2005 Exhibitor Profiles

Accu Litho
Booth 23
Accu Litho is a prepress specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the publications industry. We help publishers avoid costly printing delays by providing quality prepress services including digital proofs and PDF files to your printer’s specifications.

Advanced Publishing Corp.
Booth 40
Advanced Publishing uses its innovative technology (ROPS) to create a digital edition with stunning image quality and small file size. The online edition and archive are fully searchable and easy to navigate. With secure subscription capabilities and real-time reader information, this service includes everything a publisher needs to take publications to the Web! All a publisher does is send us their print quality PDFs. We do the rest—no need for internal resources to focus their time and energy on the digital edition.

The Advertising Store
Booth 83
The Advertising Store offers circulation and ad sales premiums including promotional products, CD business cards, and corporate video production. Visit advertisingstore.promocan.com.

Annex Publishing & Printing
Booth 72
Annex Printing specializes in the printing of short- to medium-run sheetfed magazines. It offers everything publishers need to get their magazines from their desktops to readers, and has developed a reputation for trust. Whether you’re a new publisher needing advice to get started, or you are a seasoned veteran looking to improve your bottom line, Annex invites you to give one of its customer service reps a call.

Audit Bureau of Circulations
Booth 54
ABC is a not-for-profit, tripartite association of advertisers, advertising agencies and publishers. Its purpose is to set standards by which circulation and other data from member publishers may be audited; verify facts and figures through field auditors’ examination of all pertinent records, and report these facts and figures through regularly published standardized reports.

Bard Business Solutions
Booth 8
Bard’s latest Magazine Manager 4.0 is an all-in-one integrated management solution for advertisers, rate cards, volumes and issues, contracts, production, subscriptions, scheduling, articles, invoices and reports. Magazine Manager is available for Apple and Windows platforms. Developed over the past eight years, the power of this application is derived from the philosophy that you “enter data once and use it many times.”

Beaver Press
Booth 121
Beaver Press specializes in media kits, presentation folders and pop-up display stands for publishers. It has a selection of proven media kit formats but can also custom design and print media kits in up to five colours. “As advertised in...” pop-up display stands are a value-added service for advertisers, helping them sell their products at trade shows, conferences and in stores, while also promoting your magazine.

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Buntin Reid and Publishing Solutions
Booth 65
Buntin Reid and Publishing Solutions are part of the Domtar Distribution Group, the distribution powerhouses behind the world leader in innovative, environmentally conscious fine paper products, Domtar Inc. Buntin Reid represents the many products of Domtar plus the industry-leading coated paper products from Sappi. Buntin Reid represents image enhancing brands like: Plainfield, Schooner, Somerset, Belgrade, Opus and Aero. Help get your clients’ products noticed. Paper makes the magazine experience personal and intimate.

Canada Magazine Fund
Publications Assistance Program
Booth 2
Representatives from the Department of Canadian Heritage will be available to answer questions about departmental funding programs, namely the Canada Magazine Fund (CMF) and the Publications Assistance Program (PAP). The CMF was created to contribute to the production of magazines that showcase the work of Canadian creators, as well as to build industry capacity through Support for Business Development for Small Magazine Publishers and for industry infrastructure projects. The PAP provides postal subsidies to reduce the mailing costs of Canadian periodicals.

Canada Post
Booth 4
Canada Post’s Publications Mail is designed and priced for news and information periodicals. Whether you’re mailing newspapers, magazines or newsletters to subscribers, non-subscribers or news dealers, our professional letter carriers deliver reliably to every address in Canada. This includes households, apartments, rural routes and PO boxes, many addresses that our competition cannot deliver to. For delivery that gives you a competitive advantage Publications Mail delivers cost-effectively to more of your readers than any other service in Canada. And, you can use many of our other services to build readerships, improve advertising revenues, and streamline your shipping processes.

Canadian Business Press
Booth 84
CBP represents the interests of business and professional magazines and provides lobbying, professional development services, networking, sales tools, research and promotional activities. Come to our booth to learn the value of membership, and see the finalists for the CBP-run K.R. Wilson Awards by the trade show area.

The Canadian Press
Booth 110
The Canadian Press is Canada’s only national news agency since 1917, with over 250 journalists reporting news as it happens to more than 600 newspapers and radio/TV stations. This real-time news is accessible to your magazine via an online service, where you can search for relevant content across 30 topics, reprint our credible news verbatim and free up your editorial staff to focus on features/exclusives. We also provide access to nearly 700,000 photos and services for publishing news on Web sites. Call 416-507-2078 for your free trial or drop by booth 110 for a demonstration.

