twitter competition

If you follow us on Twitter (@prepressperth) you will notice that we are running a weekly competition throughout September to celebrate the launch of our promotional mousemat.

A new competition theme will be announced each week. Each competition (apart from the first one) will open on Monday at noon and close on Friday at noon (BST). The winner will be announced by 4 pm each Friday.

The first theme is great public misspellings and it closes at noon on Friday 10 September.

To enter you have to tweet your response to our theme. Your tweets must be tagged with #prepresscomp for them to be entered into the competition. Anyone (except our employees) can enter but you have to do it via Twitter.

The tweeter of the best tweet (as judged by our management team) will receive £20 worth of Amazon vouchers, which we will send via email to the winner.

Get started here. Remember the tag! #prepresscomp

our management team

We replaced our Twitter photo today with a picture of our management team. Well, all, that is, but one team member, David, chief boffin and Technical Director, who took the photograph.

Who's who?

Well, that's Andrew Davidson at the back. Andrew heads up our humanities team and has been with the company just under 6 years. He is one of the company's most experienced project managers. management team

At the front, left to right, we have Catriona Vernal, Lucy Harrier, and Helen MacDonald.

Cat heads up our science production team and has been with the company just over 3 years. Among her other responsibilities, she is the editor of a technology transfer journal we produce for the Welsh Assembly Government.

Lucy is Publishing Manager and as such is the senior manager in the business. She is responsible for producing HTA Journal, which at over 12,000 pages annually requires its own dedicated team. She also manages our editorial office business and is responsible for human resources across the whole business.

Helen is our Managing Director. She started the company almost 20 years ago as a freelance editor. There are now 19 people in the Prepress Projects including copy-editors, production editors, designer/typesetters and editorial office specialists.

XML conversion

When you receive service from a supplier above and beyond what might be reasonably expected it is only right to give credit.

We would like to recommend Graham Every, a developer specialising in XML conversions that have to meet the needs of specific DTDs, to any organisation that has to to implement complex conversion from InDesign to XML. If you work with him then you will not be disappointed.

our first iPad

We've just bought our first iPad. Very impressed. We're fighting over it.

Great for impromptu presentations to clients and others.