-- Autologic has become an authorized reseller of Ethernet switches and 100Base-T repeater and adapter products from Grand Junction Networks Inc. of Fremont, Calif. Grand Junction makes high-performance networks for color publishing; the agreement gives Autologic high-speed LAN solutions.

-- Autologic has released software upgrades for its APS-100 Graphics Integrators and APS-200 Graphics Integrators and OPI Servers. Among the enhancements: support of larger file systems and DCS 2.0; faster networks; an improved graphical user interface, and support for color TIF files and JPEG compression.

-- Six orders have been filled for the APS-Platemaster, a computer-to-plate imagesetter. Commercial printers buying the output device were Colorimmetry of Illinois, American Trucker of Indiana, Publisher's Press of Kentucky, Hutchinson Co. of Pennsylvania, Quebecor Printing of Tennessee and Horticultural Printers Inc. of Texas.

Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif., said Macintosh users of Adobe's image-editing application for desktop publishing, and users of applications that support the Photoshop plug-in architecture, now will be better able to use the color management capabilities of Apple's ColorSync 2.0.

The plug-ins ensure predictable color throughout the prepress process by giving users access to ColorSync 2.0 within Photoshop by acquiring and exporting images to and from different device color spaces. ColorSync 2.0 will also plug into the Filter menu, making the monitor display a more accurate representation of the original image.

The plug-ins -- which support RGB and CMYK separations, and the TIF format -- are available free of charge to end-users via AppleLink, eWorld and Apple's Mac OS home page http://www.austin.apple.com/macos.

The plug-ins are also available to developers for licensing. The plug-ins are compatible with Photoshop 2.5.1 and later, and work on both Macintosh and Power Macintosh systems.

The agreement provides customers of both companies with a way to access structured and unstructured information through one interface, combining the strengths of full-text and relational database technologies.

Total Recall is a specialized application programming interface which allows an RDBMS and 4GL to link with Dataware Technologies management system, BRS/Search.

Nearly 100 Total Recall applications have been installed worldwide, including systems for document management, regulatory compliance, news/photo archives for newspapers, litigation support for law firms and corporate counsel, and intelligence systems for government agencies and corporations.

Total Recall customers include Amdahl, Andersen Consulting, British Gas, Data General, Eastern Electricity, Ford Motor Company, and the Ohio Education Association.

DPS Typecraft, based in Basildon, England, supplies and integrates publishing software from Digital Technology International of Orem, Utah, to many of the U.K.'s newspaper groups.

The agreement with DPS Typecraft will give Tandem an entry into provincial newspapers that already are DPS Typecraft customers, as well as providing an open systems software upgrade path for users of older, proprietary systems from System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento, Calif.

DPS Typecraft also announced the sale of a L2.6 million pre-press system to the BIRMINGHAM POST AND MAIL, which is based on DT database technology operating on dual Tandem UNIX database servers. The installation encompasses 380 networked Macintosh users in advertising and editorial, including the House of Commons for the group's parliamentary and lobby correspondents.

For more information about DT, its World-Wide Web home page is at: http://www.dtint.com.

For the three months ended September 30, 1995, Triple-I had systems sales topping $8 million and total revenues of $10,765,353, up from $9,070,737 in the 1994 third quarter. Net income for the 1995 quarter was $893,624, as opposed to a loss of $1,468,079 in 1994.

So far in 1995, Triple-I has reported a net loss of $549,076, whereas it recorded net income of $1,561,977 through the first nine months of 1994. The year-to-date loss from continuing operations was $292,000, as compared to operating income from continuing operations of $27,000 for the same period in the prior year.

Revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 1995, totaled $27,435,477, down from $30,964,886 for the first nine months of 1994. (A gain on sale of real estate in 1994 brought in $2,832,000.)

Earnings per share for the quarter equaled 35 cents; in 1994, Triple-I recorded a loss of 62 cents per share on continuing and discontinued operations.

Triple-I also had more shares outstanding in 1995, 2,531,162, up from 2,383,526 in 1994's third quarter. The per-share loss for the 1995 third quarter was 23 cents; net income of 66 cents per share was reported in 1994.

Manuel Marrero, Triple-I's chief financial officer, said the company was headed into the fourth quarter -- and the planned merger with Autologic Inc. of Thousand Oaks, Calif. -- with working capital of $11,165,000 and cash of $6,995,000.

Users of its predecessor, ALS 1.5, who purchased that product within the last six months were automatically upgraded. The fully scriptable new ALS 2.0 is accelerated for Power Macintosh, and provides advanced conflict management, editioning and bookings to its ad dummying prowess.

Managing Editor also announced these installations:

-- BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN, Bakersfield, Calif.: ALS with Bookings

-- California Community News, Costa Mesa, Calif.: ALS

-- Taunton Press, Newton, Conn.: Magazine Layout System (MLS)

-- IOWA CITY PRESS CITIZEN, Iowa City, Iowa: ALS

-- OAKLAND PRESS, Pontiac, Mich.: ALS

-- MESABI DAILY NEWS, Virginia, Minn.: Classified Layout System (CLS)

-- VALLEY NEWS, West Lebanon, N.H.: ALS

-- NEWS & OBSERVER, Raleigh, N.C.: Multiple ALS with Editions and Bookings

-- THE HERALD, Everett, Wash.: ALS with Bookings

-- TORONTO SUN, Toronto, Canada: CLS

-- INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, Paris, France: ALS

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