Four Pees becomes member of the PDF/A Competence Center

Four Pees, an international sales and marketing organization focused on the print and publishing market has joined the PDF/A Competence Center.

So far Four Pees has been mainly active in the publishing and print market, but long term document archiving based on PDF/A has gained a lot of momentum and is touching the areas of marketing resource management and digital print production that Four Pees is already providing solutions for.

Tom Peire, CEO at Four Pees says: “To join the PDF/A Competence Center is in line with our latest strategic marketing decisions. We are constantly looking for new solutions for our customers and dealers. The PDF/A Competence center centralizes the knowledge about PDF/A and creates the necessary awareness for document archiving based on PDF/A. Four Pees joins the PDF/A Competence center so that it can help spread that knowledge to its partners and customers.”

Being a member of the Ghent PDF Workgroup, Four Pees has experience with PDF-based quality standards. While the application and the user base is somewhat different for PDF/A, there are a lot of synergies in know-how of the technology and implementation.

Thomas Zellmann, Managing Director of the PDF/A Competence Center states: “We are happy to welcome Four Pees in the PDF/A Competence Center. It proves the growing interest for and importance of PDF/A. Having an experienced sales and marketing partner as one of our members will help us gain even more momentum and reach out to markets such as those of digital print and marketing management solutions.”

Four Pees aims at bringing cost efficient automation and quality optimization technologies to the print and publishing market. In the last year the Four Pees team has more than doubled to a team of 12 professionals  working in marketing, sales and professional services.

Especially in sales, Four Pees has expanded its activities appointing Ivan Duprez as Global Sales Director and Christophe Gronier as Sales Manager Southern Europe confirming Four Pees’ strategy to build a local presence in different international territories.

Four Pees represents brands such as callas software, an innovator in PDF technology for publishing, print production, document exchange and document archiving and one of the founders of the PDF/A Competence Center.

About PDF/A

The ISO 19005 standard (PDF/A) defines requirements for creating documents suitable for archiving, based on the widely available PDF format. The standard specifies in detail what content is allowed and what is not. This and other specifications are intended to ensure the long-term readability of documents regardless of the application software and operating system in which they were originally produced. Experts predict that the designation of PDF/A as an ISO standard will promote the popularity of that format, and advantages such as full-text search capabilities will lead to it replacing TIFF in the near future.

About the PDF/A Competence Center

The PDF/A Competence Center was established as an international association in 2006. The objective of the association is to promote the exchange of information and experience in the field of long-term archiving in accordance with ISO 19005 (PDF/A). The management board is composed of executives from callas software GmbH, Compart AG, intarsys consulting GmbH, LuraTech Europe GmbH, PDF Tools AG (CH), PDFlib GmbH and SEAL Systems AG. Within less than three years, more than 100 companies and various experts from about 20 countries have joined the PDF/A Competence Center. The executive chairman is Harald Grumser, CEO of Compart AG, Dr. Hans Baerfuss, CEO of PDF Tools AG, Switzerland, is the executive vice-chairman.

About Four Pees

Named after the four P’s of marketing – product, price, place and promotion – Four Pees is an international business partner providing marketing, sales and distribution, as well as professional services for production automation and color optimization solutions.

Four Pees is worldwide distributor of ProofMaster, for color-accurate contract proofs and PrintFactory, a production suite for large format printing. Other represented brands include axaio software, Barbieri, callas software and Elpical.

Four Pees was established in 2007 by Tom Peire and has quickly grown into a team of seasoned marketing, sales and service professionals.

For more information, please go to www.fourpees.com.