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A supplement to APRIL 2008 Hybrid Production Newspaper Meets Commercial RETOOLING OPERATIONS Hybrid Production Hybrid Model Generates Heat Coldset operations embrace technological upgrades 04/08 Publisher’s Report to capture new clients and open new markets Retooling Operations: This third edition of hybrid production digs HYBRID WEB PRODUCTION IS IN FULL SWING. to be looking at lowering manufacturing deep into manufacturing requirements for Savvy newspaper and commercial costs, at features that allow finishing crossover newspaper and commercial web coldset printers are seizing market op- products on press, such as stitching, 3 printing. Produced by Graphic Arts Monthly portunities, gearing up with the latest gluing and folding, without having to go and Newspapers & Technology, the leading innovations in prepress, pressroom, and off-line with additional people.” technology publications for commercial postpress technology. Still very much Also critical is implementing a digital printers and newspaper publishers, this in play are the two compelling trends prepress workflow, including computer- in the hybrid web arena—production to-plate. Patrick DeRose, director of sales GRA supplement looks closely at developments outsourcing vs. newspapers looking to newspaper & packaging, Kodak’s Graphic on the front-end, pressroom innovations ph fill press time with contract work, either Communications Group, estimates that including digital printing technology to mate- IC ARTS MONT from other papers or commercial jobs. around 50% of newspaper operations rial handling systems, and the profitable “Newspapers are printing new prod- have converted to CTP. “It’s very im- insert market. ucts for their own marketplace, changing portant for all newspapers to gain better the product and/or demographic they are quality in every product they make,” says Inside are stories of newspaper and com- going after, or soliciting other publishers DeRose. “It will help with readability, give mercial web printers who have armed them- that need products printed,” says Gary them a nice, clean product. It is better for H LY LY selves with the tools necessary to succeed Owen, VP of newspaper sales, KBA. advertisers so it will help newspapers in | in the crossover market, a transformation “Both are happening simultaneously, and their own sales, and it will also help them NEWS proceeding in full throttle worldwide. both are a win-win for newspapers.” compete for commercial work.” Shane Lancaster, Goss senior VP Adds Brandon Casson, national sales P and GM in the U.K., notes that “more manager, Southern Lithoplate Inc. “All A We are grateful to these industry profession- P ERS & als and to the leading suppliers to the hybrid than two-thirds of our inquiries (from the customers we speak to who have market, groups which provided information newspapers) are now asking for some made the move to CTP and who have kind of value-added solution to the diversified into commercial have been T and invaluable insights so that we might EC press, either UV or heatset. Five years enlighten readers. H back, that wouldn’t have been the case— Pictured below is MAN Roland’s Colorman XXL, NOLOGY it would have been one in 20.” three of which will be installed in Transcontinental This report represents the combined edito- “Market trends are pointing towards Inc.’s new U.S. facility near San Francisco. rial and production efforts and assets of more heatset or UV-cured purchases Graphic Arts Monthly and Newspapers for printing establishments around the & Technology. Joann Whitcher served as world,” agrees Karin Arlt, sales & mar- comprehensive editor for the project. keting adminstrator, Tensor Group, Inc. A MUST haVE These value-added solutions are a must, maintains Vince Lapinski, MAN Ro- land’s CEO. “Our whole message is that Mary L. Van Meter, publisher, newspaper printers should be looking Newspapers & Technology at heatset or UV, they should be looking at how new technology can give them a venue for other revenue streams, maybe even help them keep their advertiser Phil Saran, publisher, base and readers, and help them stay Graphic Arts Monthly competitive,” says Lapinski. “They need KBA Newspaper Technology Value-added with KBA Competence The future is CompacT Newspapers – and presses – are becoming more compact. Our Cortina and Commander CT provide the technology today to meet the challenges of tomorrow. Whether waterless or conventional, coldset or heatset, their advanced automation makes for easy handling and maintenance, a superb print quality, unparalleled production flexibility and super-fast job changes with minimumwaste. For publishers with imagination and printers who revel in their work. Keen to learn more? Just give us a call. Come and see us at Drupa 2008, 29 May to 11 June, stand 16B45 Koenig & Bauer AG, Würzburg Facility phone: (+49) 931 909-0, [email protected], www.kba-print.com e . 4 0 5 . KBA (UK) Ltd., [email protected], www.kba-print.co.uk W . A B K KBA North America Inc., [email protected], www.kba.com 04/07 successful. It’s not only because of CTP, some newspapers are considering out- dia Group’s Boston Globe is printing but because of all the pieces combined— sourcing production, a trend that seems newspapers for two GateHouse Media adding UV towers, moving up the quality to be on the rise. Outsourcing, which (Fairport, NY) papers at its Dorchester, chain. They are getting incredible results.” mirrors the business model found in MA facility—a contract worth $400 Southern Litho, which had its best book and magazine publishing, lets million. The papers, The (Quincy) single year for CTP system installations newspapers focus on their core compe- Patriot Ledger and The (Brockton) En- in 2007, expects a strong third and fourth tency of disseminating information. terprise, are direct competitors of the Hybrid Production quarter 2008. Not only does new capital Transcontinental Inc.’s (Ontario, Globe. In a similar vein, The Tribune become available to newspapers after Canada), an outsourcing phenomena, Co. is looking to print Florida and Los the fiscal year end, says Casson, but “we shows no signs of slowing down. In the Angeles editions of The Wall Street expect, with the Congressional Economic last couple of years it signed a 15-year Journal Stimulus Act of 2008, for printers to take contract, valued at $1 billion, to print Greener manufacturing, already a advantage of the opportunity to make the The San Francisco Chronicle; declared trend in commercial production—take move to CTP and take advantage of the its intent to establish a new division note of top insert printer Vertis Com- 04/08 tax benefits for buying equipment.” to pursue the U.S. newspaper market; munications’ FSC ( Forest Stewardship and announced plans for a $60 million Council) chain-of-custody certification upgrade to its Montreal facility. for some of its plants, is making head- MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK To boost its roster of newspaper way in newspaper operations. 4 Coldset presses are no longer the clients, specifically from the U.S., Trans- The News Corp’s 2007 acquisition stripped down affairs they once were. continental plants will house the latest of Dow Jones & Co. came with a com- To capture new work—be it newspaper technology, for printing higher-quality mand for the paper to become carbon jobs requiring 50%-100% color on every color products and targeted distribution. neutral by 2010, along with the rest of page, or four-color inserts, real estate Southwest Offset Printing (Gardenia, the company. Dow Jones’ first step is to flyers, or grocery shoppers for commer- CA), a production site for daily, weekly calculate its 17 production plants overall cial accounts—coldset presses are now and monthly publications, built its cus- carbon consumption. being sold with quarterfold capability, tomer base by selling “time-shares” on its The News Corp. is not alone in its NOLOGY format versatility, variable web widths, presses. It now has 550 employees, two efforts. The (Detroit) Times Free Press, H some heatset or UV curing, preset con- facilities, and 11 presslines, producing The Washington Post Co. and Cox Enter- EC T trols, semi- or automatic plate changing, work for such customers as The New York prises Inc. (Atlanta) are all looking to and in-line stitchers and trimmers. Times and The (Torrance) Daily Breeze. go green—and not just because they are All these bells and whistles don’t Yet another option: shared produc- worried about global warming. ERS & P come cheap however, which is why tion facilities. The New England Me- It also makes good economic sense. 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