April, 2000 | CreativePro Network

Creo and Scitex Play Hardball

The prepress world shook last week when the merger -slash- acquisition -slash- “decision to unite our strengths and work together” became final: Creo and Scitex have combined digital prepress businesses. As a result of its new division, ever-so-creatively called CreoScitex, Creo Products dissolved its joint venture with Heidelberg, with whom it had been co-branding its […]

Eye On the Web: How Navigator Could Win the Browser War

Remember 1998? Those heady days of judicial drama when the long-gone informal alliance of rebel technology companies, behemoths Sun Microsystems and Netscape among them, dragged the federal government into battle against that even bigger behemoth Microsoft? The charge, as we will all recall, was that Microsoft had engaged in anti-competitive business practices by tying its […]

Zaxwerks 3D Invigorator

The Zaxwerks’ 3D Invigorator plug-in comes in versions for Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand, or Adobe Photoshop. It is actually derived from its higher end cousins, Invigorator plug-ins for Maya and ElectricImage. This probably explains why its results are so impressive. The plug-in provides a sophisticated 3D design environment, including a camera, lighting and built-in renderer, […]

Out of Gamut: Should Creatives Learn Color Management?

For the past few months I’ve been writing about making color management work — including describing any end-runs we can make around this rather unintuitive process. In response to my last column, in which I described how to soft proof files in Adobe Photoshop, Bob Oswin, President of 5th Ave. Color Printz, wrote: "End users […]

Opinion: Print is Far from Dead

Although the printing industry in the U.S. economy is definitely undergoing tremendous change, it should be noted here-in the first issue of web-based Ps & Qs – that print is far from dead. The results of a panel discussion at Seybold Seminars 2000 earlier this year in Boston led Gene Gable, general manger of Seybold, […]

Web Site Legal Issues

If you have a web site, beware. Once you stamp out your piece of cyberspace, you’ve not only expanded the reaches of your business, but also your risks. Build a site without considering the legal issues involved, and troubles you never dreamed of could follow. Should you consult an attorney before taking your business online? […]

The Debate Presses On: Offset vs Digital

As the new millennium continues to dawn, digital printing is no longer a “technocuriosity,” but the heir apparent to offset lithography. Benefits including speed, quality, and cost are just some of the selling points that trickle off the tongues of press manufacturers across the nation, but is traditional offset equipment really about to go the […]

Is Print Dead?

In the opening keynote speech at Seybold Boston 2000, we presented data that shows that commercial printing is virtually a no-growth industry. And in today’s rapidly expanding economy, that’s really the same as saying it’s an industry in decline. And while Thad McIlroy and the rest of the panel gave some logical reasons why this […]

Web Design Now Beats Print in Corporate Market

The world of print isn’t quite what it used to be for designers. In fact, web design is now the No. 1 business opportunity among corporate design departments, beating out print design for the first time ever! Among designers surveyed, 40% chose web design as their top business opportunity while 36% chose print design, according […]