Courier Acquires Dover Publications
Courier has finalized the acquisition of Dover Publications, Inc., a renowned, privately held New York publisher of special-interest books. Founded in 1941, Dover is one of the nation's most successful and consistently profitable niche publishers. Dover has more than 7,000 in-print titles in specialty categories ranging from military history to paper dolls, and from musical scores to typographic fonts. Courier has manufactured the majority of Dover's books for more than 50 years.

Dover sells its products through a diverse range of wholesalers and distributors around the world and in all major American bookstore chains, independent booksellers, children's stores, craft stores, and gift shops in museums and historic sites. It also sells directly to consumers through proprietary catalogs.

Dover, which has approximately 170 employees, will operate as an autonomous subsidiary. Dover's current senior executive team will continue to manage the business.

Courier's core business will continue to be manufacturing high-quality books.

For more information, please visit www.courier.com.

New Edition of Right from the Start Is Ready For You
Right from the Start , Courier's popular guide to preparing digital files for print production is now available in an all-new fourth edition.

This edition adds substantial information on preparing files in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), including step-by-step instructions. It also covers information on digital workflow for computer-to-plate (CTP), and guidelines for evaluating digital proofs in a CTP environment.

The new companion website, www.rightfromthestart.com, provides browser-based access to the full contents of Right from the Start, along with workflow suggestions and diagrams, downloadable tools, such as drivers and utilities, and downloadable forms including a preflight checklist. Users can submit questions which Courier's Applications Specialists will answer via e-mail. To order your copy contact your sales representative.

New 5-Unit Cover Press at Stoughton
Courier has installed a new 5-color Heidelberg Speedmaster cover press with in-line coating at its Stoughton, MA plant, more than doubling the company's cover producing capacity. The state-of-the-art press will enable Courier to print and coat covers in a single pass. An existing 4-unit cover press will move to the Kendallville, IN plant.

Westford Converts to CTP
Courier has implemented a fully-automated Creo computer-to-plate (CTP) system at the Westford, MA plant, the second facility to complete the transition to a totally digital CTP workflow. All new titles at the plant will be produced using the technology, which offers significant benefits in both higher quality and faster turnaround time.

Courier Invests to Expand Capacity
Courier has expanded its book manufacturing capacity with capital expenditures of approximately $15 million during 2000. The expansion includes:

• Addition of four printing units to an existing 4-color press, doubling the output
• 9-inch, 2-color web press
• 11-inch, 2-color web press
• Rebuilt 11-inch 1-color web press
• New 5-color cover press, with in-line aqueous coating
• Expanded soft and hard cover bindery lines
• New Creo computer-to-plate equipment, enabling an all-digital workflow for all new titles produced in the Westford plant

Courier remains committed to meeting the demand in a rapidly-growing industry.

Courier People On the Move

Right From the Start Tip
QuarkXPress users, take note:
It is important that you maintain your files in the version of QuarkXPress that was used to create them. Starting a file in version 3.32 and later saving it in version 4.1 will cause you to loose trapping information. And there are other problems including subtle shifts in margins during imagesetting.

For more tips, please visit www.rightfromthestart.com