Advertise123.com allows advertisers to create, schedule and pay for ads in more than 115 papers from the 75 markets in the country. The affiliate program provides this service to users through vertically focused classified web sites and B2B web sites, in addition to providing site owners the opportunity to offer Advertise123.com's turnkey e-commerce through their sites to generate additional revenues.

AdStar.com has also announced that it signed an agreement to provide on-line classified-ad placement services for the ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION (430k) as well as the DENVER POST (414k). The agreement allows users to place classified ads in the print and on-line versions of the papers via Advertise123.com and through privately labeled sites.

AdStar.com is on the Web at http://www.adstar.com/, Landlord.com is at http://www.landlord.com/, the JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION is at http://www.ajc.com/ and the POST is at http://www.denverpost.com/.

GoCode is the only barcode that fits within printed lines of text, connecting editorial, advertising and classifieds to additional on-line information. It also enables users to make instant e-commerce purchases directly out of a newspaper, magazine or catalog. The POST & COURIER has also announced that it is planning to expand its relationship with GoCode by adopting the technology in other publications within The Evening Post Publishing Co.'s newspaper holdings.

GoCode Inc. is on the Web at http://www.gocode.com/.

Heidelberg's Linoscan 1450, the companion product to the 1400, has the same specifications as the Saphir Ultra 2 desktop scanner. Included with the 1450 is Heidelberg's latest release of its Linocolor Elite software.

The Linoscan 1450 offers 1200-by-2400 dots-per-inch (dpi) optical resolution; 7200-by-7200 dpi maximum interpolated resolution; 42-bit signal resolution and includes a Firewire interface to provide the fastest scanning possible. The 1450 ships with Linocolor Elite 6.0.7, the latest version of Heidelberg's Macintosh-based scanner and color correction software.

Heidelberg is on the Web at http://www.heidelberg.com/.

Due to ship later in the year, Jaws PDF Creator V2.0 will add support for PDF 1.3 format files, and includes many other customer-driven improvements to its performance, such as support for bi-cubic downsampling, enabling the creation of higher-quality downsampled images; the embedding of Base 14 fonts, and the automatic launch of Adobe Acrobat Reader upon the creation of PDF files. Additionally, the new version includes support for encrypted PDF files using the BSAFE Library Jaws Systems licensed from RSA Security Inc., enabling Jaws PDF Creator users to create PDF files that restrict the ability of recipients to open, print or alter the PDF file.

Jaws Systems is on the Web at http://www.jawssystems.com/.

The new features, such as exporting user-defined metadata along with content of documents; intuitive labeling system; resolving references and relationships across document boundaries, and style-sensitive text formatting with wildcard and pattern matching in AutoPrice Exporter Pro require no additional programming and are widely used by catalogers, retailers and financial publishers to automate the process of updating publications directly from their product databases.

AutoPrice is first used to perform the initial process of tagging (text and images) in the Quark XPress document and then creates a meta-structure describing the content of the document according to the various types of data present and their relationship to other items.

Meadows Information Systems is on the Web at http://www.meadowsinfo.com/.

The latest version is an electronic job ticketing and digital asset management system for many graphic arts organizations around the globe.

New features include AppleScript support, background processing and InUnity 1.0 support, which was also recently announced as a turnkey eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based communications server that enables graphic arts companies to exchange print procurement and content information.

The InUnity package includes standard XML document schemata, document translators and process automation examples to name a few.

A third announcement was made by MetaCommunications -- Job Manager 3.0. An upgrade to the 2.2 version, 3.0 is an electronic job tracking, costing and billing tool also for graphic arts companies. Features included are estimating, custom reports and InUnity support.

Metacommunications is on the Web at http://www.meta-comm.com/.

Colorific synchronizes color between MINOLTA-QMS color printers and a user's monitor, improving consistency when viewing and printing digital images, and personalizes color based on the specifications of a user's monitor to provide accurate, predictable color matching across devices.

MINOLTA-QMS is on the Web at http://www.minolta-qms.com/, while E-Color is located at http://www.ecolor.com/.

The UDR is used to publish more than 15 print and electronic publications on legislative tracking, congressional hearing and staff information. Really Strategies will also provide other critical operational support necessary for CQ to continue its path of refining content management strategies.

Really Strategies is on the Web at http://www.reallysi.com/.

In addition to daily updated news, the site offers an array of network services dedicated to employment, shopping entertainment, cars, homes, travel and community organizations.

StarTribune is on the Web at http://www.startribune.com/.

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