From a distance: new tools for remote publishing

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Several new technologies enable graphics designers, advertising agencies, publishers and printers to work together at great distances to produce advertising, newspapers and other documents. These technologies include remote viewing systems, the combination of facsimile systems transmitting symbolic pasteup data and satellite communications and direct-to-plate printing. Designer Atelier's Remote Viewing system, for example, is used by vitamin maker Miles Inc designers to work simultaneously on one document with remote advertising and printing services. The Boston Globe newspaper uses Information International Inc's InfoFax system to input and transmit high-resolution 'symbolic' facsimile images via satellite to remote printers. Perry Printing Corp employs Ohio Electronic Engravers Inc's Ohio Electronic Engraving Prepress System to send scanned artwork (later PostScript files from Macintosh computers) directly to image processing stations to 9mm digital tape to control a high-speed printing plate engraver.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING, Computer integrated systems design, Commercial printing, lithographic, Commercial printing, gravure, Publishing industry, Product information, Satellite communications, Buyers Guide, Printing industry, Word processing software, Fax equipment, File transfer (Computers), Remote access software, Turnkey System, Methods, File Transfer, Fax Device, Fax machines, Designer's Atelier, Information International Inc., Ohio Electronic Engravers Inc., Perry Printing Corp., Globe Newspaper Co., Miles Inc.

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Plain-paper printers get serious

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Plain paper printers with resolutions comparable to those of expensive imagesetters and low prices help save on operational costs as well as on capital expenditures while still providing high-quality type for less than $20,000. Laser printers used as typesetters can produce type that is very similar to that of 1,270-dots-per-inch (dpi) imagesetters. The imagesetter is still better for producing complex graphics and detailed type, but laser typesetters produce good line art and scanned images. Imagesetters also provide the same resolution both horizontally and vertically, while most 1,200-dpi laser printers have lower vertical resolutions, making them more suitable for type than for graphics. Although low-resolution laser printers that have been altered to produce more dpi have some disadvantages, many practical publishers find that the lower cost outweighs the benefits of the imagesetters.

Laser printers, Printer support software, Cost control, Typesetting, Laser Printer, Printers, Cost Reduction, Paper Media, Imagesetter, Imagesetters

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Voice activated: New York's Village Voice takes a bumpy road to Mac-based production

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New York's Village Voice has decided to stay with a mix of Atex dedicated composition systems and Macintosh-based QuarkXPress DTP technology in the production of the newspaper. In 1992 the company decided to migrate to Macs, in part because of the financial problems of Atex's parent company. Eventually only the Film, Features, Sports, event Listings and the Cover were moved to the desktop system. According to Voice new media and technology Dir Linda Nelson, there are several advantages to retaining the eight Atex servers. These include built-in E-mail, embedding of nonprinting notes in stories, and easy archiving of each version of each story. How the Macs and the Atex systems are used individually and together is described.

Prepackaged software, Management, Newspapers, Company process management, Production processes, Newspaper industry software, Company Operations, VV Publishing Corp.

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