October 8^th 2008

A&N Media efficiency drive.

A&N Media have upgraded their advertising production system and gone live across their portfolio of publications using the industry leading Papermule Workflow system.

The entirely web based Papermule Production Workflow solution has been integrated with the many different ad booking and editorial systems used by titles such as the Daily Mail, Metro, Evening Standard and the Mail on Sunday. The upgrade gives a consistent approach to advertising production across all titles.

Traditional methods of copy chasing often involve customer specific knowledge with notes written on print outs generated at frequent intervals. With today's reduced lead times the pressure on sourcing, repeating or producing copy within a reduced time frame can lead to inaccuracies resulting in costly refunds.

Papermule Workflow and Copy Chasing is a simple system to use, and web based, it is very easy to install across multi-sites. Investing in the system gives A&N Media a fully automated solution to advertising chasing, reception and production. Production costs will, through the use of the software, improve and mistakes are expected to be reduced. Using the same system across all titles will ensure user consistency as well as quality outputs.

Alex Murphy, PrePress Operations Manager Advertising at A&N Media. "We have been upgrading to the web based version across all titles over the past year. The installation on paper looks complex due to the number of publications and systems we use. However, with the support and assistance of the Papermule team the overall upgrade has been relatively painless. Since going live at A&N Media with Papermule workflow it has already proved to be a sound investment with an improvement in productivity and a saving on hardware costs".

Miles Harrison, Service Director, Papermule "Moving to a web based ad production solution makes sense to any publisher wanting to streamline operations and tighten up on costs. The Papermule team has been working with major publishers including A&N Media as well as creative agencies and printers for many years developing software systems to ensure their production areas deliver on time every time and that advertising customers are receiving the best possible client contact service from start to finish".

Background
Papermule was founded in 2003 by a team of people that had worked in the prepress industry for many years. Papermule understands the importance to a publisher of accurate and fast turnaround of advertising copy. Technology has moved on considerably since the introduction of prepress software solutions in the 1980's. Since then Papermule has ensured their solutions are always at the forefront of leading technology and always with the customer in mind.

Papermule offers a full range of consulting, support and development services including the next generation of workflow and asset management solutions for companies of all sizes involved in publishing.

October 24^th 2007

Papermule sells Workflow and Copy Chasing solution to The Irish News

Belfast, UK (October 24th 2007) - Papermule, a provider of prepress and asset management software solutions to the printing and publishing industries, announced the sale of a Workflow and Copy Chasing solution to The Irish News. Papermule's solutions will be implemented within the production department integrating with the in house written Advertisement Booking system and incorporating both QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign for ad make up, exploiting the Papermule system's integration flexibility with regard to end-user application preference.

Publishers and media companies large and small around the world use Papermule solutions which provides pre production departments with the ability to operate more efficiently and effectively. In this ever changing market place and more and more thought is required to cut production costs Papermule is at the forefront in this battle with innovative solutions that cover a range of requirements.

Announcing the new partnership with Papermule Liam Mcmullen, Systems Manager of The Irish News stated:
'We have been looking for sometime to get the right solution to meet our production requirements and also the right company that can supply that solution and we are delighted that Papermule tick all the boxes for us. They have listened to the various departments within our publishing centre, shown us where we can make time savings and help run our production environment more efficiently and the knowledge base within their company is something that cannot be matched anywhere else within this industry. I am looking forward for a long term business partnership with Jerry Leonard our Account Manager and the rest of the team at Papermule'

More information and technical specifications regarding all of the Papermule products are available at www.papermule.co.uk

About The Irish News
As a regional morning newspaper, the Irish News enjoys a unique reputation for the quality delivery of news to readers in Northern Ireland and beyond. Delivering local, regional and national news from the readers' viewpoint. Local, National and International sport, the number one source of Gaelic Sports coverage in Northern Ireland The Paper is independently owned and speaks independently. Within Northern Ireland the title sells mainly to the nationalist community, but is recognised as a quality newspaper that reflects the full range of life in Ireland today. A varied team of columnists and contributors from across the entire political and social spectrum express their views through the Irish News each day. The paper is involved in reconciliation work between the communities in Northern Ireland and has been honoured for its outstanding contribution to the newspaper industry. The Irish News impartiality and balance have been singled out for special mention. The newspaper is available throughout Ireland, the online edition is available to the world at 9.00am G.M.T. on each publication day.

