Integrated Publishing System

{{Short description|IBM multilingual publishing system}}

Integrated Publishing System is a system created in 1982{{fact|date=March 2014}} for publishing multilingual literature.

The software was developed by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society on an IBM mainframe computer using an Autologic typesetter. IPS was acquired by IBM, which intended to use the system to increase its hold on the publishing industry.Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, Volume 12, No. 1, September 13, 1982

The system went on to have some success commercially, being used to print the Encyclopædia Britannica.[http://www.howtoknow.com/sidebar5.html Britannica Online History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525042449/http://www.howtoknow.com/sidebar5.html |date=2011-05-25 }}{{reliable|date=March 2014}}