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Advantages of Using QPS™

Teamwork, consistency, asset management are only a few of the reasons various publishing professionals find  QPS™ an effective addition to their workflow.

Editor in chief / Planning Function

Creative Director

Production Editor / Journalist

Page Layouter

  • Design workflow specifically for your publications
  • Flexible intervention in the workflow as needed
  • Maintain up to the minute overview of publication status
  • Define Appearance
  • Setup geometry rules
  • Flexible intervention in the workflow as needed
  • Maintain overview or status of assigned articles and Sections
  • Checkout, edit, checkin articles into Quark dispatch
  • Up to the minute redesign flexibility
  • Page geometrically automatically updated
  • Powerful and flexible workflow tools.

Typical Functions

  • Check Article into Quark Dispatch Database. Assign Article
  • Assign Layouts to Page Layouters
  • Send Assignment
  • Reset status of an article based upon adjusted workflow and editorial needs.
  • Check Layouts into Quark Dispatch
  • update geometries automatically
  • assign articles to journalists
  • retrieve (checkout) articles or assignments for editing, rewriting etc,
  • checking in articles that are completed
  • Setting status to proofreader, (If the team has one) and sending the article further along in the workflow.
  • Proofreading the article, and checking it in as ready for Publishing
  • retrieve (checkout) layouts for redesign
  • checking in layouts for review and authorization
  • Creating and submitting new layouts

Typical Configurations

Intel based 400Mhz / 192MB RAM/ 20GB Harddrive
QuarkXPress
Quark CopyDesk
MS Word
QPSConnect

Intel based 400Mhz / 192MB RAM / 20GB Harddrive
QuarkXPress
Quark CopyDesk
orMS Word

Intel based 400Mhz / 192MB RAM/ 20GB Harddrive
QuarkXPress
Quark CopyDesk
MS Word

PowerMac G4 450Mhz/192MB RAM / 20GB Harddrive
QuarkXpress
QuarkCopyDesk
or MSWord

or
PowerMac G4 450Mhz/192MB RAM / 20GB Harddrive
QuarkXpress
QuarkCopyDesk
or MSWord

or
PowerMac G4 450Mhz/192MB RAM / 20GB Harddrive
QuarkXpress
QuarkCopyDesk
or MSWord

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