By: E&P Staff Southern Lithoplate Inc. announced installations of prepress systems and related products at 11 newspaper production plants as it ends the year.
Associated Publishers Inc. (API), a six-member newspaper cooperative based in Huntingdon, Tenn., moved to computer-to-plate (CTP) production for the single Goss press they share. API settled on an integrated digital workflow to handle the roughly 1,500 plates they consume each month.
API installed Screen's PlateRite News 2000LE thermal platesetter, which outputs VIPER 830 lithoplates. The PlateRite News 2000LE produces 26 plates per hour when using 35 x 23.2-inch plates. It can be upgraded to higher output capacity at the user's facility.
Previously, each API newspaper had its own film-based plate-making operation.
Member newspapers, which are located within a 60-mile radius of each other, submit job files remotely to the PlateRite News 2000LE via Screen's Trueflow Rite News servers. Trueflow Rite News features PDF-based RIP operation, trapping and other automated workflow functions.
Once the imaged plates are processed by the Proteck 105 plate processor, they go onto press.
The Albert Lea (Minn.) Tribune also moved to CTP with the installation of the PlateRite News 2000S to image VIPER 830 plates. The platesetter handles plate sizes from 11.5 x 18.1 inches to 38.5 x 26.9 inches and is capable of outputting 84 broadsheet plates or 41 doublewide plates per hour.
ProImage America's NewsWay workflow software drives the platesetter. The newspaper company chose the Proteck 105 to process plates and a NELA three-point register punch/bender with inline plate transport system.
Between the 7,300-circulation Tribune, its 5,600 circulation sibling, the Austin Daily Herald, and its commercial operation that prints 25 weeklies as well as shoppers, the pressroom goes through about 3,000 plates monthly.
Three Gannett Co. dailies adopted VIPER 830 plates as part of their integrated workflows in recent weeks.
The Great Falls (Mont.) Tribune installed two PlateRite News 2000S devices, in addition to a Glunz & Jensen MK III plate processor with stacker and an MK III Supreme processor without a stacker. The newspaper chose a punch/bender from Burgess Industries Inc.
The Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore., added two PlateRite News 2000S platesetters. To develop plates, the newspaper opted for two MK III Supreme processors. The Statesman Journal installed a Burgess punch/bender as well.
The Wausau (Wisc.) Daily Herald chose the same configuration, installing two PlateRite News 2000S platesetters, two MK III Supreme processors and a Burgess punch/bender.
The Norman (Okla.) Transcript installed the PlateRite News 2000S, Proteck 105 processor with a stacker and NELA inline plate transport system.
Another Community Newspaper Holdings property, the Oneonta (N.Y.) Star installed a Proteck 105 processor equipped with a stacker.
The Durham Herald-Sun installed two PlateRite News 2000S units along with two Glunz & Jensen MK III Supreme processors and the Presteligence NewsXtreme workflow system.
Southwest Offset Printing Co. Inc. added the MK III plate processor to its existing workflow. Located in Gardena, Calif., the full-service printing facility specializes in daily, weekly and monthly publications.
The Record Searchlight, the daily newspaper of Redding, Calif., selected two CA Systems plate processors.
The weekly Dauphine (Manitoba) Herald, installed the PlateRite News 2000LE, a Proteck 105 processor, and Polkadots Software's IntroFlo workflow application.
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