About Papermule
Founded in June 2003, Papermule people have worked for many of pre-press companies from East Anglia namely Xenotron (the root of the tree), Hyphen, Cascade, MediaBridge and most recently, Engage. Working from our head office in Diss, Norfolk and we continue the high standards set by our predecessors and currently offer customers a full range of consulting, support and development services along with next generation workflow and asset management solutions for a variety of publishing industries. Papermule Ltd provides consultancy and support for some of the UK's largest publishers and has created Papermule Workflow as a leading edge asset management and workflow automation solution. Whether you are a National or Regional Newspaper, Magazine house, Directory publisher, Repro house or Printer Papermule Workflow can streamline your production processes.

March 2^nd 2007

Publishing Expo, 14th and 15th February, 2007 at Olympia

Papermule announced partnership with Agefame and demonstrated copy matching and copy chasing to visitors to the show.

During the show, Papermule announced a partnership with Agefame to sell and support their widely used MediaPlanner system. MediaPlanner is installed in almost all National Newspaper Publishing centres, of which some also happens to be Papermule's customer base. This relationship will allow Papermule to support their customers more efficiently, especially with regard to integrating MediaPlanner activity within the overall workflow of a larger production system.

A visitor to the stand was quoted saying "knowing that the workflow system is already integrated with my planning system is great"

At the show Papermule also demonstrated new features in its Workflow software, including its Copy Matching and Copy Chasing systems, which allow content delivered by customers to be automatically connected up with booked ads.

Publishing Expo 2007 represented an opportunity for Papermule to show that it's workflow software can be equally applied to meet magazine and catalogue publishing requirments, despite being better established in the newspaper advertising world, and the demonstration system attracted interest from several IT and Production Directors during the 2 day show.

September 15^th 2006

Papermule Ltd, an innovative supplier of digital asset management and workflow solutions to the pre-press industry, are pleased to announce the appointment of Jerry Leonard as Sales Account Manager.

Announcing the appointment, Papermule Director, Mike Hoy said, "We're extremely fortunate to have Jerry as part of our Papermule team, he brings with him a wealth of experience and a reputation in the publishing field which will help greatly in our future growth and development."

Before coming to Papermule, Jerry worked for a variety of Newspapers but more recently for the publishing software company Media Systems where he was Head of Sales for UK and Ireland and was responsible for business development of their software solutions.

Leonard said he is "thrilled to be joining such an experienced and customer focused team. The flexibility in the Papermule solutions coupled with partnerships with major organisations such as Oracle and Helios mean that they can deliver complex asset management and workflow solutions across different sectors quickly and robustly. I look forward to promoting the solutions and growing their already prestigious customer base."

June 1^st 2006

Belfast Telegraph Implements Papermule's Workflow Software

The Belfast Telegraph, publisher of Northern Ireland's most widely read daily paper and most visited web site, goes live with Papermule CopyChasing.

Part of the Independent News and Media Group, The Belfast Telegraph is using Papermule CopyChasing to manage and automate the creation and reception of advertising content for all its titles. This move continues the group's strategy to centralize advetising production and the new system fully integrates with The Independent's state of the art production system in Armagh.

Joe O'Keeffe, Production Manager, commented "Newspapers have to be increasingly innovative in using technology to improve productivity. Papermule's system helps us manage our advertising from booking through to production and has greatly improved throughput and reduced errors. A key factor in our decision to implement Papermule Workflow is that the system is highly configurable and can adapt as our needs and processes change."

