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News Release from: Polkadots Software Inc | Subject: Newsflo Lite newspaper production workflow
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 January 2007
Chicago Tribune's Flexible Workflow
Impresses
Polkadots Software, the pre-press workflow systems developer for newspaper and commercial (hybrid) production, has sold its Newsflo Lite automated newspaper production workflow to The Chicago Tribune.
Polkadots Software, the pre-press workflow systems developer for newspaper and commercial (hybrid) production, has sold its Newsflo Lite automated newspaper production workflow to The Chicago Tribune Newsflo Lite is claimed to provide more than page pairing and it is able to monitor remote locations for files and automatically download those files, assign the correct naming convention, load balance between multiple embedded RIPs to pre-process pages and store everything to a database
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 19 Dec 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Salina Journal, of Salina, Kansas (USA) has chosen Newsflo as its newspaper workflow system from Polkadots Software.
Newsflo's database driven automation will pair the pages, apply fan-out, delayed black and a variety of direct printing options, as well as load balancing between any of the five Autologic 3850 imagesetters on site.
John Marte, director of client systems at The Chicago Tribune, said: "I was impressed with the simplicity and flexibility Newsflo brought.
Polkadots has provided a product that meets our expectations 100 per cent.
All of our requirements including templates, RIPping, page pairing, furniture, hard proof, output to film, soft proof, integration to our ink system and ftp servers were configured and put in to production in a matter of a few days.
Polkadots provides exemplary customer services; no matter the time or day of the week you always get the help needed." The Chicago Tribune has installed Newsflo Lite for page pairing and production of the New York Post.
The Tribune opted for the fully redundant Newsflo configuration on two servers so that if one server should fail for any reason the second Newsflo server will take over and pick up the additional load.
In addition The Tribune selected a mix of internet-based installation training, as well as on-site training.
The servers were installed and configured online then an on-site training was done with the operators to ensure that the Newsflo configuration was optimised for The Chicago Tribune's requirements.
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