William Shaw, the CEO, said that he had previously rejected a proposal by YARC negotiate the sale of Volt Information Sciences Inc. interest in Autologic Information International Inc. (AIII). Shaw is also the chief executive of Volt.

YARC, the Camarillo, Calif.-based supplier of Linux Internet printing technology, says that it has offered to purchase the 59 percent of AII that is owned by Volt.

YARC, which has developed software that integrates printing technologies with World-Wide Web browsers, says that it "needs to quickly acquire infrastructure through merger and acquisition to become a dominate player in the upcoming Internet printing revolution."

AII is the result of the merger of longtime newspaper suppliers Autologic and Information International Inc.

YARC said that the discussions with Volt, a supplier of Yellow Pages display ad makeup systems and services based in Blue Bell, Pa., began on Dec. 17, 1999.

YARC is on the Web at http://www.yarc.com/, Autologic is on the Web at http://www.autoiii.com/, while Volt is on the Web at http://www.volt.com/.

The company said it also has agreed to a distribution and e-commerce deal with Owners.com, a self-directed real estate market web site. Under terms of the agreement, AdStar.com and Owners.com will provide home sellers the ability to submit classified ads to relevant newspapers across the country through a co-branded version of the Advertise123.com classified advertising portal, accessible at Owners.com. Home sellers visiting Advertise123.com to create, schedule and pay for a real estate classified ad will also be able to purchase a listing on the Owners.com site.

Last year more than $150 million of classified advertising was placed using AdStar.com's products and services; the company is on the Web at http://www.adstar.com/.

The company has also announced its support for the International Digital Enterprise Alliance's (IDEAlliance) PRISM initiative.

Slated for final completion in mid-2000, the initiative is designed to create an industry-wide standard for XML-based metadata vocabularies for the publishing industry.

Through the adoption of the PRISM protocol, magazine, news and book publishers will have enhanced interoperability of content leading to new revenue opportunities from existing information and increased production efficiencies.

Artesia Technologies customers include the WASHINGTON POST, General Motors, Tribune Media Services and Jane's Information Group and the company is on the Web at http://www.artesiatech.com/.

The CHRONICLE installed the a 88-workstation IQue Editorial System in its newsroom. The DAILY RECORD installed AdManagerPro Classified on six workstations and ProductionManagerPro on eight workstations.

Baseview also said it was demonstrating new products at this week's Seybold Seminars Boston. Its ProductionManagerPro ad-tracking software is already utilizing technology from Adobe's InDesign at the MORNING NEWS in Springdale, Ark. (14k). Users build ads using InDesign, yet keeping all the elements -- including fonts, graphics and logos -- in a package within the ProductionManagerPro database.

With more than 2500 customers around the world, Baseview is on the Web at http://www.baseview.com/.

All shares to be sold will be offered by Real Media, the New York City company which provides brand-focused ad sales representation, proprietary ad management software and media and marketing services. Through the anticipated acquisition of Real Media's European affiliates from PubliGroupe S.A., Real Media's largest stockholder, Real Media will provide these products and services worldwide.

The company also said that it has expanded its Pacific Rim operations by investing in MediaFusion, an Australian online media rep firm, with offices in Sydney and Melbourne. Real Media already has offices in Hong Kong and Korea.

Real Media is on the Web at http://www.realmedia.com/.

CITY 2000 installed Merlin on its own rack-mounted Compaq ProLiant 6000 server with dual 550 MHz processors and a hardware controlled RAID Level 5 array. All images will be stored in TIFF format, initially on Merlin's RAID array and then permanently on a near-line Pioneer 720-DVD jukebox.

Merlin automatically imports the scanned TIFF images from City 2000's photo staff and contributors. Once in Merlin, writers and photo editors enter descriptive information for each image. Merlin's wide variety of powerful search tools are used to quickly locate images for reprints for gallery shows and publications.

T/ONE is on the Web at http://www.t-1.com/.

Two years ago the WORLD used the Web to help sell its old Goss Urbanite press. After that success the WORLD focused a live "Press Cam" on the installation of the paper's new press.

During the process of installing the press, reducing the web and moving to a remote production facility, the WORLD encountered many issues other newspapers might find useful. Much of the information is public but the WORLD has also posted many "Newspaper Only" pages geared only to the newspaper industry.

The "Newspaper Only" pages are password protected. To view the free information, newspaper employees can simply request a password http://www.wenworld.com/press.html and one will be forwarded via e-mail.

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