CCAB/BPA Worldwide
Booth 22
The Canadian Circulations Audit Board (CCAB) is a not-for-profit circulation auditing organization with over 500 Canadian consumer magazines, business publications and newspaper members. Internationally, BPA has the largest membership of any media auditing organization in the world with 5,300 media properties and media buyers in over 20 countries. CCAB is the only Canadian provider of circulation auditing with two full-service Canadian offices staffed by Canadians to serve our membership. We help you sell more advertising! Contact Andrea Flint, aflint@bpaww.com (416-487-2418, ext. 228).

Centennial College
Booth 94
Centennial’s Centre for Creative Communications, located in the East York district of Toronto, is a hub for studies in publishing and digital media. In addition to the day-school programs in magazine and book publishing, the Continuing Education division offers courses in new media learning, digital publishing, Web content development and Web site design, among others.

Coast to Coast Newsstand Services Ltd.
Booth 60
Coast to Coast is Canada’s oldest and largest full-service national distributor. It represents brand-name magazines, category and cover price leaders, both big and small. Publishing partners include Rogers Media, Transcontinental Media, House & Home Media, St. Joseph Media, Quarto Communications, Formula Publications, Taunton Press, Kalmbach Publishing Co. and Adbusters to name a few.

Colour Innovations Inc.
Booth 35
Colour Innovations is a leading premium sheet-fed printer specializing in high-end magazines, annual reports, corporate brochures, catalogues, POP, direct mail, postage stamps, and printing on non-paper substrates. Serving Ontario and the northeastern US for more than fifteen years, Colour Innovations has full pre-press capability including scanning, retouching, FM (stochastic) screening to 10-microns and CTP technology as well as digital photography and digital-image archiving. We are also licensed users of the MFX metallic ink process and are Ecologo/P2 certified by the federal government.

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Corbis Canada
Booth 63
Corbis licenses images that enable publishers, advertising and design agencies, filmmakers, and other creative professionals to tell their stories with impact that goes beyond words. Our contemporary and archival photography, fine art, illustrations, and footage are seen around the world every day—differentiating brands, selling products, supporting news stories, and entertaining audiences. Corbis images can be found and licensed at www.corbis.com. And client advisory services are available around the clock—including subject matter and conceptual research, rights management and clearances, and production expertise.

Cornerstone Group
Booth 1
Cornerstone’s mission is to be the best in the world at helping our clients find and keep good customers. We do this by providing our clients with the best prospecting leads available and by helping them to be the best in the world at managing and enriching their customer databases. We provide publishers with complete subscription fulfillment processing and subscriber database management, as well as a variety of industry-specific Web-based tools, such as online subscriber processing, renewals and customer care.

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Customer Service Canada Inc.
Booth 24
Customer Service Canada Inc. and its division, Customer Service America.com, provide North America’s publishing industry with circulation support services including subscription sales, renewals, and verification surveys to comply with audit regulations. Customer Service Canada Inc. offers publishers the best of available technology for database management and telephone system capabilities. As added value publishers can utilize our Instant Invoice system and collections services. Our pricing is competitive, our service is excellent. We build our business by building yours.

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Distribution Directe
Booth 32
Distribution Directe prides itself in offering a complete range of services to the publishing and direct marketing industries. In business since 1990, Distribution Directe services have expanded to include graphics, design, offset printing, data management, personalization, mail preparation, polybagging, fulfillment and global distribution. Our team of professionals utilizing state-of-the-art equipment in our 80,000 sq. ft. facility offer the value of a fully integrated solution.

Disticor Magazine Distribution Services
Booth 42
Disticor is a diversified magazine distributor servicing Canadian, American, international mass-market and special-interest publications. Publishers have access to one-stop shopping to the North American newsstand market and Canadian direct to retail distribution through its Disticor Direct division. Sales, marketing, consulting, and immediate access to up-to-date sales information via Disticor.com are available to its publishers.

Dollco Printing
Booth 30
Dollco Printing specializes in the prepress, printing, binding and distribution needs of magazine publishers. Dollco has served the Canadian magazine community for more than 20 years. Our operation is the perfect fit for the mid-size magazine. We produce over 45 titles and have an experienced team who will shepherd your job with the “TLC” it takes to ensure timely deliveries. Our installation of a 10-unit sheetfed press with roll feeder means smaller publications can now enjoy the benefits of sheetfed printing at web prices. We print the majority of our publications using Staccato screening which provides the appearance of 400 line screen resulting in sharper images and greater colour consistency. Drop by the Dollco booth to qualify for our draw for a 512 MB USB memory key, the perfect gadget for a writer, designer, editor, or publisher who needs to transfer data from one place to another.

