Managing Editor Inc. - MEI Installs K4 at Award-Winning Texas Monthly

Jenkintown, PA (June 2, 2009) — Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe arch development accomplice and a arch provider of software solutions for the publishing industry, today appear that it has installed the vjoon K4 Publishing System at Texas Monthly magazine. The Austin, Texas-based advertisement afresh won a 2009 National Magazine Award for General Excellence.

Texas Monthly’s K4 accomplishing includes licenses for the magazine’s editorial, art and assembly staff. It will aswell be accumulation several add-on accoutrement into the new workflow: K4 Web Editor for limited acceptance to the database; K4 XML Exporter for breeding agreeable to be acquaint online; and axaio’s MadeToPrint Auto, which automates achievement from the K4 arrangement for preflighting, packaging, proofing and PDF generation.

Founded in 1973 by Michael R. Levy, Texas Monthly has a apportionment of 300,000 and is apprehend by added than 2.5 actor humans anniversary ages — one out of every eight Texas adults. The annual provides its readers with advancing ball through its belief on accurate crime, travel, food, politics, business, the arts and education. Texas Monthly is appear by Emmis Publishing, L.P. Emmis owns and operates radio stations and added bounded magazines. Texas Monthly has becoming ten National Magazine Awards, the annual industry’s agnate of the Pulitzer Prize, and has been nominated a absolute of 54 times over its history.

Texas Monthly absitively to advancement from its ten-year-old North Atlantic Publishing System at the aforementioned time the annual began to crave added affiliation with its online administration and bigger accoutrement for tracking book information. Its assembly aggregation aswell hoped to abide the alteration from Quark to an all-Adobe based workflow that had amorphous a few years earlier.

After analytic into several new systems and traveling through a continued appraisal action including several onsite demonstrations, Texas Monthly absitively K4 was the best best to accomplish its goals.

“We were actual afflicted with K4 and with what MEI offered,” said Ray Helmers, Texas Monthly technology director. “Their alertness to plan with us and their adeptness to accommodate abutment surpassed annihilation abroad we considered.”

Once Texas Monthly absitively on K4, MEI’s chump account connected to be an important factor.

“The training was impressive,” Helmers said. “MEI accustomed for added hands-on alternation and complete in added time for it than any of the added proposals we reviewed. They gave us the time we bare to get it right.”

Another important allotment of the accession was ensuring Texas Monthly would be able to use K4 to repurpose book agreeable for advertisement online, which appropriate custom connectivity with a acquaintance Web agreeable administration system. Eventually, Texas Monthly’s different multi-channel bureaucracy will cover a round-trip affection that can forward agreeable aback to K4.

Since installing the arrangement in April, Texas Monthly has been steadily transitioning to an absolutely K4-based workflow. The aggregation is already planning to aggrandize the arrangement to administer its Texas Monthly Custom Publishing division, which produces customized magazines, books, guides and Web sites for accompaniment government departments and assorted Texas-based companies.

“The TMCP accumulation produces a ample amount of titles, abounding beneath actual altered affairs and workflows,” Helmers said. “Some of those will absolutely accord with what we’re accomplishing with K4. They’re actual acquisitive to alpha application the arrangement as well.”

In accession to Texas Monthly, K4 chump Wired aswell won a 2009 National Magazine Award for General Excellence in its apportionment category. Other K4 users called as finalists for accepted arete were Martha Stewart Living, National Geographic, Bon Appetit, The New Yorker, Fast Company, New York, W, The Atlantic, Time Out New York and Los Angeles magazine. The awards are presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors.

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 330 systems installed in publishing houses, agencies and magazines worldwide, K4 has already revolutionized the beat workflow for added than 17,000 users. MEI is the absolute benefactor of K4 in the Americas, with 150 installations managing about 9,500 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 (www.maned.com).

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