Summary
AMA DataSet Ltd are involved in all aspects of publication from traditional typesetting and proofing right through to print management. Our 160yr history in the print industry in the Northwest is something AMA is justifiably proud of.
In addition we offer a professional website design and hosting service which goes much further than static brochure pages. Each project is managed from start to finish by a developer who understands composition, impact, optimisation techniques and brand & site development. Our sites continue to rank highly across the range of search engines due to our hands on approach to monitoring and content management.
Our sites are fully interactive and are built around our unique Content Management System, which means site owners can log in and make on-line real-time changes at a stroke. The site becomes part of your business rather than a remote isolated resource.
In addition, AMA DataSet delivers systems for managing data from any source even across the internet. Unlike a standard database system we can handle any data in any format and convert that raw data into valuable information, delivered to you exactly as you need it, saving not only money, but TIME.
Our clientele includes the likes of The British Library, WHICH?, The Market Research Society, Lloyd's List Shipping, Thomson Reuters and The World Health Organisation (WHO).
Our unique, award winning Content Management System, allows us to capture, validate, verify, typeset, paginate and publish up to 500 pages per minute making catalogue or directory production a swift and efficient process. The entire process is managed in-house and hosted on our own servers. We believe our systems for this type of work are a revolution in the publishing marketplace.
We can also manage data from multiple external sources or translate into any language including languages that run right-to-left such as Arabic.
If your business is looking to integrate systems to reduce data double-typing or to make efficiency improvements, call AMA DataSet. Everything we do is aimed at making things easier, faster, more accurate and stress free, allowing you to focus on your organisation’s real activity.Data Gathering
We can accommodate comprehensive data updates via paper mailing as well as our tried and tested e-mail system with entrant access using a unique key. Our system notifies the editorial team that an entry has been made and they can accept and validate. Not only does this save on mailings but also speeds up the often laborious update process.
Content Management
By building our own CMS, we have considered the differing needs of our clients and can tailor solutions to suit the needs of an individual title. Our systems have full access control built in, with complete audit and validation of every movement and we have servers in different locations so that you have the confidence your data is secure.
Automated Typesetting & Proofing
Speed is essential in the publishing world today and we use the best industry tools for typesetting. Combined with the power of our CMS, we can produce online typesetting systems that can turnaround up to 500 pages per minute, allowing our clients to make amendments up to the last possible moment in the publishing process, proofing and re-proofing at no extra cost.
Online Publications
We can design public websites that make the most of your content and develop subscription systems that can expand your revenue from existing data. Linking these sites to our content management platform is seamless and can provide you with a comprehensive solution.
Traditional typesetting meets modern technology
If your need is for high quality ‘traditional’ typesetting, you need look no further than AMA DataSet. Our involvement in the printing industry for more than 160 years means we know typesetting inside out, and our typesetters have earned an excellent reputation for their skills, attention to detail and professionalism.
We believe that good quality typesetting is more than simply laying out text and images on a page: it’s about taking care over the fine detail, such as hyphenation across lines, and correct use of grammar, to give a professional result. It’s about composing pages that are pleasing on the eye, with information presented in a way that is logical and easily understood by the reader. In short, it’s about taking pride over the finished product. With AMA’s highly skilled team you can be sure that your publication will be typeset to the highest standards.
Of course technology has moved a long way in 160 years, and AMA has always been quick to embrace new technologies to ensure we can meet the exacting demands of modern publishers. For page makeup our experienced typesetters are fully competent in all the most popular programs notably QuarkXpress, In Design, 3B2 and Ventura. For creating images such as technical drawings, and editing exiting images, we use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
If you prefer we can manage the entire production process for you, right through to printing the finished publication. Our long-established contacts in the printing industry mean we can deliver a quality printed product at very competitive prices.
Work carried out by highly experienced typesetters
Makeup: Quark Express, In Design, 3B2, Ventura
Workflow: XML, SGML
Output to PDF, ePUB, or online
High res scanning of images – especially important for printed books
Technical illustrations Redrawn in Illustrator or Photoshop
Typesetting from your database
Full print management
Competitive pricing
AMA's bespoke Content Management System (CMS) sits at the heart of our data and publishing services to businesses. Much more than simply a system for editing publications and websites, our CMS has been designed to give you industry-leading levels of access, flexibility and security in how you manage your online data and information.
