Case Studies

Editing, illustrations and composition of 7,500 pages in four weeks for publisher of educational material for K-6 schools

The Client

A leading provider of publishing services for a wide variety of literacy education materials for the K-6 school market.

Business Needs

The customer needed the complete production of a book series of 20 books of totaling around 7500 pages in just 4 weeks, from draft manuscript to print. The project involved copyediting, page layout, artwork and illustrations. While the short turnaround of just 4 weeks was a challenge by itself, the complex design and the math involved in the books added to the complexity.

Business Challenges

The client has a solid reputation of delivering quality programs on time, consistently. It follows best-in-class project management practices, and combines it with decades of industry experience and deep pedagogical knowledge to produce the quality output. Since its publications have to adhere to the formats dictated by the latest market trends, it has limited lead time to act upon its latest research. The customer’s team involved in the production could not take up this additional load and complete the production within the turn-around time.

Datamatics Solution

The team of content and production specialists at Datamatics analyzed the requirements and created a project plan. The Creative Services team created or altered artwork and illustrations based on the customer’s specifications. Pages and artwork were relayed by the Editorial and Creative Services teams to the Composition team, which then operated 24/7 to complete the project within time and quality specifications. The various teams used the automated workflow solution (i-Pub) to improve the efficiency of the process and productivity of the resources.

Benefits

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