Publishing Software Handles Multiple Languages

A SoftCare Software-Service GmbH product story

Edited by the Printingtalk editorial team Jan 12, 2007

Softcare has installed its K4 publishing software at Transcontinental Media, the largest consumer magazine publisher in Canada at its Montreal and Toronto sites.

Softcare has installed its K4 publishing software at Transcontinental Media, the largest consumer magazine publisher in Canada at its Montreal and Toronto sites.

It is the first sale of a K4 system to a Canadian publisher.

Transcontinental is also Canada's second-largest community newspaper publisher and the seventh-largest printer in North America.

The company's media sector, which publishes magazines and newspapers in English and French, has a distribution of more than 200 million copies annually, reaching more than 11 million readers per month.

Amongst its 43 titles in consumer, business, trade and speciality categories are such periodicals as Elle Canada, Canadian Living, The Hockey News and Style at Home.

Transcontinental's newspaper portfolio includes 12 dailies and more than 125 weekly, bi-weekly and monthly newspapers.

SoftCare K4 replaces a Quark Publishing System that the company used for several years.

Softcare said that the transition offered by K4 played a large role in Transcontinental's decision to switch to an entirely new Adobe-based system, rather than upgrade its QPS installation, according to the company's information technology team.

Transcontinental's K4 purchase includes 48 French-language seats in Montreal to produce the business newspaper Les Affaires.

The remaining 112 English-language seats, for a total of 160 concurrent user licenses, are being installed in Toronto.

Four titles have already gone live with Softcare K4 and Transcontinental expects to be producing 10 publications with K4 by 2007, when the system's roll-out is complete.

Dennis McGuire, the president and chief executive officer of MEI, Softcare's exclusive K4 distributor in the Americas, said: "This sale is important because it illustrates K4's power in a variety of situations.

Transcontinental's set-up takes advantage of the software's ability to handle multiple titles, multiple types of media and even multiple languages.".