Cole's Newswire January 17, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 3

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  • DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORP.
    Digital Equipment Corp. of Merrimack, N.H., has become an authorized North American integrator of Quark Publishing System, made by Quark Inc. of Denver.

    Digital joins 20 other Quark-authorized QPS integrators in North and South America. An additional 38 integrators market and support QPS in Europe, South Africa, and Australia.

    DEC's multimedia services consulting group will provide sales, support and installation to newspapers and magazines, many of which already use Digital equipment.

    QPS, a Macintosh-oriented workgroup publishing solution now installed in more than 300 sites world-wide, can run under Windows NT on a Digital AlphaServer 400. Quark's benchmark tests indicate the AlphaServer performs faster than file servers on other Windows-based systems.

  • AGFA
    Agfa, a manufacturer of photographic and digital imaging products based in Ridgefield, N.J., has entered into an alliance with AT&T to make its digital printing and software products compatible with AT&T's newly formed Network Demand Printing (NDP) Service.

    AT&T and Agfa will work together to ensure compatibility of the NDP service with Agfa's Chromapress digital printing system, which is designed to produce high quality four-color materials for fast-turnaround, low-volume print runs.

    Chromapress permits printing a document directly from an electronic file via modem, on-line network or disk to a digital printer. Thus, end users can distribute and print their documents -- rather than print and then distribute -- such things as manuals, brochures and newsletters at the point of use.

    AT&T has agreements with several other digital printing vendors, and plans to include software from Adobe Systems Inc. and Quark Inc. on its network-based service.

  • ECRM
    ECRM of Tewksbury, Mass., has developed five standard punch configurations for its popular DrumSetter ID36. The configurations are provided at no additional charge in the ID36, an internal drum laser imagesetting system that images 13.78-by-17.7 inches.

    The new punch configurations are based on the five industry standards Ñ- Stoesser, Beil, Western Litho/Duarte, English Film and Bacher/Montaloch. Custom punch assemblies are available for $4500. Each additional custom punch costs $4000; each additional standard punch assembly costs $3000.

    The ID36 can output two-page spreads in less than two minutes. Spot size is either 15 or 25 microns, user selectable from job to job. The ID36 has selectable imaging resolutions, ranging from 1200 dpi to 2540 dpi.

  • FOLEY, TORREGIANI & ASSOCIATES, INC.
    FT&A, based in Londonderry, N.H., has announced these installations:

    -- The FLORIDA TIMES-UNION of Jacksonville, Fla., has installed Northwood Publishing Systems' Universal Translation Interface (UTI) to translate Linotronic 202 CORA code generated by a Morris System to Quark.

    -- Pioneer Press of Glenview, Ill., has installed Northwood's UTI to translate CG-8600 code generated by an SII front-end system with a classified pagination program to PostScript and add logos to classified output.

    -- Port City Press of Baltimore, Md., has installed Northwood's UTI to translate output originated for a VideoComp typesetter to PostScript.

    -- The MANKATO (Minn.) FREE PRESS has installed Northwood's UTI to translate Linotronic 202 code from a Dewar front-end editorial and classified ad system to PostScript that is output to a Harlequin RIP and an AGFA Accuset 1500.

    -- The VINELAND (N.J.) DAILY JOURNAL contracted with FT&A to serve as prime integrator for back-end pagination. The JOURNAL installed Northwood's UTI to translate CG-8600 code from a Dewar front-end editorial and classified system to PostScript. FT&A also installed Graphic Enterprises of Ohio's GUSS OPI system running on a DEC Pentium.

  • FREEDOM SYSTEM INTEGRATORS
    Freedom System Integrators of Wichita, Kan., has announced these sales and installations of its Macintosh-based Freedom Series system.

    -- HAYS (Kan.) DAILY NEWS purchased a file server conversion from Oracle running on Macintosh Quadra 950s to Oracle and Windows NT Server software on a Pentium processor.

