The standard accredits a company's quality management system for manufacturing, production and installation. The 1994 standards address a company's responsiveness to customer issues as well as quality procedures.

The International Organization for Standardization which developed the ISO standards is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies. QMI, a division of the Canadian Standards Association, qualified ECRM again this year. QMI is the leading registrar in North America; its certificates are recognized by 16 international registrars.

U.S. -- DAILY NEWSPAPERS

-- NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TIMES, Fayetteville, Ark. (13k morning): ALS

-- MONTEREY COUNTY HERALD, Monterey, Calif. (34k morning): ALS

-- VENTURA (Calif.) COUNTY STAR-FREE PRESS (53K morning): ALS with Editions

-- RECORD-JOURNAL, Meriden, Conn. (30k morning): ALS

-- THE PANTAGRAPH, Bloomington, Ill. (52k morning): ALS

-- EVANSVILLE (Ind.) COURIER (64k morning): ALS with Bookings

-- POST-TRIBUNE, Gary, Ind. (74k morning): CLS

-- THE TIMES, Munster, Ind. (70k morning): CLS and ALS with Editions and Bookings

-- HUTCHINSON (Kan.) NEWS (38k morning): ALS

-- LAWRENCE (Mass.) EAGLE-TRIBUNE (56k evening): ALS and CLS

-- BATTLE CREEK (Mich.) ENQUIRER (28k evening): ALS

-- NEW YORK POST (400k morning): ALS

-- TIMES ARGUS, Barre, Vt. (12k morning): ALS and CLS

-- THE SUN, Bremerton, Wash. (40k evening): ALS with StatusWatch

U.S. -- OTHER

-- Bay Classifieds, Oakland, Calif.: CLS

-- MacWEEK, San Francisco: ALS with Forms

-- Brooks Community Newspaper, Norwalk, Conn.: ALS

-- The News Journal Co., New Castle, Del.: ALS

-- Thomson Newspapers Michigan, New Castle, Del.: CLS and ELS

-- Sun Publications, Kansas City, Kan.: ALS with Editions

-- Sun Publications, Overland Park, Kan.: ALS with Editions

-- CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Washington, D.C.: CLS

-- McCarthy Media Inc., Plainfield, Ind.: CLS and ALS with StatusWatch and Bookings

-- Record Publishing Company, Ravenna and Stowe, Ohio: ALS

CANADA

-- COMPUTER PAPER, Vancouver, British Columbia: AdForce and ELS

-- BROCKVILLE (Ont.) RECORDER AND TIMES (16k evening): ALS

-- SAULT STAR, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario (24k evening): CLS

-- FINANCIAL POST magazine, Toronto, Ontario: Multiple copies of ALS with Editions

The MonacoMATCH system combines the functionality of two new products, MonacoEXPERT and MonacoPRINT, with the new 2.0 releases of Monaco Systems' MonacoCOLOR and MonacoBATCH programs. MonacoMATCH has a list price of $7995; each of its components is available separately.

MonacoCOLOR 2.0, the latest version of Monaco's Adobe Photoshop plug-in, provides scanner calibration and automatic global image enhancement. New features include a larger preview window, advances in unsharp masking and support for Color Sync 2.0 and the ICC file format. MonacoCOLOR 2.0 has a list price of $895.

MonacoEXPERT is a Photoshop plug-in that gives production users, designers and photo retouchers tools for adjusting or transforming individual colors. MonacoEXPERT allows users to change hues and select the range of the color change. MonacoEXPERT is priced at $895.

MonacoCOLOR 2.0 and MonacoEXPERT are complemented by MonacoBATCH 2.0, a batch processing program for production. MonacoBATCH performs global image enhancement, selective color correction and color separation in the background. MonacoBATCH is priced at $1,495.

MonacoPRINT introduces a fast way to characterize and calibrate printing presses, proofing systems, color printers, dye sublimation printers, dry toner printers, and film recorders. It provides consistent color from one printer to the next. MonacoPRINT's $4995 price tag includes a DTP51 Auto Scan Colorimeter from X-Rite Inc. of Grandville, Mich.

All three newspapers will be running SII's multi-tasking client-server classified software for ad capture, zoning and rating. The products will provide the McClatchy papers with the ability to cross-sell advertising into multiple products, including the World-Wide Web.

Software products from SII's Professional Services Division will enable the BEEs to automatically duplicate ads including photos, logos and graphics, to the World-Wide Web. Abbreviations will be electronically expanded in the process for enhanced ad presentation on the web.

Installations are due to begin shortly.

-- The international relief agency World Vision has selected the Merlin Archive System from T/ONE as its solution for sharing its sizable image archive with sister offices around the globe.

Seattle-based World Vision uses historical images for fund raising and promotion. Over its 45-year history, World Vision has accumulated some 600,000 images.

These images, in the form of negatives or slides, had been manually filed on shelves, making it difficult for people in different offices to know what was available. Sometimes sister offices even sent photographers to remake photos.

Merlin replaces the manual filing system and lets people log on and browse from World Vision's headquarters and, eventually, other sites around the world.

World Vision is an international relief and development agency that helps the world's poor by meeting their immediate needs and equipping them to meet their own future needs. In 1995, World Vision helped almost 50 million people through more than 4,800 projects in 101 countries.

-- The CHICAGO SUN-TIMES (550k morning) has selected the T/ONE TRAX and Merlin Archive systems to control its digital photo work flow, from assignment to archive.

Editors and/or reporters enter photo assignment requests into TRAX, photo editors assign photographers from the schedules maintained by TRAX, and then print out assignment sheets for photographers. Photographers scan in their images (using an application such as Adobe Photoshop), and enter the assignment and caption information into the TRAX record.

TRAX then updates the IPTC header and caption of the appropriate image with the information from TRAX and sends the image with full IPTC header to Merlin.

Anyone using a Windows-based PC or an Apple Macintosh on the newspaper's network now has access to the photos from the moment they are scanned. The paper is archiving both wire and local photos, as well as handouts.

-- The TRI-CITY HERALD (40k morning) of Tri-Cities, Wash., has selected Merlin in its move to digital production. The paper purchased a dual-Pentium Merlin Archive server, a 12 gigabyte RAID array (for an estimated two years' storage), and three user seats, as well as T/ONE's RoboWRAP! scripted image routing and format conversion application.

The TRI-CITY HERALD is a McClatchy newspaper located in southeast Washington, about 150 miles south of Spokane.

UMNet provides everything a newspaper needs to create its own interactive web site: software, branded content and design. Newspapers complete the package by adding a feed of local news, sports and features. UMNet, working with the newspaper's staff, helps choose the best feature selections for a successful Web site.

UMNet provides newspapers with Keep Talking, UNET's live web-based chat system, a key feature to attract and retain users. UNET is a New York-based Internet publishing services and technology company that offers a range of Internet services, from e-mail to complete Web site design and operation. UNET's clients have included NYNEX, Blockbuster Video, TV Guide Online and the New York Times magazines.

United Feature Syndicate and Newspaper Enterprise Association are divisions of United Media, an information and entertainment company that markets 150 comic strips and editorial features worldwide, including Peanuts, Dilbert and The Born Loser.

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