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Origin Publishing Ltd: a BBC Worldwide group company, is a specialist magazine publisher. The company operates in three key publishing areas, producing specialist interest consumer magazines, customer magazines and catalogues,
and websites.
With a portfolio of over 30 magazines, Origin now employs more than 180 people across all the publishing disciplines: editorial, design, advertising, marketing, Internet development, subscriptions and customer care. In 2005, Origin estimated it would print over 18 million magazines and catalogues.
Origin is dedicated to publishing the very best consumer and customer magazines and
websites. Written by experts and designed to be informative and inspirational, each magazine and
website aims to enhance the readers' lives and give them the best possible value for money.
In 2003 a decision was made to bring print production in-house. Jolyon Day, IT Manager, explained: “All PDF production and artwork creation was previously handled by external suppliers. As the company and the numbers of published titles increased, it became obvious that bringing production in-house would leverage major efficiencies. Origin's production process is structured so that dedicated teams are responsible for specific titles. With this in mind, it was important that we were able to deploy a new production system that would be flexible and would allow us to deliver production services to these distinct groups of users.
Requirements within these teams differed greatly. We needed to offer true crossplatform access to files on the production server for many different types of users: editorial, production and marketing personnel. We also needed to be able to produce a variety of PDFs; print-ready PDFs and also low-res PDFs of |
