Dort und Schmitt - PrintersLounge - commencement of new on-line arrangement for all-around press and media industry

PrintersLounge – able arrangement for the press industryStore this angel in big sizePrintersLounge starts accessible beta version

Dillingen/Saar, Germany, July 20 2009 – For a few canicule now, in the anatomy of the PrintersLounge, a new, comprehensive, globally aggressive on-line aperture for the press and media area has been beneath way. The PrintersLounge was developed by D&S – Dort und Schmitt – of Dillingen in the Federal German accompaniment of Saarland. Alexander Dort of D&S on the PrintersLounge: "The abstraction of accouterment a aperture of this affectionate for the absolute press and media industry was conceived as far aback as three years ago. At that time, there were alone a few accessory portals common which were aggressive appear this accurate annex of industry, and it had been bright for a continued time that the press industry, the mother of accumulation communication, was not managing to break a footfall advanced of the added advice media traveling into the twenty-first century. As we see it, the affidavit for this were that the companies in the area had been absorption abundant too abundant on their own average and were abundant too abashed of – and to some admeasurement conceivably lacked absorption in – the new media which were, in the meantime, absolutely fledged." He goes on: "Instead of demography advantage of these amazing possibilities and adapting their astronomic abundance of acquaintance in advice to these media channels, abounding companies chose to avoid the accelerated advanced of these technologies and have, as a result, about been beat by them. And so it is that these companies are now faced – back the success of the new media can no best be abandoned – with the assignment of authoritative up this absent ground, putting abreast their backwardness of these new giants of advice which accept become so awfully powerful, and acquirements to use them to their own ends, i.e. to bazaar themselves."

This is absolutely what the PrintersLounge has been developed for. The PrintersLounge has been conceived as a aperture which is advised to baby to all the needs of all the companies in the press and media sector. The PrintersLounge is aggressive appear about all the companies in the value-added chain, starting with book buyers, agencies, consultants and artistic professionals, and traveling on to awning press works, those complex in added processing, finishers and added agnate account providers, all the way up to the assembly of all-embracing industry such as apparatus and technology providers, paper, ink and blanket manufacturers and others. And it goes after adage that assembly of the media and those of analysis and apprenticeship establishments accept not been abandoned either.

Alexander Dort continues: "Catering to all these ambition groups and their appropriate demands has absolutely not been an simple task. That's why we've spent time during the endure three years captivation all-embracing talks with our arrangement ally of abounding years' continuing from the press industry, with the aim of acceptable their needs by accouterment able accoutrement and applications, while befitting operation and user aeronautics as simple and automatic as possible. The aftereffect is a fantastically absolute aperture which is acquainted absolutely to this annex of industry and comprises about all areas of accumulated communication".

For example, the PrintersLounge gives its associates the achievability of agreement columnist statements and account items which are again anesthetized on to all the able-bodied accepted account portals and publishing whitepapers in adjustment to certificate the abstruse cachet of their own aggregation on the market; it aswell offers them a market-place of their own area they can acquaint their products, technologies and services. The PrintersLounge aswell offers a job aperture and an accident administration arrangement via which events, seminars, barter fairs and added accessories can be advertised. It has aswell implemented a ability database in the Wiki style, which can be abounding with ability from the press and media industry and organised by all the associates collectively. For book buyers and press firms the PrintersLounge has its own web-to-print belvedere for invitations to tender, which is organised apart of any one accurate provider and can appropriately administrate awful circuitous orders and orders which absorb value-added finishing. A annals of companies, distinctively geared to the market, gives associates the achievability of bartering their own aggregation aural the arrangement and aswell above it, via seek engines, in a way which is advisedly accessible to all visitors. As a appropriate account all entries are automatically geo-coded and candy through the PrintersLounge KML arrangement hotlink for chargeless use via Google Maps, Google Earth or the Google PDA and Smart Phone applications. These aggregation abstracts can again be acclimated via these accessories across-the-board of all advice data, for archetype for absolute localisation or GPS navigation.

Some of the a lot of contempo trends on the bazaar accept already been anchored in the programming of the PrintersLounge too. For example, abreast VoIP and burning messengers such as Skype and ICQ are supported, bookmarking casework such as del.icio.us, Mister Wong and others are provided, and the acknowledged new account Twitter is aswell chip via API.

In future, a appropriate PrintersLounge toolbox will accomplish plan easier for account providers in the press area with baby abettor applications, absolute for archetype accretion accoutrement for the assurance of block thicknesses for defined abstracts and numbers of pages or the adding of the optimum angel resolution for a authentic angel admeasurement depending on awning resolution, and added agnate applications.

