Stories about: Pantone

A quick study of the network industry could be enough to give you the blues.

Clean Communications on Monday will unveil an intrusion detection service (IDS) as the newest complement to its managed security services provider (MSSP) offering. A blitzkrieg of computer assaults and security threats raining down on end-users over the last six months is prompting stronger considerations toward managed security, industry analysts say.

Of course you buy stuff online. You love the convenience. And you'd like it even more if you could easily get what you wanted at the best price--without clicking constantly from one e-tailer to another to compare prices, shipping charges, and so on. Another thing you'd like: not having to hand out your credit or debit card number all over the Internet.

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Brother International has made it clear it thinks the colour laser market is the place to be. The company has two new models out that offer full colour print speeds of up to 6 pages per minute (ppm).

Print It Pretty: Hewlett-Packard Co. (800/552-8500, www.hp.com) has given graphics professionals more printers to choose from with its release of the HP Color LaserJet 8550 printer series. The new printer line includes the 8550GN, aimed at the graphics market. The 8550GN features 11-by-17-inch full-bleed printing, automatic Pantone color calibration, a 300MHz processor, and 128MB of RAM. Prices for the new printers start at $4,500, with the 8550GN retailing for around $8,500.

Sixty-four colors may be enough for a box of crayons, but graphics professionals are a little more demanding. Enter color-standards provider Pantone Inc. (888/726-8663, http://www.pantone.com) with updates to its reference products that bring the total number of colors in its guides and chip books to 1,159.

What's shocking to me is how many people seem content never to learn another language, never to travel to foreign countries, never to explore new cultures. How else can we get perspective on our own lives? For similar reasons, I believe it's important for even die-hard QuarkXPress users to take a look at Adobe InDesign.