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First Light
Booth 91
Founded more than 20 years ago, Toronto-based First Light is Canada’s premier source for stock photography. The agency’s team of experts also provides custom services such as worldwide content searches, rights and clearances and commissioned photo assignments along with offering special services such as free high-res image comps and custom extra-large scans. Sensitive to the unique needs of clients in its own backyard, the Canadian-owned agency has a remarkably diverse range of Rights-managed and Royalty-free collections, including extensive Canadian content as well as exclusive representation for many talented photographers. To find out more about what First Light has to offer visit firstlight.ca or call us at 416-597-8625 / 800-668-2003.

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Fuji Graphic Systems Canada
Booth 73
Come to the Fuji booth to see the latest in digital colour proofing for magazines. The new Serendipity Blackmagic smart proofing software produces colour-managed contract proofs from postRIP data—perfect for publications use. Come to the Fuji booth to learn about our entire range of integrated prepress solutions, and also enter the draw to win one of two Fujifilm A310 digital cameras.

Garson Graphic Services
Booth 112
Garson Graphic Services is a full-service provider of printing and related services for publications, specializing in trade magazines. The company has provided prepress, printing and bindery services for more than 25 years. In addition, Garson offers direct mail, presentation folder and design services.

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Gateway Newstands
Booth 111
Gateway Newstands, North America’s largest newsstand chain, has been in business since 1983. All locations are franchise owned and operated with strong head office support via mandated merchandising and promotion programs for all categories including magazines. Gateway Newstands is approaching 500 stores in total, with a focus on mall, office buildings and transit (subway) locations.

General Printers
Booth 62
General Printers’ clients benefit from more than 50 years of consistent exceptional service, quality and teamwork. The company has the knowledge, understanding and flexibility to meet ever-changing technology needs. Scanning, PDF workflow, Mac and PC, CTP, two- to eight-colour presses, full bindery, mailing and distribution is offered 24 hours a day at General Printers.

Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning: Magazine Journalism
Booth 118
Humber is proud to present its 2004/2005 magazines. These eight trade/consumer magazines are written, edited, designed and managed by the students in the Humber Journalism program. Consistent winners of top North American student magazine awards, these publications are produced annually with fresh approaches to the topics and audiences they cover. Student editors, photographers and designers will be on hand to answer your questions.

Indas Limited
Booth 64
Indas has specialized in magazine fulfillment of trade and consumer titles for more than 25 years. Services include an inbound call centre, outbound renewal and requal telemarketing, fax blasts, e-mail blasts, and Internet order processing and customer care. SERVB2B is our new fulfillment service for business-to-business publishers, and SMART is our telemarketing up-sell program that generates more revenue from subscribers.

Ironstone Media Corporation
Booth 50
Ironstone Media Corporation stands for a family of operations whose business is the distribution of a broad range of information, including traditional printing, online publications, and digital products and services. Web Offset, Linkpath, and Linkpath Graphics are the current components of the new Ironstone Media. For over 40 years Web Offset has been the printing company that publishers have relied upon for innovation, quality, and efficiency. Web Offset provides a complete range of print production functions and finishing services. Linkpath reproduces “ink on paper” digitally. This allows publishers to use a new, technology-driven platform from which they can deliver their product. It allows publishers to reduce printing costs by delivering their publication online. Linkpath Graphics addresses the short-run press requirements of clients by producing everything from inserts to internal documents and other collateral materials.

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Kodak Polychrome Graphics
Booth 119-120
You no longer have to cut corners to cut time out of your print production workflow. See solutions you can trust!
• Improve colour and workflow across media
• Innovative proofing solutions, include remote online proofs
• Versioning and personalization printing solutions.
Kodak Polychrome Graphics (KPG) is a part of Eastman Kodak Company’s Graphic Communications Group. KPG provides one of the broadest portfolios of digital, conventional and business solutions available in the graphic arts industry today. Products and services include computer-to-plate and conventional lithographic and flexographic plate products, digital halftone, virtual, monitor and remote, inkjet, and analog proofing products, digital printing applications, colour workflow tools, storage solutions, business solutions and Kodak branded graphic arts films. Visit www.kpgraphics.com for more information.

