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About this site Best browsers and settings See E-P through different browsers Site map and contents Using the site search engine About this publication The history of Electric-Pages Our target audience International readers GRLab company background Copyright notice Best browsers and settings: Use a top-of-the-line power browser like Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Select a serif font like Times New Roman, Palatino or Memphis. Set the basic font size to 10 point on Netscape Navigator Smallest on Microsoft Internet Explorer Turn link underlining off. Set the window size at or close to 640x480 pixels. See what Electric-Pages looks like in... 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Along with background information, references and contact data about the Graphics Research Lab, we're building an up-to-date index of the entire site. Electric-Pages is not a site for breaking news about interactive media, and it's not limited to Internet or web issues. We use these pages to try out new ideas, to support our client research and to expand on and document our seminars and workshops, updating about once a week. We're experimenting with new tools like audio both downloaded and real time, video and animation, and with SGML, Acrobat and virtual reality formats. For us at the Lab, new media technology doesn't always have to work on the first try; sometimes our best analysis comes from talking about how some high tech gizmo failed miserably. If you have any suggestions for interesting, innovative or fun things to try, please drop us a line at GRLab@aol.com. Thanks for clicking, and we hope you'll bookmark us and come visit from time to time. Using the site search engine: Use the left input box and Search button to find any text string or code on the site. Use the right pull-down menu and E-P Keys button to search for pages that we've designated as relevant to some of our main research topics. The history of Electric-Pages Electric-Pages is the continually developing journal of the Graphics Research Laboratory, Inc. in New York City. Established in 1982, the lab is a media technology research and education firm, a high tech media think tank that helps commercial, corporate and government publishers around the world to understand and to implement new technology. We launched E-P in 1991 at the PRINT 91 exposition in Chicago. It began life as a monthly paper-based newsletter mailed the old fashioned way to some 500 printing and publishing professionals in North America. Following the research and education mission of the Graphics Research Lab, our beat has always been the evolution of publishing from the Industrial Age batch manufacturing model to the Information Age network approach. In those early days, we covered new multimedia, CD-ROM, document database and digital printing technologies and we described the migration of graphic communications imagery to digital formats. In 1994, we converted the monthly printed newsletter to an interactive fax system driven by a voice response system that also included audio excerpts from some of GRLab director Jack Powers' seminars and workshops. Since January of 1995 we've been on the web with some of our old content adapted to hypertext and with all of our new work written and edited for continuous hypertext publishing. Of course, many of the new pieces cover the Internet and the World Wide Web, but our focus is always on the practical publishing concerns: editorial, art and design, advertising and marketing, and technology management. We try to be analytical in our articles, helpful in our lab notes, educational in our courseware and topical in our forums. There have been many changes in publishing and media technology since the lab was founded in 1982 and E-P was launched in 1991, and sometimes the future of publishing seems unimaginable. But we can learn from all of it, the successes and the failures, and build a clearer understanding of how humans will communicate with each other int he next century. Our target audience Each month, over 7,000 readers in 58 countries log on and download more than 140 megabytes of articles, lab notes and course material. Our target readers are publishing professionals in commercial, corporate and government operations worldwide, a diverse group that includes: magazine, journal, book and newspaper publishers; advertisers, direct marketers and catalog developers; corporate communicators and documentation managers; government legislative, judicial and regulatory directors; the editors, illustrators and designers who create the pages; and the graphic arts firms that produce the work. The material is written from a professional publisher's perspective, not a layman's viewpoint, but most of the ideas and perspectives are quite new and there are plenty of explanations, illustrations and examples. International readers International publishing professionals from 58 countries are regular readers of Electric-Pages. Our web server logged regular visitors from the following countries in 1996.

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