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Yesterday, Fran and Rebecca helped out at the Step up with Enterprise event at Glenalmond College. Pupils were entrepreneurs for the day, developing their problem-solving, teamworking and business skills. It was great to see them come together to make and sell products, with the aim of making the most profit. They even took part in the Prepress Projects literature challenge, creating some amazing stories about the history of Glenalmond.

Thank you to Matt Stewart for inviting us, and to Glenalmond College for being so welcoming!

Six weeks and 2,834,842 steps later, our teams have covered nearly 1,240 miles in this year’s Spring Step Count Challenge! Come rain or shine, we’ve all felt the benefits of getting out and about. Some team members shared their challenge highlights:
“Mine was discovering a little 0.8-mile walk that I can do every lunch break to add an extra 4 miles to my miles per week.” – Fran
“I enjoyed getting out into spring and seeing all the trees and flowers change as the weeks went by.” – Nathalie
“My favourite part was listening to and watching the birds. I even came across a woodpecker!” – Catherine

We hear the term ‘copy-editing’ bandied about a fair bit in the publishing industry (sometimes interchangeably with ‘proofreading’), but what does it actually mean?

Copy-editing is a step distinct from developmental editing, where content is evaluated and organised, and from proofreading, where text that has been set out in its final layout is checked for errors. Instead, copy-editing calls for reading a text thoroughly and proposing changes for consistency, clarity and correctness – taking what’s written and refining it into its best version.

Want to find out more? Take a minute to read our ‘What is copy-editing?’ blog post, here on the Prepress Projects website.

What is copy-editing? At Prepress Projects, one of the services we offer is copy-editing. If you have a piece of writing where the ideas are conceptually sound but you’re worried that the writing isn’t reader-friendly, or you want a team of native English speakers to refine syntax or check grammar and spelling, havin...

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and Prepressers are building mentally healthy habits – moving and spending time in nature – thanks to the Step Count Challenge. We've even passed the million-step mark, hitting a combined total of 1,564,257 steps! 🥾