COLE'S NEWSWIRE, July 17, 2002

July 17, 2002
Vol. 8, No. 24

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BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
This Ann Arbor-based supplier of publishing systems technology has said that it did business with more than 50 customers in February and more than 40 customers in March.

The RUIDOSO (N.M.) NEWS (7k weekly) has purchased both advertising and editorial from Baseview, one of 25 sites going live with the company's software in February. Twenty-six other sites used Baseview Internet Technology Services and its UPICKEM college basketball tournament game.

The NEWS installed six NewsEditPro workstations, three pagination stations (including DragX and QTools) and one each of AdManagerPro for classified advertising and ClassFlow. The News is also using Baseview's Accounts Receivable module.

Another of the 52 February customers was the CANANDAIGUA (N.Y.) DAILY MESSENGER (14k), which went live on nine AdManagerPro workstations.

In March, the publishing company Janssenpers Rotatiedruk in Gennep, the Netherlands, installed 12 NewsEditPro IQue workstations as well as four pagination stations (QTools and DragX). The publisher has eight ProductionManagerPro workstations and is also using IQue Server, AdGrabber, AdMaker, Transporter IQue and Baseview's Mail In/Out plug-in.

The QUINCY (Ill.) HERALD-WHIG (24k) also installed ProductionManagerPro on 12 workstations in March for ad-tracking and asset management.

Baseview Products is a subsidiary of MediaSpan Group Inc., a media technology company based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., and is on the Web at http://www.baseview.com/.

BRAINWORKS SOFTWARE
This provider of newspaper advertising, billing, pagination and editorial systems for North America, has announced that Lionheart Newspapers of Plano, Texas, has licensed a 200-workstation installation of Brainworks Classified Advertising, Display Advertising, Editorial, Pagination and Sales Force Automation products for all of their daily and weekly publications. Lionheart will be implementing its newspapers in a clustered server environment.

Lionheart publishes 70 daily and weekly newspapers from three clustered operations: DFW Community Newspapers located in Plano, Sun Publications of Kansas City, Kansas and Minnesota Sun Publications of Eden Prairie, Minn. Total circulation of all products reaches more than 815,000 households in the three markets.

Brainworks, based in Sayville, N.Y., is on the Web at http://www.brainworks.com/.

EASYPRESS TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
Documentum, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM), and Easypress have announced an alliance to deliver an out-of-box integration between the Documentum ECM platform and Quark XPress. The integration, based on Easypress Technologies' Atomik product, enables Quark XPress-created design content to be easily deployed to other forms, such as web pages, as well as the sharing and reuse of XPress content throughout an organization. It also gives XPress users access to content stored in the Documentum repository.

The integration lets XPress users convert a publication into eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and export it to the Documentum repository. The XPress-created content is then automatically indexed and stored.

Through Documentum's ECM capabilities, non-XPress users can search, access and export components of XPress-created content, such as graphics or text, combine it with other content and repurpose it for other uses. XPress users can also search and export XML and other content from Documentum into an XPress-created layout or publication.

Documentum, based in Pleasanton, Calif., is on the Web at http://www.documentum.com, while EasyPress, based in London, is at http://www.easypress.com/.

ENFOCUS SOFTWARE INC.
This publisher of Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) tools has expanded its distribution agreement with Ingram Micro Inc., a global wholesale provider of technology products and supply chain management services, for distribution of Enfocus' suite of PDF solutions in North America.

The latest Enfocus Software PDF Workflow systems will now also be available through Ingram Micro's Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) Service. The ESD program enables Ingram Micro's resellers to deliver, electronically, software products directly to customers. With ESD Service, participating resellers give their customers the ability to access and search Ingram's electronic library of software solutions, buy any on-line, and then download them.

Ingram Micro Inc., based in Santa Ana, Calif., is on the Web at http://www.ingrammicro.com/corp/, while Enfocus, which is based in Belgium with U.S. offices in San Mateo, Calif., is at http://www.enfocus.com/.

KNIGHT RIDDER DIGITAL
This operator of the Real Cities network of local media Web sites has announced a strategic partnership with Digital Education Technologies Corp. of Los Angeles.

Knight Ridder Digital will use Digital Education's interactive on-line education solutions and e-learning offerings to introduce a co-branded Real Cities Education Channel, featured on KRD owned Real Cities sites and some affiliate sites such as the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS.

Under the agreement, Digital Education is providing Knight Ridder Digital with a variety of educational content, including Digital Education's Interactive Campus, which houses a full library of courses in hundreds of practical subjects for business executives, students and children. The content also includes distance-learning news and career advice.

In another announcement, KRD and Udate.com Inc., of New York City, the on-line personals group providing dating and matchmaking services, have agreed to a co-branded content relationship through which KRD will develop a new personals channel within the Real Cities Classifieds Channel. Knight Ridder Digital will create a co-branded version of uDate.com for KRD's Real Cities sites and affiliate sites.

uDate.com brings together singles based on preferences provided by the user. Once two people are "matched," they can communicate via uDate.com's service, Whispers, or via the uDate.com e-mail system. Users can browse the service for free; those who want to participate further can choose from several fee-based programs.

Digital Education is on the Web at http://www.digitaleusa.com/, while Knight Ridder Digital is at http://www.knightridderdigital.com/.

MONACO SYSTEMS INC.
This provider of color management technology has announced the release of MonacoPROFILER 4.0, an ICC profiling application. MonacoPROFILER 4.0 now offers support for LCD flat panel displays; profiling of digital cameras using the GretagMacbeth ColorChecker DC Color Reference Chart and support for true multi-ink (5-6-7-8 color) profiles, including Pantone Hexachrome.

MonacoPROFILER is an ICC color management system that implements Monaco Systems' color technology, which licensed by Xerox, Polaroid, Gerber Scientific, Pantone, ColorSpan and other original equipment manufacturing (OEM) clients.

Monaco is based in Andover, Mass., and is on the Web at http://www.monacosys.com/.

PROIMAGE AMERICA INC.
Trinity Mirror plc., publishers of the DAILY MIRROR (2m) and the MIRROR ON SUNDAY (2m) as well as other national and regional titles in the United Kingdom, has ordered a browser-based NewsWay workflow automation system as a part of its move to computer-to-plate (CTP) automation.

NewsWay has been selected to manage the workflow between Trinity Mirror's Canary Wharf, London, editorial production offices, the offices several of other Trinity Mirror regional newspapers as well as several contract customer sites, and the Mirror Colour Print (MCP) print sites in Watford, Oldham and Cardonald (outside Glasgow). About 3000 plates will be produced per night.

Output will be to the 10 recently ordered Krause LS Jet platemaking lines and to an existing Agfa Polaris CTP machine for fully digital daily, Sunday and regional newspapers at the Mirror Colour Print sites.

NewsWay will be used to manage edition pre-planning, adding variable page furniture including bar codes, imposition, scheduling, transmission and load balancing on the CTP machines. The page file format used is PDF. However after the page pairs are RIPed (using Harlequin RIPs) Newsway will transmit TIFF files. The ProImage NewsWay workflow servers and the Krause Autoloader Control Terminal are to be connected in one network, exchanging production status information with the MCP-developed MIS system.

ProImage, based in Israel with subsidiaries in London and Princeton, N.J., is on the Web at http://www.newsway.com/.

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