Cole's Newswire, June 7, 1995

June 7, 1995
Vol. 1, No. 3

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Two newspapers in Asia and a U.S. chain have bought the AP Preserver digital archive system:

-- The SING PAO DAILY NEWS will archive about 700 photos a month in a system networked to the HONG KONG STANDARD and the SING PAO EVENING NEWS.

-- The 130,000-circulation SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST of Hong Kong has purchased an IBM RS/6000 server, Hewlett-Packard magneto optical drive, jukebox and RAID array in which it expects to store about 1400 photos a month.

-- The Tribune Co. of Chicago will install the AP Preserver at the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, FORT LAUDERDALE (Fla.) SUN-SENTINEL, ORLANDO SENTINEL and NEWPORT NEWS (Va.) DAILY PRESS. Storage needs range from 2000 images a month at the DAILY PRESS to 7000 a month at the TRIBUNE.

Another AP product, the AP News Camera 2000, has been sold to the CALGARY (Alberta) HERALD. The paper has been using two NC2000s for a year, and recently acquired two more.

ATEX PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
The WICHITA (Kan.) EAGLE and the GREENSHEET of Houston have contracted with Atex for Enterprise, its advertising sales and marketing system, as well as Atex pagination products. The contracts total $1.5 million. The GREENSHEET publishes at three sites, in Dallas, Houston and Austin, Texas. At 89 seats, its installation of Enterprise will be the largest in the United States. The Houston office will house 56 seats, with the remainder divided between Dallas and Austin.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp., installed or upgraded Apple Macintosh-based systems at 34 sites in January and February. Among the products sold or upgraded were WireManger, NewsEditPro, the Baseview Library System, QTools, CommLink, ClassFlow, QXEdit, DragX and ClassManager/Plus.

Newspapers receiving Baseview products included The ANOKA COUNTY UNION of Coon Rapids, Minn.; the ST. CROIX VALLEY PEACH of Forest Lake, Minn.; the GADSDEN (Ala.) TIMES and the FERNANDINA BEACH (Fla.) NEWS-LEADER.

COMPUTEXT INC.
Nine publishing companies have bought CompuClass classified front-end systems from Houston-based CompuText.

They are THE PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., 26 seats; the CONNECTICUT POST of Bridgeport, Conn., 20 seats; the GALVESTON (Texas) COUNTY DAILY NEWS, 12 seats; the LAREDO (Texas) MORNING TIMES, 5 seats; the NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI DAILY JOURNAL of Tupelo, Miss., 7 seats; the DAILY HERALD of Arlington Heights, Ill., 33 seats; the PALATKA (Fla.) DAILY NEWS, 3 seats; Press Publications Inc., 8 seats, and the CHICAGO HEIGHTS (Ill.) STAR, 22 seats.

DATA SCIENCES INC.
The DAILY AMERICAN REPUBLIC of Poplar Bluff, Mo., will install the UNIX-based Circulation Management Database Marketing/TMC systems from DSI. The 15,000-circulation evening paper also prints a 7,000-circulation TMC on Wednesdays. About 60 percent of its circulation is home-delivered.

DEADLINE DATA SYSTEMS
Three newspapers have received interfaces to Quark XPress from Deadline Data Systems:

-- Two Vermont papers, the RUTLAND HERALD and BARRE TIMES ARGUS now have interfaces between their Dewar System IV front-ends and Quark.

-- The DUNKIRK (N.Y.) EVENING OBSERVER has a new interface between Quark and its CText classified advertising system.

DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP.
DEC has been commissioned by the WICHITA (Kan.) EAGLE to replace its 13-year-old Atex editorial and classified front-ends. The $2.68 million contract calls for installation of a 100-seat DewarView editorial system, 50-seat Atex Enterprise advertising system, an imagesetting subsystem from Information International Inc. and the display ad makeup program MultiAd Creator from MultiAd Services Inc.

EDGIL ASSOCIATES INC.
The NEW YORK POST, AKRON (Ohio) BEACON JOURNAL and EL NUEVO DIA of San Juan, Puerto Rico, have purchased Edgil's EdgCapture software to automate credit card processing.

The BEACON JOURNAL also will have Edgil's new check drafting option, which permits customers to authorize direct payment for circulation charges and classified advertisements from their checking accounts.

FOLEY, TORREGIANI & ASSOCIATES INC.
This system integrator has completed installations at seven newspapers:

-- The TRENTON (N.J.) TRENTONIAN has installed two BIDCO imagesetters.

-- EL NUEVO DIA of San Juan, Puerto Rico, has installed two products from Northwood Publishing Systems, including NewsWire Manager.

-- Northwood's UTI (Universal Translation Interface) has been installed at the POUGHKEEPSIE (N.Y.) JOURNAL, AUSTIN (Texas) AMERICAN-STATESMAN and CANTON (Ohio) REPOSITORY.

-- The WILMINGTON (Del.) NEWS JOURNAL has installed an OPI system from Graphic Enterprises of Ohio.

-- The TORRINGTON (Conn.) REGISTER CITIZEN has installed an Ultre imagesetter.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
Three newspapers have upgraded their Harris pagination and related products.

-- The HUNTSVILLE (Ala.) TIMES bought Harris' XP-21 Page Server, upgrades of several 8000 workstations and display ad and classified pagination software.

-- The NAPLES (Fla.) DAILY NEWS has acquired several pagination components as well as a Harris Vantage Image Archive System.

-- THE OREGONIAN of Portland, Ore., has upgraded its XP-21 system by adding Harris' Replicated Server Database software, classified pagination and additional 2100 workstations.

JOHN JULIANO COMPUTER SERVICES CO.
The DAILY JOURNAL of Kankakee, Ill., has installed four copies of Atan EXPRESS and begun production of paginated pages in Quark XPress. EXPRESS is used as a bridge between the DAILY JOURNAL's Atex front-end and its network of Apple Macintosh workstations, allowing reporters and editors to continue to work as they always have on their familiar Atex terminals.

SOFTWARE CONSULTING SERVICES
In concert with Xitron Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., SCS has installed a 200-seat front-end production system at DIARIO EL PAIS in Montevideo, Uruguay. SCS products include SCS/Layout-8000, SCS/Edit-8000 and SCS/Pagination. EL PAIS can record four broadsheet pages a minute on either film or paper through three kinds of imagesetters.

In a U.S. installation, the FORT LAUDERDALE (Fla.) SUN-SENTINEL was SCS's first customer to receive version 7.5 of SCS/AdTrack, a deadline database that allows a user to monitor work in progress and assign tasks to individuals or groups.

T/ONE INC.
Two British Columbia papers owned by Pacific Press are using T/ONE's Merlin system for graphics archiving.

The VANCOUVER SUN and THE PROVINCE, pioneers in digital photography (they are phasing out all use of film) have installed a dual-Pentium Merlin Archive System with a 10 gigabyte RAID array, 100 CD jukebox and a CD-ROM mastering station.

The system, which incorporates a FoxPro database for multiple high-speed searches, is licensed for use by up to nine concurrent users. The newspapers say they expect to archive about 1,500 images used each week, as well as hundreds of photos captured by their digital cameras that have potential for future use or sales.

Other recent purchasers of the Merlin archive system include the BOSTON GLOBE, WASHINGTON POST, RICHMOND (Va.) TIMES-DISPATCH, NORFOLK (Va.) VIRGINIAN-PILOT, EDMONTON (Alberta) JOURNAL and NEW STRAITS TIMES of Kuala, Lumpur, Malaysia.

Recent purchasers of T/ONE's TRAX photo assignment tracking application include the VIRGINIAN-PILOT and NEW YORK TIMES.

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