Peerless goes into color. Peerless, which has been a premier supplier of controllers for monochrome print engines, has branched into the color printer field. Although it didn't exhibit on the show floor, it announced new capabilities built around its custom ASICs and memory-reduction technology. Document creation Pindar teams with Icat. Together, they will offer users an integrated set of software for both types of publishing.
Frame gets it right.
This appears to be the product we were hoping for when FrameBuilder was introduced three years ago. Deneba takes on a challenge. One of our Hot Picks for its effort to combine drawing, painting and page makeup features into one product, Deneba's Canvas 5.0 was the focus of a hard look by our staff. Although the product isn't ready for a full evaluation yet, it promises to be chock full of features. In its newest area, text composition, Canvas will contain some features for high-quality text composition not found in Xpress and PageMaker.