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May / June 2016 www.newsandtech.com May/June 2016May/June www.newsandtech.com The premier resource for insight, analysis and technology integration in newspaper, magazine, digital and hybrid production. McClatchy NewsWay rollout slated for 2017 completion uBY TARA MCMEEKIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER McClatchy has been centralizing to in- in addition to The Herald, McClatchy publishes with a WAN module allowing for more efficient crease efficiencies across its locations for close to the Bradenton Herald and El Nuevo Herald. Five plate transmission and real-time status updates, eight years now, and the publisher’s latest move is of the publisher’s sites had existing NewsWay according to ProImage. unifying its nationwide production workflow. installations, which will be transferred to the Fort The Fort Worth location will RIP, impose To do so, McClatchy selected ProImage’s Worth hub. and send the plate-ready TIFFs to the receiving NewsWay to anchor its production output systems. The browser-based NewsWay app requires no print plant’s NewsWay system. Plates will then be “We purchased the software back in Decem- client licenses and allows monitoring production replicated at the local site according to press and ber to consolidate all 29 of our papers,” Herman status from origination to print sites, regardless of printing needs. The NewsWay receiver modules Spencer, McClatchy’s premedia technology man- the print location. will facilitate disaster recovery via an integrated ager told News & Tech. “Initially we had a mix of Each McClatchy site will set up its own RIP so that each site can plan, impose and output different workflows at every site, and as we began custom workflow to meet specific production locally if necessary. consolidating other systems, it made sense to look requirements. Other locations will send plate-ready TIFF at our production output systems as well.” So far, NewsWay has been ramped up in Ra- files to TIFF Spoolers of the desired CTP each time Among the most significant consolidation leigh, North Carolina and in State College, Penn- when copies are needed. projects recently has been McClatchy’s roll out of sylvania, at the News & Observer and Centre Daily Among the biggest benefits of the central- NewsGate from CCI Europe to streamline editorial Times, respectively. The State in Columbia, South ization will be the ability to rein in maintenance and audience management functions. Carolina will be the next site to go live, Spencer costs, Spencer said. Now, 13 of its properties, including some of said, followed by The Miami Herald. “The biggest thing was annual support costs the publisher’s commercial and contract printers, Only five of McClatchy’s sites will have a local for those disparate systems and we can eliminate will receive centralized planning, RIPping, imposi- footprint — The Miami Herald, The Sacramento many of those costs by having one centralized tion, preflighting, ink presetting, ink optimization, Bee, The Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer, The system,” he said. “We’ll also get a level of training and output management via NewsWay. The full State and The Kansas City (Missouri) Star. and support we haven’t previously had.” rollout is slated for completion one year from now, “There will be no footprint at the majority of IT & Prepress will be trained on one system, in May 2017. local sites,” Spencer said. “But we have a handful of he added, reducing the learning curve and provid- McClatchy’s main NewsWay hub will be host- papers that are doing what is called NewsWay Lite, ing expert knowledge at the individual site level. ed in Fort Worth, Texas at the Star-Telegram, and where each of those sites will have a server and a “This is just the next step in centralizing all will manage output to 35 CTP devices throughout RIP installed.” of our production systems,” Spencer said. “It made the U.S. Disaster recovery will be in Miami, where The NewsWay Lite sites will each be equipped sense and we decided it was time.” p Stuart Web invests in DGM 440 press BY NEWS & TECH STAFF REPORT u With an eye towards offering customers a The order consists of 1 DGM 440 4-high glossy covers to other printers. This will eliminate wider variety of choices, Stuart Web Inc. in Stuart, tower, 1 DGM 1035 commercial folder and 1 DGM that step, he explained. Florida, purchased a new DGM 440 press from press drive. “We want to produce on coated stock with UV,” Manugraph DGM. Stuart Web prints a variety of newspaper, tab- Hawken said. “The demand has been to print on loids and booklets with stitching, coated stock for some of our existing customers.” trimming and inserting also avail- With the completion of the add-on, Stuart able. The company started in 1981 will have purchased 42 units with Manugraph and was upgraded in 1998 with a since 1998. Turn