The magazine, which has been designed by Danilo Black Inc. of New York City, was created jointly by Mexico's Grupo Editorial Televisa, part of the Spanish language-media company and publisher of more than 45 magazines, and Nobel prize-winning author and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The new scanner offers features including a maximum scanning speed of 10 to 13 seconds per frame (35mm or APS), optical resolution of 2720 dots per inch, 12-bit RGB input and output, and the ability to accept slides or negatives, color or black-and-white.

Software bundled with the scanner includes Adobe Photoshop 5.0 LE, CanoCraft FSU and CanoCraft FSU Copy for Windows 98/Me/2000, and Plug-in Module FSU for G3 and G4 Power Macintosh computers with built-in USB ports.

The new system will have 250 concurrent user licenses. The installation will be the first time the company has fully integrated the Escenic web content management system.

Also, this Danish supplier of publishing systems has recently moved into a new headquarters building in Aarhus, Denmark. The new 16,300-square-meter (175,452-square-foot) building features an open staircase, atrium and terrace, cafe areas, a theater with seating for 150, state-of-the-art meeting rooms and training facilities, and an advanced security system.

The facility includes enough space for 600 workers and provides them with a gymnasium as well as social facilities.

Multi Service, of Overland Park, Kan., will offer to its card-issuing customers Clickshare's platform for multisite, privacy-protected digital-content purchasing. It will use the service on its own consumer web sites. Clickshare will offer Multi Service's transaction-processing services to content providers and other partners.

The TORONTO STAR archive contains more than 2.3 million page images, representing about two terabytes of information -- the equivalent of about 1.4 million 3.5-inch floppy disks.

The archive consists of more than 30,000 editions of the STAR, including thousands of photos and political cartoons. Users of the database will be able to search by millions of unique terms and phrases that have been indexed in the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process.

The STAR expects to make the page archive available to the public later this fall.

CreoScitex said other recent Italian newspaper purchasers of the TrendSetter NEWS devices include MESSAGGERO VENETO (62k) of Udine, which purchased two.

The system is designed to predict single copy sales needs and to eliminate stock-outs and returns. Demantra and the AMERICAN-STATESMAN have been through a proof-of-concept phase, which led to this agreement.

For these associations, whose combined annual billings exceed $100 million and represent almost 1000 newspapers, AdPlus will provide newspaper advertisers with a one-order/one-bill environment. This system will support space reservation, invoicing, agency commission management and newspaper payments.

The company also said that it had recently completed a transaction with THE NEWS-TRIBUNE (19k) of LaSalle, Ill. The AdPlus system will support the daily paper and three weeklies -- ILLINOIS AGRINEWS, INDIANA AGRINEWS and COUNTRYNEWS.

The Wilson and Horton papers include Auckland City's NEW ZEALAND HERALD (250k), the CHRISTCHURCH STAR (121k), Hastings' HAWKE'S BAY TODAY (30k), Tauranga's BAY OF PLENTY TIMES (23k), Rotorua's DAILY POST (13k) and almost 40 other daily and weekly titles.

The HERALD is an existing MediaCommand customer; an additional 150 seats will be added throughout Wilson and Horton.

The company will be using MediaCommand's CyberNews, CyberPage and Edition Builder software, together with its patented LayoutXpert software to produce all of the group's publications. All sites will be connected via a wide area network through to a single server in Wilson and Horton's headquarters in Auckland.

In addition, Wilson and Horton will be adding 50 concurrent licenses for Software Construction Co.'s Media Server and Media Grid software for image management and text, image and page archives. MediaCommand represents Software Construction Co. of Atlanta in the Asia/Pacific market.

A pioneer in color reproduction, the TIMES for many years used ink-jet printers for its digital proofing and developed its own ICC profiles for the HP2000 printer. Last year, the paper began using SeeColor Computer-to-Proof software to better meet the needs of its advertisers.

Broadsheet page proofs produced on newsprint using SeeColor's proofing system are comparable to traditional press proofs, but can be produced more quickly and less expensively. In addition, SeeColor's ColorLoop printer linearization software assures consistent, accurate proofs from printer-to-printer and print-site to print-site.

The service will allow organizations with multiple partners and/or locations to easily track, store, archive and manage their projects and complex production processes collaboratively within a digital environment.

Using WAM!NET's global data and application hosting services, and Zuma's software architecture design and application development expertise, the companies' joint offering will make available SmarTrack 2.0, Zuma's project tracking software application, and WAM!NET's remote, on-line data storage and archive service, via WAM!NET's global network.

SmarTrack 2.0 is a collaborative software application that provides on-line production management designed specifically for print providers and print buyers. The software automates and streamlines basic and complex production processes, such as the creation of job specifications, job editing, upload and download of project files, job tracking and e-mail notification. The product is available on an outsourced subscription basis