In 2000, AdStar.com noted an increase in both traffic and transactions for Advertise123.com, and the private-label sites that it manages for large metropolitan newspapers. Total Web-based transactions increased from slightly more than 3000 in 1999 to more than 55,000 in 2000. The related gross billings generated from these transactions, on a combined basis, rose from $563,000 in 1999 to more than $4.3 million in 2000.

The CareerBuilder-powered DallasNews.com career center provides employers and job seekers with complete access to CareerBuilder services. Employers will benefit from targeted on-line job postings, banner advertisements and other tools, while job seekers get CareerBuilder's job searches as well as the ability to receive e-mail alerts about job matches. Job seekers can also post and store their resumes on the site.

DALiM technology assures print predictability and quality assurance at time of final output. All SWiNG workflows conduct preflighting and normalization of incoming data, and users can upgrade accordingly to a complete TWiST system.

QPS is a software product of DeepBridge business partner, Modulo Systems, which develops enterprise-scale, collaborative workgroup publishing systems for magazine, newspaper and catalog publishers.

The new increase in business is being driven primarily out of the company's Denver office, which opened its doors in November 2000, and serves as a Modulo-authorized support center for QPS administration and training.

The Lynx system creates thumbnails for each page or image with a user-searchable database. The new Durst Dice America system allows users to eliminate the manual process of creating thumbnail and 72-dpi (dots per inch) view files; provides clients and service businesses with quality visuals of all job materials; allows companies to enter and search meta data, and provides on-line database capabilities to manage Web activities.

In addition, Enfocus has announced that its PitStop PDF technology for interactive editing and automated correction of PDF documents has been incorporated into the new Synapse solution from CreoScitex, a division of Creo Products Inc. Synapse is a new application that links the creative and production processes by enabling one-button creation of PDF files within the creative desktop environment.

Lastly, FUJIFILM Electronic Imaging Ltd.'s Celebrant Extreme Workflow tool, a PDF-enhanced version of the CelbraNT Plus workflow system that automates the production processes of creating and imposing print-optimized PDF for output to proof, film and plate, is now shipping with Enfocus Software PitStop technologies.

The AutoChooser customer base includes 100 newspapers and more than 700 automobile dealers; the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. AutoChooser has been available since 1997.

GMTI said that it would combine AutoChooser with its CarsPlus product line of its Celebro division. The deal includes the rights to the AutoChooser software, the attendant application service provider business, the facilities and the customer support operations. GMTI said the AutoChooser staff would join the company and remain in Scottsdale.

Pentawave said that it has sold the AutoChooser product line in order to "sharpen its focus" to build its IdealHire product. IdealHire is a recruitment system that has patented matching and ranking technology to enable job seekers and hiring managers to find one another.

Features include full support for SQL databases and a web browser-based content workflow management system, ASSET FLOW. The Asset family of tools is designed to meet the workflow requirements of publishing not only in print, but also on the Internet, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and WAP.

The new book aims to help technology professionals gain an understanding and perspective on areas related to multimedia computing ad communication while addressing the major issues and challenges in the design and management of multimedia information systems.

Combining Oakdale, Minn.-based Imation's advanced color technology with San Bruno, Calif.-based RealTimeImage's full resolution image-streaming, collaboration and color-management tools will result in the Imation Matchprint Virtual Proofing System, a hardware/software color proofing system that is designed to deliver accurate CMYK color to the monitor.

Designed to meet the needs of graphic arts, corporate and creative design professionals, the Imation Matchprint Virtual Proofing System enables high-end color-critical customers to accurately simulate Matchprint proofs in an application service provider model hosted by RealTimeImage. Use of Matchprint will result in time compression in advertising and print production, and can be customized to a client's specific workflow.

The annual trade show will feature more than 300 exhibitors displaying technology used from pre-press to post-production. The show floor also will be the locale for a new offering, learning labs devoted to such topics as wireless technology, mailroom management and ergonomics.

Speakers at NEXPO's planned sessions include NAA Chairman Orage Quarles III, publisher of the NEWS & OBSERVER in Raleigh, N.C., and NAA Vice Chairman William Dean Singleton, who is publisher of the DENVER POST and vice chairman, president and chief executive of MediaNews Group of Denver.

Marketplace technology delivers local and syndicated editorial content with display advertising, classifieds, business directory, featured advertisers/products and coupons in 15 of the most popular special section categories. Display and other advertising is converted to appear exactly as it did in print and is targeted to the same section and editorial content as it had been in print.

Its Courier software enables content creators to drag-and-drop image files for transmission to any PROLATUS-enabled printer-pre-press production facility globally, while the Expert software creates an original image file, allowing production experts to perform all image editing production processes.

Team ASA's Npwr Server, roughly the size of a small external drive box, offers native AppleShare connection over both TCP/IP and AppleTalk via a built-in gigabit ethernet interface. The new server can be used as a personal storage device, a personal Linux-based server or an Internet-attached storage server. Multiple Npwr Server units can be configured as scalable clustered servers.

X-Rite's Spectrofiler2 is designed to provide rapid measurement when integrated with systems such as Auto-Tracking Spectrophotometers. New features include enhanced security, measurement configuration capability and support for Aperture sizes, to name a few.

In addition, X-Rite is offering its 2001 Printing & Digital Imaging Instrument Trade-Up Promotional Program, which provides users of previous-generation X-Rite equipment, as well as owners of competitive instruments, credit toward the purchase of X-Rite's latest tools for color measurement control.

Lastly, new customers of X-Rite's DTP41 Autoscan Spectrophotometer will receive an in-box coupon redeemable for a free copy of ProfileCity's ChromaCatcher software, as well as a free custom profile from ProfileCity. The first 250 registered DTP41 Autoscan users can also add ProfileCity support by going to the Profile City web site and entering their serial number to obtain a certificate for a free copy of ChromaCatcher, as well as a free profile.