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This article focuses on the latest technology applied by the German mail order house, Frankonia-Versand (FV), to its catalog operations. Together with its printer, Körner Rotationsdruck, FV has pushed the technology for converting standardized gravure data into FM-screened data for Web offset to a new level of quality. The advertising manager and the production team leader concluded that only a completely standardized production process could work. They decided that the only print-ready files they would provide, whether to gravure or to Web-offset printers, would be those that conformed to Process Standard Rotogravure (PSR). Web printers would receive PSR files complying with the European Color Initiative standards.

The article focuses on the General Catalogue 2008/2009 published by YMC Europe GmbH in Dinslaken, Germany. The 360-page catalogue describes the company's worldwide organization, information on the fundamentals of chromatography as well as detailed product description. YMC offers an extended range of products especially designed for ultra fast liquid chromatography (LC)/FastLC and high-throughput applications.

The article focuses on a brochure introduced by Tosoh Bioscience GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany that describes its compact, all-in-one GPC system for semi-micro GPC applications. The company's EcoSEC system features low dead volume, good pump reproducibility and a stable baseline of the dual flow refractive index detector.

The article evaluates a chromatography consumables catalog from Germany-based La-Pha-Pack Werner Reifferscheidt GmbH.