The $12,000 DesignJet 75SCM printer can produce full-color, poster-size designs and presentations swiftly in sizes from 8.5 x 11 inches up to 3 x 9 feet. The cost per copy averages $10. The plug-and-play device comes equipped with an Adobe PostScript Level 2 raster image processor; an HP JetDirect card for connection to a Macintosh, PC or network, and 68 megabytes of RAM.

The Agfa FotoTune Color Management software matches color throughout the pre-press and printing process. With FotoTune, even novices are able to match colors from input (scanner, PhotoCD, digital camera) to output (printer, proofer, imagesetter, film recorder). For printing professionals, the software provides the high-end color technology they need, including soft and hard proofing.

In other Agfa product news, the company announced that its AgEa CristalRaster Technology, which features stochastic screening technology for PostScript jobs, has been released for the AccuSet imagesetter family.

The AccuSet implementation uses a 28 micron dot at 1800 dpi and a 31 micron dot at 2400 dpi, and is especially suited for applications using newsprint, uncoated and recycled stock, and coldset web offset printing. Agfa CristalRaster technology for AccuSet provides three pre-compensated screen sets for each micro dot size (28 and 31) and platemaking process (negative, positive), covering a broad range of press gain characteristics.

The Gazette Co. has developed a comprehensive database marketing system which will be integrated with the new circulation product from DSI of Silver Spring, Md. The system allows identification and demographic notation of each individual in a household (other systems stop at the household level).

-- Rapid Shoot, which allows photographers to take a series of pictures at 2.5-second intervals, compared to 15-second intervals with version 2.1 and earlier versions.

-- Auto Save, which if selected will automatically save each image as it's taken.

-- Auto ExportÑAuto Export, which will automatically export a photographer's DCB or DCB II images to a 24-bit format (such as Adobe PhotoShop, TIFF, EPS, etc.). The user also may elect to auto export to a CYMK format when used in conjunction with ColorShop.

-- Contact Sheet, which enables users to view, sort and compare images on the computer screen.

-- Limited support for AppleScript, which enables users to automate repeated functions.

Multi-Ad Creator is a leading display advertising layout program. Multi-Ad Search is an image database program for file retrieval and cataloging of as many as 160,000 files. The Art Essentials Package contains graphics and symbols, while Creator General and Seasonal Borders provides 200 borders. The upgrade package price for registered users of Creator 3.7 and Search 3.0 is only $195, and $295 for registered users of Creator 3.7 only.

In September, Multi-Ad shipped its upgrades for Creator 3.8 and Multi-Ad Search 3.1.

Creator 3.8 features an improved interface and a new commands palette for quick access to often-used commands. Creator is now compatible with the Adobe Acrobat 2.0 Distiller, allowing ads to be faxed electronically and printed to non-PostScript devices.

New features in Search 3.1 include improved native PowerPC support for cataloging TIFF, JPEG, GIF and Adobe Photoshop files, and thumbnail extraction from Quark XPress files.

Registered users of Creator 3.7 and Search 3.0 may buy the Creator 3.8 upgrade for $140, and Search 3.1 for $24.95 (plus $5 shipping and handling for each package). Upgrades are free to customers who purchased the software after July 1, 1995.

ColorRight PC for Windows 3.5 extends to Windows 95 all the powerful tools available in the previous version of ColorRight PC for Windows, for scanning transparent and reflective copy and color negatives into IBM and compatible PCs.

The new ColorRight scanning software operates with any Optronics ColorGetter scanner, including new "Turbo" versions of the 8128 dpi ColorGetter 3 models.

Features of ColorRight PC for Windows 3.5 include unattended batch scanning, unsharp masking "on-the-fly," interactive color gradation, correction and control features, and an on-line densitometer.

Optronics can be contacted through its recently opened site on the World-Wide Web, at http://www.ingr.com/optronics. Available are a company profile, product information, company press releases and articles and tutorials authored by company experts. The company also plans to use its new Web site to transmit software updates to customers.

The company's site resides on Intergraph Corporation's web server, an InterServe MP22 with dual Intel Pentium processors, running the Microsoft Windows NT operating system and Netscape Commerce Server software.

The target market comprises local newspapers and broadcasters in the process of setting up advertising-supported World-Wide Web sites. The new venture will help manufacturers structure co-op programs for local web media and help local media effectively serve the manufacturers' and retailers' needs.

An early goal of the venture will be to raise the visibility of local Web sites with key Web-savvy manufacturers, and establish market tests with local newspapers.

Tribune Media Services has previously announced a product line called WebPoint that will provide newspapers and broadcasters with editorial material that can be incorporated into local web sites.

X-Rite's DTP5 1 strip-reading colorimeter, 341 portable densitometer, 361T transmission densitometer and 361TRG transmission/color reflection densitometer have been chosen to monitor film, proof and print output quality for Faithful Color Reproduction solutions. All models will carry both the X-Rite and Faithful Color Reproduction brand names.

Users of 4-Sight iSDN Manager will be able to access the Internet over ISDN using 4-Sight PPP. The software will be supplied with an Internet browsing application as well as MacTCP, so starting up will require only an ISDN account set up with a local provider.

The 4-Sight QuickProof product was created to allow simultaneous on-screen proofing of a job at two locations. With 4-Sight iSDN Manager installed at agency and client sites, a document can be simultaneously viewed by both parties using an ISDN line for high-speed communications. The agency dials up the client, and screen-shares the document with the client site.

The client then has the ability to "mark up" the document by "drawing" with the mouse on the screen to illustrate any design changes that need to be made. The agency can then make those changes which are instantly transmitted to the client, refreshing the screen for verification.

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