How to Manage Languages, Currencies, and Assortments in Catalog Automation
When a company sells across multiple countries, a catalog is rarely one single document. It is a family of regional editions, each with its own language, currency, assortment, pricing rules, and local formatting conventions. The product data may come from the same source, but each market needs to read it differently. A US catalog may [...]
How FAAC Reduced Price Catalog Errors with SAP-Driven Automation
Industry: Access Automation & Electronics Manufacturing | Company Size: 1,001–5,000 employees | Headquarters: Italy | Challenge: A product catalog used as the official price communication vehicle to customers, where every pricing error has direct commercial consequences | Solution: Pagination Cloud for
automated catalog generation, based on SAP data exports. The Challenge: Manual Price Catalog [...]
How a German Asset Manager Automated 600+ Fund Fact Sheets per Month
Industry: Financial Services / Fund Research | Headquarters: Germany | Challenge: 500-800 fund fact sheets per month| Solution: Pagination Cloud for automated fund fact sheet generation This case study shows how a mid-sized German asset manager replaced a fragile internal workflow for monthly
fund fact sheet production with a scalable automated publishing process. The [...]
A Smarter, Faster Pagination: What’s New in v2.1.1
Pagination has released version 2.1.1 of its web application, introducing new features, usability enhancements, and important bug fixes designed to make
catalog production faster and more intuitive. Integrations Page Now Available A dedicated Integrations page has been introduced within the web application. It becomes visible when integrations are active, allowing external services to connect [...]
How to Automate Distributor-Specific Price Lists at Scale
一家全球工业称重设备制造商如何实现技术产品目录生产的标准化
行业:工业称量与测量 | 公司规模:10,000+员工 | 总部:瑞士 挑战:包含复杂表格、特定市场定价和共享配件的技术目录 解决方案:Pagination Cloud自动化目录生成 当技术目录变得过于复杂而难以管理 在工业称量与测量领域,目录必须精准且易于阅读。但当产品表格不断增长、区域版本不断增多时,InDesign的手动制作就变成了一个修修补补的无尽循环。 一位Pagination的长期客户设定了一个明确目标:
实现技术目录生产的自动化,并使其在年度更新和多个市场之间真正可重复。要求很简单: 结构化数据输入 自动应用版面规则 输出可编辑的InDesign文件(加上最终PDF) 同时编辑团队保持对审核和微调的完全控制。 为什么手动工作流程在技术出版中行不通 在这类目录中,痛点是可预见的,且在每个更新周期都会重新出现: 内容可变的密集技术表格:
InDesign标准数据合并在列数和内容长度因产品而异时,无法保证一致的结果。 特定语言的分隔符:不同市场需要不同的小数和千位分隔符:“1.780”与“1,780”。加载文件中错误的分隔符会产生错误输出或静默错误。Pagination通过区域分隔符配置来处理这一问题,确保相同的数据在每个版本中正确显示。 共享配件:相同的组件出现在多个产品线中,必须在各版本、市场和年份之间保持名称、类型和价格的一致性。 区域版本规则:不同市场需要表格中不同的列排序(英国目录的列排序可能与法国目录不同)、显示或隐藏价格的选项,以及按年份和市场定制的封面。 产品图片和瀑布图集:图片必须通过URL获取并自动放置,包括特定产品系列的瀑布图片,且不能有空隙或质量损失。 每次更新都需要人工干预。一致性依赖于人工检查,可扩展性仅限于团队能逐页验证的范围。 方法:为可重复性而构建的工业目录自动化 目标不是“部分自动化”,而是完全可重复的生产。 核心组件 功能 自适应列宽优化 自动空间计算,生成可读、均衡的表格 表格数据标准化 解析复合字段,仅在需要时生成列 关联配件查找 在产品线和版本之间一致复用配件名称、类型和价格 通过URL获取图片 自动下载、导入并放置到版面中,包括表格旁的图片 区域版面控制 特定市场的列排序、分隔符格式化和价格可见性规则 动态封面生成 为每个目标年份和市场自动创建封面 从产品数据到印刷就绪的工业目录 产品信息来源于企业的PIM环境,最初基于Hybris和SAP Customer Experience (CX),包括SAP Product Content Management (PCM),后来迁移至SAP Product Content HUB。PIM系统由专职团队管理,包括一名PIM架构师和一名全球PIM经理。Pagination通过结构化的Excel加载文件连接这些数据,确保目录生成与唯一数据源保持一致。 这种职责分离是刻意为之的:数据团队负责加载文件的结构和质量,设计团队负责InDesign模板和版面规则。工作流程保持清晰:没有人需要在InDesign中手动“修正”内容来让生产运转。 [...]
