E&T is produced 18 times a year with a worldwide circulation of 150,000.
The IET began managing the 80pp E&T magazine with Agfa’s :Apogee Media in early 2010, and its successful implementation has since resulted in three more of the IET’s remaining four publications migrating to the :Apogee environment.
Production manager, Michelle Williams (pictured below), explained: “We needed to update our manual production workflow to increase the frequency and extent of our flagship magazine, E&T. Our goal was to find a solution that would manage the production process from cradle-to-grave. This would enable us to automate the pre-flight of incoming advertising files, store advertising and editorial assets, manage the editorial proofing cycle, create press-ready PDFs and export good-quality XML to our Web CMS at the end of the process. Our preference was to manage the editorial and production process via one central flatplan-based interface.
“At the time we entered contractual negotiations there were similar products in the market, but none that provided the full end-to-end service that allowed content to be hosted at the publisher’s servers,” Williams concluded.
About the IET
The IET says: “The IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community, with more than 150,000 members in 127 countries and offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. The IET provides a global knowledge network to facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote the positive role of science, engineering and technology in the world.
The IET's magazines cover science, engineering and technology.”
About Agfa :Apogee Media
Agfa says: “:Apogee Media - which combines digital asset management (DAM) with a flexible XML-driven editorial workflow platform - is specially designed for content creators who work in either print or web-based media. Version 6.0 provides a new graphical dashboard with direct access to reservation areas, digital assets, page annotation, ad placement, article editing, image cropping, InDesign layout, preflight, soft proofing, print section management, reporting, etc. Now with :Apogee Media, content creators can collaborate through a comprehensive visual flatplan representation from concept to publication.
This comprehensive interface reduces the publication time as creators get simultaneous access and immediate feedback on their work. Chief editors or external stakeholders can remotely track progress at a glance and guide content creators to deliver on-spec, on-budget and in-time.”