Papermule Workflow helps automate advertising, integrating with a Sentinal booking system and controlling reception of material from AdFast and Quickcut. Papermule's CopyChasing module ensures that material and bookings are tracked efficiently. Jobs for creation in Armagh are routed automatically using AdsML formatted requests. The production workflow proceeds as required with Asura pre-flight and MediaPlanner integration.

Mike Hoy, Technical Director of Papermule, added "The Belfast Telegraph is a great example of how diverse systems can be integrated effectively even where separated geographically. Users can easily monitor the entire workflow no matter where the job. Papermule CopyChasing is a comprehensive digital asset management system and has to be completely reliable. We know from experience how an inflexible system can eventually cause problems when change is required. Our systems are designed to be completely open and dynamically configurable and this gives our customers confidence that their future needs can be met."

May 11^th 2006

Papermule Workflow System Drives Automation for Independent News and Media

Independent News and Media has implemented its first phase of Papermule Workflow software to manage and automate the creation of advertising content for The Irish Independent, Sunday Independent and The Herald.

Pursuing group strategy to centralise advertising production, The Irish Independent has created a dedicated advertising production facility in Armagh, Northern Ireland. The Armagh site uses Papermule Workflow to control the entire creative process, from artwork reception and advert creation through to proofing, customer approval and final delivery to pagination.

Joe O'Keeffe, Production Manager, Irish Independent, commented, "Advertising revenue continues to be under pressure and it's vital that we continue to control advertising costs and production processes. Our customers demand excellent service and our centre of excellence in Armagh will improve our quality, productivity and efficiency. Papermule is our preferred partner in this process and Papermule Workflow has integrated our existing sales and production processes seamlessly."

Through complete integration with the newspaper's SII booking and material delivery systems, copy is ordered and updated automatically, allowing Papermule Workflow to prioritise production processes based upon delivery deadlines. Users are automatically provided with all the necessary material for the advert creation process along with correctly sized template documents. Papermule Workflow also integrates with OneVision's Asura preflight system and The Independent's Quickcut delivery systems to complete the production process.

Joe added, "Armagh is a critical part of delivering advertising for our own titles and external customers. Users find Papermule Workflow intuitive and easy to use. If fact, we have achieved such levels of automation that it's easy to forget that Workflow is there controlling everything. Now, my senior staff and I can fully monitor production issues and statistics from a single point and deal with issues more proactively."

February 17^th 2006

Papermule Ltd, an innovative supplier of content management, workflow and digital asset management solutions to the pre-press industry, today announced the appointment of Alan Hough as Sales Account Manager.

Announcing the appointment, Papermule Director, Mike Hoy said, "I am delighted to welcome Alan to Papermule. Alan will help us manage and drive the continuing growth of Papermule Workflow, our next generation Workflow and Content Management solution. He has extensive experience of leading a national sales force and will help ensure that we continue to offer fantastic support to our growing customer base."

Alan's career has spanned a number of senior roles in publishing and media, including Moneyfacts Group, Granada Television and Clays printers. In his last role as Sales Director of Moneyfacts, Alan was responsible for business developmentof their software solutions, three leading publications and all their websites.

"I am very excited to be joining Papermule." said Hough. "Their Workflow and Content Management solution is state of the art, flexible and cost effective. Their partnerships with major organisations such as Oracle and Helios means that they can integrate their solutions quickly and robustly. Papermule has extensive experience in the industry and provides solutions and services to some of the largest companies within the Newspaper, Directory and Magazine sectors. I look forward to working with the team and contributing to our growth."

Notes for Editors

Papermule Ltd was formed in June 2003. Based in Diss in Norfolk, Papermule provides software, support and services to the pre-press industry. Specialising in content management, workflow automation and digital asset management, Papermule's products include Workflow, Copy Chasing, Approval and Library. These next generation enterprise-level systems combine to offer an integrated production process with a single control and reporting infrastructure. Key benefits are improved throughput, consistency, reliability and performance.

