ia4@CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Imran Anwar) (09/10/89)
NEWSPAPER FRONT END PAGEMAKER SYSTEMS
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I am looking for information on/about companies that provide front end
page makeup systems for major newspapers.
Also any info about satellite/facsimile transmission of data to remote
printing plants etc done by major publications. What is the state of the art?
What companies make such equipment?
These days even computers like the Apple Mac can drive industrial photo-
typsetters like Linotype etc. Does that mean that a newspaper can be brought
out (published daily) using just an Apple Mac based system?
I have used Pagemaker on the mac but wonder if there is any software package
for it that allows Full Newspaper Size Page makup.
I have also seen a "color scanner of 35mm slides" from Nikon that feeds the
data thru an RS 232 to computers (like the MAC IIcx?). Does that mean that
people can now bring out color magazines using such "desktop" stuff?
Any information and suggestions on this subject would be appreciated.
I would appreciate if you would email me directly.
Thanks
Imran
ia4@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu
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------------------------------------------------------------------mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Tod Rose) (09/13/89)
Folks, The Mac is in use as a front end/design workstation in many publications of all shapes and sizes; I personally work for a weekly college newspaper (broadsheet, color) that is done in toto on the Mac. Atex, the former Kodak subsidiary, produces integrated systems for magazine and newspaper publishing. Their next-generation system uses Macs as design work- stations (PCs and PS/2s are the text and page processing platforms). The software in question is called Atex Designer and it is developed by a company called Media Solutions, located in Andover, Mass. The Atex software handles design, 24-bit images, text tricks, and other neat stuff. It retails for (hold your breath) $10,000. (personal opinion: it's really not worth that much money - I've used it.) Other big publications equipment companies use the Mac as a front end to their typesetters or image proc. systems (Hell, Scitex, Crosfield). Crosfield's solution is a special version of ReadySetGo! that outputs compatible files, which are then RIPped in a Sun workstation. PostScript graphics and page geometry are passed on to the high-end system. (personal opinion: It works, but it's still beta.) The Nikon scanner is a real piece of work, producing 24-bit images with amazing resolution in jig time. One caveat: your hard drive has to be very large to accomodate the 70-megabyte max rez images. It works with the Mac II (x) (cx) and it's cool. BTW: Pagemaker does handle "newspaper-sized" pages. Where did you get the idea that it didn't? -mike rose mr2t+@andrew.cmu.edu