Production
The printing of three of GateHouse Media New England’s Massachusetts publications will be moved to regional printing facilities beginning in February.
Heidelberg has announced new product installations.
There is much discussion of the 30 percent revenue share publishers must agree with Apple and Amazon, in return for the right for content to be distributed digitally to consumers of mobile gadgets. But what about the other distribution cost that newspaper and magazine companies are lumbered with: print?
Burt Technologies of Evergreen, CO will facilitate the manufacture of The Star-Ledger, the weekly TMC shared with CBA/Valassis and other select publications.
Quad Express Printing in Hayward, Calif. is the first U.S. customer to purchase an EFI VUTEk GS3250 grand-format inkjet printer from Heidelberg USA.
SAXOTECH announced the Slovene publisher, Gorenjski glas, has selected the SAXOTECH Managed Hosted Mediaware Center for use by its print and digital media products.
ppi Media, a subsidiary of manroland, presented its new, trendsetting products and enhancements to its multimedia solutions.
Developed by Canopy, Second Harvest Paper is a North American first, containing only straw leftover after the grain harvest and recycled paper. The special edition Atwood title is the first book in North America to be printed on this pioneering paper.
Media General’s Operations and Distribution Solutions Group is pleased to announce a new partnership with Nottoway Publishing Co, Inc., Blackstone, Va, to print its weekly newspaper, The Courier-Record, at Media General’s Lynchburg, Va, facility.
With the new SNT-50, utilization of capacity is far higher while production costs are way down.
Inter Presse Offset (IPO), the French regional daily press purchase
group, has installed Kodak's 2,000th newspaper CTP system at La
Depeche du Midi in Toulouse.
Updated safety standards offer U.S. market-specific requirements for graphic technology equipment and systems.
Instead of operating presses during traditional 3-5 hour windows, these newspapers are increasing their revenue streams by printing inserts, weekly newspapers, etc, throughout the day, while reserving their prime operating window for their flagship product, the newspaper itself.