Managing Editor Inc. - K4 Drives Catalog Production at Omega Institute

Jenkintown, PA (March 9, 2009) — Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe arch development accomplice and a arch provider of software solutions for the publishing industry, today appear that Omega Institute has implemented the vjoon K4™ Publishing System. The educational retreat centermost has already acclimated the accepted workflow administration band-aid amalgam Adobe® InDesign® and InCopy® to aftermath two of its melancholia advance catalogs and to handle agreeable for its Web site, eomega.org, acumen actual time and amount savings.

Most recently, Omega acclimated the arrangement to aftermath its 144-page 2009 Summer Catalog, a full-sized book that has already been beatific to the organization’s commitment list. The archive has a book apportionment of about 480,000. Omega appear its aboriginal K4-managed piece, a 26-page advertisement account its winter curriculum, during its K4 pilot appearance in 2008.

Founded in 1977, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies provides educational programs focused on wellness and claimed growth. A nonprofit organization, Omega Institute offers added than 350 workshops annually, which are advised to “inspire an chip access to claimed and amusing change,” according to its Web site. With address in Rhinebeck, N.Y., and appropriate workshops, conferences and retreats in locations about the world, Omega draws added than 23,000 humans every year to its classes. In accession to its above archive for its summer session, Omega sends out several abate catalogs every year.

Omega Institute’s K4 bureaucracy has about 20 users. The Institute aswell purchased the K4 XML Exporter for repurposing its book agreeable for its Web site, as able-bodied as K4 Web Editor for quick, simple, Web-based argument alteration and proofing. Additionally, Omega Web agents formed with alternate business casework close MEA Digital to administer its XSL development and authorize an able workflow for application K4-managed agreeable online.

Before installing K4, Omega publishing agents collaborated primarily via e-mail, sending abstracts aback and alternating for alteration and analysis after any axial athenaeum for advancement the data. The beat aggregation would delay for agreeable and scheduling advice to crawl in from advisers and added sources; meanwhile, the architecture administration could not activate its plan until all the advice on a page was ready.

Under Omega’s old workflow, already pages were laid out and accessible for final proofing, harder copies would be printed, broadcast and apparent up for editing. When agreeable was accessible to be pushed online, Web agents would absorb four to 5 weeks acid and pasting abstracts to be formatted for the organization’s Web site.

Since implementing K4, Omega has created a new, automated workflow that has already helped cut assembly time and materials. The system’s able database capabilities accept accustomed agents to coact abundant added easily. Designers can alpha alive on pages afore all the book agreeable is available, while editors accompanying add added argument as they accept it. Electronic agreeable administration makes it easier for agents to broadcast proofs, utilizing PDFs to allotment and accomplish addendum on pages instead of cardboard printouts. And acknowledgment to the new automated XML consign process, Omega was able to repurpose its summer book archive for its Web website in about a division of the time it took previously.

“By application K4, we developed a clearer compassionate of our workflow. It has helped us adapt a amazing aggregate of abstracts and has automated the way assorted groups in our alignment — Web, editorial, design, programming — plan together,” said Jennifer Brown, beat administrator at Omega Institute. “The time accumulation were anon apparent. We’re actual appreciative.”

Omega agents affairs to use K4 to aggrandize online-only agreeable for its Web site, area there aren’t as abounding amplitude constraints as in the printed pieces — accouterment continued biographies of its instructors, for example. While Omega ahead had no arrangement for managing such content, agents can now use K4 as the “vault” area it maintains all of its added data, and can assimilate on InCopy and K4 Web Editor for assembly and editing.

For MEI, Omega Institute is an agitative accession to the K4 community, apery a altered bazaar that can account from automated cyberbanking publishing.

“This accession illustrates how K4 isn’t just a publishing arrangement for magazines and newsrooms,” said Linda Bruce, carnality admiral of action sales at MEI. “It’s a able workflow and agreeable administration band-aid for any alignment that needs to broadcast important data, for print, Web or both.”

About K4
The vjoon K4 Publishing System, chip with Adobe InDesign and InCopy, allows publishing professionals to administer architecture and beat workflow and to ascendancy the absolute assembly process. With its multi-level aegis controls, accessible SQL architectonics and able-bodied customization options, K4 supports a cellophane and defended assembly workflow for alone workgroups or absolute publishing enterprises. K4 is a artefact of vjoon (formerly SoftCare) GmbH of Hamburg, Germany. With added than 300 systems installed in publishing houses, agencies and magazines worldwide, K4 has already revolutionized the beat workflow for added than 16,000 users. MEI is the absolute benefactor of K4 in the Americas, with 140 installations managing about 9,000 users.

About MEI
Managing Editor Inc. is an industry baton in the development of quality, accurate software solutions for the evolving publishing industry. The Page Director® Series of Advertising and Classified Layout Systems, K4 Publishing System, Integrated Production Suite (IPS) and IPS AdTrac bear automated pagination, workflow and agenda asset administration solutions to bi-weekly and annual publishers, as able-bodied as to added book and cyberbanking publishing markets. MEI is an Adobe arch development accomplice and has alert been called a laureate of the Computerworld Smithsonian Collections. Additional advice apropos MEI’s articles and casework can be begin on the company’s Web website at www.maned.com.

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