to DGM 12-unit press. Also included in the order are a Prime UV “We’ve used Manugraph in curing system, Technotrans chilled circulation sys- page 33 the past for add-ons for a 430 unit,” tem, Perretta remote inking, QTI auto register and Kevin Hawken, vice president a Jardis splicer, angle bar and closed loop infeed. for expanded of Stuart Web, told News & Tech. “(The installation) will enable Stuart Web to industry “They have a proven track record.” run combination work,” Hawken said. “We can run The installation will allow Stu- UV with the traditional cold-set work.” coverage art Web to offer glossy covers for The tower and folder will be integrated to an existing customers, Hawken said. existing DGM 430 press at the Stuart site and are News & Tech In the past, they’ve had to sub out schedule for installation at theMay/June end of the 2016 year. up 1 www.newsandtech.com Keep your presses running another 10 years? Certainly. ABB’s retrofit solutions for newspaper presses will extend the productive life of your press, improve print quality, reduce waste and improve efficiency — for a fraction of the cost of a new press. Worried about the availability of spare parts for your existing controls? With an ABB retrofit you know that spares will be available worldwide for ten to fifteen years. Whether looking for replacement drives, new controls, conversion to shaftless or a complete press reconfiguration, ABB has the right solution for you. The key to the future of your printing business lies with ABB. www.abb.com/printing ABB Inc. 9011 Bretshire Drive Dallas, TX 75228 Phone: (214) 328-1202 [email protected] 2 t May/June 2016 News & Tech uIndustry Installs & Upgrades Trib Total Media upgrades with Harland Simon Pittsburgh-based newspaper group The project will replace obsolete electronics, Trib Total Media selected Harland Simon to replace the existing AB 1395 belt drive mod- replace its Allen-Bradley 1336 a.c. lineshaft ule, provide user friendly HMI for improved drives on a Goss Newsliner Press at The Tri- monitoring and testing and allow remote bune Review in Pittsburgh. The project will problem diagnosis and performance moni- replace five 250HP 1336 drives with Allen- toring. Trib Total Media also selected a full Bradleys’s PowerFlex 755 250HP a.c. drive color HMI touchscreen and all reelstands will modules. The new drives will be integrated be networked to a centralized maintenance with the Drive Master ControlLogix PLC. PG for support and diagnostics. Meantime, Trib Total Media is also Through its design, print and delivery upgrading the control system on its Goss center dubbed Print Source, Trib Total Media Trib Total Media replaced its Allen-Bradely CT50 reelstands. Harland Simon will supply prints a variety of newspaper products, in- 1336 a.c. lineshaft drives with Allen-Bradely’s PowerFlex 755 250HP 1336 drive modules. and install new drives and controls for six cluding daily and weekly newspapers, weekly CT50 reelstands on a Goss Newsliner Press. shoppers and direct mailers. Photo: Harland Simon Henry Wurst adds RIMA-SYSTEM solution Henry Wurst Inc. has coupled its new Sunday 2000 press with a “The Sunday 2000 combined with the RIMA-SYSTEM log stacking complete and automated post-press solution from RIMA-SYSTEM. was a unique and special solution for our requirements,” said Randy The delivery solution includes a fully automatic RS 610HS log stacker Radosevich, plant manager for Henry Wurst. “The combination of with palletizer and a trimming line with compensating stacker. these two technologies is very flexible and has the performance and The new press and post-press installation provides speeds of up reliability we were looking for.” to 70,000 impressions per hour and is suited to serve long runs. Swedish paper runs new DCOS system Since February, Nya Wermlands-Tidnin- replace its inspection system, NWT based its for NWT. The self-explanatory nature of the gen in Karlstad, Sweden, has been running ROI only on waste savings, said Mats Mure- new system made the process smooth and a new inspection system from DCOS. The gard, CEO of NWT. easy, according to Christoffer Andersson, Goss press with seven HT70 4-high printing “Another aspect of our investment is that production manager for NWT. towers and three folders was installed in 1995 NWT is exempt from notification under the “Our expectations on the investment and had an obsolete register control system Environmental Authority,” Muregard said. were exceeded and we are well ahead of our from a different vendor. The system is now “This investment shows our customers a con- target of waste savings,” he said. prepared for closed-loop density control. tinued offensive strategy for the environment.” NWT produces 14 newspapers and in- When searching for a company to So far, the installation has been a success serts for the midland areas of Sweden.
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