about document elements such as names of text and picture boxes, and location of elements by page number or file type. (617) 244-5546.
11. Computerease Software Inc.: This software developer will show its Quark XPress XTension that allows ads laid out on its PageControl/AL program to be dummied and loaded into Quark pages. Also, the company will show its Word Mover text editing software being driven by the Abdex speech recognition software. (401) 245-15. 23.
12. CompuText Inc.: UNIX without an in-house expert is the theory behind CompuText's classified and editorial front-end systems. Its MultiServer Architecture provides a scalable file server for small to large systems. CompuText also offers a Macintosh-based display ad product, the CAT. The firm will be showing its classified pagination solution for the first time at ANPA/Tec. (713) 480-34. 94.
13. CText Inc.: Can you say "CText" and then not say "Chicago Tribune?"? The double question marks are right -- CText's Tribune installation is still a question mark almost three years after it began. CText was saying the Tribune's acceptance is "within a month" in early May. So maybe CText will be able to go into ANPA with Dateline -- its OS/2-based editorial front-end -- finally accepted. If not, I'm sure the CText people will tell you all about the Mansfield (Ohio) News Journal installation of CText's OS/2-based classified system, AdVision. They'll also talk at great length about their sturdy line of MS-DOS products. (313) 761-5000.
14. Cybergraphic Systems Inc.: Coupling an aggressive sales strategy with successful installations of classified systems in Spokane, Wash., and Montreal and Edmonton, Canada, Cybergraphic is taking some friends with it to ANPA/Tec: newspaper wetware has been recruited to run demos. Satisfied customers may speak volumes for the American division of the Australian-based company. The Cybergraphic editorial and classified systems, based on dual DEC VAX servers, have workstations such as Macintoshes, IBM PS/2s and Suns running software under UNIX. This year, Cybergraphic workstation screens will display TIFF images stored in the central database. (617) 245-0805.
15. Data Sciences Inc.: This year's new product for the business systems provider is an MS-DOS-based newsprint inventory management system, which the company will show alongside its other Papertrak products, including circulation, TMC, receivables, accounts payable, payroll, etc. (800) 826-7245.
16. DataTimes Corp.: The long-time provider of newspaper library systems has scooped up a license for the AXS picture archiving system and has developed hooks between AXS and PC DataTimes, the company's LAN-based text storage system (of course, you've got to be running the Windows version of AXS), so that users can search for text or pictures from the same terminal. In addition, the company will be showing an enhanced version of its Flash text database system (based on DEC VAX computers) and its on-line information service, DataTimes/Dow Jones News Retrieval. (405) 75. 1-6400.
17. Dewar Information Systems Corp.: Calling his new Disc/View system "the epitome of fourth wave," Steuart Dewar will be unveiling the new SQL database for element tracking in his PC-based solutions. In addition, the company will introduce its integration team concept to provide a full spectrum of services to newspapers and magazines. With a long history in the U.S. publishing market and more than 300 U.S. installations, Dewar is shifting from the role of hardware supplier to that of integrator. (708) 850-4350.
18. Diadem Inc.: Known for its ability to link high-end drum scanners to Macs, Diadem has used PCs for its color page assembly systems. No longer. The new Onyx-Net is based on a Digital Equipment DECstation 5000 workstation, which uses a Risc chip to make it very fast. Diadem runs the DECstation under Ultrix, DEC's version of UNIX, with 43 Mips of performance. Other components of Onyx-Net include the Onyx-RIP, a PostScript interpreter that allows a preview of the RIP'ed page before imaging to make certain all elements are placed correctly. (201) 641-7200.
16. Digital Equipment Corp.: DEC is back. Well, back to the pre-press industry, anyway. Despite corporate problems elsewhere, DEC has decided to get back into publishing. A lot of newspapers remain convinced that the only way to publish is on DEC hardware. So, after a 10-year absence, DEC returns to the industry with a new vision: Take editorial and classified software packages from companies like Dewar and CompuText, package them with DEC hardware and DEC integration smarts, and start delivering systems again. The DEC booth also will house two kinds of management software: one for distribution, from Ann Arbor Computer, another for press room management, from AHP Systems Inc. DEC also will display videotext systems, fax-on-demand setups and audio services. (603) 884-3382.
