Customers who choose to update thier DALiM systems to the just released August patch set need to be aware that DALiM has removed a number of tools classified as "Obsolete" from the TWiST software.

Obsolete tools can be identified by the upper left corner having a red triangle shaped mark on them, and most have a generic "top" icon.

If you have any workflows which contains one or more of these tools you should remove the obsoleted tool(s) and replace them with the designated replacement tool before patching your system, once you update your system to the August patches you will no longer be able to publish any workflow containing one of these tools.

You will still be able to open and modify workflows containing these tools, but if you attempt to publsh them you will recieve an "unknown basic tool" error and the workflow will be unpublished from all your TWiST servers.

If you are unsure as to which tool to use as a replacement for one of these obsoleted tools please open a ticket with our support site and we will assist you in locating the correct one.

Kehl, Germany – DALIM SOFTWARE, makers of highly efficient, scalable software solutions for the creation, production and management of cross-media content, announces that their recently concluded US DUO (Dalim Users Organization) meeting at the Aria Hotel in Las Vegas was a resounding success. Turnout exceeded attendance from 2010, and the wide range of presenters and topics offered an extensive overview of industry trends and product updates. Highlights included a keynote presentation from Dr. Michael Esposito, Senior Vice President of Operations and Digital Production, American Media, and a field trip to Creel Printing. In addition, DJ Gressmen of Creel Printing was appointed president of DUO, while Paul Giaime, prepress technology manager of JWT New York was elected DUO vice president.

“From the feedback we received from many of our colleagues, the consensus was that the meeting was very informative and provided a forum for users to share ideas on how to maximize business opportunities,” remarks Gressmen. “I want to thank Rob Pepe of TheLabNYC for his leadership and guidance as past President of DUO, and welcome Paul Giaime of J. Walter Thompson, who will be joining me as DUO Vice President. We look forward to developing great plans and programs for our 2012 meeting.”

“As a first time attendee of US DUO annual conference, I was impressed by the diversity of both my fellow DALIM SOFTWARE users and the conference presenters. The group as a whole provided me with insight to future possibilities,” comments Giaime. “The US DUO meeting was well worth attending. Thanks to all who put this together. I hope to help in this coming year’s successful US DUO conference to match the usefulness of this year’s conference.”

As always, the meeting kicked off with a presentation from Dr. Carol Werlé, DALIM SOFTWARE CEO, offering DALIM SOFTWARE’s product strategy and media production vision for the future. Dr. Michael Esposito’s keynote, ‘Anticipating change through automation’ followed. It explained how publishing and print has dealt with external technology and economic factors in the past, and how digital automation can help forge success in the future.

“As a first-time attendee of the Dalim User Organization conference, I found the meeting to be extremely helpful. Being exposed to different organizations, as well as a cross-section of many individuals, was very useful,” observes Michael Weinglass, Director of Customer Solutions at RR Donnelley (NYC). “I was impressed with the knowledge level of many of the presenters and the agenda was very well thought out. It was especially helpful to ‘get under the hood’ and learn more about the Dalim products.”

A unique highlight was a field trip to Creel Printing, which followed a presentation by Allan G. Creel, President, Creel Printing. Mr. Creel discussed how state of the art technology was utilized — and the business benefits reaped — at Creel.

Other highlights of the meeting included presentations by:

• Dennis Warlick, Vice President Strategic Technologies, Deutsch: View from the agency perspective
• Stephen Hart, Senior Publishing Consultant - Adobe Systems
• John Sweeney, Vice President of Business Development, Fine Eye Color: Multi-channels marketing challenges
• David Steinhardt, President and Chief Executive Officer, IDEAlliance: Moving Beyond the page as we know it

A series of presentations from DALIM SOFTWARE covered roadmaps and upcoming new developments for TWIST and MISTRAL (How to boost your PDF Workflow), DIALOGUE Engine (One step ahead in approval workflows), and ES2 (Build your business process). Other general presentations offered an introduction to automation in multi-channel production and industrializing e-media production. As always ‘Tips and Tricks’ and ‘Ask the Engineer’ were well received.

USDUO followed on the footsteps of its successful European counterpart, Euro DUO, which was held from March 22-23 in the palace in Chantilly, near Paris. Attendees from eleven different countries participated, meeting peers, sharing ideas, and forging new business relationships. While much of the product content was similar to that of US DUO, two sessions from guest presenters stood out. Joe Cha of HIPZONE discussed multichannel delivery, taking print content from PDF files and converting them to e-pubs. Ulbe Jelluma of the Print Power consulting group, in ‘The Future of Print is Interactive’, argued that print providers have to make print more actively involved for its readers with QR codes or digital inks, for example. “While print is certainly important for DALIM SOFTWARE, we want to help our customers move into the 21^st century with new communication technologies,” explains Dr. Werlé.

“The meeting was very informative and very well organized and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I found the presentation on ES software to be especially enlightening,” concludes Paul Foley, director of operations, Gloss Studio. “The meeting was definitely worthwhile attending.”

May 16th, 2011

Freeport, OH - Freeport Press, a leader in heat/set web offset printing for magazines, digests and tabloids, has just finalized a deal with SendMyAd, LLC (www.sendmyad.com) that will allow Freeport's customers to take advantage of the industry's premier digital ad portal to streamline and automate the submission, preflight and approval process for advertising files.

The portal verifies whether or not ad will print correctly within publisher specifications; if not, it provides immediate online feedback about the issues that need to be corrected, as well as tools to make those corrections easier.

Freeport's Vice President of Sales and Marketing, David P. Pilcher, says, "We're really excited to be able to provide our publishers with a tool like this. SendMyAd has a great reputation in the publishing industry, and a solid track record of helping publishers significantly reduce the time and resources required to manage their ad traffic. "Pilcher adds that he's also excited about the savings Freeport can offer. "We've brought our own software trainer on board to be able to provide site setup, initial training and ongoing support to our publishers at no charge. The only cost to the publisher is a nominal per ad transaction fee."

For our upcoming conference May 5th-6th at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas we have a powerful line-up of guest speakers from all corners of the printing and publishing industries. This is a group of senior business executives that have a wealth of industry knowledge and will be presenting highly informative presentations at our conference.

• American Media - Dr. Michael Esposito, Senior Vice President of Operations and Digital Production
• Deutsch - Dennis Warlick, Vice President Strategic Technologies
• Adobe- Stephen Hart, Business Development Manager
• IDEAlliance - David Steinhardt, President and Chief Executive Officer
• Fine Eye Color - John Sweeney, Vice President of Business Development

These prominent executives and visionaries are preparing very compelling presentations that we are confident will peak your interest. THIS CONFERENCE IS A “MUST-ATTEND” EVENT THAT YOU WILL FIND OF GREAT VALUE.

Take advantage of the $2,000 discount coupon for Dalim Software products that is being given to all conference attendees. Thursday night at the conference is shaping up as a great evening with the Viva Elvis Cirque Du Soleil show at the Aria Hotel which is being hosted by Dalim.

Set aside a few minutes to register by clicking on this link and join us for this important conference.

Looking forward to seeing you May 5-6 at the Aria Hotel and Resort.

Rob Pepe                                                      DJ Gressmen
thelab                                                          Creel Printing