Pagination Web App: New User Interface
We have released a major update to the Pagination Web App. The goal is simple: speed up daily tasks, improve readability, and give you more control over projects, usage, and history, whether you are working from desktop or mobile. This update brings our
catalog software to the next level. Why This Update Matters Users [...]
How a Global Footwear Brand Automated 12 Multilingual Catalogs with Pagination
Industry: Footwear & Fashion Retail | Company Size: 5,000+ employees | Headquarters: Italy Challenge: Manual catalog production across 40+ markets | Solution: Pagination Cloud for automated catalog generation The Challenge: Managing Product Catalogs Across 40+ Markets A leading Italian footwear company with global presence faced a critical bottleneck in their go-to-market strategy: producing seasonal catalogs [...]
FITT teams up with Pagination to automate commercial documents
Pagination is pleased to announce a new collaboration with FITT, a leader in developing innovative fluid transfer solutions for domestic, professional and industrial applications. Headquartered in Sandrigo (Vicenza), FITT operates 9 production sites, 5 sales branches and 13 logistics centres across Europe and around the world. As a Benefit Corporation, the company combines high performance [...]
Catalog automation in the travel industry: Nicolaus chooses Pagination
Founded in Ostuni, Italy, Nicolaus Group is a leading name in the travel and hospitality industry, managing resorts and hotels across Italy and the Mediterranean under the Nicolaus Club and Valtur brands. The company relies on richly designed catalogs to present its destinations, services, and experiences. Before automation, each catalog was manually produced in InDesign, [...]
Novo Building Products kicks off a new partnership with Pagination to automate its product catalogs
Pagination is proud to announce a new partnership with Novo Building Products, a leading manufacturer and distributor of stair components, moldings, doors, specialty millwork, and board products. Headquartered in Michigan, Novo Building Products owns several well-known brands, including Ornamental Decorative Millwork, L.J. Smith Stair Systems, Empire Moulding & Millwork, Southwest Moulding and Millwork, and Novo [...]
Performance Health chooses Pagination to automate catalogs and sell sheets with NetSuite
Performance Health, one of the leading manufacturers and distributors of medical and physical therapy supplies, manages a portfolio of over 20,000 products distributed in more than 100 countries. With such a wide range, creating and updating catalogs and product sheets quickly was a major challenge. By partnering with Pagination, the company introduced an automated workflow [...]
Somfy chooses Pagination for catalog and price list automation
Somfy Systems, part of the Somfy Group, is a global leader in motorized shading solutions. In North America, the company relies on catalogs and price lists to support distributors, agents, and sales teams. Over the years, Somfy has built a solid collaboration with Pagination to simplify the production of these documents. Before automation, catalogs were [...]
NationsBenefits chooses Pagination for catalog automation
NationsBenefits, a fast-growing U.S. company serving managed care organizations, delivers supplemental benefits and healthcare products to members across the country. With more than 1,500 employees and multiple distribution centers, the company needed a better way to manage the complexity of its catalogs. To support this challenge, NationsBenefits partnered with Pagination. The goal was to replace [...]
Envision Optimizes PriceBook Updates with Pagination
Envision Outdoor Living Products leads the U.S. building material industry. Since 1999, this Pennsylvania-based manufacturer has crafted premium outdoor solutions. From their Mt. Joy headquarters, they offer extensive composite decking products, stylish railings, and matching accessories. As a result, their diverse brand portfolio serves contractors, dealers, and homeowners looking to enhance outdoor spaces. Recently, the [...]