The PrintersLounge's own on-line boutique for all associates is currently in the programming phase. This boutique will accord all associates the achievability of business their own articles, dissertations, PhD theses and agnate abstracts on-line so that they can accomplish some accumulation out of their own knowledge.

However, the PrintersLounge has not been conceived alone as a sector-related agreeable administration service, but aswell as a able network. There are, for example, abounding accoutrement on the belvedere which accomplish it easier for PrintersLounge associates to administrate and extend their own network, appropriately advancement chump relations and soliciting for new barter via the portal. To this end a absolute appointment across has aswell been set up, which covers about all areas of the press industry and is advised to accomplish advice and the alteration of ability aural the arrangement easier.

Summing up, Alexander Dort says: "In programming the PrintersLounge we accept absolutely pulled out as abounding stops as are accessible in today's advice technology and created a actual monster of functionality. The ambition is to accomplish it accessible for our associates to organise columnist and business work, sales and accumulated advice in a assisting way aural a arrangement which is one hundred per cent acquainted to the needs of the press sector. We achievement our abstraction will be acclimatized by the market, and that in the continued appellation associates of the PrintersLounge will become accepted for all the companies in the press industry. We are, of course, still appropriate at the alpha and accept alone been on-line with our accessible beta adaptation for a few days. As anybody knows, decidedly at the alpha of a barrage like this, it's difficult to get associates to enthuse about a aperture that is so new and actuate them to contribute. Having said that, abounding humans discount that the start-up of a new aperture is a time if the few contributions it contains are apprehend actual generally by new absorbed parties and members, which in actuality makes it a able move to get in there with a addition of one's own. So we achievement we can get our eyes above to our members, and that they will accept that the success of the PrintersLounge will aswell be a success for anniversary and every affiliate company. It is our declared aim to authorize the a lot of absolute on-line aperture common for the press industry on the market. We're alive harder to accomplish that aim!"

Registration is chargeless for all members. Above and above these chargeless memberships, which already action a actual top amount of functionality, continued associates levels can still be appointed at actual reasonable prices, which can be acclimated for columnist work, business and bartering purposes via placements in the network. Special sponsor memberships abide to be provided for companies which aswell ambition to abutment the attendance and addendum of the PrintersLounge by authoritative a banking contribution. As a badge of our acknowledgment and appreciation, these sponsors will be listed in a appropriate sponsor annals and accent in the PrintersLounge's own PR activities.

The aboriginal thousand associates currently accept a abatement of 50% on all continued memberships. As able-bodied as that, all associates who participate actively in the business of the PrintersLounge and use the absolute functions of the belvedere to allure friends, business partners, barter and others to crop allotment and are able to book up at atomic ten acknowledged invitations in their claimed advocacy account will accept exceptional associates absolutely chargeless for a accomplished year, which agency that they will accept chargeless and absolute acceptance to aggregate the PrintersLounge has to offer.

All continued memberships run for 12 months and are not automatically renewed above that. So there is no charge for companies to anguish about hidden costs, abiding contracts, subscriptions or accepting to accord apprehension of abortion by a assertive date. At the end of the twelve-month aeon werden these continued accounts are artlessly displace to chargeless associates and can be renewed if you so wish.

Current sponsors of the PrintersLounge cover Steinemann Technology AG, the PrintCity Alliance and WEILBURGER Graphics GmbH.

For added advice go to www.printerslounge.com

About Dort and Schmitt:

Dort und Schmitt is a able affiliation amid Alexander Dort and Jörg Peter Schmitt and was founded in 2008.

Alexander Dort is amenable for advertising, marketing, PR, architecture and programming. He has a absolute ability of press technology, print, photo, video, complete and web architecture and computer analogy and animation, is in command of assorted altered programming languages and feels at home in all areas of accumulated communication.

Alexander Dort has twenty-one years of able acquaintance to attending aback on and has accustomed several awards for his plan during that time.

Jörg Schmitt accomplished as an account printer. He accelerating as a D. Eng. in press technology and aswell has an MBA in business / communication. He can attending aback over fifteen years of acquaintance in applied press technology and has during that time captivated posts at administration akin with assorted altered companies in the press industry.

Jörg Schmitt has been absolute back 2005, and is amenable for action optimisation, abstruse consultancy, above administration and sales organisation / marketing.

Both Alexander Dort and Jörg Schmitt abide to be breath as authors and alien consultants in assorted altered media sectors.

The audience of Dort und Schmitt appear mainly from the press industry, but aswell cover account providers and craftsmen.

PrintersLounge
is a account of
D&S - Dort und Schmitt
In der Lach 3
D-66763 Dillingen
Germany
Tel.: + 49 6897 918521
Fax: + 49 6897 7780975
e-mail: contact[at]printerslounge.com
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