Dial a designer

Article Abstract:

Design Access, an on-line graphic design service that offers customers many of the features of a walk-in bureau at lower cost, serves its customers by modem and by mail, enabling the company to develop an international clientele. Design Access managers, Bruce Ryon and Mark Winter, use another company, Colophon, which is a design firm, to provide their company with design expertise, enabling Design Access to take the conventional design process and condense it, shifting more responsibility to the client. Clients use Data Access's services: to consult with Colophon designers; to send and receive layouts; to select images from electronic clip art libraries; to order PostScript typesetting; and to obtain the technical support required to complete a project. The on-line arrangement results in low overhead and high production volume, covering a large geographic area.

Data processing and preparation, Management, Desktop publishing software, Design, Online, New Company, Service Bureaus, Publishing Industry, company profile, DTP Software, Ryon, Bruce, Winter, Mark, Design Access Inc.

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A first look at the last book

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MIT Media Lab research suggests the possibility of a 'last book' that looks conventional but has a capability to reconfigure itself so that it could contain multiple different volumes. This would be accomplished by using electronic ink, or e-ink, which is made up of microscopic, electronically active black-or-white particles controlled by a tiny computer. E-ink typesets itself on the fly, and according to assistant professor Jospeh Jacobson, this means the last book could be any book a user chooses. Jacobson points out that, assuming storage of 1MB per average book, a reasonable amount of Flash memory already could store 100 books, and when terabyte storage technologies become practical, a single volume could contain the entire Library of Congress.

All Other Publishers, Publishing NEC, Research, Innovations, Technology development, Books, E-books, Electronic book, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory

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