Ensto Marine sets sail with automated datasheets powered by Pagination
Ensto Marine, a leading provider of comprehensive electrical solutions for the marine sector, has chosen Pagination to automate the creation of its technical datasheets. With a wide range of products including electrical switchboards, power distribution systems, and lighting solutions, Ensto Marine needed a system to streamline the production of technical documentation while ensuring accuracy and [...]
Trans Globe Lighting automates product sheets with Pagination
Trans Globe Lighting, a trusted name in decorative and functional lighting solutions, has been illuminating homes and businesses across North America for decades. Known for their diverse range of high-quality products, including indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures, Trans Globe Lighting serves a wide variety of styles and preferences, from classic to contemporary designs. By partnering [...]
Bulldog Abrasives chooses Pagination for catalog automation
Bulldog Abrasives, one of South Africa’s leading suppliers of industrial abrasive solutions, has joined forces with Pagination to transform the way they produce their catalogs. With an extensive range of products catering to various industries, Bulldog Abrasives is streamlining their catalog production process by embracing automation. Bulldog Abrasives needed a solution that could simplify this [...]
Liaigre teams up with Pagination to automate price list creation
We’re excited to welcome Liaigre, the renowned French design studio, as a new customer at Pagination! Known for their elegant and timeless interiors, Liaigre has chosen Pagination to streamline the production of their price lists. This partnership is all about making their process faster, more accurate, and more efficient while maintaining the premium quality their [...]
Dormakaba’s Continued Success in Streamlining Price List Creation
Mapping the Customer Experience: A Journey to Satisfaction
- Date: 2 9 月 2024
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Are you a business owner looking to grow your company but unsure where to begin? First, look at your business through the eyes of your customers. Did you know that
32% of them will stop buying from you just after one bad experience? So, mapping the customer experience could be the perfect starting point [...]
Selling Solutions: Addressing Customer Pain Points in Your Online Store
- Date: 2 9 月 2024
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Creating a decent online store is not just about listing products and paying for transactions. Therefore, to succeed in this environment, companies must understand the pain points of shoppers and find ways to address those needs. By identifying customer problems and solving them, online stores can increase customer confidence, make shopping a better experience, and [...]
The Psychology of Pricing: Leveraging Marketing Techniques
- Date: 20 5 月 2024
- Author: marketing@pagination.com
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2024, Marketing
Building on our previous discussions about psychological factors, such as in our article on the
perception of printed and digital content, we now turn our attention to the psychology of pricing. In the world of marketing, price has long ago gone far beyond just a number. Today, it is a powerful tool that can [...]
How Walmart automated the creation of its Catalog Standard Style Guides with Pagination Software
Walmart contacted us because they were looking for a
catalog software to speed up the creation of their Catalog Standard Style Guides. We are talking about hundreds of documents. They are guides that explain how to catalog products in e-commerce. What was the publishing process before contacting Pagination? Before using Pagination, there was a [...]
Catalog Software by Pagination Powers Metaltex’s 2024 Multi-Country Catalogs and Brochures
Metaltex is proud to present its fine, colorful, modern and playful new catalogs and brochures spotlighting its 2024 product range. The integration of Pagination’s advanced catalog software has enabled this achievement. Switzerland-based Metaltex is a world-class manufacturer and distributor of household goods. With 6,000 worldwide clients in 75 countries, 19 distribution centers, 120,000 individual products, [...]
Personalization at Scale: How DSPs Revolutionize Advertising
- Date: 19 3 月 2024
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Technological progress has pushed the digital ads industry to unprecedented heights. Central to this evolution are demand-side platforms (DSPs), which have revolutionized how advertisers connect with their audiences. By harnessing vast amounts of data, DSPs enable advertisers to personalize ads at scale, ensuring that the right message reaches the right person at the right time. [...]
Why is Brand Identity so Important in Presentations?
The role and importance of communication in business can’t be overlooked. Be it a team meeting, sales pitch, investor relations, or employee training, effective communication is indispensable to make an impact. In this context, presentations are a great tool to take your interactions to a new level and open doors to new avenues. As presentations [...]
