COLE'S NEWSWIRE, July 31, 1996

July 31, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 33

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ADVERTISING COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INC.
The BOSTON GLOBE has become the first customer for Cambridge, Mass.-based ACI's AdDirect system for digital ad delivery. With AdDirect, GLOBE advertisers may choose to send digital versions of ads rather than camera-ready copy directly into the newspaper's production system.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York-based AP has announced that its archival news agreement with Lexis-Nexis of Dayton, Ohio, has been extended through 1999. Under the arrangement, Lexis-Nexis clients have access to the AP's DataStream text archive, general election wire, AP Political Service, AP Online, AP Executive Morning Briefing, AP International Wire and the German-language AP news service.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
DT will be showing version 4.2 of its "open information" client/server publishing systems using Sybase databases on both UNIX and Windows NT servers at IFRA, Oct. 14-17 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Pagination Database enhancements include automatic page composition. Also featured will be the Locations Database with Wide Area Network capabilities, which was used during the Summer Olympics by Cox Newspapers of Atlanta to share stories with its U.S. newspapers.

Also on display will be the latest version of Javelin, DT's SQL database workflow management and archiving package. New features include enhanced searching for stories and graphic images. DT also will show its publishing solutions using Tandem's new S4000 fault-tolerant UNIX database servers.

GALACTICOMM INC.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Galacticomm has introduced Worldgroup version 2.0, which includes a free Netscape Navigator plug-in that enables a user to launch off-the-shelf multimedia applications from a site on the World-Wide Web. The software also means that Galacticomm's applications are accessible from anywhere through a direct (persistent) connection to a Worldgroup server.

Galacticomm may be visited on the web at http://www.gcomm.com.

GROUP LOGIC INC.
Group Logic, a software developer based in Arlington, Va., has announced that its Imagexpo remote soft proofing, annotation and file transfer software will be offered by BellSouth in a new service for the pre-press industry.

Through GLI's Imagexpo and Atlanta-based BellSouth's high-speed telecommunications facilities, the new service called RemoteRevu will enable the transfer and sharing of soft proofs for real-time review and annotation.

GLI's Imagexpo gives customers the ability to create soft proofs, then transmit, view and mark them up. Imagexpo allows pre-press facilities to send soft proofs to clients quickly, and then facilitates review of the soft proofs between the two locations through interactive conferencing. The electronic workflow enabled by Imagexpo eliminates the need to carry proofs back and forth between a pre-press facility and its clients.

RemoteRevu's interactive conferencing feature will allow as many as 16 locations to share pages and images simultaneously.

BellSouth also is offering FileXchange, which incorporates the Adobe Virtual Network from Adobe Systems of Mountain View, Calif., to simplify the process of moving large electronic files and print jobs.

ICANON ASSOCIATES INC.
ICANON, of Fort Washington, Pa., has released Commercial Print a Windows-based software package that handles cost estimating, press scheduling, work order creation and account receivables. With the $10,000 product, which can interface with most business management systems, a print shop can more easily determine overtime, overhead and profitability.

IOTA INDUSTRIES INC.
Iota, an image archive software developer based in Israel with U.S. offices in Westport, Conn., has introduced InterSite, a way to create Internet-accessible databases from paper or image archives. InterSite provides database management tools for Searchable Image Format (SIF) files, which are multi-platform images that permit on-image text recognition and retrieval.

Once needed data are located directly on document images, strips of the original image which contain highlighted hits are extracted from the image using Iota's Focused Decompression engine. The engine takes the strips' data, encodes it in HTML format and transmits them via HTTP protocol to the client. A Netscape Navigator plug-in is used to transmit and retrieve queries to the InterSite server; the user sees only the strips and then can request full display of the image as desired.

LINOTYPE-HELL CO.
Germany's Commerzbank will be making a takeover bid of DM 95 per share of face value DM 50 to some 8000 independent stockholders of Linotype-Hell AG, which together own just under 50 percent of the companyÕs stock. The bid will be made with the agreement and support of the executive board of Linotype-Hell, whose U.S. subsidiary is based in Hauppauge, N.Y.

Commerzbank will then sell the shares to Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG. The bid will apply for the period Aug. 2 to Sept. 13, 1996, and will only go through if, by the time the offer period closes, it has been accepted for at least half the shares currently held by independent stockholders.

A third of the 2.4 million shares in the company, which is based in Eschborn, Germany, are held by Siemens AG, and a sixth plus one share by Frega Vermšgensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Frankfurt, in which the Commerzbank currently has a 40 percent holding. Both Siemens and Frega are willing to tender their holdings, which together account for 50 percent of the capital plus one share.

By this acquisition, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG is looking to take another step toward its goal of becoming a system supplier in the print sector.

MONACO SYSTEMS INC.
Monaco, a color image software developer based in Andover, Mass., has introduced MonacoVIEW, a product for calibrating color monitors. It complements MonacoMATCH, a color management and separation system.

MonacoVIEW, which costs $995, generates color patches on a monitor screen to be read by the X-Rite DTP92 Monitor Optimizer from X-Rite Inc. of Grandville, Mich. With data from the optimizer, MonacoVIEW creates Adobe Photoshop and ICC monitor profiles, which it uses to adjust the monitor's guns for color accuracy.

MonacoVIEW costs $995, or may be bundled with the full MonacoMATCH management/separation system for $8495.

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