ProImage NewsWay manages newspaper group’s production across the South of France
- browser-based NewsWay provides foundation for group-wide CtP
- integrating editorial front-end through CtP to the press
London – September, 2006: Newspaper production by Le Groupe de la Provence, in the fashionable south east of France, is being made more efficient by ProImage’s NewsWay workflow software.
NewsWay is used to link and manage production of the newspapers owned by this leading media company that lists amongst it businesses the book publisher Hachette, distribution and retail services, and audiovisual businesses that operate several popular television stations including Match TV and Canal.
The newspapers that form this ‘NewsWay village’ are Corse Matin, La Provence and Marseilleplus. NewsWay is the browser-based workflow software foundation on which the group is able to remotely manage its newspapers’ CtP production.
Automatic pagination starts with a plan, and the pagination plan for Corse Matin is created at Nice Matin before being sent to NewsWay; NewsWay assembles and imposes the pages and completed impositions are output on CtP devices at sites in both Marseille and a new print site at Bastia, on the island of Corsica, where they are printed.
At La Provence, where twelve daily broadsheet editions are produced as well as the tabloid Marseilleplus, the pagination plans are created by a Unisys Hermes editorial system, RIPed within NewsWay, imposed, and output on three DMX CtP devices. NewsWay prioritises output and automatically load balances the CtP machines so that maximum throughput is achieved.
Later this year two new KBA presses with EAE control systems will be in production at La Provence, and NewsWay will provide integration with both the press control and Hermes systems. This will allow NewsWay to manage production, calculate the number of plates required, their priority, and drive the three new Agfa Polaris CtP machines that are scheduled to replace the DMX machines.
ProImage’s partner in France, SP3i, provides sales, integration and training, and has been successful in installing NewsWay across France, as well as some of the country’s outposts such as the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
About ProImage:
New ProImage, an Agfa company, is based in Or Akiva, Israel, twenty miles north of Tel Aviv, with sales and support offices in North America (Princeton, New Jersey) and Europe (London, UK).
The company, first established in 1995, is a leading developer of browser-based digital workflow and production tracking solutions for the newspaper and printing industries. Using a standard Internet browser and standard platform hardware, ProImage's advanced technologies offer the printing industry flexible and feature rich end-to-end communications, workflow management and production tracking solutions
Selling directly in some parts of the world, and through dealer partners in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Scandinavia, Spain, Russia, China and Thailand; the company also enjoys a number of important international technology and marketing strategic alliances. New ProImage may be found on the web at: www.newsway.com
About SP3i
SP3i (www.sp3i.fr) is a service company specializing in technical and industrial interfaces, CTP and special services to press companies. SP3i integrates and maintains ProImage’s NewsWay for workflow, and Enfocus tools for PDF management. Since 2002, SP3i has equipped, integrated and maintained many sites with a NewsWay workflow solution. Contacts:
New ProImage
Izzet Edige.
Tel: +44 (0)208 446 8909
e-mail: e-mail: izzet@newsway.com
SP3i
Thierry Pantz
email: tpz@sp3i.fr
Tel: +33 (0) 1 53 65 15 50
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