18. Harris Publishing Systems Corp.: Adobe InDesign is fully integrated into Harris' JazBox environment, with a story previewed on the left and the page previewed on the right.

24. Krause-Biagosch GmbH: The LSJet Eco is a flat-bed platesetter with variable resolution up to 1270 dots-per-inch, while the maximum plate size is 17.3-inches-by-25.2-inches and it handles approximately 110 single plates per hour.

17. Graphic Enterprises Inc.: This longtime supplier of output systems will have three new products for NEXPO 2001: an electronic tear sheet system, a file-naming system and a new copy-dot scanner. The electronic tear sheet system utilizes a database, the Portable Document Format (PDF) and the Internet to provide advertisers with a digital representation of the page with their ad, which can be viewed in a web browser or retrieved through an e-mail. The file-naming system provides a consistent approach to naming files and translates any file names that are inconsistent. The scanner -- the Tecsa 5000 -- has adjustable resolution up to 1270 dots-per-inch and is available in two bed sizes: 14.4-inches-by-25.9-inches and 18-inches-by-25.9-inches. (330) 494-9694, ext. 195; e-mail: prepress@geiworldwide.com.

18. Harris Publishing Systems Corp. and Baseview Products: These two corporate siblings serve distinctly different markets -- Harris the mid-size to metro daily , Baseview the mid-mid-size daily to community weekly. Harris will be showing its JazBox editorial system, which uses InDesign or XPress as its page-layout engine. The latest features in JazBox include changes on the page that now update the database, jumps managed in one text file, integration with all common ad dummying systems, element tracking, multiple editors on a single page, integrated wire with NIFT, full XML support, as well as support for a variety of databases (including Oracle) and support for newspaper clustering. Baseview will be showing Quark CopyDesk Special Edition support in its IQue editorial system, as well as PhotoBridge (an Adobe Photoshop plug-in that allows for editing, cropping, adjusting and toning of any photo directly in the IQue database) and CopyBridge (Baseview's connectivity tools that integrate InDesign into the IQue environment). Both companies will have web-publishing products, including WebJaz and JazShak (WebJaz is JazShak using Baseview as an ASP). (321) 242-5330; e-mail: hpscmktg@harris.com.

19. IBM and NewsEngin Inc.: IBM will be showing six different product-services in the Morial Convention Center -- the Electronic Media Management System (Emms -- a digital distribution, billing and rights management system), the Websphere Translation Service (automated content distribution), the IntelliStation (a series of workstations based on Wintel technology), Infoprint Solutions (they're talking high-speed duplicators for on-demand newspapers), wireless applications (along with IBM, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution co-developed a circulation route information system that's distributed over Web-enabled cellular phones or hand-held computers) and Nica (Networked Interactive Content Access -- IBM's digital asset management system). NewsEngin, composed primarily of refugees from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will be showing the latest incarnation of its editorial workflow product, which is called My NewsEngin. Designed in conjunction with the Boston Globe (which is using it for reporters and line editors), My NewsEngin provides editorial staffers with single-screen access to software for writing, editing, e-mail, calendar, to-do lists, instant messaging, wire stories, story schedules, individual and newsroom source lists and notes, as well as access to favorite web sites. Also in the booth: Salient Stills, the high-quality video grab people. (914) 642-4880; e-mail: figueira@us.ibm.com.

20. Informatel Inc.: This Canadian supplier of advertising systems will be highlighting its Prospector customer relationship management and sales management application. New features include sales forecasts and analysis, customizable telemarketing scripts, upsell prompts, sales-lead generators, automated mailing (both e- and postal) and sophisticated reporting. The company will also show its production tracking, collection automation and pagination offerings. (450) 975-9000; e-mail: sales@informatel.com.

21. IntraKnowledge LLC: A new provider of digital asset management (aka: electronic library, digital archive) applications, IntraKnowledge's e.Xtract suite of products allows for web browser-based searching (natural language, Boolean, concept and fuzzy) from open architecture systems. (405) 820-4442; e-mail: sales@intra-knowledge.com.