    -- INDEPENDENCE (Kan.) DAILY REPORTER expanded its Vanguard system to include two copies of ADvance Sales.

    -- Denham Springs Publishing of Denham Springs, La., purchased a stand-alone ADvance Sales classified system.

    -- ST. JOSEPH (Mo.) NEWS-PRESS bought an integrated Power Macintosh 8100 and an Apple Workgroup Server 9150 for use with AP's AdSend.

    -- BUTLER (Pa.) EAGLE upgraded its five ADvance Sales licenses and ADvance Pro Set.

    -- GETTYSBURG (Pa.) TIMES added ADvance Sales and ADvance Pro Set, and upgraded its Freedom Edit software.

    -- PLAINVIEW (Texas) DAILY HERALD upgraded seven workstations to ADvance Sales and acquired a copy of ADvance Pro Set.

    -- LEAF-CHRONICLE of Clarksville, Tenn., upgraded six ADvance Sales licenses, ADvance Pro Set and FSI LiveWire.

    -- NEWS-EXAMINER of Gallatin, Tenn., purchased Windows NT Server software, seven copies of Freedom Edit, four Freedom Edit Pagination licenses, Freedom Series ROP Ad Layout and FSI LiveWire.

    -- GREENEVILLE (Tenn.) SUN purchased 17 Freedom Edit licenses, eight copies of Freedom Edit Pagination, Freedom Series ROP Ad Layout and FSI Live Wire. The new system utilizes Oracle running under Windows NT Server software on a Pentium processor.

    -- MANITOBA COOPERATOR of Winnipeg, Canada, purchased three copies of ADvance Sales and ADvance Pro Set classified layout and pagination.

    Freedom System Integrators can be reached on the World-Wide Web at http://www.southwind.net/fsi

  • HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
    Harris Publishing Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Harris Corporation based in Melbourne, Fla., has announced these orders, received in the last three months of 1995:

    -- These Harris customers ordered additional software and/or hardware: NAPLES (Fla.) DAILY NEWS, OMAHA (Neb.) WORLD-HERALD, STUART (Fla.) NEWS, JERSEY JOURNAL of Jersey City, N.J., and GALLUP (N.M.) INDEPENDENT.

    -- DULUTH (Minn.) NEWS-TRIBUNE has ordered a CASH for Windows system consisting of MS Windows-based client software licenses, CASH FaxIn/FaxOut software and Classified Pagination software.

    -- NEWARK (N.J.) STAR-LEDGER has purchased a Harris NewsMaker editorial system including 2100 news pagination software licenses. (This NewsMaker editorial system installation is now Harris' largest in the United States.)

    -- Wegmans Food Markets Inc. of Rochester, N.Y., has purchased Harris' XP-21 Server software, IMAGES (Image Management And Graphics Enhancement System) workstation software, MAC Server software, OPI server software, Photoshop image browser plug-in application, and several 2100 Display Ad Makeup software licenses.

    -- LAS VEGAS (Nev.) SUN has purchased Harris' XP-21 server with replicated server software, NewsMaker pagination, copy editor and wire server software; Mac and Windows browser software, Native-Mode File database software, and Drag & Drop XTensions in both Mac and PC versions. The SUN also will install PageTrak, Harris' page management and tracking application.

    -- GRAND FORKS (N.D.) HERALD will install a Harris NewsMaker editorial system, including Harris' Automatic FaxOut and NewsMaker pagination workstation software. The HERALD also will upgrade its existing Harris 8300 system to XP-21 servers. Other software included OPI and Mac server, Mac AdFlow, IMAGES, AP/Leaf Desk, Photoshop plug-in application software, and PageTrak(TM), Harris' page management and tracking application.

    -- Kingsport Publishing Co. of Kingsport, Tenn., will upgrade its existing CASH system to Harris' CASH for Windows system. Software licenses were purchased for Classified Ad pagination, CASH Credit Card Interface software, CASH FaxIn/FaxOut software, and Graphics Browser software for the Harris XP-21 system.

