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New Office in Madras India

Compuscript is excited and pleased to announce that their new office in Chennai, Madras, India is open for business. By opening this new office Compuscript can provide their customers with a virtual 24-hour continuous production process that will enable Compuscript to provide swift turnaround times at competitive prices. India is quickly becoming a major centre of production with all major publishing houses being represented. With a well-educated workforce and a superb IT infrastructure it provides an excellent opportunity for Compuscript to furnish our customers with the best of both worlds in pre-press publishing.

Our state of the art office is fully equipped and boasts high speed internet connectivity. Our general manager in Chennai is Mr Rajesh Jeyapandian. Rajesh worked for many years in the pre-press and e-books industry in India for a number multi-nationals before joining our management team here in Shannon. After working in Shannon for two years, Rajesh Jeyapandian returned to Chennai earlier this year to establish the new facility. Rajesh's inherent knowledge of the Compuscript production process has facilitated a smooth integration of production between the two sites. This is achieved not only in working methods but also through integrated IT systems.

Furthermore, all of our staff hold degrees in General Science and English and have participated in customized training programs developed in Shannon. This ensures that the Compuscript cornerstones of production, quality, timeliness and price competitiveness are maintained. With this new development Compuscript is in an excellent position to service the specific needs of all its customers.

 

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Compuscript's own Tracking System

Compuscript's own proven Manuscript Tracking System is a Comprehensive Management Information System. It enables Compuscript to fully serve the needs of its customers, it gives more flexibility by being able to plan and ensure the work is done to agreed delivery dates. It will identify opportunities if a job needs to be done faster or if the priority of work needs to be changed. And it gets even better! If you require it the system can give you, through an internet connection, customer information regarding the process of your material through the Compuscript production process. This system will enable you as publisher to make your own production more efficient and cost-effective! Furthermore, the system allows Compuscript to monitor and access the progress of each individual manuscript, journal and book in terms of production time and assesses difficulties as soon as they develop and gives quick solutions to solve any potential adversity. It makes it possible for Compuscript to work extremely efficiently using all our resources and integrating our offices in India and Ireland in a seamless production flow. The system is fully tested and operating now for a number of years to the full satisfaction of our customers, who would not work without it! Our tracking system is fully supported internally and externally by expert IT specialists

 

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Editing tool

Compuscript's electronic editing tool has many important features, which have proven to serve our customers well. The SGML file is always preserved. We can edit directly and can still use it for other SGML applications. This makes our tool particularly suited to environments where a mixture of SGML applications is used in various sequences. It is relatively easy to figure out what styles are required, to create them and associate them with the appropriate tags. New styles from new or existing customers can quickly be set up to serve the particular needs required by those manuscripts. Pages can be part of the main workflow. Our system allows us to update files to produce pages. Updates are made to SGML source files and the pages are created again. Since our editing tool leaves SGML files intact, there is no reason to treat pagination as a final step. Files can be edited before, during and after composition, which allows for great flexibility of workflow, especially in environments where corrections are made at the 'page proof' stage. Our editing tool is designed to produce a wide variety of publications. Here are some examples of applications: to compose all the official proceedings of a state's legislature, to produce scientific journals with complex text and equations, to produce various law publications from a large legal database, to produce specific financial annual reports and financial reports in multiple proof cycles where accuracy and rapid turnaround times are vital.

 

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10 years in Shannon Free Zone

This year ten years ago Compuscript moved to the Shannon Free Zone. Founded in 1991 Compuscript bought new premises for their fast expanding business. The Shannon Free Zone offered a number of benefits to the company such as a well laid out Business Park, an international airport just 5 minutes from the front door and an excellent infrastructure.

According to Mike Cushley and Morgan Lyons the developments of the last ten years have been astounding due to the arrival of SGML full-delivery service to customers. Compuscript has always been eager to embrace new IT developments to the benefit of its customers. The biggest changes were the introduction of electronic product workflow with the coming of SGML and PDF files, the setting up of Compuscript's own Manuscript Tracking System, the Internet becoming the most important means of communication between authors, editors, publishers and audience and the developments in IT to ensure that Compuscript has a state of the art IT infrastructure. With the help of our very dedicated loyal staff, we have managed to make all the necessary changes. For the next ten years Compuscript will remain as flexible and eager as ever to keep abreast of change so as to serve the needs of its customers.