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Proofing before going into final printing is necessary to check color and potential production problems and avoid costly mistakes. There are seven types of technology that can be used to produce color proofs. One category consists of dye sublimation, thermal wax and solid-ink printers. They range in price from $5,000 to $20,000 and come from manufacturers such as Kodak, RasterOps, QMS, Oce Graphics, Tektronix and DataProducts. Color laser copiers, used with an interpreter, are the second type. Both devices, which make up a complete printing system, cost $80,000 together. The third type are high-end color inkjet printers, mostly produced by Iris Graphics and Stork Bedford B.V., and cost from over $50,000. The fourth category are direct digital color proofing devices, made primarily by Kodak and 3M, costing several hundred thousand dollars. Popular examples of overlay proofing devices, the fifth type, are 3M Color-Keys and DuPont CromaCheck. The sixth type are integral proofing devices such as DuPont Cromalin, 3M Matchprint, Kodak Signature, and Fuji ColorArt and cost about $40-$80 a page. The last and most expensive category are press proofs, which cost about $300-$500 an hour.
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The quarterly magazine Colors appears in four versions and four language combinations, making the Benetton-bankrolled publication unique and presenting its staff with a daunting production task. Once a theme for the magazine has been chosen, researchers worldwide collect facts and items to send to the home office. House writers using Microsoft Word 5.1 turn out 'hypercomposed' prose that will be combined with photography in the magazine's trademark style. The magazine then proceeds by using a combination of Adobe PhotoShop and QuarkXpress to lay out pages. The English and foreign-language blocks are placed into caption blocks, separating English from any other language by color-coding and then applying the blocks to four different master mechanical layouts. Translating the English text requires a series of steps which are the domain of translators using XPress. The final step before printing is the production of page layouts on film.
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Content management technologies have the potential to improve productivity in digital publishing, but fewer than 6 percent of creative and printing businesses plan to buy a content management system in 1999-2000, according to TrendWatch. Banta Integrated Media Dir Frank Leibly says media asset management has received much more attention in the press than it has from business. Publishing workflows are becoming increasingly digital, and interactive distribution channels are being created. Content management becomes more critical as the amount of digital content explodes, but the content-management market is crowded and confusing. Leibly says many companies implement content management systems for electronic commerce, one-to-one marketing and custom publishing, but application-specific implementations may not address enterprise-wide issues, and they lack the planning and coordination of a centralized IT system.
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