19. Digital Technology International: The annual "Day After ANPA/Tec with Don Oldham," at which the founder of DTI fearlessly forecasts the future, is being folded into DTI's regular booth presentation. Oldham will present two-hour seminars daily at 2 p.m. (call or drop by to make your reservation). DTI says Oldham will address the question, "Is there any need for other alternatives or should the world just adopt Quark and XTensions?" Should be lively. The company will also offer minitraining sesssions on its product lines. Elsewhere in its booth, DTI will be showing the latest software revisions of its Macintosh-based products -- ClassSpeed, SpeedPlanner/PageSpeed and AdSpeed -- and its SQL-compliant client-server database for editorial and display ad element tracking. (801) 226-2984.
20. Du Pont/Camex: Segmenting Whirlwind for two markets, Du Pont/Camex will unveil Whirlwind 90, a PC-based version of the editorial and classified system. Whirlwind 90 uses the same database as the high-end Whirlwind 1000 (which rides Sun Microsystems workstations), but runs under Windows and thus costs much less. Whirlwind 1000 will be featured in a theater, with system demonstrations lasting about 15 minutes. The company also will show the Macintosh Interface Program -- MIP -- which allows Macintosh files to be stored on the central Whirlwind database, as well as complete solutions from the front-end to the back-end, including color. (Oh, and if Atlanta's heat has made you nasty, ask them how Whirlwind is spinning at the Houston Chronicle; it's but a mere year or three behind schedule.) Also in the booth will be other Du Pont newspaper products, including Crosfield scanners. (617) 426-3577.
21. Eastman Kodak Co.: Some newspapers are reluctant to spend $10,000 for a desktop film scanner just to begin experimenting with desktop color. For those papers -- and other small publishers -- the Kodak Photo CD system will be a boon. Many photo finishers will be getting the Kodak Photo CD system in-house this summer, meaning that your local one-hour photo shop will be able to give you a CD with a 35mm image scanned at 2000-dpi (creating an 18 megabyte file, which is about 60 percent more data than a newspaper needs). With a CD-ROM reader (less than $750), this image can be imported into a Mac or PC and color-balanced and screened using PhotoShop or Photostyler, then output. Kodak has visions that consumers will use the system as a high-tech slide tray, but publishers can benefit as well. Alongside Photo CD Kodak will display its new RFS 2035 film scanner (which generates those 18 megabyte files) and the DCS -- digital camera system. Not to mention the XL7700 printer -- a machine that spits out color prints so good you'd think they were made in an old-fashioned (dare we say "wet?") darkroom. (800) 242-2424.
22. ECRM: Because Sun Microsystems couldn't agree with Adobe Systems on a PostScript license, the maker of UNIX-based workstations created its own PostScript clone -- NeWSprint. Ecrm has developed a PostScript RIP based on NeWSprint and will demonstrate it running on Ecrm's newest Pelbox, the 1045CS. Also in the booth will be new screening technology that outputs high quality color separations from Macintoshes without using PostScript -- achieving an 80 percent improvement in imaging time (the problem is that right now halftones can't be imaged in place -- but they're working on that). Also, the company will show its ScriptSetter IV, which can handle film, paper or direct-to-plate materials. NewsTech, a distributor of Ecrm products in Latin America, will share the booth. (508) 851-0207.
23. Edgil Associates Inc.: Credit cards are now mandatory for classified, circulation and collection operations at newspapers. But there are many levels of working with credit cards: merely verifying the card number, getting authorization, processing batch funds transfers and engaging in interactive funds transfer. Edgil, a software consulting company that has worked with many Atex customers over the last eight years, has developed an authorization and funds transfer system that works with Atex classified systems (as well as other customized solutions) and runs on a PC under OS/2. Edgil has relationships with several bank card processing centers, allowing newspapers to find the lowest discount rate. With this system, newspapers can gain access to credit card funds within 48 hours, which in these days of cash flow crunch can mean a lot. (508) 454-9932.
