From the IT side server setup is a breeze and rather lightweight. From the user side they really don't have to do much in order for the software to work. This has been a great benefit to our business. When using the fonts on the user side their fonts turn on and off automatically so you are not having too many activate fonts at a time. For our users they have an easy to access and use font library that is catered to the needs of their specific department or group. From the IT side of things this makes managing our fonts much easier and much more streamlined while reducing font corruption to a zero. Additionally we have one central repository for our fonts that our creative users can pull from. The biggest benefit is company wide management of our fonts to make sure that we have the correct licensing levels. We have several different departments which require differ Wow, wow, wow image being able to create workgroups of different fonts on the fly for your staff, imagine that staffer being able to see what the header or subtext looks like with any font they choose immediately. Extensis being the company that it is though did not rest on it's laurels, it ante'd up with Universal Type Server. We were happy with Font Reserve, we finally were able to manage our fonts remotely and the user interface was nice for our staff, it was a game changer for us. Extensis showed us Font Reserve, at the time its stand-alone and client-server software that had been newly acquired and it promised to do everything that we were looking for. We looked at 3 different factors, ease of use for our staff, manageability for our Techs and of course cost. We looked at several different Font management softwares but none could do what Extensis was offering. Anytime an account would hand us a new font they wanted to run in their ad we would have to deploy a team to go through all the desktops once again so that our staff had the same font in the off chance that they got the ad in question and needed to make a change. Before the publishing company I work for switched from ATM (Adobe Type Manager) to UTC we would have our IT technicians going through 200 plus Mac desktops throughout the company verifying that everyone had the same fonts in the same location on their local machines, this was a logistics nightmare.
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