Printed Trail Materials: Brochures, Posters, and Design Elements for Hikers
Unlike many other areas of modern business, the tourism industry cannot exist without brightly colored printed materials. Booklets, brochures, and posters in hiking tourism play the role of a trigger that finally influences the client’s decision to purchase a hiking tour. Equally important is branded printing, which is aimed at distinguishing your tourism company from [...]
Sales Catalog: Top Masterful Tips for Maximizing Your Sales
Catalogs have long been an important part of the commerce business. After the first mail-order flipbook was introduced in 1667 by an English gardener named William Lucas, the sales tool quickly became prominent and brought millions of companies the success they were hoping for. Today, the catalog is still one of the most powerful and [...]
The Importance of Branding: Why Consistency Is Important for Your Communication/Business?
Brand presence is a company’s ability to maintain communication with customers and communicate the language of its values with elements that identify it. This is its face, its voice, the language of communication with clients. The level of image and trust of customers and partners depends on how developed the brand is. Therefore, before
Fogia’s Efficient Price List Creation with Pagination
Fogia, a renowned Swedish design company and furniture producer, has been dedicated to crafting high-quality, handmade furniture inspired by Scandinavian design aesthetics. Over the years, the company expanded its offerings and established a factory in Gdansk, Poland, where they collaborate with contemporary designers to create exceptional pieces. Additionally, Fogia takes pride in its commitment to [...]
Streamlining Multilingual Catalog Creation with Pagination
Introduction Pelsis, a leading global manufacturer and distributor in the pest and lawn care markets, has revolutionized its catalog creation process with the help of Pagination. By automating their InDesign template, Pelsis now effortlessly produces catalogs in multiple languages within minutes, achieving remarkable results. Company Overview Pelsis boasts an extensive range of high-quality brands, including [...]
Find out how Atlas Copco creates its multilingual catalogs quickly and efficiently
Atlas Copco is a multinational industrial company based in Sweden. The name “Copco” stands for Compagnie Pneumatique Commerciale. The company is a world leader in the development, manufacture, servicing, and leasing of air compressors, industrial tools, construction and assembly systems, and more. It operates in four business areas: compressor technology, vacuum technology, energy technology, and [...]
Nexus Brands Group Streamlines Catalog Production with Pagination
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – Nexus Brands Group, a leading American firm specializing in the design, manufacture, and distribution of furniture, equipment, and supplies to professional customers, has partnered with Pagination to optimize its catalog production process. Founded in 2015, Nexus Brands Group is the parent company of TATSoul®, Kingpin Tattoo Supply, ComfortGroom, Comfort Soul, Inkeeze, [...]
How Ingram Content Group creates several catalogs in minutes!
Ingram Content Group is a US-based service provider to the book publishing industry. The company was born in 2009, after the merger of Ingram Lightning Group with Ingram Digital Group. It has the largest active book inventory in the industry with access to 7.5 million titles and employs approximately 3,000 people worldwide. Ingram Content Group [...]
How Amcor creates its sales collateral in a jiffy!
Amcor is an American-Australian global packaging company. It develops and produces flexible packaging, rigid containers, specialty cartons, closures, and much more. Amcor has two reporting segments: Flexibles Packaging and Rigid Plastics. Flexibles Packaging develops and supplies flexible packaging and specialty folding cartons. Rigid Plastics is one of the world’s largest suppliers of rigid plastic packaging. [...]
How BeA Fasteners improved the creation of their price lists!
BeA Group is a German company, the market leader in Europe, Australia, South America, and the USA in compressed air-powered fastening in furniture production. In Europe, they are a leader in pneumatic hand and gas-operated staplers and nailers in industrial timber construction, furniture production, the repair of pallets, and transport packaging made of wood. The [...]
How Kongskilde creates its price lists in a matter of minutes!
Kongskilde is a world-leading manufacturer of pneumatic conveying and material handling solutions for the paper, packaging, recycling, and plastic industries. It is headquartered in Denmark and has sales offices in 9 countries around the world.
How Dormakaba saved time in creating their own price lists
Dormakaba is a global security group based in Rümlang, Switzerland. It employs around 15,000 people in over 50 countries. It formed as the result of a merger between former Kaba and former Dorma in September 2015 (companies with a history of over 100 years). They deliver products, solutions, and services in access and security worldwide: [...]