With myriad features, effectively unlimited data storage capacity and extremely robust data security and back up, this is an ideal content management system for publishers and website owners.
For publishers it enables fast, accurate and secure online data editing, dramatically reducing the time and cost of creating and updating your publications. In fact our CMS opens up limitless editorial possibilities, with ample scope for customisation, including additional functionality, to meet the specific needs of your authors, editors and production processes. For example, the system will email individual entrants asking them to update their entries; they can then key in their updated information onto the test system and the updated information will only go live when authorised by the editor or administrator.
For website owners our CMS provides excellent user-editing capabilities, impressive functionality, rapid response times and full e-commerce capability.
Our CMS is also set up to make testing of new content easier than ever. Changes are made in a test version and can be viewed on screen exactly as they will appear in the finished publication or web page. The actual live content remains unaffected until you accept the new version.
If yours is an international business, the CMS will not only translate your content effortlessly into and from English, but will also automatically ‘mirror’ the page for languages which read right to left, such as Chinese and Arabic.
CMS – Key features
Developed exclusively by AMA
Enables end-user online editing and publishing in real time (see AUTOSET)
Online web publishing
Full auditing capability with change log and track changes for every transaction
Full administrative control
Upload images and position on the page
Auto save facility – never lose data you have entered
Automatic translation of text from one language to another
Multi-tier user access – you can decide the access levels for individual users
Generate bespoke reports on screen
Benefits of AMA CMS
A dynamic and versatile online editorial solution for publishers
User-friendly features, no technical knowledge required
Customisable
Convert data from one format to another
Brings all your data together in one powerful database
Data stored on servers at multiple locations for security and resilience
CMS Specifications
Full auditing
Multi-user and multi-tier user access
Change log and track changes
Rich-text editing (bold, italics, etc.)
Auto save
Report generation on screen
Legacy data support
Spell checker
Online web publishing
Inline editing
Integration with other sites
Online
In addition we offer a professional website design and hosting service which goes much further than static brochure pages. Each project is managed from start to finish by a developer who understands composition, impact, optimisation techniques and brand & site development. Our sites continue to rank highly across the range of search engines due to our hands on approach to monitoring and content management.
Our sites are fully interactive and are built around our unique Content Management System, which means site owners can log in and make on-line real-time changes at a stroke. The site becomes part of your business rather than a remote isolated resource.
In addition, AMA DataSet delivers systems for managing data from any source even across the internet. Unlike a standard database system we can handle any data in any format and convert that raw data into valuable information, delivered to you exactly as you need it, saving not only money, but TIME.
Our clientele includes the likes of The British Library, WHICH?, The Market Research Society, Lloyd's List Shipping, Thomson Reuters and The World Health Organisation (WHO).
Our unique, award winning Content Management System, allows us to capture, validate, verify, typeset, paginate and publish up to 500 pages per minute making catalogue or directory production a swift and efficient process. The entire process is managed in-house and hosted on our own servers. We believe our systems for this type of work are a revolution in the publishing marketplace.
We can also manage data from multiple external sources or translate into any language including languages that run right-to-left such as Arabic.
If your business is looking to integrate systems to reduce data double-typing or to make efficiency improvements, call AMA DataSet. Everything we do is aimed at making things easier, faster, more accurate and stress free, allowing you to focus on your organisation’s real activity.Data Gathering
We can accommodate comprehensive data updates via paper mailing as well as our tried and tested e-mail system with entrant access using a unique key. Our system notifies the editorial team that an entry has been made and they can accept and validate. Not only does this save on mailings but also speeds up the often laborious update process.
Content Management
By building our own CMS, we have considered the differing needs of our clients and can tailor solutions to suit the needs of an individual title. Our systems have full access control built in, with complete audit and validation of every movement and we have servers in different locations so that you have the confidence your data is secure.
