COLE'S NEWSWIRE, May 15, 1996

May 15, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 21

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AGFA DIVISION OF BAYER CORP.
Boston-based Agfa has introduced FotoTune 2.0.1 for Windows 3.11 and Windows 95, a professional color management product developed specifically for the PC.

FotoTune automates the creation of device-specific profiles for scanners, monitors and output devices, and the linking of such profiles to locations in workflow. For $395, FotoTune comes bundled with a Quark XPress XTension and two Adobe Photoshop plug-ins.

Agfa also has introduced a $65 CD-ROM containing all five Agfa Digital Color Prepress publications. Redesigned for multimedia presentation, the guides are: An Introduction to Digital Color Prepress, A Guide to Color Separation, Working with Prepress and Printing Suppliers, An Introduction to Digital Scanners and An Introduction to Digital Photo Imaging.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
The New York-based news cooperative has announced that AP AdSEND, the AP's digital advertising delivery service, has signed its 300th customer -- Office Depot, an office supply chain of stores headquartered in Delray Beach, Fla.

Office Depot said it plans to transmit roughly 50,000 ads per year to promote sales at its 512 stores in North America. Adobe Systems' Acrobat software is incorporated into AP AdSEND so that ads created on a Macintosh or PC are transmitted intact, with all fonts and graphical elements embedded in the file.

With AdSEND, black-and-white and color ads can be sent digitally to newspapers within hours or even minutes, depending on the advertiser's need. Advertisers pay only for ads delivered.

The AP also has announced it has signed its 200th newspaper member, the FRESNO (Calif.) BEE, as an AP Audiotex client. AP Audiotex services deliver audio recordings of AP news and features by telephone to readers of AP's 1,550 member newspapers. Audiotex options include news, weather forecasts from Accu-Weather Inc. of State College, Pa., sports scores, stock quotes, horoscopes and soap opera digests.

The BEE will offer AP StockQuote Hotline-II, allowing readers to call the BEE and receive quotes on more than 9,000 stock issues from the New York, NASDAQ and American exchanges. Major market indicators and reports are updated every 15 minutes.

Developed in conjunction with Brite Voice Systems of Wichita, Kan., StockQuote Hotline was launched in July 1984. In 1992, AP introduced StockQuote Hotline-II, adding reports on mutual funds, money markets, government and corporate bonds, admissions and removals.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced these recent installations (not all products are listed for each site):

-- NORTHWEST HERALD, Crystal Lake, Ill. (29k morning): project management, one IQue Server package, 15 pagination packages, 32 copies of NewsEditPro IQue and four days of training.

-- RICHMOND (Ky.) REGISTER (9k evening): three copies of ClassManagerPro, one copy of ClassFlow and three days of training.

-- OSSEO-MAPLE GROVE (Minn.) PRESS (5k weekly): three copies of ClassManagerPro, one ClassFlow.

-- ALBANY (Ore.) DEMOCRAT-HERALD (21k evening): conversions to NewsEditPro IQue and DragX.

-- HUNTINGDON (Pa.) DAILY NEWS (10k evening): two copies of ClassManagerPro, one Classified Accounts Receivable module.

LINOTYPE-HELL CO.
Linotype-Hell, of Hauppauge, N.Y., has announced that it is preparing to introduce an Intel-based version of its LinoServer models for the graphics art industries.

Due in mid-year, the new models will run Data General's 64-bit UNIX (DG/UX) operating system on Intel's Pentium platform. The two servers, the LS3000i and LS4800i, will interface to Macintosh, PC and UNIX clients.

Linotype-Hell, which makes scanners, RIPs, imagesetters and computer-to-plate systems, may be visited at http://www.linotype-hell.com.

LUMINOUS CORP.
Seattle-based Luminous has announced its acquisition of Rip-It Computer Technologies, a supplier of PostScript raster image processor products based in Sacramento, Calif.

Financial terms were not disclosed. The deal gives Luminous Rip-It's engineering experience and technology, while Rip-It gains a global presence through Luminous' international sales, distribution and support network.

PREPRESS SOLUTIONS INC.
PrePRESS Solutions, of East Hanover, N.J., has announced that it has shipped the 400th unit of its PanterPro/46 Imagesetting System. The system, in use by newspapers and commercial printers around the world, allows multiple Panther RIPs to drive multiple PantherPro series imagesetters.

SOFTARC INC.
SoftArc, a supplier of LAN-based e-mail and groupware based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, has announced a high-performance Internet messaging solution for its group communication product FirstClass.

The $495 FirstClass Gateway for SMTP/NNTP will support Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) and Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME).

Initially for the Mac OS, the gateway will be compatible with FirstClass servers of any platform. It will allow FirstClass users to send and receive Internet messages, follow Internet mail lists and Usenet newsgroups, and read and reply to messages with attachments adhering to MIME standards. Private mail will be delivered the moment it is received or sent, and will not be blocked by news transmissions.

FirstClass system administrators will be able to replicate popular Internet newsgroups within FirstClass conferences. Other features include MIME support for configurable character sets; handling of cross-platform file attachments with full fidelity, and aliasing of user names and mapping of unaliased names.

Later this year SoftArc will update FirstClass to support Internet communication protocols directly from the FirstClass server. Orders for the FirstClass Gateway will be accepted in late June 1996, when the product is due for release.

TRUMATCH INC.
New York-based Trumatch has announced that it has been granted a French patent for Trumatch Colorfinder, a color palette and reference standard. With Trumatch, graphic artists have access to a palette of more than 2000 process colors organized into 50 hues or color families.

The Trumatch system's printed reference tools help to ensure that the color specified by an artist on a computer monitor is the color that will be printed. The Trumatch palette is integrated into graphic design software from Adobe, Corel, Macromedia and Quark.

Trumatch may be visited at http://www.trumatch.com/.

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