Papermule's experienced team of developers and support professionals offer a wealth of knowledge and experience to the Newspaper, Magazine, Directory and Repromarketplaces. Major customers include Associated Newspapers, Express Group, Irish Independent Group and National Magazines. All systems are developed on a Java and web services oriented architecture ensuring maximum flexibility and system integration. Papermule is an authorised reseller for Oracle, Sybase and Helios.

For further information please contact:

Email: info@papermule.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1379 650330
Tel(m): +44 (0)7920 236536
Web: http://www.papermule.co.uk

November 30^th 2005

Fine Print increases productivity with Papermule Workflow

Fine Print, one of Oxford's leading commercial colour printers are reaping productivity benefits from their new installation of Papermule's asset management and workflow solution.

Papermule Workflow streamlines Fine Print's production process from content reception to job output. Raw data sets from customers is analysed and structured so that operators can retrieve job files quickly and effectively. Integration via JDF with a Shuttleworth Management Information System and further integration with Kodak Brisque output devices allows prints and reprints to be fully automated. The workflow also allows single page changes without the labour and potential for errors of reprocessing the whole document. Dan Bakewell, Managing Director of Fine Print said, "Mac operators find the Papermule system fast and easy to use, the investment in Papermule Workflow has enabled Fine Print to grow without additional studio staff, purely down to the increased productivity it has provided."

About Fine Print
Based in Oxford, Fine Print employ 50 staff and produce litho, digital and large format promotional and marketing print items, primarily to the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical sectors.
For more information email tellmemore@fineprint.co.uk

August 8^th 2005

Manny Vaghela Appointed as Business Development Manager

(8^th August 2005) - Papermule, a provider of software, support and services for the pre-press industry, today announced the appointment of Manny Vaghela to the newly created position of Business Development Manager.

In announcing the appointment, Papermule Director, Mike Hoy said, "I am delighted to welcome Manny into this new role at Papermule. We have busy times ahead of us, with the launch of Papermule Workflow, our next generation Workflow and Content Management soltion at Newstec in May 2005, and the exciting opportunities to grow the company. It was time for us to strengthen the Papermule business development team with a seasoned veteran who brings great new abilities and experience."

Manny's career has spanned a number of diverse roles in sales and services with innovative organisations including Xenotron, Hyphen, Cascade Systems, MediaBridge Technologies, and Engage. Manny has spent the last two years with JDA Software growing their Revenue Management application that helps retailers to plan, promote and execute promotions for multi channel delivery, including print and web.

"I am excited to be joining Papermule. I believe that Papermule is uniquely positioned in the market to capitalise on its industry leading customer base withing Newspapers, Directories and Magazines, and to gain momentum through its next generation Workflow and Content Management product offerings. I look forward to working with the team and contributing to our growth." said Vaghela.

March 1^st 2005

Papermule will be exhibiting at Newstec 2005 in Brighton, from 23^rd - 25^th May. Come and talk to us about your editorial or advertising production management system, and see how we can help. We will be highlighting the unique benefits of our new Papermule Workflow software.

We can be found on Stand 1004, which is in the Oxford Room (Hall 1) on the first floor.

September 1^st 2004

OneVision and Papermule: Streamline National Magazines Classified Advertising Production

The integration of OneVision's Asura preflight application into National Magazines content management solution is already paying dividends. This first joint project by Papermule and OneVision has enabled National Magazines to take advantage of world class pre-flight and optimisation software by OneVision, embedded within enterprise level workflow and content management solutions supported by Papermule.

By seamlessly integrating Asura into the existing workflow solution, pre-flight checking and optimisation has become a centralised workflow component. Each user is provided with additional functionality within their existing workflow interface allowing them to submit, check and review a job's progress without having to manually check hot folders or log files. With multiple instances of Asura running behind the workflow management solution, users are provided 24/7 pre-flight checking availability and significant daily throughput.

