The Nashua, N.H. company is now on the Web at http://www.agileenterprise.com.

Under the terms of the agreement, Creo will acquire the assets of Scitex's digital pre-print business in exchange for 13.25 million Creo shares valued at some US$537 million, based on the closing price on Jan. 14, 2000.

When the transaction is final, Scitex will become a major shareholder in Creo with about 27 percent of the outstanding shares (fully diluted).

The new graphic arts group -- tentatively named Creo/Scitex -- will combine the pre-press operations of Scitex and Creo. Management will include representatives from both companies. The global operations of Creo/Scitex will be managed from Vancouver and Herzlia.

In a separate press release issued yesterday by Scitex, the company stated that in addition to its agreement with Creo, it intends to increase its focus on digital printing and opportunities in Internet-related technologies in the imaging and media sectors.

Creo is on the Web at http://www.creo.com/, while Scitex is at http://www.scitex.com/.

The New Brunswick newspapers have also installed DTI's new 5.0.1 advertising system, using PlanBuilder for pagination and DTI's graphics management software. The company says that these newspapers are the first to use IBM PCs (as opposed to Apple Macintosh computers) for its new 5.0.1 software.

Additionally, The Papers Inc., Milford, Ind., has upgraded to ClassSpeed 5.0.1 classified sales software, ROP Order Entry 5.0.1 PlanBuilder page planning, AdSpeed ad production and editorial software.

DTI is on the Web at http://www.dtint.com/

OpenRIP NT is an Adobe PostScript III, PDF 1.3 interpreter based on the Adobe CPSI kernel. It runs under Windows NT and integrates into Macintosh, Windows or mixed environments. RIPit is popular in the instant printing industry because of features including a graphical user interface, ease of installation and connection through a PCI card; it also support Epson color proofing.

RIPit Computer Corp. was founded in 1989 to serve the franchise and instant quick printing market; it is based in Citrus Heights, Calif.

ECRM, based in Tewksbury, Mass., is on the Web at http://www.ecrm.com/, while RIPit is on the Web at http://www.ripit.com/.

Beacon publishes the twice-weekly WARWICK BEACON (circulation 10,500), the weekly HERALD (circulation 4000) and the weekly PENNYSAVER (circulation 18,000).

METS software includes FSI's Editor, Pagination, News2Web and LiveWire. ADvance Sales includes Ad Sales, Pagination, Export Billing Data and Class2Web.

FSI is a Monotype Systems company and member of the IPA group of companies, and can be found on the Web at http://www.fsi-ipa.com/.

For more information, visit the NAA's SuperConference web site at http://www.naa.org/conferences/index.html#SuperConf. The NAA is at http://www.naa.org/.

NEWSINC. based much of its estimate on the reports of publicly traded newspaper companies, but also conducted interviews with newspaper executives from across the country.

Also in the Jan. 17 issue of NEWSINC., Senior Editor Pete Wetmore writes about the plans for capital spending in the newspaper industry in the coming year. Many newspapers are reporting that maintaining their existing technologies and furthering their on-line ventures are their top priorities. Other stories include a look at how some towns that have only one newspaper can have two editorial voices and how one company is going about helping newspapers to share their on-line content with other web sites.

NEWSINC., published by is The Cole Group, the purveyors of this very newswire as well as other fine products such as THE COLE PAPERS, COLE'S NOTES and the NEWSINC. NEWSWIRE.

NEWSINC. is on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

The papers are in Alabama, Iowa, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Texas and West Virginia.

PBS, based in Barrington, Ill., is on the Web at http://www.pbs.com/.

The Denver, Colo., company's QuarkDMS offers re-purposing of media by connecting to software such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop or XPress.

The QuarkDMS software combines an Oracle8 relational database with a three-tier architecture capable of serving hundreds of concurrent users. The QuarkDMS server supports both Sun Solaris and Windows NT for flexibility in distributed heterogeneous networks. QuarkDMS clients offer secure access to assets from both Windows and Mac OS platforms, as well as from standard Web browsers.

An XTensions Developer's Kit allows developers to extend the functionality of QuarkDMS and connect to other business systems such as e-commerce, inventory or accounting.

Quark is on the Web at http://www.quark.com/, while QuarkDMS has its own web site at http://www.quarkdms.com/.

The new site provides detailed information to help evaluate newspaper system solutions, configure and price SCS' systems and get support on-line. SCS systems include the Layout-8000 for automated ad dummying, AdMAX/Retail and AdMAX/Classified for advertising management, SCS/ClassPag for classified pagination, SCS/Track for ad tracking and GN3 for editorial and news pagination.

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