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Heidelberg USA, 800/437-7388, fax: 770/419-6665.

Prinect is a software that allows packaging printers to digitally network all their production workflows. It provides digital connectivity between important functions and instantly brings a converter's operations up-to-speed. Prinect includes Prinance for overall workflow management as well as applications for prepress, pressroom and postpress. Converters can use the Prinance overall workflow to manage every step from job estimation to job data management. Prinance provides the applications with job-oriented data and receives information for follow-up costing and statistical evaluations.

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Concord Business Systems, 770/429-0268, fax: 770/429-8774.

This co. offers two solutions to help converters integrate their entire operations with Converting Essentials and Axapta for Converting. Converting Essentials is designed for small to mid-sized converters with limited, or no, enterprise business system in place. It offers the essential tools needed to support the core of their business. Axapta for Converting is designed for mid to large-size converters who want to harness the latest, powerful technology, such as customer relationship management (CRM) e-business capabilities and supply-chain management (SCM), all in one system.

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Circonix Polytype Group, 201/327-7410, fax: 201/327-7406, www.circonix.com

Power Plant MTS is a specially designed system to meet the highest standards in the converting industry for product quality, as well as satisfy quality requirements of regulatory agencies. This system is comprised of leading edge hardware and software that provides complete traceability of materials and equipment used to manufacture a given product. The system also enforces recipe requirements prior to start up production runs. The MTS hardware consists of bar code scanners that communicate with the Power Plant server via an Ethernet access point.

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ei³ Corp., 888/218-6880, fax: 201/802-9099, www.ei3.com

Sentinel^SM is an on-line software comparison and analyzer tool for manufacturing, which is a part of the co.'s commercial products in the ei³ SiteOutlook^SM series of predictive maintenance and quality control programs. Sentinel converts raw data about a manufacturer's production run into a report that enables quick identification of potential problem areas. When using this software, a reference job is established where equipment operating conditions become the basis of an on-line comparison. The manufacturer activates Sentinel through the Internet to monitor current production conditions. The information is analyzed using advanced statistical algorithms, which filter out real problems that occur.

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Peregrine Systems, 715/835-3616, www.peregrinesys.com

Convert-n-Track is designed to be a comprehensive order management system that will track customer's orders from entry to shipping. Weight, sheet, and roll identification numbers are collected and tracked by Convert-n-Track. If a product is out of stock, Convert-n-Track will automatically create work orders. You can also customize labels, invoices and manifests completely.

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Tailored Solutions, Inc., 414/774-997, fax: 414/774-9986, www.tailor.com

This co. unveiled a new Quality Control module for their two popular business management software solutions: Litho Traxx™ and Label Traxx™. The module was developed to meet the need for communicating to ISO standards. The Quality Control module offers an innovative approach to quality management. In addition to storing all procedures, it allows companies to identify production events that require special procedures to be followed. An event can range from creating a new estimate to receiving a return of defective material.

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Marconi Data Systems Inc., 630/860-7300, fax: 630/616-3657, www.marconidata.com

The new Excel WebLink is a print management tool which provides remote status monitoring of one or more of the co.'s Excel series ink-jet printers. WebLink allows a Videojet Excel printer to be connected to a LAN/WAN, Intranet or Internet and act as a web server. This function gives any standard web browser the ability to connect to the printer over a typical Ethernet connection. The WebLink can be viewed remotely from any web browser worldwide.

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Gretag Macbeth, 845/565-7660, www.gretagmacbeth.com

The new ProPalette Plastics V4.0 offers the most complete color-formulation and quality-control software package, reports co. This Windows-based comprehensive color formulation software package is compatible with any of the co.'s spectrophotometers, including the new ColorEye® XTH, as well as other instruments to formulate colors. A searchable library of color standards and formulas can be created and modified.

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