Newspapers--The Front Page Goes Digital

To offer a look at the digital front-page follies expected at this month's NEXPO, Printing Impressions provides the following technological forecasts, status reports and product promises from a sampling of the technology providers bound for Las Vegas.

Digital Asset Moves
Cascade Systems is one digital asset management provider planning to target NEXPO. Cascade provides several workflow and content management solutions specifically for newspapers, including solutions that offer: display ad production tracking and management; Internet-based ad proofing and ad delivery; photo-desk capabilities; archiving, photo and graphic assignment and tracking; digital ad delivery and preflighting; page tracking; ad stacking; and digital library/archiving for all digital assets such as pages, PDF files, graphics, photos, text and multimedia with incorporated free-text searching.