Whilst users at National Magazines are conscious of the Asura implementation and the facilities that it provides, the impact upon their daily working practices have been minimal with the content management solution providing a consolidated user interface to the entire process. Sean Briggs, Applications Support and Development Manager at National Magazines said "The integration has been effortlessly adopted by everyone with almost no working practice changes and the number of post production issues encountered has been greatly reduced. Production staff are extremely happy with the entire solution."

August 30th 2004

Papermule joins AdsML

AdsML is an initiative supported by Ifra and the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) in order to create the first comprehensive, global standard for end-to-end advertising workflow.

AdsML covers, in principle, the means by which data is exchanged for all kinds of advertising, in all media and through all stages of the lifecycle of an advertisement.

AdsML will apply to all sectors of the advertising industry, enhance the efficiency of the advertising process and facilitate integration at systems and data levels. The proposed, XML-based standard seeks to make the best use of other existing and forthcoming standards, while adding AdsML-specific support to crucial processes in the advertising lifecycle, which are not now served.

Papermule products will be AdsML compliant allowing faster integration with other products in the market space and reducing overall installation costs. Papermule also has members attending the technical specification group of the AdsML consortium.

June 23^rd 2004

One This Month.....

It's a year since we picked up the baton of supporting the Engage customer base (for free!) in the confusion that followed the sudden liquidation of Engage UK Ltd. With a large existing customer base looking for support and a dedicated team of techies kicking their heels the formation of Papermule seemed like an obvious outcome. Two months in saw our first income from Associated Newspapers and by the August we'd moved from someone's front room into dedicated office premises just a couple of miles from the original Engage office.

Over the next few months we gradually convinced people of our ability to provide credible support and services, and have secured annual support contracts from a broad and prestigious customer base; this finally allowed us to pay ourselves a salary before Christmas 2003. We also put in place agreements with JDA and Helios to improve the range of solutions we can deliver.

With spending habits learnt during the early months, we've managed to avoid the initial cash flow crises faced by many young start ups. Through the entire period, when we've not been handling support calls, or performing services work, we've been creating our own workflow solution. With plans to release a beta product this year well within schedule the next twelve months look to be as busy as the last!

May 11^th 2004

Papermule Ltd. Appointed Authorised Service Provider by JDA Software Group, Inc.

Papermule, a software developer and professional services company, today announced that JDA Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) has appointed it as an Authorised Service Provider. Since the June 2003 bankruptcy of Engage Inc., Papermule has been providing support services to many of the former Engage customers within the printing and publishing industries in Europe. This arrangement will allow Papermule to significantly expand its range of offerings for these customers.

In August 2003, JDA acquired substantially all of the remaining assets of Engage Inc., including the intellectual property for the Engage ContentServer product range. By signing this agreement, Papermule and JDA will now offer the former Engage customers in the UK and Europe a growth path for their Engage software. Papermule will supplement its existing technical support services and solutions by promoting a service through which JDA will sell software licences and software support contracts, as well as upgrade subscriptions, to the European ex-Engage customer base.

Papermule director, Mike Hoy commented: "this is a win-win situation for everyone, but most importantly, it provides a way for our mutual customers to maintain and build upon the investments they have made in the Engage (and originally Cascade) software.

The agreement between Papermule and JDA allows existing solutions to be upgraded to keep pace with new versions of integrated third-party components, extended to fulfil new requirements such as disaster recovery and migrated onto new hardware to reduce ever growing support costs. The latest version of ContentServer provides much needed support for Mac OSX and Quark Xpress 6.0 for those clients who purchase upgrade subscriptions.

JDA Products covered by this agreement include DataFlow, ContentServer, ApprovalServer, DigitalAdWorkflow and MediaSphere.

