November/December 2012
Reprinted with permission from Newspapers & Technology, 2012
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Software saves money in Halifax
By tara mcmeekin Editor
One year after Transcontinental installed print management software on an aging
press at its Halifax, Nova
Scotia, plant, the printer said it’s solved
a major portion of its print registration
problems stemming from the machine.
The printer in 2011 installed ProImage’s NewsWay Press Register on a
35-year-old press at the Halifax facility
as an alternative to repairing mechanical
issues on the press unit used to produce
editions of The Globe and Mail and
Metro.
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“We were experiencing plate cocking
— cyan was off from the other colors,”
Matthew Britten, manufacturing manager, told News & Tech. “Our options were
to do a full mechanical re-boring or rebuilding, or invest in software to correct
the issues we had
on the press.” & more
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Ultimately, Britten said Press Regis-
ter was the best fit for addressing Transcontinental’s particular issues and it was
a significantly cheaper alternative.
“We were facing an important investment to do a mechanical rebuild, so
obviously software was the more costeffective alternative,” he added.
The cost of installing Press Register
was 10 percent of the price of a press
rebuild, Britten said.
Press Register knows what corrections
are required on every flat of color,” Britten said.
In addition to the most significant
misregistration problems on the individual tower, there were varying printregistration issues on all 15 of the press’
towers prior to Transcontinental’s installation of Press Register.
The only drawback of choosing the
software option vs. making mechanical
Help control costs
repairs, Britten said, is that operators
Transcontinental estimates that Press
have to replate in the event that there is
Register — which processes TIFF separaan issue on press.
FRANKFURT, Germany — The renamed World Publishing Expo drew more than 7,000
tions to correct
for misregistration issues
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visitors from more than 83 countries, show organizers said, and attendees flocked to
on press — will allow it to postpone the
put them on another tower, but in the
sessions on print, tablets and press retrofitting.
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Lee expanding strategy
to fuse page production
by tara mcmeekiN editor
Lee Enterprises is rolling out workflow software to standardize its page production.
The publisher has deployed ProImage’s NewsWay app at a handful of its publications, with expanded implementation expected next year, said Dominic Crews, director of operations at The Times of Northwest Indiana.
The Times is hosting the app at its Munster facility during the initial rollout; a
backup recovery site at another Lee paper is currently being identified, Crews said.
Papers using NewsWay so far include The Times, the Citizen in Auburn, N.Y., the
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