Press Release

Boston, MA, August 3, 1999 – North Atlantic Publishing Systems has been rapidly adding to its customer base this year with the now-proven NPS product and thanks to high demand for web-based, open architecture publishing solutions.

NPS, whose initial release was announced at the Seybold show in March ’98, provides workflow management for publishers seeking a high level of efficiency and compatibility among users throughout the publishing production cycle. With this system, users get the flexibility to choose the platforms and applications they want, with NPS providing the integrated environment to work efficiently together online.

Major elements of NPS’s appeal include cross-platform support for both Windows^® and Macintosh^®; the ability to choose favorite applications such as MS-Word^®, QuarkXPress^®, and PhotoShop^®; the familiarity and flexibility of a Netscape^® or Explorer^® web-browser interface; and the application-independent architecture which liberates users to integrate new applications, such as Adobe InDesign^® or any other application of their choosing.

New customers for NPS include the following:

• Pearson Education, which installed a 100-seat NPS system at two sites last year, has installed a new 75-seat system at the Pearson Learning Division in Parsippany, New Jersey. The new system, installed in July, will be used to produce elementary school textbooks.

• Texas Monthly installed a complete NPS system in late April and is currently using the system to produce both Texas Monthly magazine and Texas Monthly Biz.

• Hachette Filipacchi Magazines is installing NPS at two of its New York magazines this summer. Boating and Sound & Vision each has installed its own separately-managed NPS system.

• Boy Scouts of America has purchased a complete NPS system, which will be installed this month at their headquarters in Irving, Texas. The system will be used by the Magazine Division to produce two monthly editions of Boy’s Life, as well as Scouting magazine, published six times per year.

• Bentley College, a business school located in Waltham, Massachusetts, has purchased an NPS system for its Publications and Communications Department. The system, which will be installed this month, will be used by the publications group and their on-campus clients to produce a wide variety of publications including catalogs, newsletters, and brochures.

• Cahners, which already has a large number of magazines using NPS and HNJ Engine, installed the HNJ Engine module at several more magazines in early July, including TWICE and School Library Journal, both located in New York.

• New Creative Enterprises, makers of flags, yard ornaments, and gifts, installed an NPS system in July at their Cincinnati facility. The system was installed as part of a large-scale migration to electronic workflow management for catalog production.

Through its separately-purchasable modules, NAPS Publishing System provides:

• Editorial workflow for file management, including check-out and check-in, and file routing by production stage, function or user-to-user.
• Scheduling for editorial, layout, and other production stages, allowing automatic tracking of what’s due and what’s behind schedule. (Scheduling Module)
• Enhanced composition capabilities with Word and XPress. On the Word side: line counts, copyfit info, and layout preview. On the QuarkXPress side: automatic text revision from Word documents, batch import of text and art, and batch export of revised text back to Word documents. (HNJ Engine Module)
• Client-server architecture with NT or UNIX servers and Explorer or Netscape browser clients.
• TCP/IP support for LAN and WAN clients, and HTTP support for remote users.
• Cross-platform support for Windows and Macintosh clients.

North Atlantic Publishing Systems develops, markets, and supports software products for pre-press publishing. Its philosophy is to provide custom publishing systems built from standard components. NAPS Publishing System and HNJ Engine are North Atlantic's latest products. They were developed in response to input from thousands of existing users of North Atlantic products, including Workflow Administrator, CopyBridge and CopyFlow. For more information about North Atlantic Publishing Systems and its products, visit the company's web site at http://www.napsys.com.

Alice Fackre

North Atlantic Publishing Systems, Inc.

(978) 371-8989

alice@napsys.com

 

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