How to Offset Postage and Paper Increases

CS: Are you planning to use InDesign in the future or transition to Adobe’s Creative Suite for your document creation platform?
Ciavola: We’re happy with Quark, at least at the moment. But we’re always looking for the next big move. And for us it’ll be auto page building.

One other tool that’s been terrific for us has been auto pricing. We no longer key prices into the page. We have a step in the process between creative services and prepress where we use a metadata system to auto price our pages. That’s been awesome. … It’s a home grown auto-page building technology. We had purchased some of the system’s components many years ago, but that developer isn’t around anymore. So we amended it to do what we needed. There are tools out there today, though, that offer the same functionality.