JPY fielded the amazingly large team of 16 in this year's British Heart Foundation Bike ride - 56 miles of gruelling mountainous terrain in sub-tropical temperatures, on roads that were barely passable in places. The ride took place on Sunday 21st June and journey times ranged from an embarrassingly small 4 hours to a respectable 12 hours. We don't know the official total amount raised yet, but is believed to be in excess of £5,000. [UPDATE: Total was £6142.48 Ed]
We are please to announce that HELIOS Create PDF Server now runs native on Intel Macs and automates the latest versions of Adobe Acrobat Distiller via printer queues for Mac and Windows clients. Enables fast and reliable PDF output based on industry standards.
Read more: HELIOS Create PDF Server now supports Distiller 8 & 9
Since starting the project to commercialise our mail product MRX as a SaaS (Software Application Service) we have well and truely had our heads in The Cloud - in our case, The Amazon Cloud. For those unfamiliar with cloud computing, the basic idea is that instead of owning and maintaining your own servers, you rent a 'virtual' server located somewhere on the Internet. Each server you run is called an Instance, and it behaves exactly like a dedicated server on your own premises.
The many customers have shown interest in our internal collaborative mail application, MRX. Essentially, this maintains a web-accessible database of all a company's mail. However, it excludes personal mail and spam, and is able to thread mail according to customer or project. It provides a real-time searchable archive of company mail while allowing users to stick their favourite mail client.
Canto Cumulus 8 offers a range of add-on modules that were unavailable previously to users of Cumulus workgroup editions. These add-on modules allow users to add enterprise functionality to support and extend their organisation's use of Cumulus. Here, we are highlighting some of the benefits of these newly available Cumulus add-on modules. The first of these is Autocataloguing with Asset Cross Referencing (AXR) - An Asset Collection's Family Tree.
The new release of PresStore (3.2) includes a much enhanced Backup2Go with many new features and enhancements. Utilising a Mac server, it enables scalable workstation backup over the network for desktop and laptop workstations. Support for Mac and PC workstations either on the local office network, or on a remote internet connection can be reliably saved at regular intervals.
In October, JPY acquired JVolution Ltd - specialists in 'Content Managed' (CMS) web development. Through this acquisition, JPY can now offer customers Java J2EE, Microsoft ".net" and Open Source web development alongside its existing portfolio of workflow, data-management and asset-management products and services.
The need for easy-to-use proofing solutions continues to grow as more and more people get involved in colour reproduction decisions. Of course press operators need proofs to verify the final print output but well before the job gets to press, colour decisions must be made by designers, brand managers, ad agencies, prepress specialists, and many others in the creative process.