22. John Juliano Computer Systems: The U.S. representatives for WoodWing Software, purveyors of the Smart Connection InDesign plug-in, Jjcs will be highlighting Smart Connection throughout the show as well as distributing trial versions of the plug-ins on compact disks (which are available from both Jjcs and IDPlugins.com). Smart Connection provides a link between Adobe's InCopy text editing program and the InDesign page-layout application (Adobe left this connectivity to the integrators) and allows multiple users access to the same page at the same time. The other WoodWing InDesign plug-ins -- Smart Styles, Smart Layout and Smart XML Export -- will also be on display. In addition, Jjcs also markets the GuideLines editorial listings product, which is now in Version 3. (404) 327-6010; e-mail: woodwing@jjcs.com.

23. Kodak Polychrome Graphics: The key to computer-to-plate? The plates. Kodak Polychrome has got 'em, along with the Newsetter system, which includes a platesetter, a processor and a puncher-bender. One version of the platesetter runs at 195 plates-per-hour, with resolutions ranging from 1016 dpi to 1270 dpi (across a dimension of 320mm-by-490mm or 12.6-inches-by-19.29-inches). The autoloader can feed up to three platesetters. Oh, and the plates? They're thermal with a run length of more than 300,000 impressions without post-baking. (203) 845-7000; e-mail: info@kpgraphics.com.

24. Krause-Biagosch GmbH: Krause, the large European computer-to-plate provider, will be at NEXPO for the first time showing its LaserStar LS JetEco platesetter. Based on the company's LaserStar LS Jet, this is the compact model, which features fully automatic operation (including interleaf paper removal), plate exposure and transport to the processor all in a patented plate-handling system. (203) 483-9883, ext. 306; e-mail: newspaper@krause.de.

25. Lazer-Fare Media Services Ltd.: New for this Canadian provider of advertising pre-press software is PostStrip AdTools, a suite which provides for ad order entry, digital proofing, preflighting and electronic tear sheets, all handled through the Web. Also new is AdTools' sibling, PostStrip PaperView, which allows publishers to review pages and entire sections on the Web before they go to press. These products supplement the other components of the PostStrip suite -- FlowTools (called "PDF workflow in a box") and PageTools (which, according to us last year, is "the final act of a PDF workflow, stitching the editorial and advertising PDFs together to make a finished PDF page"). (204) 452-5023; e-mail: ask@lazerfare.com.

26. Lufthansa Systems AS: Just when you thought the world was safe from European publishing system providers, along comes Lufthansa Systems, a division of the German airline. This first-time NEXPO exhibitor will be showing both editorial and business systems. VI&VA, Lufthansa's advertising and circulation system, is installed in almost three-dozen papers in Europe and utilizes a single customer record to handle both advertising and circulation issues (the product runs on SAP R3). JetStream is a cross-media publishing system that uses all the right buzzwords: XML, Oracle, Windows NT (for the client as an option for the server) and UNIX. The system provides a variety of components, including editorial workflow, content management, asset management, archiving, wire service management and something called "knowledge management." And hey, maybe if you buy a system they'll throw in some frequent-flyer miles. (303) 793-9741; e-mail: rsanders@nilan-sanders.com.

27. Mactive Inc.: Here's an overnight success story whose "overnight" took only 13 years. This Swedish company, founded in 1988, first deployed a Macintosh-based editorial system, but upon entering the U.S. market in 1997, began focusing on Wintel advertising systems. With 19 new customers in the last year -- certainly the largest sales volume in the industry -- Mactive will be showing the latest versions of its AdBase and WebBase systems, as well as its PageLayout application and Money Manager, a financial package. Mactive has a lesson for the rest of the supplier industry: good people plus good product equals good sales. Sounds simple, but it is obviously difficult to deliver. (321) 254-5559; e-mail: info@mactiveinc.com.

