Case Study: Niche Media achieves faster, more efficient, cost-saving magazine production with DALIM SOFTWARE's DALiM MiSTRAL

Dalim Mistral Creates More Than Just Niche Interest

Niche Media, a leading regional luxury magazine group (Aspen Peak, Boston Common, Capitol File, Gotham, Hamptons, Los Angeles Confidential), struggled with an ad hoc production workflow—three-ring binders, black-and-white laser prints and faxes—that made tracking changes and ensuring correct page content difficult across weekly runs of roughly 300 pages (49 times a year), with some Hamptons issues reaching 378 pages. To modernize this process they turned to Brown Printing’s B.Direct service built on DALIM SOFTWARE’s DALiM MiSTRAL platform.

Using DALIM SOFTWARE’s DALiM MiSTRAL via Brown’s B.Direct, Niche Media implemented online production automation and a shared “clipboard” for file uploads, automated page placement and real‑time tracking. The result: faster closes (a 378‑page Hamptons issue was finished in 48 hours), elimination of confusing emails, assurance that plant materials are 100% correct, the ability to produce six books with the same staff instead of four, and measurable cost savings from reduced RIPping and plate expenses.

Niche Media

Shawn Lowe

Manufacturing Director