24. Eskofot Canada Ltd.: This North American subsidiary of the venerable Danish graphic arts supplier will be at ANPA/Tec for the first time, showing its Eskoscan 2540 flat-bed CCD scanner. With an image area of 20 x 24 inches and a resolution of 2540 lines per inch, this machine would be perfect for scanning in camera-ready ads for use in a direct-to-plate pagination environment. It also has the potential to be used for "gang shots" of as many as 100 small jobs. The scanner's high resolution allows for some pretty dramatic enlargements as well. The Eskoscan 2540 creates tagged-image format files (TIFF) in black-and-white and RGB; soon it will have CYMK TIFF and Encapsulated PostScript output as well. (416) 670-7860.
25. Harris Corp.: "It ain't pretty, but it works," one Harris customer told me in reviewing Harris's Page Layout System. That's probably an apt description of the entire UNIX-based Harris product line -- which ranges from editorial and classified front-end systems through classified and editorial pagination systems, to a display ad makeup system and a picture desk. A multiline company, Harris has been known both to develop technology for publishing and borrow technology from one of its many other divisions for use in publishing. Also in the booth will be Integrated Software Systems, a supplier of interfaces to output devices and developer of Fax News, a distribution system for facsimile editions. (407) 242-5000.
26. Hasselblad Electronic Imaging: I've heard of a newspaper that conducted rigorous tests of desktop scanners: Leafs, Nikons and the Hasselblad Macsie 35A. The Hasselblad won (your results may vary). Hasselblad is a place to look if you're in the market for a scanner or a portable image transmission system. The Dixel 2000 CM is the newest portable transmitter; the company also has a picture desk, comprising the collection system (dubbed Image Basket) and the editing system (called Image Tuner). (201) 227-7320.
27. Howtek Inc.: A year after it sold the Miami Herald a color pre-press system, Howtek has by all reports a satisfied customer in the Knight-Ridder flagship paper. Adding the company's new desktop scanner -- the Scanmaster D4000 -- makes Howtek a force in the world of color systems. The D4000 is a drum scanner that uses three sensors, much the same as larger drum scanners, but it fits on a desktop and has a price not far above the desktop. Miami's happy -- and they don't even have the D4000, which won a new product award at the Seybold conference in February. (603) 882-52. 00.
28. Hyphen Inc.: Though there are lots of output goodies in the Hyphen booth (drum recorders, plain-paper output devices, PostScript RIPs running on Macs, PCs and Suns), take a moment to look at the Information Station, a 24- x 34-inch revolving screen that displays newspaper pages for promotional or proofing purposes. Agfa will also appear in the booth. (508) 988-0880.
29. Information International Inc.: At the first major show since Charles Ying became company president, Triple-I will highlight its new open output recorder, the 3850 Grafix Color Imager. The 3850 hooks up to RIPs using industry standard interfaces and can record to film, paper or laser plate material 16 x 28 inches. The company will also show Corporate Consulting Group's Computer-Aided Tracking System (Cats) for ad-tracking, and Macintosh-based classified pagination software and page layout software from Concept Publishing. Other offerings include AdWorks/2 (a Mac-based ad production system), Color Ad Makeup Station/2 and the Tecs/2 line of editorial and classified front-end systems. (310) 390-86. 11.
30. Integrated Newspaper Systems International Inc.: After weathering its sale by Ingersoll Newspapers (which had envisioned the company as a full-featured system supplier), Insi has settled back into providing newspaper business applications -- ad management, receivables management, circulation software and general financial packages. (609) 393-9293.
31. John Juliano Computer Systems: In an era when incremental spending is the only kind out there, Jjcs provides a relatively low-cost way to connect DEC, Atex or SII systems to Quark-based Macintosh pagination. Not only do the Expressway products move text from a front-end to the Mac, they also bring over the typesetting codes and preserve line endings, making copy-fitting on the front-end system less problematic. (404) 321-3037.
32. Konica Imaging USA Inc.: In addition to showing the Ecrm line of products, Konica says its Konsensus is the "fastest proofing system available, providing 8-10 full-page proofs per hour." Drop by to glimpse just how fast it is. (516) 674-2500.