LoadingDock
Booth 9
LoadingDock is a web-based, File Transfer Application that combines the simplicity of e-mail with the power of a dedicated FTP server—without the limitations of either method and with features (such as file forwarding) that neither can do. And it comes neatly packaged as your own custom webspace—alone or integrated with your existing site. LoadingDock allows your customers and associates to send you files quickly and easily in total security and for you to send them files of any size without any special software, without any username or password, and without any file size limit. LoadingDock, developed by a publisher, is in use by printers and publishers across North America. Visit us at www.loadingdock.ca.

Managing Editor, Inc.
Booth 61
MEI provides innovative advertising and editorial management solutions to publishers, including the K4 Publishing System, a high-performance solution that integrates Adobe InDesign and InCopy for collaborative design and editorial workflows and complete control of the entire production process. With a North American user base of over 4,200, K4 has been widely adopted by publishers including Condé Nast, Hearst and McGraw-Hill. Also featured is MEI's newest offering—ALS Direct, which allows publishers to shorten their production cycles by integrating advertising and editorial workflows into one shared system. By connecting MEI's Ad Layout System with K4, a seamless bidirectional process accelerates book planning, eliminates ad placement errors, automates page folios (and the numerous folio updates), and manages all the last-minute changes between ads and editorial in the issue plan. Visit MEI at www.maned.com.

Masthead
Booth 7
With a lively mix of in-depth features, news stories, surveys, tallies and commentary, Masthead magazine provides well-read, independent coverage of the $1.5 billion periodical industry. Its companion web site, MastheadOnline.com, offers headline news, the industry's online Job Board, a suppliers' directory, and resource library. Industry decision-makers turn to Masthead and MastheadOnline.com for must-read information and to source new suppliers.

MINT: Canada’s Fotoware distributor
Booth 25
With over 2.5 million copies sold, Fotoware’s FotoStation software is the professional reference for photographers, publishers, newspapers and magazines managing image content and archives. MINT offers Fotoware’s range of flexible solutions to capture, index, store, view and retrieve images, PDFs, audio files or videos. Publish and share your visual content for print or Web media. Automate your workflow tasks within a secure environment. Information has no value if it is not found and available when needed.

M-real Canada
Booth 53
At M-real, we help Canadian magazine brands communicate, stand out and compete on image and quality. Our complete range of cover and text weights in coated and uncoated sheets gives you a world of choice at a consistently high level of quality, meeting European environmental standards. Visit our booth for samples of leading magazines that are successfully using M-real paper to convey their brand image. Discuss your brand-building needs and find out what M-real’s Magazine Brand Builders can do for your publication by visiting us at booth 53.

National Association of Major Mail Users
Booth 113
NAMMU is the voice of the Canadian mailing industry, representing the business interests of end users and the supplier infrastructure. The Canadian mailing industry represents more than 500,000 jobs and contributes more than 80 % of the volume and revenue of Canada Post Corporation, as well as a significant contribution to other delivery operations. NAMMU promotes the growth of postal commerce, in the best interests of its members, and a forward-looking, efficient, affordable national postal system for all Canadians. Representation by the NAMMU Publications Mail Council was recently invited by Canada Post on the publishing industry joint workteam steering committee. The NAMMU Council represents every component in the publishing chain, and as such, can easily evaluate and model solutions, as well as provide impact assessment on each publishing activity for any given proposal, adding significant value to the joint industry-CPC efforts.

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Odgroup
Booth 33
Odgroup provides automated marketing solutions for value measurement and information management. Review our Fast Ad-vantage Lead Management System which facilitates quick access for readers to find additional advertising and editorial information while providing automated leads for the advertiser. The system is upgradeable allowing advertisers to manage opportunities for ROI and value measurement. We will also be displaying our online PR Professional, Editors Guild, designed to help marketers and editors come together to exchange information on applications and new products.

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Quark Inc.
Booth 52
Quark has been developing superlative software since its flagship product, QuarkXPress software, changed the course of traditional publishing. Today, Quark is developing the next generation of tools to create and manage content for cost-effective delivery to multiple media. QuarkXPress sparked a revolution in desktop publishing. Quark Publishing System, Quark Content Manager, and Quark Dynamic Document Server bring organization and efficiency to content management and publishing in the Internet age.

Quebecor World
Booth 80
Quebecor World is a world-class printer servicing the publication and commercial markets. The company prides itself on its unequaled team of customer service representatives and print technicians. They specialize in and understand the magazine industry. From pre-media to prepress (including computer-to-plate) to long or short-run magazine lengths, excellence is the company’s habit.

