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Technical and Media Services : Center for New Media Design

The Center for New Media Design supports Kalamazoo College faculty, staff and students in the creation of materials for course projects or other college-related activities. The hours of operation are Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm. The Center has seven computers (four PC and three Mac). Also available is a light table and cutting table(10' x 5').

Hardware and Software
Software / Hardware Purpose

Software

Computer Platform

 
  • Adobe Photoshop CS3
  • Adobe Illustrator CS3
  • Adobe InDesign CS3
  • Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver CS3
  • Macromedia Flash Professional CS3
  • Microsoft Excel 2003 / Excel 2001
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 / PowerPoint 2001
  • Microsoft Publisher 2003 / Publisher 2001
  • Microsoft Word 2003 / Word 2001
  • MacDrive 5
  • OmniPage Pro 14.0
  • SilverFast AI Studio 6
  • PC / Mac
  • PC / Mac
  • PC / Mac
  • PC / Mac
  • PC / Mac
  • PC / Mac
  • PC / Mac
  • PC / Mac
  • PC / Mac
  • PC / Mac
  • PC
  • PC
  • PC / Mac
  • professional image-editing software
  • create vector graphics
  • professional page layout application
  • create PDF files
  • build websites and web applications
  • create rich internet content and applications
  • spreadsheet application
  • presentation application
  • desktop publishing
  • word processing
  • allows Mac-formatted disks to be read on a PC
  • OCR (optical character recognition) software
  • professional scanning software

Hardware

Model

Purpose

Film Recorder Polaroid Pro Palette 8000 create 35mm slides from digital images
Printers
  • HP Color Laserjet 5500dn
  • Epson Stylus 9800 Professional
  • Epson Stylus 4800
  • Sharp AR-P350
  • letter, legal, tabloid printing (duplex available)
  • large format color printing up to 44" wide
  • medium format color printing up to 17" wide
  • B&W letter, legal, tabloid printing
Scanners
  • Epson Expression 1680
  • Epson Expression 1640XL Graphic Arts
  • HP Scanjet 7650   
  • Nikon Super Coolscan 5000
  • legal scanner
  • tabloid scanner
  • letter OCR scanner
  • slide and negative scanner
Laminator   laminate items up to 24" wide
Poster Enlargements Varitronic ProImage Poster Printer create posters or banners of b/w printed materials which contain no images
-- Center for New Media Design is open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. --