Gradual Software showcases latest developments of automation solutions at Graph Expo in Chicago
Ghent (Belgium), July, 2007 — Gradual Software, specialist in publishing automation solutions, will have a strong presence at Graph Expo, held September 9 -12th, 2007 in Chicago, IL, USA. The company will unveil its newest product line to the US market, in cooperation with its strategic German partner callas software. The two companies will exhibit together at booth 5358 and demonstrate the synchronicity between their product solutions.
During Graph Expo, Gradual will introduce its SWITCH family of products, including LightSWITCH and FullSWITCH, which enables users to implement workflow automation solutions tailored to meet the production needs of individual work environments. PowerSWITCH provides advanced automation features, such as support for scripting and metadata, together with SWITCHclient, a workgroup client that makes it easy to deploy automation for a complete workgroup.
Graph Expo offers an excellent venue for Gradual to highlight the benefits of its automation solutions to the American market. Gradual's decision to share a booth with callas software will enable both companies to interact with users as well as potential customers, while highlighting the advantages of the SWITCH family of products.
“We are very pleased to attend the upcoming Graph Expo with Gradual Software as part of our strategic partnership,” states Olaf Drümmer, founder and CEO of callas software. “The SWITCH products offer an ideal platform for our CLI tools. By implementing FullSWITCH or PowerSWITCH, users benefit from a streamlined integration process of the command line modules pdfInspektor4 CLI, pdfColorConvert CLI and pdfCorrect CLI. It isn't necessary to use script code to connect to the workflow system, which makes the process of checking, validating, correcting, and subsequent embedding of missing fonts, as well as color converting of existing PDF files, so much simpler for users.”
Gradual's SWITCH software, distributed in the U.S. by Tools4Media, is installed at a number of American firms and is delivering strong returns in productivity, efficiency and cost savings in a variety of production environments. Tools4Media offers SWITCH as a solution to deliver improved integration capabilities in combination with other Tools4Media workflow offerings.
Frank Loversky, Tools4Media's President, comments: "We chose to add Gradual as a primary portfolio offering because they offer very flexible and easy to integrate automation software for many types of workflows, including simple PDF preflight workflows, Native to PDF workflows and workflows that integrate with other systems. This flexibility, along with Gradual's excellent support and technical innovation, makes it a company that is a real pleasure to work with.”
About Gradual Software
Gradual Software was established in November 2004 to develop and deliver software for full automation across the numerous stages of professional publishing. Gradual’s automation solutions are designed to benefit all participants in the publishing workflow, including content originators (authors and designers), content processors (editors, designers and layout artists), brand owners (publishers and marketing departments) and service providers (printers). Gradual offers the SWITCH family of workflow automation software consisting of three flavors. Gradual Software is privately held by its management team, and is located in Ghent, Belgium. For more information, please visit www.gradual.com.
About callas software
callas software GmbH, Berlin, was founded by Olaf Drümmer in 1995 and specializes in developing PDF technology. Acrobat plug-ins, command- line tools and programming libraries of callas software check, correct, color-convert, and optimize PDF files for printing and online publishing, document management, and archiving.
callas software technologies have been licensed by renowned manufacturers such as Adobe, Helios, Hewlett Packard, Mitsubishi Paper Mills, and Xerox. callas software has been working on developing industrial standards for several years and is actively involved in DIN, ISO, CIP4, the European Color Initiative, and the Ghent PDF Workgroup. For more information, please visit www.callassoftware.com.
About Tools4Media
Tools4Media, Inc. provides products and services that help media publishers streamline their operations. Tools4Media is a Distributor, Value Added Reseller and Agent of and for companies that provide tools that benefit publishers.
Tools4Media understands that the publishing landscape will continue to become more competitive, that publisher’s workloads will continue to increase and that publishers will need to produce more content while fighting to keep advertising revenues from falling -- all with the same or fewer personnel. For more information, please visit www.tools4media.com.
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