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Van Gennep Launches Stand-alone Products for Small Publishing Houses at IFRAExpo 2006
Amsterdam, October 9th, 2006 – Van Gennep is pleased to introduce
the new Dolce Vita Media Solutions™ at IFRAExpo 2006. As the first application
from the new Dolce Vita line, Dolce Vita Plan™ provides flat planning
as a stand-alone design tool, offering small publishing companies, small
work groups and freelance creatives unique ease of use and production streamlining
capabilities.
As an off-the-shelf product requiring no operator training, Dolce Vita
Plan enables users to enjoy benefits including:
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Simple operation – File based, no workflow system or database necessary
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Improved productivity – Streamlined production process
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Time and money savings – Less production time. Reduced production time
saves money.
Ton Van Gennep, CEO, Van Gennep, comments, “We noticed a gap in the
market for smaller publishing houses requiring the functionality that PlanSystem™,
our well-established publishing workflow management solution, offers larger
publishing houses. We developed Dolce Vita Plan as a simple to operate product
which is easy to use from installation.”
“ Dolce Vita Plan was created to leave smaller publishing houses and
creative groups more time to enjoy life, hence the name, ‘Dolce Vita’.
In addition, the new solution removes the need for connections to larger
online systems, servers and databases. Allowing users to work locally, either
alone
or in small groups, Dolce Vita Plan streamlines production of magazines
and other similar publications.”
Available for both Macintosh® and Microsoft® Windows® platforms,
Dolce Vita Plan replaces many of the manual processes associated with traditional
publication production and design packages, enabling users to save time and
money.
Dolce Vita Plan offers an easy to use edition-planning tool, for creating
and maintaining editions/flat plans. The tool enables tailoring of plans
based on signatures (numerals assigned to each section of a page to show
correct sequencing), planning of pages and assignment of existing layouts.
The new application also offers a graphic display of all pages and elements,
including editorial, advertising and marketing, and real time space calculation.
The production progress can also be tracked through thumbnails of each
page, as they move through the production cycle.
Benefits include:
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Ability to create and maintain edition plans
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Available for both Macintosh and Windows
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Function to create and maintain edition plans by drag and drop
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Facility to import and place ad lists
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Viewing of publication based on live previews
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Viewing of live statistics of advertising to editorial ratios
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Capability to catch conflicting pages long before a publication goes to
print
Downloadable from the Internet, Dolce Vita Plan is already enabling users
across Europe to enjoy time and money savings and thereby live “the
good life.” Ton Van Gennep, CEO, Van Gennep, concludes, “Having
seen the success that PlanSystem3 has brought to larger publishing houses,
we are looking forward to seeing the same results among smaller work groups,
and providing them with an automated, organised solution to prevent mistakes
and streamline production.”
About Van Gennep
Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Van Gennep has been providing media
workflow solutions to magazine, catalog and textbook publishers as well
as retailers, media agencies and design studios for over 17 years. PlanSystem3™ version
3.6.5 is Van Gennep’s latest planning, creative process and editorial
workflow management system aiding time and cost savings across media production.
To date, Van Gennep’s systems are used on more than 170 publishing
sites worldwide.
Van Gennep’s extensive experience of the publishing industry has
led to the development of its acclaimed visual edition-planning tool,PlanMaker ™,
which is not only used to design complete publication plans but also displays
in real time the status of every element on each page in the production
process.
PlanMaker fE, a modified version of PlanMaker, will be sold via a reseller
channel as a stand-alone product with connectivity to Smart Connection
Enterprise, while the PlanMaker product itself is sold as a module with
additional features as part of Van Gennep’s third-generation planning,
process and workflow management system, PlanSystem3.
By introducing its new Dolce Vita Media Solutions as off the shelf products,
Van Gennep enables smaller companies and creatives to use its large scale
products - based on its long time publishing experience - at a smaller
scale also.
CONTACT:
Nanette Schoute
+31-20-6976029
Van Gennep – M.A.C. BV
Burg. Stramanweg 105
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
press@vangennep.com