    -- La Presse Ltd. of Montreal, Canada, has purchased a Harris NewsMaker Editorial system consisting of several NewsMaker Copy Editor software licenses running French MS Word as the text editor.

    -- EL COMERCIO of Lima, Peru, has purchased Harris NewsMaker copy editor and pagination software licenses, Mac Browser software, Windows Browser software, Harris' Vantage image archive system, IMAGElink software, and database replication software for their existing XP-21 Server.

    -- Moderne Sion of Sion, Switzerland, has ordered Harris' XP-21, MAC and OPI server software; Vantage archive system; Harris NewsMaker editorial system and several NewsMaker pagination software licenses.

  • LEAF SYSTEMS INC.
    Leaf Systems of Westborough, Mass., in conjunction with DayStar Digital Inc. of Flowery Branch, Ga., announced the support and compatibility of Daystar's Genesis MP computer with the Leaf CatchLight.

    Genesis MP, a multiprocessor, Apple-certified Macintosh-compatible computer, will reduce the processing time for CatchLight images. With DayStar Genesis MP, CatchLight processing time is 2.5 to 4 times faster than with a single-processor PowerMac.

    Genesis MP is compatible with other applications used currently on the Macintosh. The Genesis MP is expandable and upgradable by the user. A hard drive or more memory can be added by simply popping open the side panel and plugging it in.

    For more details on the DayStar Genesis MP, visit DayStar's Internet web page http://www.daystar.com

  • OPTRONICS
    Fong Brothers Printing Inc., a large commercial printer based in Brisbane, Calif., has become the first U.S. company to install an Aurora computer-to-plate (CTP) platesetter from Optronics, an Intergraph division. Within five days, the new platesetter was used to produce a 4-color job for a commercial client.

    Fong Brothers also installed an Optronics IntelliProof system, a dual-function imagesetter and digital halftone color proofing system that permits proofing "down to the dots," a critical need in a CTP environment.

    Both Optronics digital imaging products were installed in Fong Brothers' main printing facility in Brisbane, south of San Francisco. The PlateSetter Aurora is a semiautomatic configuration equipped with a 200 MHz Silicon Graphics Challenge S RIP server. The Aurora was producing large-format output for a complex 6-color job for a major bank five days after it was installed.

  • PHOENIX NEWSPAPERS INC.
    Phoenix Newspapers, which publishes the ARIZONA REPUBLIC, PHOENIX (Ariz.) GAZETTE and ARIZONA BUSINESS GAZETTE has launched its on-line service, Arizona Central. The launch was simultaneous on American Online and the Internet's World-Wide Web.

    Either through AOL or the Web -- http://www.azcentral.com/ -- anyone with a computer and a modem can gain access to Arizona Central for news, sports, entertainment, travel and advertising from the Southwest.

    Planned additional features include an archive of REPUBLIC, GAZETTE and ARIZONA BUSINESS GAZETTE stories since 1987 (customers soon will be able to retrieve a story for a fee); a small-business area; classified advertising, and on-line partnerships with radio, TV and other print media.

  • SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
    SII of Sacramento, Calif., has signed a partnership agreement with ICL Data Oy, the Finnish subsidiary of the computer giant ICL.

    Under terms of the agreement, which is subject to final ratification, the ICL Data Group will represent SII in the Scandinavian and emerging Baltic markets through its GrafiMedia Oy subsidiary, marketing SII solutions alongside existing IT products and supporting existing SII installations. SII will market GrafiMedia's MARIA graphic archive system worldwide. Other business opportunities will also be explored.

    The ICL Data Group, specializing in systems integration and services, is the largest information technology company in Finland, operating in 26 sites throughout Finland with 1700 employees. The group also includes the Finnish distributor of Tandem, Tandem Finland Oy.

    GrafiMedia Oy supplies systems for the graphics industry and communications companies. It recently completed major system installations at Helsinki Media, Ilkka and the printing house Esan Kirjapaino.

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