33. Linotype-Hell Co.: After taking a bye at last year's show, Linotype-Hell comes on like gangbusters this year, introducing to North America the company's new editorial and classified front-end and pagination solution, LinoPress. Developed in Germany and marketed in Europe for almost two years (it's installed at a dozen sites), LinoPress is based on Macintosh computers and Sun Microsystems file servers running SQL-compliant database software. An installation appears to be limited to 256 Macintoshes, but hey, if such a system can be configured it would handle the publishing requirements of a majority of North American newspapers. Also on display will be its line of output devices (the ubiquitous Linotronic series) as well as color and image processing products. Companies sharing the booth include Coddbarrett Associates, a firm supplying a color tinting system, and Diwan, a British firm that specializes in Macintosh wirephoto capture. (516) 434-2000.
34. Mac Solutions: After the failure of its all-Macintosh Madrid daily, El Sol, Groupo Anaya reorganized many of its pieces. The folks doing Anaya publishing software have become A-Link. Mac Solutions represents A-Link in North and South America, showing a NuBus board that receives analog picture services and stores the pictures on a Mac's hard disk. (305) 477-8885.
35. Managing Editor Software Inc.: You gotta love a company whose logo is a cigar-smoking dude who looks like the editor-in-chief of yore. Logo aside, the products look good, too. For $5000 you can't beat Ad Director, the company's Macintosh-based ad layout system. It imports a list of ads and will automatically place them in your pre-defined publication within a matter of seconds (my pokey MacIIcx took 30 seconds to position 144 ads in a 48-page broadsheet). You can then manually move ads around by clicking and dragging. The resulting ad layout can be printed out for manual pasteup (how ... ancient) or can be imported into Page Director (the company's other main product) or directly into Quark XPress. Page Director is still something I'm not completely comfortable with, but there's no question it would work great in conjunction with Ad Director. (See also the limited edition of Ad Director for papers that need no more than manual ad placement.) (215) 635-5074.
36. MetroMail Corp.: Sometimes the issue is merely matching the right readers to the publication at hand. With MetroMail's National Consumer Data Base of more than 95 million households and 13. 9 million names nationwide, you can probably track 'em down. MetroMail offers direct marketing lists, address standardization, ZIP+4 enhancement, geo-coding and census information. They'll have the database on-line in the booth; drop by to see what these guys can do. (402) 475-4591.
37. Monotype Inc.: While its parent has been coming out of receivership in the United Kingdom, this U.S. subsidiary has been struggling to prove it's independent and viable. This show should help it meet that goal, with the company presenting its new ImageMaster 7000, based on the Agfa SelectSet 7000 drum recorder (variable resolutions up to 3600 dpi and a 25- x 22-inch image area). The company will also show its newest OPI (Open Pre-press Interface) server, the Monotype Graphics Server 3 -- Level II, designed to increase the speed of PostScript output. The MGS3-II is based on a Sun Sparcstation running Monotype's own database (upgradable to Oracle). The company also will show its PS2001 software-based PostScript RIP running on a Macintosh, as well as the Adobe Emerald Risc-based RIP. (708) 350-5600.
38. Multi-Ad Services Inc.: The granddaddy of advertising clip art providers continues to be in the forefront of thinking with its Supplement-Builder and News USA packages, which provide all the material necessary to create a special advertising section. In addition, the company will show its clip art libraries (available on CD-ROM) as well as Multi-Ad Creator, Multi-Ad Search and Ad-Builder General. (800) 447-1950.
39. Mycro-Tek Inc.: After a year-long dearth of new image archiving programs, a flood is soaking the market. Mycro-Tek's Image Manager is among the newcomers, released just in time for ANPA. The long-time provider of proprietary systems to the world of small newspapers has moved into the Macintosh arena with its Freedom Series of Mac software for publishing. Freedom has ad layout, classified, pagination (Quark XTensions), text editing, wire collection and color pre-press modules. The newest module, Image Manager, runs a database of 32,000 images, supporting all standard file formats and creating really nifty thumbnail displays. (316) 636-5000.
40. National Digital Corp.: I used to say that you need look at National Digital's NewsEvent picture desk system only if you want a PC-based picture desk. With the release of NewsEvent Macintosh, that caveat falls by the wayside. Unlike the proprietary board method used by Leaf Systems to attach a Mac to a picture desk network, National Digital uses standard connections to hook the Mac to the network. The Washington Post is working the bugs out of the OS/2-based server, so the system should be pretty smooth. The software also will be running on a portable computer. (212) 986-43. 08.
