Publishing Software Receives New Push

EFI has renewed a sales and product development campaign for its Proteus publishing software.

EFI has renewed a sales and product development campaign for its Proteus publishing software.

Proteus is a software system that is claimed to provide publishing professionals the ability to plan, position, and view and set printing press specifications for all advertising and editorial elements of a magazine, newspaper, catalogue or other publication.

This month the company shipped an OS X compliant version of the product, which also included a number of product improvements requested by customers.

Proteus also has versions available for earlier Macintosh operating systems as well as Windows.

EFI recently integrated Proteus with its enhanced Prograph module, allowing the completed publication layout and data to be electronically delivered to the printer's Hagen management system.

The company is planning numerous enhancements and upgrades over the next year, such as improved production workflow tools.

"We've been using Proteus for nearly five years now and have been very pleased with how the system has streamlined processes and eliminated costly errors, both for our publishing clients and us as printers.

With EFI's commitment to the product, we look forward to the upcoming enhancements and improvements, which will make Proteus an even more important component of our workflow," said Doug Ehmann, of The Sheridan Group, which comprises seven printing companies focused on the magazine, journal, catalogue and book markets.

Marc Olin, vice president and general manager of EFI Commercial Print Systems said: "We're excited to have the resources and commitment to take Proteus to the next level.

"We have a very loyal base of users who will finally have the enhanced functionality they've been clamouring for and the new features will make Proteus the top choice for publishers and printers shopping for a publication production management tool." Proteus allows editors, art directors, sales managers, production managers, printers, and other publishing professionals to collaborate on the assembly and production of a publication he added.

The end result is a digital 'map' of an issue, containing the exact pagination, colour reproduction, imposition and other information the printer needs to produce the issue accurately and efficiently.

Proteus is available with four levels of functionality for both the PC and Mac platforms.

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