What are the differences between reading on paper and on screen?
- Date: 8 11 月 2021
- Author: marketing@pagination.com
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We recently published
a study on the differences between the act of reading on paper and on-screen. The study was conducted and written by Alice Morotti. The process is analyzed through the lens of psychology and marketing. We also conducted a small research on the factors behind our customers’ choices on creating print and [...]
Greyson Clothiers creates their dream catalog with the help of Pagination
- Date: 11 2 月 2021
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Greyson Clothiers is a clothing manufacturer that merges fashion with sport in order to create products that are suitable for the modern lifestyle. Greyson has shattered the idea that sport, tailored fashion and functionality could not coexist and redefined modern menswear and continues to deliver timeless styles.
What are the differences between the English and German marketing language?
- Date: 25 1 月 2021
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If you are like us, then you have probably pondered about the differences various languages have, what you need to do, to optimize your site, not only in your native language but also in other languages as well. Cultures and customs are different for every country and pinpointing what to do is not always easy [...]
How WP-OK helps us maintain our Website
- Date: 14 1 月 2021
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We are very passionate about our website and our team is always working hard to produce the best new content possible. Problems often come up though and they are not always as easy to fix as you might think. A while ago we partnered up with WP-OK, a WordPress support site which helped us [...]
How a simplified data file allowed Pentax to streamline their catalog production
- Date: 4 1 月 2021
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PENTAX is an Italian based company that produces high-quality hydraulic pumps. To ensure the best quality Pentax tests each product at least twice before it leaves the facility. Their passion and experience has led to successfully cater to customers in over 120 countries worldwide.
How Bodahl Mobler creates up to 20 seasonal price lists a year
- Date: 26 10 月 2020
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Bodahl Mobler is a B2B trading company based in Denmark that designs its own furniture and focuses on quality, good craftsmanship, and a rustic look. Today Bodahl Mobler is represented in the majority of European Countries.
SuperATV streamlined the catalog creation process with Pagination
- Date: 25 2 月 2020
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SuperATV is a company based in the United States in Madison, Indiana. Since 2003, it has been selling aftermarket products for commercial vehicles (UTVs) and off-road vehicles (ATVs).
Custom Development for Adobe Indesign Server workflows
- Date: 25 2 月 2020
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Following recent effort to expand his custom development on InDesign Server for the catalog and price list creation software, Pagination is happy to be listed in
techreviewer.co website. TechReviewer is an analytics hub that carries out studies and publishes lists with the best software development companies in various business domains based on the [...]
How Paint Sundries Solutions creates and updates both its catalog and roadshow price list
- Date: 29 11 月 2019
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Paint Sundries Solutions has provided innovative supply chain solutions to retail and manufacturer partners in the architectural coatings industry since 1958. PSS has distribution centers in Seattle, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Harrisburg, delivering more than 10,000 products to 3,500 retail customers across the country.
Automatic creation of price lists and easy management of tables: What First Impressions is achieving with Pagination
- Date: 27 5 月 2019
- Author: marketing@pagination.com
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Pagination integrates with Salesforce to automatically create OX’s multilingual catalogs
Monthly updates on more than 1500 products for Bubbles Wholesale’s brochures
Bubbles Wholesale is one of Ireland’s largest independent wholesalers, established in 2010 between Belfast and Dublin. Bubbles is a supplier of confectioneries, soft drinks, groceries, household items, hardware, toiletries, pet care, and many other products, and it gives its customers the option of ordering online. Bubbles creates a monthly brochure to present its range of [...]
How Pagination is helping Almacabio to restyle its price list and create its new product sheets
Almacabio continues its course of strategic marketing, which began in 2015, with the restyling of its price list and the creation of new data sheets for its products. It does all this with the help of Pagination.
New Metaltex catalogs and brochures powered by Pagination are out now!
Metaltex is proud to present its fine, colorful, modern and playful new catalogs and brochures spotlighting its 2018 product range.
