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PrePress-Consulting Stephan Jaeggi

PrePress-Consulting was founded by Stephan Jaeggi in 1991. The main acitivity is the support of users inside and outside of the graphic arts during evaluation and operation of their publishing systems. PrePress-Consulting also provides marketing and communication services for vendors and suppliers of publishing equipment. PrePress-Consulting does not sell any hard- or software in order to stay impartial.

An other activity is the organisation and the moderation of seminars and conferences. For example PrePress-Consulting was involved in the preparation of the FOGRA-Symposium "Advances in Computer Publishing" which takes place every fall in Dusseldorf/Germany as well as the conception of the expositions "Publish" in Basel/Switzerland and "Digital Media World" in Berlin/Germany.

Actually the main activities of PrePress-Consulting are seminars and consulting regarding the fast growing use of the PDF technology in Europe.

Stephan Jaeggi is a well known expert in prepress technologies in the german speaking part of Europe. Before founding PrePress-Consulting in 1992 he was working during five years for the Swiss Graphic Arts Association (SVGU, today VISCOM) where he supported the 1200 members in the transition from traditional prepress systems to Desktop Publishing.

Stephan Jaeggi holds a degree of the Swiss Engineering School for printing and packaging (ESIG) in Lausanne. After his studies he introduced a big mainframe typesetting system at one of the largest printing and publishing companies in Switzerland.

Stephan Jaeggi is the founder and first president of the PostScript Interest Group Switzerland (PigS) which groups more than 700 users, suppliers and developers of PostScript equipment in Switzerland. He also teaches prepress technology at the Swiss Engineering School for printing and packaging (ESIG). In the Swiss Army he was appointed project manager for editorial systems. Stephan Jaeggi is a frequent speaker at many conferences all over Europe and he regulary contributes articles to some major trade magazines in Switzerland and Germany (Print, Publishing Praxis, Polygraph, Desktop Dialog, Profi Publisher, Deutscher Drucker). He is the co-author of "Do You Speak Computer English?" ­ a glossary for computer publishing. Recently, Stephan Jaeggi has contributed to the whitepaper "PDF for Prepress". He has written four free tutorials on PDF Workflow for Heidelberger Druckmaschinen. Recently he was a co-author of the specs for the ISO/CD 15930-3 (PDF/X-3). In 2000 he became a member of the Advisory Board of CIP4 (JDF) and the Seybold Advisory Board.