IOWA CITY, IA - April 17, 2009. MetaCommunications, a leading software developer of collaborative workflow and productivity solutions, announced its next webinar series today.

"Speed, Organize & Automate Proof Approvals" will be presented as part of the company's introduction to Workgroups 2009™. This powerful, yet simple, browser-based solution has a built-in workflow engine to solve the problems associated with tracking soft and hard proofs, keeping projects and clients on schedule and efficiently capturing client changes. Cross-platform, it automates the proofing process - placing clients and departments on the same page - to get proofs approved faster.

"Approval Manager gives users a dashboard view of their active proofs, allowing them to keep on schedule and collaborate with reviewers in real-time," said Robert T. Long, Executive Vice President of MetaCommunications. "Organizations can be much more productive and efficient if they manage the proofing process. It is typical for it to take longer to get a proof back from a client than it takes to produce the job. By managing the process, turn time can be dramatically reduced, leading to a reduction in idle production time and an increase in capacity."

Integrated support for industry-standard proofing technologies and easy-to-use scheduling tools simplify approval processes within larger workflows, ensuring projects stay on time and maximizing resources. Documenting changes as they occur, creating a permanent record of what happened and why, increases billing accuracy by capturing potentially lost revenues.

Webinar attendees will learn how to:

• Manage the entire proofing process through a dashboard
• Schedule and track proofs through single or multiple stages
• Eliminate stalled reviews using automatic client notifications
• Provide clients with efficient tools for reviewing proofs
• Track revisions and capture an audit trail of all client reviews
• Reduce mistakes and improve quality

This complimentary series will take place on:
Wednesday, April 22, 10 a.m. Central Time
Friday, April 24, 10 a.m. Central Time

Registration is available at http://www.meta-comm.com/webinar0905

The all new Workgroups 2009 collaborative workflow and productivity suite is the affordable cross-platform software solution for creative, publishing and prepress professionals.

About MetaCommunications

MetaCommunications is a leading software developer of cross-platform process management and productivity solutions for the graphic arts industry, including its award-winning Job Manager™, Virtual Ticket™, Approval Manager™ and Digital Storage Manager™ components. MetaCommunications has thousands of users of its software worldwide, helping some of the world's top creative agencies, corporate marketing groups, printing and prepress firms, and publishers work more efficiently and profitably. MetaCommunications was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Iowa City, Iowa. For more information about MetaCommunications, please visit http://www.meta-comm.com.

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