New printers and scanner from Apple
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Apple Computer Corp introduces two new LaserWriter printers and one gray-scale scanner aimed directly at the mainstream market. The LaserWriter IIg costs $4,599 and integrates two Apple technologies: PhotoGrade and FinePrint. Photograde is a hardware and software combination that allows users to print images with up to seven times more gray-scale shadings than other laser printers while FinePrint allows users to smooth out jaggies in fonts for clear 300 dot per inch resolution. The IIg works easily on a network, prints 8 pages per minute and comes with 5Mbytes of RAM. The Apple IIf costs $3,599, comes with 2Mbytes of RAM, offers PhotoGrade as an option, and does not have built-in Ethernet support. The Apple OneScanner includes Ofoto scanning software and AutoScan, one button automatic scanning. The 8-bit gray-scale OneScanner costs $1,299, and supports 256 levels of gray.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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Newsbeat: film buffs: merci to the PC
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Line Research Inc uses personal computer compatibles to add new, colored subtitles to foreign-language movies. The original white subtitles lose considerable contrast when watched on a television screen. Line Research staff use an Everex AT compatible with WordPerfect or WordStar to transcribe the dialogue, importing the text into a subtitling program developed by company president Richard Quento. The dialogue, which can be translated into English or Spanish, is printed in Helvetic and then colored; the coloring process uses the TruVision VistaCard graphics card on a Toshiba 386 portable computer. A special hardware system, called a keyer, transfers the finished titles to the master videotape.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1990
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Lower prices and higher tech: it's time for Unix
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New Unix workstations from both Sun Microsystems and Next Inc are viable desktop publishing alternatives. Traditionally, most workstations were considered too complicated and expensive to be useful for desktop publishing. But Sun's new Sparcstation 1 starts at just under $10,000, offering speed that is ten times faster than the IBM PC AT. For ease of operation, Sparcstation 1 uses an icon-mouse-based windowing interface. Next's object-oriented, multitasking programming environment makes it possible to design software components that do specific tasks simultaneously. Next workstations will be sold through Businessland outlets, and will retail for $9,995.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1989
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