RGD Ontario
Booth 34
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario (RGD Ontario) is the professional body for graphic designers in Ontario. The association grants graphic designers who qualify the right to use the designation Registered Graphic Designer (R.G.D.), denoting professional competency.

Ryerson University
Booth 93
Ryerson University’s Continuing Education division offers a certificate in Magazine Publishing, with highly regarded courses in editorial (editing, writing, fact-checking, copy editing, design and QuarkXPress), publishing, circulation and marketing, ad sales and production. New in 2005-2006 are seven-week courses in substantive editing and service journalism. One-day Master Classes offer advanced instruction on specific topics. A two-day workshop, “So You Want to Start a Magazine” addresses the challenge of the start-up. All courses are at Ryerson’s campus in downtown Toronto.

Star Web Printing
Booth 20
Star Web offers the following services: web printing, sheetfed printing, bindery services and prepress services, including 48-page heatset web press, 24-page heatset web press and 11-colour, 28” x 40” sheetfed perfecting. Visit www.west-star.com.

Solisco Printers
Booth 85
Solisco is Canada’s fastest growing privately owned printing company. In a short 13 years Solisco has grown to become one of Canada’s largest and most technologically advanced multi-divisional print solutions company with plants and offices in Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City and Scott, Quebec. Currently printing more than 500 magazine titles for both Canadian and American publishers, Solisco also prints a daily newspaper, newspaper inserts for large “blue chip” clients and provides page layout and archival services for some of Canada’s largest agencies. The Toronto plant offers as well short-run, database management digital printing. Come by booth 85 and exchange your business card and a copy of your magazine(s) for a personal-sized box of chocolates.

St. Joseph Print
Booth 41
Canada’s largest privately owned printer, St. Joseph Print Concord, a division of St. Joseph Communications, are technological leaders in digital pre-press, heatset web printing. variable imaging and personalization and high-volume finishing. Our clients include many of Canada’s most renowned magazine publishers.

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Texterity Inc.
Booth 82
Texterity is one of the leading companies in the digital publishing industry with over 80 magazines under management. Texterity provides publishers with new revenue opportunities to capitalize on growing online readership. Texterity uses the Published Web Format (PWF) to create your reader-friendly digital edition and is delivered by email to your subscriber. No applications, plug-ins, or downloads are necessary. Online reports of readership habits are included. Contact Martin Seto at 416-907-6562, www.texterity.com.

TI Group
Booth 95
The TI Group is the “One Stop Shop” for short-run magazines and independent publishers. From a single source, the TI Group provides you with in-house creative design, digital photography, digital prepress, digital proofing, CTP, eight-colour offset printing, and full bindery. We also have data, letter-shop and mailing available. Taking advantage of the TI Group’s complete range of services will minimize or eliminate chances of supply chain miscommunication in the production of your magazine. With our experienced, conscientious staff, we have built our reputation on delivering the best-looking magazines possible, on time, within budget, and to your complete satisfaction. We look forward to discussing your magazine requirements with you and to showing you just how much we really can do for you. To learn more, see us at booth 95, call Derry Bunting at 416-696-2853 ext. 341, or drop by our plant at 115 Thorncliffe Park Drive, Toronto M4H 1M1.

Transmedia Group Ltd.
Booth 121
Transmedia is a North American newsstand distributor with national exposure and a reputation for personal attention. It offers direct to specialty retailers and subscription services and has helped publishers improve their newsstand performance since 1986. From sales and distribution to break-up and traffic management, Transmedia prides itself on ensuring client magazines are seen on today’s highly competitive newsstands across North America.

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Van Gennep
Booth 92
Specializing in planning, process and workflow management since 1988, Van Gennep – M.A.C. has earned the trust of magazine publishers, catalogers, advertising agencies, book publishers and others in the communications industry around the world. Developed with the challenges of today’s publishers in mind, our flagship product – PlanSystem3 – offers powerful, unparalleled edition planning, collaborative workflow and process management. PlanSystem3 has been successfully deployed worldwide at more than 160 magazines, catalogs and other communications companies, with users ranging from less than 10 to more than 530 connections. (www.vangennep.com).

Warren’s Imaging
Booth 90
Warren’s Imaging is Canada’s only commercial offset print shop specializing in waterless printing, a process which offers exceptional print quality while eliminating the chemical dampeners and environmentally hazardous waste inherent in print production. For more information on how you can reduce your publications’ environmental impact, visit us at booth 90 or online at www.warrenswaterless.com. Certified by Environment Canada (EcoLogo) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).