41. Neasi-Weber International: The newspaper business software company will be showing an enhanced version of its Admarc advertising and accounts receivable management system that gets downright user-friendly with a graphical user interface on the front of the mainframe-based system. (818) 895-6900.
42. Newspaper Systems Group Inc.: The guys who support the old DEC and CSI systems are in a booth together with some guys who've developed an editorial and classified front-end and some other guys who've developed a PC to replace the old ONE systems terminal. If you have one of these geriatric systems, or are looking for innovative ways to prolong the life of another elderly system, stop by and chat 'em up. The other companies:West Coast Computer Systems, The Loki Group and RTR Computer Consulting. (619) 929-2190.
43. Nikon Electronic Imaging: After getting a special version of the AXS image archiving software (Image Access), Nikon will demonstrate it running in conjunction with its LS3510AF scanner, the NT-3000 Color Direct Telephoto Transmitter and the CP-3000 Color Printer, which uses the thermal dye sublimation process. (516) 547-4200.
44. Optronics, An Intergraph Division: If you want your fix of British news stories every day, stop here, where they'll be taking transmissions from Associated Newspapers (the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the London Evening Standard) and recording full pages live, as though Atlanta were a satellite printing plant. While here, you can also see Optronics's ColorGetter, DeskSetter and ColorSetter scanner and recording products. (508) 250-8684.
45. P.Ink America: We here at The Cole Papers gave P.Ink a drubbing last year, and this spring we couldn't find the company on any exhibit list, so we thought maybe we'd scared 'em away. Not. It turns out P.Ink will be in a section of the Scitex booth, showing a "total solution" of Macintosh-based products including text-editing, page makeup and color reproduction. The product, marketed in the U.S. by a division of the Time Magazine Group, uses an SQL-compliant database and Quark XPress as its main components. Gerard Lelievre-Laferte, the head of P.Ink, says Time magazine will be testing the product shortly. (212) 522-4001.
46. PressLink Inc.: The new version of the newspaper community's bulletin board system -- PressLink 2000 -- will be shown, in addition to highlighting the company's many information providers, including Krtn Photos, Reuters and AFP (what, no Cole Digest?). (305) 376-3818.
47. Production Management Technologies: Having developed the UNIX-based Rams ad management database for Siemens and Linotype-Hell, the PMT group has turned its attention to an ad management system that's based all on Macs and PCs (so new, it doesn't have a name at press time). If it has half the features of Rams, run, do not walk, to see this product. (508) 369-1060.
48. Quark Inc.: It'll be interesting to see how far Quark has gotten on its Dispatch and Copy Desk products, the Holy Grail of all-Mac, all-software editorial front-ends. Quark had announced the products would be available in the second quarter of 1992 -- and ANPA/Tec is close to the end of the second quarter. Despite the company's inability to predict when software will be finished (a trait common to software developers), Quark continues to make inroads into the industry, with two college papers informing me recently that they were shifting from Aldus PageMaker to XPress (they had adopted Mac page makeup when PM was better than XP -- in the '86-'87 timeframe). The wait for Copy Desk and Dispatch -- applications that work in conjunction with XPress to allow easy editing and document tracking -- may be a while, but will be worth it. (303) 934-2211.
45. Scitex America Corp.: The leader in high-quality color output is working very hard to get a piece of the newspaper business. Witness its purchases of Ricoh Telepress (which will be in the Scitex booth) and Leaf Systems (on display in the Associated Press booth). Also, the company will explain its newly developed PostScript strategy called Snap: Scitex Newspaper And PostScript Publishing. On view will be the new Smart Scanner 720, the Unda Page Station, ColorFill, V.I.P. 2.1 (a Quark XPress XTension), Star PS and Visionary Echo. Output devices, including various incarnations of the Dolev drum imagesetter and and Rayfax systems, round out the Scitex inventory. (617) 275-5150.
49. Sixty Eight Thousand Inc.: Speedy Macintoshes are this company's forte, taking its name from the Motorola 68000 processor that drives the Mac. But the company's newest product, the Hurricane, uses an Intel Risc chip, the i860xp, to achieve a 10- to 20-fold speed increase in such applications as applying PhotoShop filters. Sharing the booth will be Advanced Gateway Solutions, showing its ScanMate Plus desktop scanner, which uses PMT technology and will go for $30,000. (408) 438-1777.
