COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Feb. 13, 2002

Feb. 13, 2002
Vol. 8, No. 6

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BLANCHARD SYSTEMS INC.
This New Orleans-based supplier of pre-press systems has announced that it has partnered with Dot Hill Systems Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif., to provide the pre-press industry with storage area network (SAN) systems.

After testing, Dot Hill's SANnet storage systems have been certified as "best-of-breed" by Blanchard for its Vortex pre-press systems. Blanchard will recommend, resell and integrate SANnet into Vortex systems for its customers.

Dot Hill is on the Web at http://www.dothill.com/, while Blanchard is at http://www.blanchardsystems.com/.

CREO PRODUCTS INC.
This Vancouver, British Columbia-based supplier of graphic arts products has announced that it will move production of its Iris proofing products from Billerica, Mass., to its headquarters over the next year.

The company said that customer support and engineering would also move to the Vancouver area and that the move was part of Creo's worldwide cost-savings program. Between 100 and 120 regular full-time Iris employees will be affected by the move.

Creo has also introduced the newest version of its color profiling software, Profile Wizard Suite 2.1. This color technology insures that quality color information remains consistent from device to device during production. Profile Wizard 2.1 supports an open International Color Consortium (ICC) color workflow and automatically generates ICC profiles for printers, monitors, scanners and digital cameras.

Further, the company is introducing Profile Wizard Lite, a new entry-level profiling application. Targeted at the novice user, the Lite version allows the creation of profiles through a very easy-to-use interface, without editing capabilities.

Creo is on the Web at http://www.creo.com/.

CITYXPRESS CORP.
This Vancouver, British Columbia-based supplier of newspaper special section on-line and print content has announced that it has removed the "dot-com" from its name and will no longer be known as CityXpress.com Corp.

The decision was made at a recent board of directors meeting.

CityXpress is on the Web at http://www.cityxpress.com/.

ENFOCUS SOFTWARE INC.
This Belgian supplier of Portable Document Format (PDF) software with U.S. offices in San Mateo, Calif., has announced that DAL TC, the Dutch technical commission governing digital supply of data files, has chosen the Enfocus Certified PDF data file as a standard for digitally exchanging advertisements.

Those present at the DAL TC meeting included KVGO/OPPO, the section of the KVGO (Royal Union of Graphic Companies) representing the interests of pre-press and pre-publishing companies, the Nederlands Uitgevers Verbon (NUV -- Dutch Publishers' Union), the Groep Publiekstijdschriften (Popular Magazines group), and the Vereiniging van Erkende Reclameadviesbureaus and Union of Accredited Advertisement Bureau (VEA).

The company said this standardization means that it is possible to exchange PDF files between newspaper publishers, graphics companies and other advertising interests in a reliable and manageable way. In principle, this makes hard copies no longer needed, provided that the required color profiles are supplied at the same time.

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

GROUP LOGIC INC.
This Arlington, Va.-based supplier of Macintosh-to-Windows interoperability software has announced that Agfa Corp., provider of a variety of graphic arts systems, will resell Group Logic's ExtremeZ-IP software.

Because many printing and publishing businesses rely heavily on Macintosh workstations, Agfa will offer its customers the Macintosh-Windows file sharing services provided by ExtremeZ-IP. Windows 2000 Server offers only basic Macintosh support through its built-in SFM (Services for Macintosh) utility, and Windows 2000 Professional provides no Macintosh file sharing support.

Group Logic's ExtremeZ-IP is file and print server software that uses the TCP/IP protocol to increase throughput between Mac clients and Windows servers.

Agfa is on the Web at http://www.agfa.com/, while Group Logic is at http://www.grouplogic.com/.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS LLC
The REDDING (Calif.) RECORD SEARCHLIGHT (34k), the GALLUP (N.M.) INDEPENDENT (16k) and Suncoast News of New Port Richey, Fla., have recently installed products from Harris.

The RECORD SEARCHLIGHT has installed an AdPower classified advertising pagination system as an upgrade from its Harris 2100 classified pagination system.

The INDEPENDENT has upgraded its editorial system and installed database replication. The paper is now running on the NewsMaker 3.5 system and uses the Harris Data Center, which supports all file types, to replicate its database on a backup server.

Suncoast News, a division of the TAMPA TRIBUNE which publishes several weekly newspapers with a combined circulation of 130,000, is now live on Newsjaz, Harris' print-production element of the Jazbox group of products. Harris began the installation of the Adobe InDesign-based system in late September.

Harris, a division of MediaSpan Inc. of Research Triangle, N.C. that's based in Melbourne, Fla., is on the web at http://www.jazbox.com/.

KODAK POLYCHROME GRAPHICS
This Norwalk, Conn.-based supplier of printing technology has acquired the business assets of Tech Services International L.P. (TSI), a provider of technical service and support for print industry technologies. The new company, a wholly owned subsidiary of KPG, will be headquartered in Kennett Square, Pa.

KPG will maintain TSI as a separate company and KPG service organization employees will become employees of TSI, which will be a single source for a variety of technical services including contract and demand on-site services, spare parts and logistics, applications and color management support.

TSI is on the Web at http://www.tsiyes.com/, while KPG is at http://www.kpgraphics.com/.

LEXISNEXIS
Knight Ridder Digital, the interactive information subsidiary of Knight Ridder and founder and operator of the Real Cities Network, has formed an interactive-content alliance with LexisNexis, a provider of on-line business and legal information.

Through LexisNexis, Knight Ridder Digital is syndicating its content and LexisNexis users will have access to information from 17 Knight Ridder newspapers in 28 markets.

In a separate agreement, Knight Ridder newspapers and LexisNexis announced a new, centrally administered information services contract to enable Knight Ridder professionals access to the LexisNexis' on-line information.

Knight Ridder, of San Jose, is on the Web at http://www.kri.com/, while LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. based in Dayton, Ohio, is at http://www.lexisnexis.com/.

NANDO MEDIA
Ecofaith.com Inc. of Mount Vernon, N.Y., a technology provider offering Internet services, Web content and low-cost computers, has selected Nando Media's portal solution, Community Cornerstone.

Nando's turnkey Digital Workbench system, the backbone of Community Cornerstone and Direct2Local Business Directory systems, is a content management and editing system that pulls unformatted information from multiple databases, lets users manipulate content and web page templates, and streams news and information to clients' web sites in an automated, real-time production process.

Ecofaith will use Nando's Community Cornerstone main features which include an events calendar, weather forecasts, sports score and game statistics, lottery results, horoscopes, movie listings, a personal calendar and stock information.

Ecofaith is on the Web at http://www.ecofaith.net/, while Nando Media, a division of the McClatchy Co. of Sacramento based in Raleigh, N.C., is at http://www.nandomedia.com/.

PUBLISHING BUSINESS SYSTEMS INC.
Brown Publishing Co. of Cincinnati, owners of 15 daily newspaper and 44 paid and free weekly newspapers -- all in Ohio -- has licensed PBS' MediaPlus Circulation Management, Advertising Management, List Match, Transient Management, Financial Management and Human Resources products for all of its newspapers.

The system will be run in a clustered environment on a single server. Brown's daily papers in Ohio include the TROY DAILY NEWS (10k) and the GREENVILLE DAILY ADVOCATE (7k).

PBS, based in Barrington, Ill., is on the Web at http://www.pbs.com/.

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