CCI NewsDesk

Print – Productivity epitomized

Publishers will always demand production tools that have the ability to streamline the production process and CCI NewsDesk contains one of the few production tools on the market that has been purpose-built for newspaper production, making the system a publisher’s most powerful ally.

CCI LayoutChamp is a robust production tool that enables newspaper pages to be assembled quicker than most production tools on the market. As such, it allows newspaper designers and layout personnel to focus on the design intensive exception, rather than the predefined rule.

In CCI NewsDesk, publishers are able to specify their design rules and CCI LayoutChamp will recognize the design rules and apply them automatically to relevant content. The system allows for rules to be overwritten manually, if needed, in order to provide the utmost flexibility in the production process.

CCI NewsDesk also allows publishers to use the design tool of their choice in the production environment. Aside from CCI LayoutChamp, CCI Europe has established integrations with market leading design applications like Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress.

CCI LayoutChamp also supports a parallel workflow, enabling designers and editors to work simultaneously on a page that is having its elements (story, photo, or graphic) edited. The simultaneous workflow can continue right up to deadline, as modifications and alterations are constantly reflected back into the production environment.

Whether a newspaper is content-driven or layout-driven, CCI NewsDesk has the ability to save publishers time and money, by creating an efficient operating environment for production and design. CCI NewsDesk allows design staff to focus on the creative rather than the procedural. More importantly, it breaks the interdependence of production on design.