Recent News

Worldwide innovation award for PCS system Press Computer Systems has won the worldwide Innovator of the year award for “Knowledge”, the new intelligent media publishing and content-management system. Knowledge uses Caché and Ensemble from InterSystems to create a high-performance solution with the ability to automatically associate related content and create intelligent workflows for easier, faster, and richer content publication. Knowledge, the new media publishing and digital content management solution from Press Computer Systems, has received a major global award for innovation in the USA. The 2009 InterSystems Worldwide Innovator Award winners were announced in Phoenix, Arizona on Monday, March 23 during the opening session of the InterSystems developers' conference - DEVCON. ...more

First for PCS as MNA benefit from Knowledge The first UK newspaper group, The Midland News Association, publishers of two of the UK’s biggest selling regional evening newspapers, the Express & Star and Shropshire Star, has gone live using QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress server. Production began in January on the Chronicle series and Shropshire Weekly Newspapers series using the new editorial system called Knowledge, which uses QuarkXPress 8 and QuarkXPress 8 server for pagination. The Kidderminster Chronicle was the first newspaper off the press, followed by the Telford Journal and Walsall Chronicle. Knowledge will be implemented across all 20 weekly titles in the group by the end of May. The next phase of the project will be to upgrade the daily newspapers, Express & Star and Shropshire Star to the new system. ...more

PropertyNet launched with InDesign... Following requests from our customers Press Computers Systems have developed Adobe InDesign CS and InDesign Server for use with PropertyNet the industries leading Property advertisement make up solution. ...more

PCS will once again... PCS will once again be sponsoring the 2009 Newspaper Awards. The only industry awards dedicated to newspaper and news media will take place on Wednesday 22nd April at the London Hilton, Park Lane. ...more

PCS strengthens development team The Wolverhampton-based company has employed three new developers to help progress on the success of recent orders and support the development of new and existing products. ...more

Walker appointed MD at Press Computer Systems Press Computer Systems has appointed Philip Walker as Managing Director to drive forward exciting plans for the future of the Midlands-based publishing software developer. Philip, who has been a non-executive director of PCS since 2005, took over as MD at the beginning of April after moving from his role as IT Director for the Claverley Publishing companies. ...more

Newsquest Media Group choose NCS from PCS Newsquest Media Group Ltd has placed an order for NCS, the Circulation and Distribution solution from Press Computer Systems Ltd. ...more

iViewer story still a real page-turner for PCS Publishing Expo brought renewed interest in iViewer, the PDF page-viewing system from Press Computer Systems ...more

Sales Director Appointed Mark joined PCS in 1999 after a career in sales, notably in advertising with Midland News Association plc working on the daily Express and Star and Weekly Chronicle series. Mark has progressed within PCS, becoming Associate Sales Director in 2005. ...more

Cumbrian Newspapers Choose PCS for Circulation Cumbrian Newspapers Limited (CNL) has placed an order for NCS, the Circulation and Distribution solution from PCS. The order for all NCS modules covering the disciplines for Paid For (Newstrade), Direct Delivery, Subscriptions, Canvassing, Free Distribution and Leaflet Sales. ...more