28. Managing Editor Inc. and Five-Fifteen Ltd.: Managing Editor, the venerable supplier of ad dummying and classified layout applications, makes its move toward editorial systems with TruEdit, its suite of plug-ins for Adobe's InDesign and InCopy that allows designers and editors to work on the same page at the same time. While aimed at the magazine industry, I could see TruEdit used in a small paper or a small group at a big paper. The company will also show its AdsUp remote ad order entry system that uses Palm hand-held computers to guide the salesperson through the order-entry process and then, using the Palm HotSync technology, places the order into the AdsUp server. Managing Editor will also show updates of the rest of its product line, including Roundhouse Ad Tracking 2.5 for Windows, the Page Director series and ClassForce. Also in the booth will be Five-Fifteen, a British publishing software developer that will be showing its Maxim advertising software (sales, contact management, marketing, promotion, circulation and management tools) as well as Viper, a marketing analysis tool. (215) 886-5662; e-mail: webmaster@maned.com.

29. Markzware Software Inc.: While the largest problem in your life may not be preflighting display ads delivered by retailers and advertising agencies, it probably is a thorn in the side of someone at your paper. The Markzware product line -- MarkzScout, MarkzNet and FlightCheck -- can work in concert to create an automated advertising pre-press workflow that can detect the dreaded RGB scan, the horrific missing font, or one of any 140 different user-selectable potential printing problems. (919) 756-5100; e-mail: sales@markzware.com.

30. Mindset Software Inc.: This new company, populated by former SII programmers, is offering one SII-related product and three stand-alones. Among the latter are PairSorcer NT, a page-pairing and folio customization client-server application (NT on the server, Mac or Windows on the client); WebLiners, a classified-advertising application that takes advertising front-end output and codes it for a web site, and WebAssemble, a Web production tool. In the former category is Dingo, which is a server application that tracks and manages the use of Coyote/3 licenses. (916) 446-8000; e-mail: info@mindsetsoft.com.

31. Modulo Systems Corp.: When Quark decided to get out of the workgroup systems business, it passed the responsibility for Quark Publishing System (QPS) along to Modulo. While the company has been slow to bring forth a new version of QPS, the reason now becomes clear: Gadgets. No, the programmers haven't been goofing off with gadgets, they've created a new advertising system that is called Gadgets. The new system supports separate classified and display interfaces, different booking forms for each group of users, security levels, rate-management facilities, definable sales prompts and client-specific style templates. (617) 234-4144; e-mail: info@modulosystems.com.

32. Monotype Systems Inc.: Pulled back from the brink of extinction more than a decade ago, Monotype has matured into a company that understands that larger newspapers are different than smaller papers, and that pre-press output is different than typesetting. The company now has two lines of computer-to-plate offerings, with the new ExpressTrak platemaker supplementing its FasTrak device (ExpressTrak is a flatbed platemaker that can produce between 180 and 240 plates -- either broadsheet or double-truck -- per hour). In addition, the company has two levels of production management systems, as well as raster-image processors from both Adobe and Harlequin. All in all, in the best tradition of the company that made the first high-resolution PostScript output device. (847) 427-8800; e-mail: sales@monoexpress.com.

33. Net-Linx Publishing Solutions: "Despite all the amazing aspects of this business deal," we wrote last July of the acquisition of CText Inc. and System Integrators Inc. by Yellow Pages software supplier Net-Linx AG of Germany, "it's too early -- and too tough -- to call." It's still a tough call, but it's no longer too early. After a year of integrating the CText and SII product lines, Net-Linx brings forth a full suite of products, including AdVision (classified advertising), Insiight (editorial front-end), Xportico (web-site publishing), Adtracker (like it sounds) and Alps (classified pagination). In addition, the company will be emphasizing its "embracement strategy," which it defines as the "introduction of significant additional functionality into existing systems using new generation technology without the need to replace established infrastructure." Oh, and about that tough call -- it's up to you to make it. (734) 677-4700; e-mail: sales@nxps.com.

34. NetPost Inc.: Another NEXPO first-timer, NetPost promises to provide a system that can handle the full pantheon of cross-media publishing issues. Though the company focuses on e-business in general, it has addressed the newspaper business as a specific vertical. The key to NetPost's offerings is its TrueView technology, which appears to be eminently cool -- for example, a news story can be displayed on a web site with much more typographic fidelity than would be normal in a web browser, and as an added benefit, the story can "jump" quickly. Apparently, TrueView has hooks into other media in addition to the Web -- TV and cell phones to name two. (650) 625-1019; e-mail: info@net-post.com.

From NEWSINC., March 26, 2001, Copyright © 2001, All Rights Reserved.