Cond Nast plans to use digital workflows in the production of all its titles by next May.


The group's first fully-digital title will be Glamour, a new title which will be launched in March.


Production director Jasper Scott said the group's other titles would go digital in the following two months.


Cond Nast is installing a Digital Cromalin proofer at the end of November and starts testing with advertisers in December.


Scott hasn't selected Glamour's printer yet, but said that Graphic Facilities would handle the repro. The printing shortlist includes both UK and continental firms. "Whoever does it will have CTP," he added.


"Graphic Facilities will do traditional repro," said Scott. Cond Nast has already told advertisers that all files should be supplied as PDFs to the new PPA standard, pass4press. It would prefer files to be sent by Vio, although ISDN and Zip disks will also be accepted.


The publisher is also working with Quickcut to encourage advertisers to use it as a pre-flighting tool.


EMAP's Peterborough-based Active and Automotive divisions also plan to go digital with their 53 titles by this time next year.


The December issue of 20,000-circulation monthly Match Angling Plus was its first title to go digital, with repro handled by G&E 2000 and AT Graphics.


EMAP digital production director John Kelly said it planned to keep using its current suppliers for the time being rather than bring repro in-house.


"They are all able to work in PDF and every printer we use is capable of accepting digital files. We understand if printers don't have CTP technology just yet, but we expect them to have it in as short a space of time as possible," he added.


Story by Gordon Carson