Automated Typesetting & Proofing
Speed is essential in the publishing world today and we use the best industry tools for typesetting. Combined with the power of our CMS, we can produce online typesetting systems that can turnaround up to 500 pages per minute, allowing our clients to make amendments up to the last possible moment in the publishing process, proofing and re-proofing at no extra cost.
Online Publications
We can design public websites that make the most of your content and develop subscription systems that can expand your revenue from existing data. Linking these sites to our content management platform is seamless and can provide you with a comprehensive solution.
Area of Expertise
Traditional typesetting meets modern technology
If your need is for high quality ‘traditional’ typesetting, you need look no further than AMA DataSet. Our involvement in the printing industry for more than 160 years means we know typesetting inside out, and our typesetters have earned an excellent reputation for their skills, attention to detail and professionalism.
We believe that good quality typesetting is more than simply laying out text and images on a page: it’s about taking care over the fine detail, such as hyphenation across lines, and correct use of grammar, to give a professional result. It’s about composing pages that are pleasing on the eye, with information presented in a way that is logical and easily understood by the reader. In short, it’s about taking pride over the finished product. With AMA’s highly skilled team you can be sure that your publication will be typeset to the highest standards.
Of course technology has moved a long way in 160 years, and AMA has always been quick to embrace new technologies to ensure we can meet the exacting demands of modern publishers. For page makeup our experienced typesetters are fully competent in all the most popular programs notably QuarkXpress, In Design, 3B2 and Ventura. For creating images such as technical drawings, and editing exiting images, we use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
If you prefer we can manage the entire production process for you, right through to printing the finished publication. Our long-established contacts in the printing industry mean we can deliver a quality printed product at very competitive prices.
Work carried out by highly experienced typesetters
Makeup: Quark Express, In Design, 3B2, Ventura
Workflow: XML, SGML
Output to PDF, ePUB, or online
High res scanning of images – especially important for printed books
Technical illustrations Redrawn in Illustrator or Photoshop
Typesetting from your database
Full print management
Competitive pricing
AMA's bespoke Content Management System (CMS) sits at the heart of our data and publishing services to businesses. Much more than simply a system for editing publications and websites, our CMS has been designed to give you industry-leading levels of access, flexibility and security in how you manage your online data and information.
With myriad features, effectively unlimited data storage capacity and extremely robust data security and back up, this is an ideal content management system for publishers and website owners.
For publishers it enables fast, accurate and secure online data editing, dramatically reducing the time and cost of creating and updating your publications. In fact our CMS opens up limitless editorial possibilities, with ample scope for customisation, including additional functionality, to meet the specific needs of your authors, editors and production processes. For example, the system will email individual entrants asking them to update their entries; they can then key in their updated information onto the test system and the updated information will only go live when authorised by the editor or administrator.
For website owners our CMS provides excellent user-editing capabilities, impressive functionality, rapid response times and full e-commerce capability.
Our CMS is also set up to make testing of new content easier than ever. Changes are made in a test version and can be viewed on screen exactly as they will appear in the finished publication or web page. The actual live content remains unaffected until you accept the new version.
If yours is an international business, the CMS will not only translate your content effortlessly into and from English, but will also automatically ‘mirror’ the page for languages which read right to left, such as Chinese and Arabic.
CMS – Key features
Developed exclusively by AMA
Enables end-user online editing and publishing in real time (see AUTOSET)
Online web publishing
Full auditing capability with change log and track changes for every transaction
Full administrative control
Upload images and position on the page
Auto save facility – never lose data you have entered
Automatic translation of text from one language to another
Multi-tier user access – you can decide the access levels for individual users
Generate bespoke reports on screen
Benefits of AMA CMS
A dynamic and versatile online editorial solution for publishers
User-friendly features, no technical knowledge required
Customisable
Convert data from one format to another
Brings all your data together in one powerful database
Data stored on servers at multiple locations for security and resilience
CMS Specifications
Full auditing
Multi-user and multi-tier user access
Change log and track changes
Rich-text editing (bold, italics, etc.)
Auto save
Report generation on screen
Legacy data support
Spell checker
Online web publishing
Inline editing
Integration with other sites
Online