KATE & KON, the Austrian wine and food wholesaler, has joined the Pagination Family
Kate & Kon is a wholesaler of fine wine and foods. With both an online shop and local agents, Kate & Kon distributes quality wine and foods widely across Austria. In July 2017, Kate & Kon opened a restaurant, allowing customers to taste all their favorite products, and making it possible for the firm to [...]
Donati chose Pagination to improve the creation of its product catalog, which features more than 6500 items
Donati is an Italian company that markets and manufactures lift components. With more than 50 years of experience, a steadily increasing portfolio of over 5,000 products, and both a national and international presence, the Donati name is a guarantee of quality and professionalism.
Tile Redi, a leading American manufacturer of tileable bath products, chose Pagination to empower their editorial projects
Tile Redi is the American company with the industry’s largest selection of tileable products and the inventor of and market leader for Ready-to-Tile™, one-piece, easy-to-install shower pans. Tile Redi offer the industry’s largest selection of Ready-to-Tile™ products, including one-piece shower pans in a variety of models, shower shelves, shower seats, shaving steps, and decorative shelf [...]
Nobili presents the 2018 catalog, created in collaboration with Pagination
Nobili Group is a leading tapware producer and reseller. Founded in 1954, it represents a Made in Italy excellence in water technology. Nobili is a long-time partner of Pagination in the automatic creation of its catalogs. The 2018 Nobili tap and fittings catalog is now available, with a completely renewed look.
Office Choice released its 2018 catalogs powered by Pagination
Office Choice is one of Australia’s largest B2B office suppliers. It distributes office products and stationery supplies across all of East Australia. The company has chosen Pagination Custom Cloud Database Publishing Software to create and update their primary catalog and their industry specific versions.
Ingram is improving the publication of its titles database thanks to Pagination
- Date: 15 12 月 2017
- Author: Luca Reginato
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“Smarter tools, better services, more selection” This is Ingram’s aim, one that Pagination will help them to achieve. In fact, Pagination has enabled Ingram to optimise the creation of its vast number of publications.
Pagination helps PanPages to create editorial projects in an optimal way
- Date: 2 12 月 2017
- Author: Luca Reginato
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PanPages is a marketing agency based in Malaysia. It is the largest business database provider in the Southeast Asia region and currently hosts business portals in Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
Around Campus is creating student guides for 240 US universities with the help of Pagination
- Date: 16 10 月 2017
- Author: Luca Reginato
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The Around Campus Group is one of the most established college media and marketing companies in the US. It cooperates with over 200 colleges and universities to create any number of useful publications for students, teachers, and college staff, such as daily planners, campus handbooks and directories, media guides, class schedules, and much more. The [...]
A new data center in Sydney for Pagination’s customers!
- Date: 29 8 月 2017
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Metaltex will use Pagination Database Publishing Service to create their new catalogs
We are glad to welcome Metaltex as one of our international Pagination users. Together, we’ll create new catalogs for several associates, reducing the efforts of the marketing and the graphic department teams and enhancing the accuracy of data.
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Pagination is the PrintWeek Star Product of the Month!
PrintWeek, the print industry’s leading publication, came out this month with great news.
Office Choice has chosen us to streamline their catalog creation process
- Date: 3 7 月 2017
- Author: Luca Reginato
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Office Choice, which is one of Australia’s largest B2B office suppliers, has recently chosen Pagination for the creation of their catalog.
Pagination sponsor at CreativePro Week 2017
The partnership between Pagination and CreativePro Week has been renewed in 2017, following Pagination’s participation at PePcon in June and at the InDesign Conference in November 2016.
Pagination at PrintWeek Live 2017!
Pagination brought the world of database publishing to PrintWeek-Live! in Coventry, UK.
Pagination at The InDesign Conference 2016
After our success at PePcon in San Diego, Pagination moved to the East Coast for a new exciting adventure: The InDesign Conference 2016 in Washington DC!
On the cover of InSide
Pagination in on the latest cover of the magazine InSide, with an interview to Luca Reginato about database publishing and InDesign.
Field notes from PePcon 2016
As many of you no doubt know, Pagination.com was part of the latest edition of PePcon. Luca and Daniele from our team were in San Diego from the 5th to the 8th of June to be part of the world’s top Print + ePublishing Conference.