COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Dec. 27, 2000

Dec. 27, 2000
Vol. 6, No. 44

COLE'S NEWSWIRE is a weekly distribution of information about the sales and installations of publishing technology and the latest news on new products developed by suppliers to the industry.

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ADOBE SYSTEMS INC.
European system integrators Systematics, Atteso and Pape + Partner Media GmbH (PPI) plan to base their publishing systems on this San Jose-based company's InScope software. Adobe InScope provides system integrators with a web-based workflow and asset management system to meet customers' complex workflow and cross-media publishing requirements.

The first Atteso project in Germany is the development of a publishing management system for editors called VM-R. Pape + Partner Media GmbH, a division of PPI AG (plc), develops software for industrial and automated newspaper production. PPI has plans to develop newspaper-publishing systems built on InScope for companies in the United States and India.

Adobe is on the Web at http://www.adobe.com/.

ASTECH INTERMEDIA
The DAILY OKLAHOMAN (199k) has chosen R-Logic, a retention marketing system, from this Denver, Co.-based marketing consulting company. The system helps newspapers measure circulation efforts by providing a definitive picture of subscription retention, and measures continuously, rather than at a single point in time or at preset intervals.

It allows newspapers to assess subscription acquisition efforts across several dimensions including sales source, term, service type, offer, payment method and demographics. As part of the implementation at the paper, ASTECH will also provide training to circulation and marketing professionals throughout the company.

ASTECH is on the Web at http://www.astech-intermedia.com/.

ENFOCUS SOFTWARE INC.
Publishers of PDF documents in graphic arts, Internet and enterprise recently held PDF-Power-to-the-People-Day in Chicago, resulting in 2000 free downloads of new WebPerfect PDF (Portable Document Format) and PowerUp PDF applications, an event that marked one of the company's highest on-line sales records of the quarter.

Enfocus' PDF-Power-to-the-People-Day was held to expose the benefits of its new PDF document tools to a wider audience of PDF Web and print publishers. WebPerfect PDF is an optimization plug-in for Adobe Acrobat, targeted to all Internet publishers, and offers a simple user interface for optimizing PDFs for Web use. PowerUp PDF is a text and graphics editing plug-in for Adobe Acrobat, designed to target the PDF publishing community, providing access to Enfocus' editing technology.

Enfocus is on the Web at http://www.enfocus.com/.

GRAPHIC ENTERPRISES INC.
Several newspapers have recently purchased this North Canton, Ohio-based company's TECSA 2470 and 2570 copydot scanners. Graphic Enterprise Inc.'s (GEI) TECSA 2470 and 2570 are part of a family of large-format, variable-resolution, flatbed, copydot scanners designed to meet the pre-press industry's requirements for accuracy, quality and productivity.

The two scanners are designed to scan line art, text and halftone images from paste-ups, bromide, positive and negative films. Special illumination techniques hide the cut lines associated with scanning paste-ups. Both scanners offer selectable resolution from 400 to 1270 dots-per-inch. Additionally, GEI has announced that several newspapers have purchased its Ink Manager for ink presetting.

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

HEIDELBERG DRUCKMASCHINEN AG
Based in Germany, this company has announced the North American availability of its Coloropen Tools: Scanopen, Viewopen and Printopen. Heidelberg will be offering its Color Management knowledge, including data capture and printing press, as a communication link across the entire workflow.

Heidelberg's new Version 4 release of Scanopen, Viewopen and Printopen are designed to provide support tools for the entire publishing workflow. Scanopen creates a profile for any scanner in a matter of minutes, generating the basis for accurate image capture. Viewopen's key features include monitor calibration and profiling, while the new version of Printopen improves upon the integration of proof profiles.

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

MONARCH BAY SOFTWARE INC.
Headquartered in Houston, this developer of help-desk and call-management software is offering special discounts on HelpTrac 6.0 and HelpTrac LITE, to be used by all types of industries, to better manage their customer-service desks.

Monarch Bay Software's HelpTrac 6.0 and LITE allows personnel to track calls, produce management information and build problem/solution histories. Additionally, the support and enhancement agreement will be free from the purchase date through March 21, 2001. This offer includes all HelpTrac 6.0 and LITE updates and new releases including Version 7.0, to be released in January.

Monarch Bay Software is on the Web at http://www.helptrac.com/.

TOTAL INTEGRATION INC.
Based in Palatine, Ill., this company has announced the release of AdCheck 2.0, an expanded version of AdCheck, TIFF/IT image viewing and verification software. The new version provides pre-press professionals with a single software tool to open, inspect, qualify and print a broad range of the file formats used throughout the graphic arts and publishing industries.

AdCheck 2.0 incorporates Total Integration Inc.'s high-performance Graphic Image and Copy Dot Libraries to provide extended support to a long list of image file formats. New functions include Grid, show ruler/hide support; measurement units, anti-aliasing, and Apple ColorSync support, to name a few.

Total Integration is on the Web at http://www.totalint.com/.

QUARK INC.
In conjunction with Vision GmbH of Munich, Germany, this Denver, Co.-based company has announced the release of the QuarkDMS Archive module, and XTensions module for Quark Digital Media System, a digital asset management system for publishers. Developed jointly by Quark and Vision, the QuarkDMS Archive module provides near-line archival storage for valuable digital media elements such as text, graphics and documents.

QuarkDMS uses saved queries to determine which assets should be archived or restored at a particular time. The files are then moved from QuarkDMS-managed file systems to near-line digital linear tape (DLT), but all asset metadata and thumbnails are left on-line. Users can find, preview and place archived assets into Quark XPress layouts.

Quark is on the Web at http://www.quark.com/, while Vision is located at http://www.vision-gmbh.de/.

WOODWING SOFTWARE
This Amsterdam-based software developer has recently announced Smart Layout for Adobe InDesign. Smart Layout is beneficial for any InDesign user working with multiple frames or multiple columns per article, such as magazines, newspapers, catalogs and database publishers.

Smart Layout's intelligence and automation improves productivity, offering a more consistent publication, and is available for Adobe InDesign v1.5 for Macintosh (MacOS 9) and Windows (NT 4, 98, 2000). Several major system integrators, such as Managing Editor Inc., Mediasystemen BV and Sema Group sae, have implemented Smart Layout into their product offerings.

WoodWing is on the Web at http://www.woodwing.com/.

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