COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Dec. 13, 2000

Dec. 13, 2000
Vol. 6, No. 42

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DIGITAL ART EXCHANGE INC.
This managed Internet and application service provider for the graphic communications industry has announced the addition of iSeries VPN, provided with NetScreen Technologies equipment, to its managed Internet software.

Headquartered in Charlestown, Mass., the DAX VPN system combines all the benefits of private network systems, including security and performance. The VPN uses encryption provided by the Internet standard IPSEC protocol featuring Triple-DES encryption. Multiple sites can be connected in a secure, fully meshed topology, with the additional benefit of secure connectivity to the DAX Data Center, for secure access to DAX applications like ManagedFTP, Digital Asset Management and DAXProof for collaboration and softproofing.

DAX is on the Web at http://www.dax-it.com/, while NetScreen Technologies Inc. is located at http://www.netscreen.com/.

FOVEON INC.
This Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has teamed up with Swedish camera manufacturer Victor Hasselblad AB to create the Hasselblad DFinity. The new camera will integrate Hasselblad's development of cameras for professionals with Foveon's ability to develop image-capture technology.

In the creation of this new digital camera, the two companies concentrate on their core competencies to develop a combination of the professional camera design of Hasselblad with the CMOS-based imaging engine of Foveon. DFinity owners will benefit from the emphasis on image quality, productivity and immediacy built into the product.

Foveon is on the Web at http://www.foveon.net/, while Hasselblad is located at http://www.hasselblad.com/.

GEAC PUBLISHING SYSTEMS
This Tampa, Fla.-based division of the Canadian software company has announced the sale of Circulation Command to the NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI DAILY JOURNAL (37k). This Tupelo, Miss.-based paper is the first daily in North America to join a list of Circulation Command customers throughout Europe and Asia-Pacific, including The Guardian Group of the United Kingdom and the NEW ZEALAND HERALD.

The DAILY JOURNAL will install Circulation Command's Matrix Single Copy and Direct Subscriber modules, which include cost effectiveness for circulation and distribution with facilities for single copy, subscriber management, customer service and mailing. The system will support the activities of 30 users and will run on Windows 2000 and SQL Server 7.0.

Geac Publishing Systems is on the Web at http://www.publishingsystems.geac.com/.

GRAPHIC ENTERPRISES INC.
This of North Canton, Ohio-based output and imaging systems provider's PageCheck remote proofing system now features Internet Proofing capabilities. The new system from GEI creates a collaborative proofing environment where the printer's staff works hand-in-hand with clients and design agencies.

The new features of PageCheck enable clients to login with an ID and password and easily submit jobs via the Web, view proofs or make changes using sticky-note annotations. The PageCheck Internet Proofing module saves time for clients and publishers with its ability to accept jobs from anywhere with Internet access.

GEI is on the Web at http://www.geiworldwide.com/.

MACTIVE INC.
Providing advertising systems for the newspaper industry, this Melbourne, Fla.-based company has announced that ANG Newspapers of Pleasanton, Calif., publishing nine dailies in the San Francisco Bay Area, has signed a contract for an AdBase system.

ANG Newspapers, a subsidiary of MediaNews Group of Denver, has purchased a 110-seat AdBase system for classified liner and display-ad input. Additionally, they've purchased PageLayout, Mactive's classified pagination application, as well as WebBase, Mactive's new web-based ad-order entry and search engine product.

Mactive is on the Web at http://www.mactive.com/.

PROIMAGE
The BANGKOK POST of Thailand is installing a NewsWay browser-based digital workflow system from ProImage of Israel.

ProImage's NewsWay uses a standard Intel Windows NT platform to manage imposition, job planning, network workflow management, output management, resource scheduling, error detection and automatic correction of digital objects.

A TECSA CopyDot scanner has been installed to digitize color advertisements usually supplied as film sets. The paper's Geac (formerly Cybergraphic) pagination system is then able to output complete pages to film or plate. Each edition is planned within NewsWay and the stream of pages and their associated elements are monitored and may be viewed in real-time.

ProImage, which has U.S. offices in Princeton, N.J., is on the Web at http://www.newsway.com/.

PURUP-ESKOFOT
This Danish company has made many recent announcements:

-- Purup Eskofot has developed a new A3 multi-purpose scanner, which uses professional CopyDot scanning technology to provide users with more flexibility. The EskoScan F14 has been developed as a result of the company acquiring the technology from ScanView.

-- The company's new EskoScan 2330 high-speed CopyDot scanner has made its U.S debut. The 2330 is 25 percent faster than previous high-resolution EskoScan models and offers a scanning area of 23-by-30 inches (584-by-762mm) and is capable of copydot scanning eight four-color sets per hour at an optical resolution of 2540 dpi (dots per inch).

-- A new application for the CopyDot scanner has been released, called Reverse Imposition, which enables the repurposing of hard-copy originals such as film archives. Reverse Imposition is designed to convert existing archives of electronically imposed, or manually mounted, hard-copy originals back into electronic data. The system was developed with Offset Paperback Manufacturers based in Dallas, Pa., a subsidiary of the German Bertelsmann group.

-- NewAge 3.0, the latest version of Purup's Output Management System, which includes a number of new features, has been launched. NewAge provides workflows for the output of fully imposed, plate-ready film or press-ready plates on Purup's ImageMakers.

The redesign of the NewAge client Queue module for both Macintosh and Windows front-end users provides a high level of job processing control with all information displayed and available in one window. The enhanced system architecture enables users to offload PostScript and PDF (Portable Document Format) files to any number of raster image processors and distribute to any output device without compromising the integrity of the files.

-- Lastly, Purup has added further flexibility to its ImageMaker range of CTF (computer-to-film) and CTP (computer-to-plate) devices by offering customers the facility to change lasers, and upgrade that can be completed in the field due to the company's patented OptoLink technology.

Purup Eskofot, which has U.S. offices in Kennesaw, Ga., is on the Web at http://www.purup-eskofot.com/.

SHIRA
The privately held provider of on-line pre-press and native PDF (Portable Document Format) workflow systems has introduced PuzzleFlow. Developed by AC&C HSH Group, Shira's PuzzleFlow contains a native PDF processing engine, along with a suite of PDF modules, which interlock like puzzle pieces to form a complete PDF workflow.

Operating in an independent PDF application, PuzzleFlow modules include features such as preflight, composition of multiple PDF elements, OPI and imposition, and allows users to install only the required components, while allowing the addition of modules at a later time.

Shira is on the Web at http://www.shira.com/.

THE SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION CO.
Based in Atlanta, Ga., this company has announced the sale of the MediaServer Production, an archive database system, to the Times Publishing Group (60k) of Erie, Pa. and a MediaServer installation at the HERALD TIMES (28k) of Bloomington, Ind.

The Times Publishing Group installation has replaced two legacy systems -- a DataTimes VAX-based text-archiving system and a Stauffer Gold library system -- and will allow automatic insertion of daily exported text from an editorial system from Agile Enterprises. The Software Construction Co. (SCC) MediaServer systems will also act as the main photo and graphics news desk and archive, supporting a live Associated Press feed as well as input from staff photographers. The installation at THE HERALD provides repository for both AP photos and graphics and staff generated digital camera files.

SCC is on the Web at http://www.swcc.com/.

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