The conversion from film to all-digital photography will be completed by spring at both the VANCOUVER SUN, a 211,150-circulation morning daily, and THE PROVINCE, a 169,000-circulation morning daily.

The papers' owner, Pacific Press, a division of Southam Newspapers, purchased an NC 2000 for each paper in summer 1994. The digital cameras were used to cover the Commonwealth Games in Victoria, B.C., the Grey Cup championship game of the Canadian Football League and other assignments.

Both papers are using the NC 2000s at National Hockey League games, with third-period action photos now making editions of both papers.

AP and Eastman Kodak each contributed photographic, technical and engineering resources to the project. AP wrote the news application specifications; Kodak designed and built the camera.

AP, of New York, is the worldwide distributor of the NC 2000, which it is selling to member newspapers, subscribers and other customers.

The camera's light platform, a Nikon N90s body, has standard controls and lenses, and a large viewfinder. It shoots two frames per second in bursts of up to six exposures. The camera's larger, more sensitive imager (12-bit dynamic range) allows images to be captured in low-light situations.

The NC 2000's compact, removable storage drive holds more than 75 images and pops out for replacement, allowing a photographer to keep shooting. The drive is inserted in a photo transmitter for transmission by phone or satellite.

The JOURNAL AMERICAN in Bellevue, Wash., the largest Horvitz paper with morning circulation of 35,000, will install the Atex Enterprise advertising system and Classified Pagination.

Classified and retail ad order entry will be done on 25 Windows-based Pentium PC workstations with dual RS/6000 C10 servers running a Sybase relational database. Classified pages will be laid out on two IBM RS/6000 Power PC workstations.

The ad entry system also will be used by the VALLEY DAILY NEWS, a 33,000-circulation morning daily in Kent, Wash., as well as three Horvitz weeklies in the Bellevue area.

At the PENINSULA DAILY NEWS in Port Angeles, Wash., Atex of Bedford, Mass. will install the DewarView editorial system on 14 workstations for reporters and editors, and five pagination workstations. An Enterprise advertising system for the 15,000-circulation morning daily will comprise eight workstations and will interface to Atex Classified Pagination.

For integration of editorial images and ads, Atex will install the Archetype InterSep OPI server.

In Maryville, Tenn., Atex also will install DewarView at the MORNING DAILY TIMES. The system for the 20,000-circulation daily includes 15 editorial workstations and four pagination workstations, with an Archtype OPI server.

Publishers Press is a printing company with roughly 400 monthly titles. Last fall, it approached Ross Periodicals, the publisher of SPORTS CAR INTERNATIONAL, about conducting live computer-to-plate tests. After three months of start-up work, Publishers Press produced 84 editorial and ad pages for the May issue of SPORTS CAR INTERNATIONAL entirely computer-to-plate.

Pleased with the test's results, Publishers Press bought the two Autologic imagers intending to convert more of the periodicals its prints to computer-to-plate from the Thousand Oaks, Calif. company.

Autologic's APS-Platemaster has an image area of 32 x 42 inches. It accommodates 8-up size offset printing plates, suitable for sheet-fed or web presses, black-and-white or color. Imaging may be done at four resolution levels, from 1270 to 3810 dots per inch.

When configured with Autologic's APS-Escort On-Line Processor, the system becomes fully automated and can be operated in daylight conditions. The platesetters are driven by two high-speed APS-SoftPIP/NT RIPs.

DataFlow is a print media production system that manages all data, tracks database elements, and provide informational reports.

It consists of Cascade database file server software running with a Sybase relational database on Sun Microsystems workstations and Sun's UNIX operating system. The package includes software from the Andover, Mass. company for Macintosh and PC client workstations that permits access to the DataFlow database.

Whetmore & Co. commercial printing in Dallas and Olan Mills of Chattanooga, Tenn., are recent purchasers of ImageFlow Plus Systems. The system includes the functionality of ImageFlow OPI and output management, adding the power of a Sybase SQL compliant database.

ImageFlow is a pre-press production control system that provides "pre-flight checking" for PostScript output to most types of imagesetters and proofing devices. ImageFlow includes full OPI server support, along with intelligent spooling and queuing for output management.

ImageFlow also runs on Sun platforms.

The TIMES plans to install 1600 copies of Decade, 1100 in-house and 500 at remote sites.

Decade/33 for the PC and Decade/Mac for the Apple Macintosh are software applications that emulate functions of System/55 Coyote terminals while providing full access to PC and Mac applications.

Decade communicates with the host system via the FTM/XTM controllers, a terminal server or a TCU. The software provides two windows, Edit 1 and Edit 2, that correspond to the left and right screens on a Coyote.

Decade also can dynamically interface to other applications on the same platform. An interface to Digital Technology International's editorial database is in beta testing. Other interfaces developed or planned would link to Harris pagination systems as well as to Microsoft Word and Works, ABDEX and Quark XPress.

At the EVENING OBSERVER, a 15,000-circulation daily in Dunkirk, N.Y., Deadline Data installed an XPress interface for the paper's CText classified advertising system. The Xtags interface converts CText formatting commands into their XPress equivalents.

The software preserves all CText line endings, and translates page elements such as classification headers and boxed ads into XPress text and picture box commands.

The DT system was installed in August 1993, with training on the AdSpeed advertising system beginning the same month. Training on the ClassSpeed classified advertising system began in October 1993.

By January 1994 the GAZETTE was running live on the ad and classified systems and training began on the editorial and pagination system. The balance of 1994 was spent in overall implementation with a final goal of 100% pagination.

By mid-January 1995 -- earlier than originally planned -- the GAZETTE began outputting full pages to negative.

The ROANOKE (Va.) TIMES & WORLD-NEWS shut down its SII System/55 in February, completing its conversion to Digital Technology International's (DT's) SpeedWriter, PageSpeed, and SpeedPlanner client software running on off-the-shelf Macintosh computers, and DT's SQL database server software on Sun SPARCstation servers.

The TIMES & WORLD-NEWS paginates news and classified. Ads will be paginated later in 1995 after the addition of DT's Graphics database.

The TIMES & WORLD-NEWS installed the DT editorial and pagination system in May 1993, and later agreed to be a beta site for version 3.1.

The paper is currently running DT's databased-centered publishing software in its editorial, advertising and classified departments.

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