Dow Jones
Selects ProImage
Page
Distribution Solution
• managing page
distribution workflow and page tracking for 17
domestic print sites and international hubs in Europe and Asia
• single unified
solution for the needs of prepress, production and
IT departments
Princeton, NJ – 11th July, 2007: ProImage is today pleased to
announce that Dow Jones and Company has selected NewsWay,
its production workflow, page tracking and transmission solution.
NewsWay will provide an integrated global solution for the distribution,
tracking, and delivery of pages and page components for Dow Jones’ print
publications, including its flagship publication The Wall Street Journal.
“Dow Jones selected
browser-based NewsWay because of its flexibility and
ability to deliver a single unified solution for the needs of prepress,
production and IT departments, worldwide,” said Rick Shafranek, ProImage America VP of Sales and Marketing.
When fully implemented NewsWay will manage Dow Jones’ global newspaper and
commercial page distribution for 17 domestic printing plants within the United
States and from two international hubs located in Europe and Asia.
“We are delighted to have
been awarded this prestigious project,” said John Ialacci, ProImage
America President. “More than 100 newspapers in North America now use NewsWay to manage their mission-critical workflow for their
print products. NewsWay is currently deployed at more
than 15 of the top 20 largest daily newspapers in North America.”
The first phase of the
installation is scheduled to come online in August with the international hubs
in Europe and Asia. In order to provide a smooth implementation, NewsWay will initially accept pages from Dow Jones’ legacy
page distribution system.
The latest NewsWay Version 5.0 solution will allow for extensibility
should Dow Jones need to add additional printing plants, additional transport
mechanisms (including internet delivery), or additional routes.
At Dow Jones, the NewsWay system is designed to receive and distribute
PDFX-1A pages, create Edition Plans, provide the logic to rename the pages to
the specification required by printing plants, and burn different sets of
furniture needed for the various remote plants. It will also provide production
tracking, job scheduling, softViewing, with automated
and intelligent workflow and transmission management.
One cost-effective integrated production solution:
NewsWay has the ability to control and manage workflow from a variety of
front-end systems through to output. It can monitor production status, both at
origination and print sites, irrespective of location.
NewsWay uses a standard Web browser and PC hardware to manage PDF/TIFF
workflows including: imposition, job planning, network workflow and output
management, resource scheduling, and production tracking. The system performs
load balancing on all resources under its control and will drive both imagesetters and CTP equipment directly.
NewsWay provides additional modules which may be used for graphical page
tracking, edition planning, annotation attachments, remote soft proofing,
bitmap editing, Ink-key setting, and much more. NewsWay
also integrates with press control systems, providing one cost-effective
integrated production solution.
For further
information, please contact:
Rick Shafranek, VP of Sales, ProImage America
Tel: +1 919-363-0413
e-mail:
rick@newsway.com
Information provided on
behalf of ProImage by Media Matters Limited
Contact: Richard Hall,
e-mail: Richard@media-matters.com
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