Newspaper & Magazines

perfect colour and a quality level that is indistinguishable
from litho printing, with a
production speed of more than 1,000 newspapers
per hour. And at Drupa, Newsworld
Corporation demonstrated its full colour
digitally printed newspaper service with a
number of leading European newspapers,
including the Daily Mail, Le Monde and El
Pais being printed every day on a Truepress
Jet520. It is able to produce both static pa -
ges and 100% variable content. One of the
opportunities that comes from being able to
print variable data is the ability to customize
advertising for the local market.
The quality of printing is also very important
for all the advertisers. International companies
can spend fortunes on promoting their
brand identities and poor reproduction at a
remote print site can cost a publisher an important
advertising account. Quality control
features built into the Screen’s unit are claimed
to eliminate such concerns.
Airlines are one of the biggest customers of
locally printed international newspapers and
being able to offer same day newspapers for
passengers returning to their own country is
an excellent service that adds little to the cost
of a ticket. Some airlines even have the option
of personalizing copies for first class or business
class customers. But most of the time,
newspaper production will be required for
overnight or morning delivery. After finishing
the newspaper run the press can be used to
produce newspaper-related materials such
as inserts, flyers or specialist supplements,
not to mention commercial work like direct
mail, transactional documents and books
and manuals.
Up to 10,000 copies of a 40pp Berliner 315 x
470 mm format in an eight-hour shift are pos -
sible. Each page can be printed in full colour
without any reduction in speed and the use
of multi-size droplet inkjet heads allows exceptional
quality to be achieved. Text remains
legible at the smallest sizes, even if reversed
out of a block of colour and photographs can
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also be accurately reproduced in colour and
black and white to 520 mm wide. A variety
of substrates can also be used, varying from
inkjet paper to standard paper or even uncoated
stock.
Newsworker is Screen’s dedicated newspaper
workflow application. It is an Adobe In-
Design plug-in which provides an automated
newspaper production tool to prepare and
optimize files from their receipt as publisher
PDFs. After the files are received via the
internet or a dedicated network connection,
Newsworker performs a number of processing
tasks, including imposition, and prepares
the files for printing.
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