Prepress

Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main banks on prepress solutions by ppi Media

Wednesday 06. November 2013 - ppi Media's Web-2-Print solution OM portal and its output management system OM to be installed

For years, business with commercial print jobs has been extremely successful at Verlagsgruppe Rhein Main. By commissioning ppi Media to install OM portal, the company, which is based in Mainz, Germany, will focus on customer integration, automation and secure preflight workflows. This will reduce the workload on publishing staff, yet at the same time enable more commercial print jobs to be processed. In order to make the system landscape more uniform, the publishing group has decided to install the output management system OM at its subsidiary, the Gießener Anzeiger. The entire group will then be equipped with OM, which can be controlled from a central location in future.
“By enhancing our prepress workflow, we continue to pursue our goal of automating the production of our print products. OM portal will complement our existing workflow perfectly, adding features such as a page upload and preflight functions, as well as real-time customer releases and feedback,” says Andreas Bräuer, Director of Prepress Production at MRM Medienservice Rhein Main. Integrating our customers to a greater extent makes our workflow more flexible, which in turn is an important prerequisite for processing commercial print jobs more economically.
Apart from installing OM portal at the publishing group, ppi Media will also supply new software to the Gießener Anzeiger. From 2014 onwards, OM will be used there for output management, which includes the RIP, merge, imaging and proof functions.
About OM portal
OM portal organizes, visualizes and simplifies the planning and production of jobs for print customers in a single web application. Using OM portal, customers can view their orders at the printing house and then issue a planning release. After a release, the PDF files are uploaded and the data automatically checked and normalized. An online soft proof is then created, where customers can download both the check protocols and the normalized print data. When the print data has been checked, customers can then approve the print data and release the commercial print job for printing.