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News Digital colour printing Envirocote OCAD 7 CPT Map Studio (Mac) Introduction
	New! Digital colour printing We are now using the latest Xerox DocuTech 12, A3 digital colour printer. Digital colour printing, direct from OCAD - we can supply digital colour prints, (as opposed to colour photocopies), direct from OCAD files, to page sizes up to full A3 with colour bleed. This is printed onto a 130gsm satin art paper, which is almost identical to the standard 135gsm coated paper we use in traditional litho printing. Please contact us for a sample print sheet and prices. Oct. 2000

	Envirocote As part of our responsibility to the environment, The MapWorks are including an environmentally friendly paper in their map suitability range, Envirocote. A unique matt-coated recycled paper range which pioneered the acceptance of recycled papers as being suitable for four colour process work. Consequently Envirocote has been adopted by many environmental organizations as their 'house' recycled paper; indeed after research by the Department of the Environment, the summary of the Government White Paper on the Environment (1990) was printed on Envirocote. This paper displays qualities of good opacity, bulk and rub resistance and is suitable for general orienteering map printing. An important aspect of its manufacture, apart from being made from true recycled fibre, is the use of environmentally friendly non-chlorine bleaches in the de-inking process.

	OCAD 7 OCAD 7 now on release (March 99). OCAD 7 for Windows 95/98/NT4+ offers some significant improvements over earlier versions, including: Multiple maps open at the same time Auto scrolling of the drawing area when drawing outside the on-screen area AI (adobe Illustrator) export much improved and now includes AI layers according to the OCAD symbol. Partial maps of any shape can be selected and exported. Demo copies are usually available and are restricted only in the maximum number of objects permitted in a file. Contact Steinegger Software for prices (approx. 480 Swiss Francs for the full copy, CHF 260 for an upgrade, plus P+P). See the Links page for the OCAD home page. Latest news: OCAD 5 now available as Freeware from Steineggar Software

	CPT Computer to Plate. New technology to process your map file directly from computer file to printers plate. Currently we are only able to offer this service on A2 print runs. Mar. 99

	MapStudio MapStudio 3 for Adobe Illustrator 8 (Mac) is currently under development. The software will have significant changes and will make heavy use of the new features that Illustrator 8 offers. As it looks now, there will be no plug-ins anymore, but simply a set of symbols, lines and patterns that will appear in the standard Illustrator palettes. Please note that MapStudio 2.1 also works with Illustrator 8, but does not make use of the new features. See the Links page. Apr. 99

	An Introduction to The MapWorks The MapWorks was founded in 1993 by fellow club members, Nick Nourse and Steve Killingbeck of North Gloucester Orienteering Club, to provide a competitive service to the orienteering and leisure market, executed to the highest standards. This service continues to grow and expand, 5 years later, while maintaining those initial standards of quality and service so important to our customers. Nick Nourse brought his surveying skills from club mapping days to provide the principal leg work to The MapWorks projects; that combined with a technical and artistic background has helped enable The MapWorks to attain a number of orienteering mapping awards based partly on his expertise with the map drawing software, OCAD. Steve Killingbeck, also an experienced club mapper from East Anglia, has brought his own expertise in the printing and reprographics trade to The MapWorks. Steve has also won awards in orienteering mapping for his work in the more traditional cartographic method of scribing. However, as computer technology, not just with the now widespread use of OCAD, but on various computer platforms and in varying computer formats, has progressed into the mapping world, both Nick and Steve have kept pace with this technological progress to ensure that whatever format their customers chose, there will always be an option for their cartographic and printing needs. Jan. 1999