Managing Editor Inc. - MEI Case Study Details K4 Success at National Geographic Magazine

Jenkintown, PA (November 19, 2008) – Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe arch development accomplice and a arch provider of software solutions for the publishing industry, today appear an all-embracing case abstraction that describes how National Geographic, the flagship advertisement of the National Geographic Society (NGS), fabricated the alteration to managing its beat and architecture workflow with the vjoon K4™ Publishing System. The accession of the K4 software and accomplishing of a revamped workflow accept helped National Geographic accomplish 25 to 45 percent improvements in its assembly time.

NGS’s K4 accomplishing involves added than 100 editorial, architecture and assembly personnel, bearing 12 account issues, additional added map supplements and casual appropriate editions. National Geographic has a common apportionment of 8 million.

In accession to the amount K4 Publishing System components, National Geographic uses MadeToPrint Auto from axaio software, the server band-aid chip with K4 for automating assembly of PDF proofs and Adobe® InDesign® bales for prepress. National Geographic aswell advised and complete its own intranet aperture for reviewing agreeable in production. K4 always updates the aperture with previews and proofs of layouts and online autograph at any accustomed moment.

As a aftereffect of advance to K4, National Geographic adapted a diffuse cardboard workflow into a automated agenda one, atom three to seven weeks off what had been the magazine’s archetypal 15-week assembly time. More data are accessible in MEI’s case study, acquaint online at www.maned.com/k4works/national-geographic-pdf.

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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 GmbH (formerly SoftCare) 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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