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type plus AUTOMATION

MADE

HUMAN

WILL YOUR FUTURE RHYME WITH STRUCTURE? YOUR BOOKS' ONE PROBABLY WOULD. DDAUTOMATION IN BOOK PUBLISHING. DDTRADITIONAL TYPESETTING AND BOOK DESIGN. DDNO LICENCE TO BUY, NO FIXED COSTS, NO BINDING CONDITIONS: JUST PAY AS YOU GO.

DDINDESIGN, PDF, EPUB, MOBIPOCKET OUTPUT. DDHIGH FLEXIBILITY.

HUMAN, NEVER TOO HUMAN AUTOMATION IS THE FUTURE

EDITORS FREEDOM COMES FIRST

Automation is a wonderful opportunity for publishing activities.

TypePlus has been designed around the real needs of publishers, privileging:

Several attempts have already been made by various developers but, even varying from one another in technical methods and offer details, the general problems have always been: the considerable technical restrictions, which typically limited the chances for the automation to bind the process to any database; the lack of flexibility in meeting the needs of the creativity implied by publishing, which confers to the books their real value; high costs. Of course, possibilities in this directions are still far from being saturated and the challenge, today, consists in finding the best way to merge the genuinely humanistic contribution and the unescapable route of technological developement. Typeplus is an interpretation of such need. It is the "merging tool".

easy customizability; high graphic and stylistic freedom; low demand of adaptation from the original sources; no fixed costs. With TypePlus, automation fits easily into your traditional workflow. The only requirement for automation to work is the compliance to a few basic rules (such as applying the default paragraph styles in the most intuitive way), rules you can find in the Guidelines page. As for the rest, all you have to do is upload your sources using your account credentials; once that is done, you'll just have to wait for the email with the download links. You'll input a standard MS Word file and you'll get customized InDesign, Pdf, ePub and Mobi output files, in really short time, saving money altogether.

ORIGIN OUR WAY TO AUTOMATION With TypePlus automation is a useful tool, but nothing more. Human supervision is one of the basic traits of our philosophy concerning automatic books production. And we think that the best way to fill the gap between the traditional and the automatic workflow is in optimizing the departition of roles, giving to both human and automated work the space they need, but seeing that they don't overrun one another's field. All the typical phases of the editorial workflow are not affected. Most of the amendements can be applied directly through your text editor, even once the pagination process has is completed, reducing by far the usual need of interchange between the editor and the typesetter, as usually all you will need to do is to feed the new version to the process every time you'll need to do it. The techical support staff will always be available to you, should you have any inquiries or need of assistance. A final manual check is carried out by our staff at the end of each process, ensuring that the output files are ready to be released. That's how Typeplus can provide the plus you are looking for: easiness, quickness, quality.

Ilion Ltd, formerly GC Servizi Grafici e Tipografici, has been providing services for publishing houses since 2005. Our experience grew thanks to the collaboration with many prestigious brands, most of them part of the italian academic world, such as: Alinea, Florence CNR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - ITD, Palermo Comune di Bagheria Green House Italia, Brebbia ISSCO, Istituto Superiore Scienze Cognitive, Enna Karnac Books, London Morellini, Milan Seid Editori, Florence Università di Catania Università di Palermo

During the last two years we focused on the possibilities of automation applied to books production. TypePlus is the result of the hard work of this last period.

ADVANTAGES QUALITY

SHORTENED PRODUCTION TIMES

Each division of our activity (proofreading, graphic editing, IT) is managed only by highly skilled specialists, part of which has been certified by Adobe.

HIGHLY SKILLED STAFF

One of the main purposes of TypePlus is to make production faster. We do that combining automation with well organized proofreading and graphic workgroups.

COLOR MANAGEMENT

FLEXIBILITY

All our devices are calibrated and profiled for color consistency with X-Rite ColorMunki™ , in order to always meet the most demanding customers' expectation about color consistency.

TypePlus service is designed to meet your existing work-flow procedures, your staff's habits and your specific needs. We aim to provide relief, not further stress.

CONTAINED COSTS Our philosophy about pricing is that the most balanced the price is, the best for both parts. Fortunately, by taking advantage from automation, we can keep low fees without compromises about quality.