Agfa will supply a full computer-to-plate (CTP) turnkey operation for the pre-press section of the new facility. The $220 million facility is scheduled to produce its first print products later this year, and will be fully operational by mid-2002.

Marcus Technology develops rich-media tools for marketing supply-chain automation including pre-press, printing, publishing and product packaging activities. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The ad order entry and production system will include Atex Architect for publication design and ad placement, the newly released Enterprise IAR for processing accounts receivable, and Atex On Line Advertising, which permits advertisers to book both print and web ads via the Internet.

While most of the servers and 32 workstations will be installed at PRIMEDIA's New York City production offices, Atex database administrators in Bedford will remotely manage the system's operations over the Internet.

CCI NewsDesk BaseLine streamlines the editorial process from story creation to final publication, on-line and in print. The system allows for a number of customization options even though it is based on a predefined workflow and preconfigured system integration.

InSite enables packaging printers/converters and trade shops to provide their customers with the ability to submit compressed, encrypted files and forms via the Internet, check job status, perform remote proofing, and approve or reject forms.

InSite also allows Prinergy Powerpack users to collaborate on-line by viewing the full resolution production data. Participants located anywhere in the world can simultaneously view files or forms, take measurements, annotate content, and view each other's annotations while chatting simultaneously.

Currently, the DISPATCH is using three systems in production and archiving. Two Associated Press (AP) Preservers are used for photos, graphics production and archiving, and a MediaStream SAVE system is used for archiving text. Eventually, the DISPATCH will migrate more than 300,000 photos, 8000 graphics and 16 years of text to the new system.

NewsCom's user interface allows subscribers to quickly search across all information providers and through a broad range of content types, including photos, graphics, illustrations, cartoons, caricatures, paginated pages and interactive content.

NewsCom distributes content from Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Allsport, Getty Images, ZUMA, Tribune Media Services, Knight Ridder/Tribune, MexSport, New York Times Syndicate, Washington Post Writers Group, New York Times News Service, KRT, EFE and UPI.

Salient Stills' VideoFOCUS 1.3 supports the input of both PAL and NTSC video formats and the output of IPTC headers with images and uses IEEE 1394 ports (also known as Apple Firewire or Sony i-Link) to transfer this data directly into the system.

The Corbis/WAM!NET royalty-free system brings together WAM!NET's global managed network, data storage and hosting services with more than 25,000 photo images from the Corbis Royalty-Free Image Collection.

The new subscription-based service provides global, 24-hour access to Corbis' collection via either an Internet or direct connection to WAM!NET's global managed network and centralized, off-site storage service for digital assets.

Each annual subscription, billed on a monthly basis, also includes a private on-line WAM!NET storage services library, allowing a customer to store and archive frequently used images and other digital content. Library sizes vary from 5 gigabytes to 15 gigabytes, depending upon the subscription chosen.

WAM!NET also announced its selection by THE ECONOMIST to provide network connectivity between its London-based publishing center and seven print sites in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Holland and the United States.