For more information please contact either:

Mike Hoy
Director
Papermule Ltd.
Tel: +44 (0)1379 650330
Email: info@papermule.co.uk
Web: www.papermule.co.uk

Michelle Kershner
Director, Global Public Relations
JDA Software Group, Inc.
Tel: +1 480 308 3294
Email: michelle.kershner@jda.com
Web: www.jda.com

December 2^nd 2003

Associated Newspapers select Papermule Ltd as their vendor of choice to supply 24/7 technical support on their Advertising Management and Production System.

The system, Advertising Content Server (ACS), employed at Associated, is based around the ContentServer and Approval Server products previously supplied and supported by Engage UK Ltd.

Sun Solaris and Oracle form the backbone of the underlying solution where digital assets are maintained on locally mirrored Sun storage arrays as well as being replicated in real time to a duplicate back up system. The replication not only allows for the very worst catastrophic system failure but also enables routine maintenance tasks, often required to maintain such a large and complex solution, to be undertaken with little or no impact up on normal production.

This extremely high level of system availability and resilience guarantees Associated Newspapers a 24/7 production environment, enabling complete end to end advert production for the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Evening Standard and Metro newspapers. Key features utilised are Digital Ad Reception, Copy Chasing, Advert Production and On-line Advert Approval.

October 24^th 2003

HELIOS Software GmbH is a leading provider of high performance networking and client/server software products for Macintosh, DOS/Windows PCs, and UNIX. The HELIOS server software makes UNIX and RISC-based machines powerful and scalable servers for desktop PCs. HELIOS also offers heavy-duty print spoolers, and is a recognized leader of OPI, colour management, and PDF workflow solutions. A convenient print pre-check software and profile generation tools for ICC-compliant colour management complete the product collection.

The Helios product range has proved itself in the print/publishing marketplace, and is very widely used amongst Papermule's existing customers.

Appointment as an Authorised Helios Reseller improves Papermule's already extensive capabilities to support, upgrade and sell the entire Helios product range whilst gaining technical and logistical support directly from Helios' UK distributor JPY.

August 26^th 2003

Having made substantial investment in changing to an Oracle based Content Management System, Future Publishing has contracted Papermule as their vendor of choice to complete the installation and configuration of their new ContentServer 7.0.1 software.

The total contract also includes the refactoring and partial re-implementation of much of the old customisation and extension environment around the ContentServer core, which had been created piecemeal over the last few years.

This cleaned up and extended code will provide improved performance and tighter integration with Future Publishing's existing MIS system, including allowing workflow information to be viewed and modified directly from the MIS user interface.

To achieve all this, the full range of standard ContentServer interfaces was used - command line MCL, CCL and CIS - each providing part of the complete system.

July 14^th 2003

We are pleased to announce that Engage Inc and Papermule Ltd have reached an agreement where Papermule will work with Engage, on a sub-contracted basis, to enable technical support and professional services to be supplied to existing contracted customers.

This agreement cannot be executed as a full contract until the Chapter 11 process in the US has reached a conclusion which is now slated to happen on July 23rd. Scene7 has indicated that should it be the successful bidder it will execute the agreement with Papermule forthwith.

In the meantime, as a gesture of goodwill and as a demonstration of commitment to the European customers Papermule, backed by the software resources of Engage, will provide an on-going technical support service to those customers wishing to avail themselves of this service and who wish to continue to work with Engage and Papermule.

Whilst every endeavour will be made to contact each customer individually as quickly as possible, please do not hesitate to contact either:

July 10^th 2003

Papermule kicks off - even as we deal with getting the office and legal side of a new company set up, some customers (some of them strangely familiar) have already come to us with problems - so far every problem has been handled in short order by the Papermule team.

July 8^th 2003

Papermule Ltd secures premises at Diss business centre. The address is:

July 4^th 2003

Formal registration of Papermule Ltd completed.

June 23^rd 2003

Papermule Ltd formed.