Time Inc., a major magazine publisher comprising over 30 magazines published in this country, including many of the best selling titles in the marketplace. All of the magazines edit pages are created in house, and have been produced electronically since approximately 1992. They have a very sophisticated transmission system that allows this information to be sent to their respective printers around the country (and in some cases the world), via high speed phone lines, as well as satellite.
The problem was that all of the advertising had been coming in as final film, which made complete automation of the process impossible. We were called in to develop the systems, procedures, and a training program to roll out to the internal staff, as well as the agencies and advertisers. After evaluating the specific requirements, standards and procedures were developed. In addition training programs were developed and implemented.
As a way to improve the reliability of the process, some new software preflighting tools needed to be developed.