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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Ppi Media, KnowledgeView Integrate Workflow in Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi Media Co., publisher of The National and Al Ittihad, recently signed contracts with the ppi Media subsidiary of Germany's manroland AG and London-based publishing solutions supplier KnowledgeView Ltd., which are further cooperating to introduce a workflow with maximum automation to the Middle East market. - November 06, 2009
'Brandon Sun' to End 'Globe and Mail' Printing, May Move its Own CTVGlobemedia will extend the current contract for The Brandon (Manitoba) Sun to print the Globe and Mail through September of next year. But the Sun will no longer publish the Toronto-based national daily's Manitoba and Saskatchewan edition after that, ending a 25-year business relationship. Sun printing also may move to Winnipeg. - November 06, 2009
UPDATE: A.H. Belo to Close New South Dallas Plant A.H. Belo Corp. announced it will close he Dallas Morning News' 133,000-square-foot South Dallas plant and consolidate operations at its North Plant, in Plano by next spring "to realign its business and reduce expenses." Opened less than three years ago and primarily used for packaging and distribution, the South Plant will be sold. - November 04, 2009
Elpical Releases Claro Layout InDesign Plug-in The Netherlands-based Elpical Giesbeek has released Elpical Claro Layout for those who work with Adobe InDesign. The latest addition to Elpical's line of automated image enhancement and image management solutions, the plug-in offers automated quality analysis and image enhancement without leaving the InDesign application environment. - November 04, 2009
Southern Lithoplate Package Converts 'Daily Times' to CTP The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., has replaced analog platemaking with a system based on Southern Lithoplate's Viper 830 thermal plate. Plates are imaged on a Screen 2000LE acquired through Southern Lithoplate in a package that included Presteligence workflow software. The computer-to-plate system was installed in July. - November 04, 2009
WoodWing Unveils Enterprise 7 At last month's IFRA Expo in Vienna, WoodWing Software unveiled release 7 of its Enterprise publishing system, offering more flexibility for integrating social media into multi-channel publishing, enabling editorial content planning based on instant analysis of online reader interests, and providing highly relevant research results with Search 2.0. - November 03, 2009
'Huron Daily Tribune' Ends Printing On Dec. 28, Hearst Newspapers' Huron Daily Tribune in Bad Axe, Mich., will relocate all production and packaging operations to the plant of sister paper Midland (Mich.) Daily News. The Bad Axe facility will continue to house news, advertising sales, circulation customer service and delivery operations. - November 03, 2009
'Daily Leader' Printing Moves from Pontiac to Peoria Early Saturday morning The Pontiac (Ill.) Daily Leader's 41-year-old Goss Community press ran its last copy of the GateHouse Media paper before printing was taken over Monday by its larger sister paper, the Peoria Journal Star, about 60 miles to the west. It was first time the 140-year-old afternoon daily was not printed in Pontiac. - November 03, 2009
Polkadots Installs Ink-it Software at 15 more sites Montreal-based Polkadots Software announced 15 more recent installations of its Ink-it ink-optimization plug-in for the Harlequin RIP. All were installed remotely, reducing costs and eliminating workflow disruptions. Polkadots reports more than 200 Ink-it licenses in just over one year. - November 02, 2009
Nela Supplies Just-in-Time Plate System to 'Free Lance-Star' Nela sold a Vision PunchBender with LogiStack and 16-position plate stacker to the The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va., which has been installing this country's first Goss FPS press. The system is designed to save time and labor and minimize operator plate handling to reduce rework resulting from plate damage. - November 02, 2009
Goss Cuts 50 Jobs in New Hampshire Goss International eliminated 50 more jobs last Friday, most at its Durham, N.H., plant, according to a report Sunday in Foster's Daily Democrat, Dover, N.H., where the company also earlier had maintained a facility. Most of the cuts resulted from the voluntary buyouts Goss said it was seeking last month, but the job losses included some layoffs. - November 02, 2009
'Monroe Evening News' is First on Saxotech Mediaware Cloud The Monroe (Mich.) Evening News and weekly Bedford Now are the first publications in live production with Saxotech's managed hosted Mediaware Center. Relying on Saxotech's scalable cloud-computing environment, the titles have the latest Saxotech software and the latest hosting technology without buying and maintaining servers. - October 30, 2009
Indiana Printer Using Southern Lithoplate Thermal CTP Plates HNE Printers, printer of newspapers and commercial products in Columbus, Ind., contracted with Southern Lithoplate Inc., Wake Forest, N.C., to convert from a competitive thermal plate to Southern Lithoplate Viper 830 plates. - October 30, 2009
Eight Atex Polopoly Sites Go Live Atex completed eight new go-lives of its Polopoly Web content management system in the past 60 days, ranging from dailies on four continents to an online directory publisher in Milan, a big broadcaster in Germany, and a new high-school-sports Web site. - October 29, 2009
Protecmedia Milenium Supports Publishing to E-reader Protecmedia's Milenium cross-media publishing system is supporting newspaper publication on e-books. The capability already is used by Spain's El Mundo, which offers subscribers the daily version in e-book format through Amazon's Kindle. It sends required XML data to Amazon, which uses it to recreate the paper in its e-book format. - October 29, 2009
Muir Named Head of Pagemasters North America Toronto-based Pagemasters North America, a subsidiary of The Canadian Press, has appointed Stewart Muir managing director, marking the start of operational activity for Pagemasters North America. The company will a full range of editorial production services, from copy editing to page design and layout. - October 28, 2009
Atex CMS at Big U.K. Group, Big Munich Daily A large British publisher and a large German daily are among the latest Atex content management system customers. - October 27, 2009
Roularta Media Installs CCI NewsGate, with AdRoom Operating in several countries producing 98 magazines, 72 free papers, 11 regional weeklies, 63 Web sites and broadcast interests, Belgium's Roularta Media Group chose CCI's NewsGate in its focus on editorial planning, assignment management and cross-media reuse of content. The contract includes the AdRoom advertising solution. - October 27, 2009
FAZ Installs ppi Media's AdX Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung contracted with ppi Media to install the print and online functions of its AdX cross-media ad solution, giving staff at headquarters and in field offices parallel access to the Web-based solution and the ability to view the status of occupied and free spaces for print and online ads at all times. - October 27, 2009
Ferag Sells First StreamFold Quarterfolder Finland's Lehtisepät ordered the first Ferag StreamFold, at the IFRA Expo in Vienna. The quarterfold line will be in operation in January for production of the company¿s own freesheets and publications and any new outside jobs. StreamFold initially will operate offline, using the JetFeeder hopper. Online production is planned for next summer. - October 26, 2009
E&P's 'Production All-Stars' Slide Show
Each year, E&P's Production All-Stars honor managers who are tops in op's. Here we present a gallery of winners from our event in Tampa, Fla., on Sept. 24 during the International Newspaper Group's annual conference at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay Hotel. We'd like to thank our sponsors, Goss International, AGFA, and Baldwin Technology, for their continued support.
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