DIGITAL PRINT OVERVIEW print a quantity of one to several data will allow a series of light- copies of a product, as they emitting diodes (known as an LED demanded, in a short turnaround array) to pass to the areas on the time compared to the amount of drum or belt where data will not be time required to produce the same imaged, eliminating the charge. product via traditional offset printing. Our digital print areas produce bound-volume products, loose- leaf binder products, saddle-stitch products, variable data research reports, covers, newsletters, circuit Thomson Reuters’ Print-on-Demand court slip opinions, shipment inserts operation allows its customers to and other miscellaneous products. produce short-run, high-quality print products in a cost-effective manner. The digital printing technology used To do this, we manage several areas at Thomson Reuters is known as an with equipment that operates at electrophotographic or electrostatic The toner used in these systems also different speeds and can support process, which uses toner rather than carries a charge, and when applied stocks similar to our offset operations. ink. This process involves applying an to the drum or belt, attracts to the Using continuous feed (web-fed) electrostatic charge to the surface of charged area. The toner is transferred equipment, one-color cut-sheet and a drum or belt. Once charged, digital onto paper and fused to it using heat four and five-color cut-sheet printers, and pressure. This entire process and state-of-the-art imaging software occurs at fast speeds on production and printing equipment, we can printers. quickly transform a product from file to print. The term on-demand printing evolved from high-speed digital printing technology, allowing customers to Thomson Reuters Core Publishing Solutions Fun Facts Charging • Thomson Reuters Prepress produces scorotron Exposure an average of 2,200 plates per day. • Prepress images more than 5 million square feet of aluminum each year. Wiper blade This is equivalent to producing nearly 27 million pop cans, which is Photoconductor enough for every Minnesotan to be Drum given a six-pack of pop. Developer unit Cleaning unit • Thomson Reuters is a 100% digital facility. If necessary, hard copy is scanned to create an electronic file. Paper • Digital areas produce 45% of our P.O.s, and 10% of pages printed. Fuser Transfer of scorotron Digital printing - electrophotographic process Digital Print • page 6-1 WEB DIGITAL PRINTERS Making us one of the largest continu- ous-feed print-on-demand operations in the country, our five Océ digital printers are capable of running loose- leaf and signature products simulta- neously. This combination gives us the ability to provide several variations of finishing needs for each unique project. An automated workflow system is used to cost-effectively produce these short press runs. The Prisma software suite used in conjunction with the Océ printers meets this demand. Our applications perform the imposition of files that have been converted into print format. The program adjusts the page sequencing to the selected type of binding. This highly flexible software handles both cut-sheet and continuous-forms Oce’ CS10710 Press processing. It is also designed to ac- commodate post-processing meth- Equipment Specifications Signature products – three dedicated ods, both inline and offline. These presses machines produce over 1.1 billion Océ CS10710 Presses 4-page signatures pages annually. Cut-sheet and signature folding Produces line copy Paper roll widths: 14.50 and 18.25 inches Our digital presses operate success- Speed: 347 feet per minute All are interchangeable for Loose-leaf and fully with client files that have been Stock: 31# Lawbook stock to 80-lb. Signature work text papers properly paginated and accurately Océ Variostream 7650cx positioned on the page and that are Loose-leaf products – one dedicated 8-page signature folding compatible with our communication press links. The half-tone or screen out- Paper roll widths: Paper Rolls: 14.50 and 18.25 inches put quality are dependent upon the 14.50 inches – 2 up Speed: 243 feet per minute 18.25 inches – 2 up, 3 up or Head to Tail client’s file and how it is processed Stock: 30-lb. Lawbook stock to 80-lb. through our workflow system. text papers THOMSON REUTERS OCE’ PRINTER NETWORK POWERPOWERPOWERPOWER PRISMAPRISMAPRISMAPRISMA PDFsPDFsPDFsPDFs ImpositionImpositionImpositionImposition Station Station StationStation PDFs ThomsonThomsonThomsonThomson Reuters Reuters ReutersReuters Imposition Station CorporateCorporateCorporateCorporate Network Network NetworkNetwork Corporate Network PRISMAPRISMAPRISMAPRISMA CLIENTCLIENTCLIENTCLIENT PRISMA ImpositionImpositionImpositionImposition Station Station StationStation PDFsPDFsPDFsPDFs Imposition Station PRISMAPRISMAPRISMAPRISMA ServerServerPRISMAServerServer / / / / Rack Rack RackRack MasterServerMaster / / Failover RackFailover PRISMAPRISMAPRISMAPRISMA Master / Failover PRISMA 2222 Unity Unity UnityUnity RIP RIP RIPRIP TrueProofTrueProofTrueProofTrueProof ServersServers2ServersServers