Although our roots are in typesetting, today we regard our publishing database expertise as our main strength. As typesetters we have always been on the receiving end of data from a publishing database, so it was natural for us to become involved in setting up databases. We are now partners with Librios who offer the most cost effective XML publishing database that we know. We have now set up many Librios databases, and this aspect of our business is becoming increasingly important.

Our typesetting facility specialises in automated page composition from databases. Our system minimises the need for manual intervention, so it can create complex pages rapidly.

With such powerful typesetting at our disposal, our customers usually have more than one typesetting pass from their data, and they use typeset proofs as an integral part of the publishing workflow. Increasingly, customers are using our Quick Proof Maker remote typesetting service. They can request a typeset proof which is returned to them in minutes, and needs no intervention from us.

As our company name suggests, we have in depth knowledge of a technology known as Extensible Markup Language (XML). XML is a way of defining the structure of information for publishing, and it is now driving developments on the World Wide Web. We have found it the ideal way of combining our Page Formatting software with the many differing data formats presented to us for processing.