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For a lot of vendors, ANPA was a chance to redo in front of a larger audience what they had done at Digital '92 in March. But there were some […]

A Few More Concepts Rational tangent angles (or Eine Kleine Trig Musik). OK. Time to break out the math for a little while. Remember what a rational number is? It's […]

Concepts The electronic process mimics the photographic one, although sometimes not very well. Inevitably there is a learning curve as automtion first performs worse than the previous method. Then, when […]

Videoconferencing capabilities are changing the face of company meetings, allowing employees to attend who were restricted from travel and cutting out extraneous talking due to the more formal nature of a video conference. It is also imposing a new etiquette for meetings, even to what participants may wear. Because of the constraints of image generation on current systems, busy patterns do not resolve well in transmission. The slight time delay in international transmission does not allow for talking over another person, imposing a greater politeness. Disadvantages include adjusting to the need to be in camera so that a disembodied voice is not transmitted to another meeting site. Cameras responsive to sound may solve this problem. Another aspect is the more spontaneous nature of a videoconference that can be called at short notice, rather than having to wait for travel to take place. More people can participate in a meeting when travel is obviated, but a higher degree of readiness and attention is also required. The disadvantages of not being in physical proximity in a meeting may be countered by the ability to defuse disagreements long distance.

Pre-Press Technologies demonstrated the SpectreLink bidirectional scanner interface that it had announced at the Seybold Seminars in March. Designed to interface older Hell drum scanners to the Macintosh, it supports […]

Briefly ... Ad/Sat reorganized. Robert Maxwell, chairman and CEO of Maxwell Communication Corp., has reorganized Maxwell Ad/Sat, making it part of the Maxwell Multi-Media Publishing Division. It will be directed […]

Comstock sells by modem Comstock the stock photo agency that pioneered photo art on CD-ROM (see Vol. 17, No. 22, p. 35), announced that it will begin selling photos by […]

Image Data develops, markets and manufactures digital imaging systems, terminals and components, but is a newcomer to the newspaper industry,. At ANPA it was showing its Photophone desktop video telephone […]