Color Management for Global Output

“During this phase, Avon decided to upgrade its software platform. For the development of the asset management platform—Envoy—we considered three or four solutions, but we found that none of them really suited us,” Merone recalls.

Partnering with Mark Jones, World Color’s senior vice president of technical services, Avon’s Kirk Booth, director of electronic publishing systems, began to analyze Imation’s MediaManager, a client/server application for managing digital content, including image, audio, video and text files. According to Booth, the three firms (World Color, Imation and Avon) formed an alliance to customize the solution for Avon’s unique needs.