Unity RIP Servers 11-0111-0111-0111-01 11-0211-0211-0211-02 11-0311-0311-0311-03 11-0411-0411-0411-04 70-670-670-670-6 Paper Unwinder CS10710CS10710CS10710CS10710 CS10710CS10710CS10710CS10710 CS10710CS10710CS10710CS10710 CS10710CS10710CS10710CS10710 DS8090DS8090DS8090DS8090 page 6-2 • Digital Print BLACK & WHITE DIGITAL CUT-SHEET PRINTING VarioPrint 6320 Oce’ VarioPrint printers are used to produce almost two million newsletters annually. The Digital Cut-Sheet printing center at Thomson Reuters contains three Oce VarioPrint machines that run at blazing speeds to quickly turn around client projects. Folding Options: This group produces loose-leafs, inserts, tabs, newsletters, circuits and more. The • up to 11 x 17 VarioPrint machines are centrally fed from a Prisma Workflow server. This allows the operators to perform additional functions prior to producing the final product. Some of these operations include chang- • 9 x 11 or 9 x 12 1/2 ing files from simplex to duplex, adding slip sheets, changing a CUT-SHEET PRINTING WORKFLOW • 8 1/2 x 11 product from 1 up to 2 up, chang- CAMERA COPY ing heads and backs, and making DSR JOB WITH HARD DAILY SCHEDULE COPY OF many types of file-positioning THAT FEEDS THE AREA PRODUCTION Binding Options: adjustments. ORDER • Stitches: Dual, The VarioPrint machines can han- PRINT PRODUCTION Signature and Portrait dle paper from 8 by 10 inches to ORDER ON POWER 11 by 17 inches, with paper weights COMPUTER PULL JOB FROM PULL JOB FROM ranging from 31# Lawbook to NYCRR POWER • (200 pages max. COMPUTER COMPUTER 90 lb. Textbook. The VarioPrint depending on paper PULL JOB FROM CORPORATE weight – consult your machines can print up to 320 SERVER Thomson Reuters pages per minute. They have four account representative paper input trays, and two of the printers have online folding and PERFORM for more information) IMPOSITION stitching capabilities utilizing new square back technology. • Loose-leaf SEND TO VARIOPRINT SCAN HARD 6000s COPY IN PREPRESS • Saddle-stitch PRINT JOB AND PERFORM STITCHING & FOLDING DELIVER PRODUCT Digital Print • page 6-3 COLOR DIGITAL PRINT NEW equipment in 2013 In 2006, we expanded our Digital Print operations with a color printing solution. In 2013 we are installing our first new equipment since that time. The new systems will give us some additional features, including 5th color printing and in-line stitching and punching. KODAK NEXPRESS 2700SX The NexPress SX platform is a fully modural design, which allows us to easily expand as our business needs change. This 5-color digital press includes a long-sheet pile feeder for Kodak NexPress Largest sheet size: additional paper feeds, and expands Specifications 14 x 36 inches our sheet size capabilities to a (Standard sheet size 14 x 20) maximum of 14 x 36 inches. Smallest sheet size: 7.9 x 11 inches Speeds: The system also includes the NexPress (smallest we run: 8.5 x 11) 91 impressions per minute fifth imaging unit, which will allow us (8.5 x 11 inches) to print gold, dimensional raised print, more accurate spot colors, and high impact spot gloss. CANON IMAGEPRESS 7010 In addition to the NexPress, we have added two new Canon ImagePress 7010s to our fleet. Focusing on more cell-like production, one printer will be dedicated to our Color print-and-stitch products, such as Newsletters, and the second printer will focus on custom trademark reports, that will have the option to in-line drill. The Canons are capable of printing up to a 13 x 19 inch sheet and are 4-color Canon ImagePress 7010 Largest sheet size: boxes. Specifications 13 x 19 inches (Standard sheet size 11 x 17) Smallest sheet size: FRONT-END TECHNOLOGY 7.2 x 7.2 inches Speeds: (smallest we run: 8.5 x 11) 70 impressions per minute All of the equipment that we have (8.5 x 11 inches) upgraded have the latest Adobe Print Engine, to allow us to tackle even the most complex files with layers. We will also be adding other software tools to allow us to automate front- end impositions and file routing more seamlessly. page 6-4 • Digital Print PRESS PRINTING BACKGROUND – just about any smooth, mass- produced item with print on it. In this form of lithography, which depends on photographic processes, flexible aluminum or plastic printing plates are used in place of stone tablets. Many innovations and technical refinements have been made in printing processes and presses over the years, including the development of presses with multiple units (each containing one printing plate) that can print multi-color images in one pass on both sides of the sheet, and presses that accommodate continuous rolls (webs) of paper, known as web presses. Another innovation was the continuous dampening system. This increased control over the water flow to the plate and allowed for better ink and water balance. The History The advent of desktop publishing Alois Senefelder of Munich discovered while the negative image would be made it possible for type and the basic principle of lithography, water. When the plate is introduced images to be manipulated easily on “writing on stone,” in 1798.