50. Software Consulting Services: Though best-known for its Layout 80. 00 display ad layout software (the new version to be introduced at the show features pop-up menus and windowing), SCS provides other publishing system components as well as entire editorial and classified front-end systems (the Washington Times uses an SCS system). SCS uses Quark XPress as its pagination engine and has a host of products developed as XTensions to it, including its newest, Sage, a document tracking system. The company also will be showing its new Macintosh display ad tracking system, MacTrack. (215) 837-8484.
51. Stauffer Media Systems: This division of Stauffer Communications, which publishes almost two dozen newspapers, has a complete suite of publishing applications: editorial, classified, display ad, library, circulation, billing and accounting. (417) 782-0280.
10. Synaptic Micro Solutions Cooperative: Tom Davis, the president of Synaptic, is one of the first suppliers I've heard talk about integrating all the software at a newspaper to be able to harness the opportunities for electronic publishing and other alternative delivery methods. Synaptic, which provides software for virtually all aspects of newspaper publishing, is now representing Optical Telecommunications's electronic newspaper software, Optel. The University of Missouri at Columbia has used Optel in an experiment with elementary school children that Synaptic will demonstrate. In addition, Tecnavia, the Swiss picture desk company, will show its electronic photo archiving system as well as a new version of its picture desk; LaserMaster will show its high-resolution plain-paper output devices, and Archetype will show its PC-based display ad layout system. (800) 526-6547.
19. System Integrators Inc.: When Lennane Advanced Devices went South (both figuratively and literally), Sacramento-based SII picked up some of its neighbor's software engineers. These guys brought along an idea for an Open Pre-press Interface (OPI) server for PostScript jobs. Code-named "Scoop," this new output control device, based on Sun Microsystems hardware (UNIX at SII? Have I just won a bet?) will be shown as developing technology. And after pretty much exhausting the large-newspaper marketplace, SII now is intent on marching into the medium-size arena. Using Tandem Computers' newest, smallest CPU -- the CLX/R -- SII has created a system based on its mature System/55 product that is affordable enough for the bigger of the mediums. The company persists in calling the CLX/R a "fileserver," when in fact it's a complete minicomputer where hyphenation and justification run, but aside from the semantic differences, the system is still probably the best around. (800) 445-4744.
52. Tribune Publishing Co.: Seems to me that if there were anything to do in Lewiston, Idaho, on a Saturday night, neither NewsView nor PhotoView would be with us. But since their Saturdays are devoid of diversions, the folks at the Lewiston Tribune are free to develop text and image archiving programs such as these. NewsView is now represented by Mead Data Central, the folks who bring you Nexis and Lexis, and you can buy it from Dewar as well. Tribune is, at this writing, handling PhotoView. Both systems are based on the Folio database engine and use off-the-shelf (read: PC) hardware. (800) 745-9411.
53. Truvel/Vidar Systems Corp.: Showing its new version of the TruScan 3D scanner, Vidar, which acquired Truvel last year, says its overhead array scanner now has superior color fidelity and improved scan definition. (703) 471-7070.
54. TV Data: Introducing the Variable-Width Grid, TV Data now allows newspapers to expand and reduce program descriptions in both camera-ready and Macintosh versions. The company encourages papers to bring TV pages and books to ANPA to get "on-the-spot listings consultations." (800) 833-9581.
55. TV Listing Inc.: If TV listings are getting you down, try TV Listing's Electronic Production Service, where the supplier "does most of the work." The company's in-house staff paginates the TV book or page based on your ads and specifications, and all you do is download the finished product, output it and paste in ads. If that's more than you want or need, the company has all the other TV products as well: Macintosh-based systems, grids, rolling logs, etc. (817) 847-0980.
56. Ultra Corp.: This integrator of Latin American publishing systems will be showing many Macintosh products, including North Atlantic Publishing Systems's CopyFlow and CopyBridge in Spanish (see also Computer Network Integrators Inc.). The company will also show XPress in Spanish, the Juliano products in Spanish and UltraEdit, a Spanish version of XyWrite. Also in the booth will be Toltech Systems of Mexico City, showing remote communication and wire agency software under the Azimuth name. It runs in both English and Spanish and looks pretty good. (305) 599-5268.
-- dmc
