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ous problems with spot colors, color management,and overall reliability of PDFdocuments. However, Apple’s new MacOS X uses PDF as its underlying graphicsformat, and many printing houses areadopting PDF as their standard, so PDFdevelopment is sure to grow.WHAT SHOULD I DO?If you must make a decision soon, we suggestcontacting Quark and Adobe for referencesof companies that are successfully usingtheir products. Ask for ones with profilessimilar to your own. Then talk to themabout their experiences. This may be theonly way to discover your own “truth”—atleast for now.Jay Nelson is the publisher and editor of DesignTools Monthly, a monthly newsletter headquarteredin Boulder, Colorado. For a free, complete issueplease visit www.Design-Tools.com or emailGX@Design-Tools.com. Reprinted with permissionfrom Design Tools Monthly May/2001.Epson Stylus Pro 10000 deliversfast 44-inch wide imagesEpson is now shipping the new Stylus Pro10000, its most powerful printer to date.The 10000 uses a new variable dropletand can create images up to 44 inches inwidth on a broad selection of media at true1440 x 720 dpi resolution. Images can beprinted at up to 231 square feet per hour atfastest settings or approximately 72 squarefeet per hour for photographic output.Epson offers the 10000 with ArchivalInk technology that enables prints to endurewithout fading or damage caused bylight or moisture. Or users have the optionof using Photographic Dye Ink for imagesthat incorporate a wider color gamut atlower cost per square foot. However thischoice must be made at time of purchase.The Epson Stylus Pro 10000 basic printingsystem lists for US$15,999. For more information,call 1-800-GO-EPSON or visitwww.epson.ca.SCREAMSAVERNEED A GREAT IDEA IN A HURRY?1. TAKE A DEEP BREATH.2. EXHALE SLOWLY.3. CALL THE CREATIVE GROUP.888.846.1668 • creativegroup.com© The Creative Group.Graphic Exchange 41
Pagemaker 7 is due this summer, promising totalintegration with all Adobe products -- and someQuarkXPress, too...Apple is ready to release a9.2 upgrade for OS 9, according to reports...Latest word from Alias Wavefront is that Mayafor Mac is slightly behind schedule but due forrelease by as early as September...Meanwhileword from Microsoft is that Office X for Mac OSX may be out by the fall...Soon to be introducedfor small to medium size printers --MetaDimension, Heidelberg’s new Prinergy-likeworkflow package that has CreoScitex’s attention...Goodnews for those who go into Webwithdrawal when they have to fly -- Screaming-Media Inc. has just signed a deal with Boeingto sell passengers in the sky broadband Internetconnection services, starting late thisyear or early in 2002...Enum, a standard approvedlast year that would amalgamate telephonenumbers with website addresses, is now intrial testing in the U.S. Invented by a Ciscoengineer frustrated by his phalanx of pager, e-mail, cell phone, office phone, home phone, andinstant messenger numbers, Enum would allow contactthrough the Internet through use of a singletelephone number...Online news services reportedthat on May 11th, tens of thousands ofcopies of a Windows XP beta version were downloadedfrom Microsoft’s Windows Beta server aftersomeone leaked the password...The Internetis blasting into outer space -- with supportfrom NASA, a consortium of engineers from MCIWorldCom, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mitre,SPARTA and Global Science and Technology istargeting the 2003 Mars mission for live testing...Wordhas it that Bluetooth, the muchtalked-about personal area network technologybacked by 3Com, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others,will finally surface this summer in cardsfor laptops and printers...SuperDrive spawns new LaCie DVD-R/CD-RWLaCie’s new FireWire-based DVD-R/CD-RW combo drive readsand writes CD-R and CD-RW discs, and also writes 4.7GB DVD-R General discs. LaCie developed the FireWire interface and thesoftware bundle to support the drive, but the core optical drivetechnology is Pioneer’s DVR-A03, the aftermarket version of Apple’sSuperDrive, the DVR-103.The LaCie drive records 4.7GB DVD-R General Use discs at2x (2.6MBps), and provides 6x read performance for DVD-R,DVD-Video and DVD ROM discs. It will also burn CD-Rs at 8xspeed and CD-RWs at 4x speed, and reads CDs at 24x.Suggested retail price is US$999. The drive comes with an internationalpower supply, three 80-minute CD-Rs, one DVD-Rdisc, and the LaCie Recording Utilities CD package, which containsediting and authoring software for both Windows and MacOS. For more information contact LaCie via e-mail at sales@laciecanada.comor call 416-530-2545.dMACS releases digital workflow education kitThe Technical Standards Committee of Magazines Canada hasformally released the first version of its digital workflow educationkit, according to a recent announcement.The dMACS CD and Cookbook contains printed and interactivereference materials, comprised of digital workflow material,tools, industry data andadvice. Topics coveredrange from TIFF/IT-P1and PDF/X-1 to remoteproofing, copydot issues,screen resolutions, transmissionspeeds, and otherareas of interest related todistributed advertisingproduction for print. Thedisc and handbook providea comprehensive setof reference material forresearching, analyzing,planning and implementingfully digital workflows,including.an extensiveglossary and standards-compliantdigitalcolor bars.Project sponsors includeAdobe Systems, Kodak Polychrome, Fuji, KangaCom, andEmbassy Graphics. The dMACS CD (for Mac and Windows)and printed “Cookbook” are now available as a package fromMagazines Canada (www.dMACS.org) at a cost of $249.42 Graphic Exchange
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