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Contact: Phil Rose, PrePRESS SOLUTIONS philip.rose@prepress.pps.com

Compatible with Apple's ColorSync 2.0, ColorBlind can acquire images from any input device and print to any output device with dependable, consistent color fidelity.

ColorBlind engines are programmable to a specific color profile, allowing the user to better control the linking environment for more accurate color conversions, such as RGB to CYMK, for all printing conditions and devices.

The programming, to be available through AP members via the World-Wide Web, will provide continuously updated coverage of the day's top news and special events in a multimedia format combining text, photos, graphics, audio and video. Access to AP text archives also is planned as part of the service, the New York-based news cooperative said

The new AP Multimedia Services department is directed by James Kennedy, who has been business news editor for seven years. Ruth Gersh, who has been assistant to the president, will be editor. Mark Berns, director of product development in AP's Communications and Technology Department, will be multimedia technology manager. Hank Ackerman, a general executive in AP's Newspaper Membership Department, will be director of marketing. The staff will work at AP headquarters in New York.

AP news and photos have previously been available for electronic reuse by members, and tailored wires have been provided for commercial databases. The new product does not affect these services. Kennedy said AP members could use the new programming as a supplement to locally developed content, and that it could be locally branded or co-branded with AP if members chose to do so.

The first level of the new service will be available in the first quarter of next year; access to archives would be added later in the year. Rates have not been determined, Kennedy said

Cascade's American headquarters is in Andover. Its office in Miami serves Latin America, while offices in London and Needham Market, England, serve the United Kingdom and Europe.

The new office is located at 650 Town Center Drive, Suite 1920, Costa Mesa, CA 92626; phone (714) 751-6856.

Javelin allows third-party applications to browse, search, retrieve, store, catalog and archive any type of file Ñ- text, graphics, ads or pages. When placing text and graphics files into a page layout program, the database links the original file to the layout and protects it. Several people can be working on different page elements simultaneously.

Users see Javelin as one of their desktop applications, for connect them to DT's database. Javelin supports the use of AppleScripting within applications for the execution of database functions. Javelin's archive is controlled by the SQL database; DT does not rely on a pointer system to locate data on a file server; the data are in the database.

The Javelin database system includes the Javelin client software, DT Database server software, Sybase SQL Server software, SpeedDriver database OPI software, and a suite of AppleScript programs for third-party software interaction. Javelin is compatible with most popular desktop publishing applications.

Optional items include data migration software for jukebox storage devices, and SpeedLink software for legacy editorial system interfaces (such as SII or Atex). Javelin client software is currently available for 68k and PowerPC Macintosh computers running system 7.5 or higher, with 16 megabyte of RAM and 10 to 15 megabytes of free hard disk space.

Digital Technology also has announced these recent system installs and upgrades:

-- GRAND JUNCTION (Colo.) DAILY SENTINEL (30k evening), upgraded system to version 4.1, added Javelin client software, DT's Pagination Database and WAN Database.

-- MUNCIE (Ind.) STAR (29k morning) and MUNCIE EVENING PRESS (13k evening), expansion with 10 SpeedWriter, nine PageSpeed and nine SpeedPlanner work stations; graphics database and a SQL User Package with DT's Classified Reports Model.

-- DAYTON (Ohio) DAILY NEWS (171k morning), expansion with pagination and WAN databases; upgrades of editorial, pagination and ad systems to version 4.1; addition of three AdSpeed, 46 SpeedWriter reporter, six PageSpeed and eight Speed Planner work stations.

-- LONGVIEW (Texas) NEWS-JOURNAL (29k morning), upgrades to editorial, pagination, and ad systems to version 4.1, adding DT's pagination and WAN databases.

-- LUFKIN (Texas) DAILY NEWS (15k evening), added ad database and SpeedDriver, DT's OPI server.

Trapper is an object-based trapping application that enables users to specify object-to-object traps, unlike rectangular zone trapping applications. Users can change text or move objects on a page after a trap is executed. Trapper also offers a fully-automated batch process which can accept pages from a number of sources, including Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand.

Trapper also can remove traps created in source files, then replace them with traps according to specifications; automatically trap EPS and nested EPS graphics; support Quark XPress bleeds automatically, and convert all spot colors to process colors, in an unlimited number of spot inks.

Trapper -- which is available in English, French German, Italian and Spanish -- requires a Macintosh with 34 megabyte RAM, 500 megabyte hard-disk space and System 7.5.l. DK&A is offering Trapper for $2,995 for a limited time. Included is a free upgrade to Version 2.2.

Topaz Robot's trilinear CCD scans 3 x 6000 pixels to digitize 20 images per hour at 3800 dpi, with interpolated resolution to 8150 dpi. Five containers of five lockable cassettes each hold either reflective or transparency originals in the Robot system. (Larger originals can be scanned manually.) Slides can be scanned while mounted.

Older Topaz models can be given an upgrade to Robot.

More than 1,500 Topaz scanners have been sold in the first year on the market.

The site details NewsBank's information resources and its Readex line of academic information products. NewsBank provides information products and curriculum materials to schools, libraries, and research centers worldwide.

Subscribers to the five Alameda papers -- the OAKLAND TRIBUNE, HAYWARD DAILY REVIEW, FREMONT ARGUS, PLEASANTON TRI-VALLEY HERALD and ALAMEDA TIMES STAR -- will be able to dial in around the clock to check account balances, suspend delivery during vacations, register service errors and request missed papers be replaced. The system also will be used to make calls to verify missed papers have been delivered, and early next year, a second program will call new subscribers to verify delivery has started.

Alameda has shifted 10 to 15 phone workers to other duties in the months since the system was installed. (At the STAR TRIBUNE in Minneapolis, the staff count has dropped from 120 to 80 with the addition of a 19-line voice processing system from Spanlink and AT&T. The STAR TRIBUNE system currently does the work of 30 agents at a savings of $500,000 annually.)

All applications operate co-residently on AT&T's INTUITY MAP/100 platform, an open architecture UNIX computer designed for voice processing. To access and update subscription information for all five newspapers, the system connects to a Hewlett-Packard 3000 host computer via the Berkeley Sockets Interface to TCP/IP over a local area network. The INTUITY platform acts as a client and the HP3000 as a server.

Contact: Ellen Ratchye, ratchye@voice.splk.com; Spanlink on the Web: http://www.spanlink.com

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