Swedish News Printer Streamlines Pre-Press Work

Pro Image has announced that its Nordic distributor, VBS, has signed an order for another Newsway system, this time at Sydsvenskan Tryck AB (STAB) in Malmo (Sweden).

Pro Image has announced that its Nordic distributor, VBS, has signed an order for another Newsway system, this time at Sydsvenskan Tryck AB (STAB) in Malmo (Sweden).

Having installed Newsway at DNEX in Stockholm in 2000 and at Boras Tidning Tryckeri AB (BTT) in Boras last May, the installation at STAB will finalise the 'Newsway village' system at the Bold Printing Group, the parent of all three print plants, and one of Northern Europe's leading newspaper print suppliers.

"With the 'Newsway village' concept the group is gaining in efficiency by automating many tasks, streamlining workflows, minimising errors and exploiting better usage of equipment," said Bengt Brandeker, director of VBS.

He added: "As a result, fewer people can produce more work in shorter time, and with better control from both the print plant's staff, as well as from their customers through the web-based architecture of Newsway." The concept of the 'Newsway village' is that all pre-press work is undertaken in the central pre-press department of DNEX, with staffing 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week.

Planning is also undertaken centrally with press information being pulled from the various press control systems.

The Newsway software receives completed pages as PDFs and barcodes are automatically added to the plate images for managing the CTPs and punch bending equipment.

Pages are then RIPed, paired and impositioned, and transmitted by Newsway to the local and remote print plants.

In total, Newsway controls nine CTP machines with two at BTT, three at STAB, and four at DNEX.

All CTPs (as well as all other resources) are automatically load balanced by the Newsway software to maximise throughput and efficiency.

Information about when plates are ready, errors and other events are monitored during the process and reported via JDF to the central and local departments, as well as being collected by a central management information system.

In the case of a disaster, all three sites can handle their complete production locally in a back-up workflow, added Pro Image.

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