Web Offset Champion Group Collects Best-Practices Guides In One Volume
The Web Offset Champion Group has made its 242-page 'Tool Box,' containing its seven best-practice guides, available to web printers in English and German. Covering both heatset and coldset, the guides cover everything from web-break prevention to total process color control and alternative screening. - September 04, 2008
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Vancouver 'Columbian' Moves on to Saxotech Mediaware
The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash., has selected the Saxotech Mediaware Center to manage all content and resources for print and digital publishing operations. When fully implemented, all content creators, editors and channel-specific producers will work within a common system. - September 04, 2008
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Pressmart Gets $6 Million VC Infusion for Expansion
Print-to-digital delivery service Pressmart Media Ltd. in Hyderabad, India, announced $6 million in funding from two San Francisco Bay Area venture capital funds, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and NEA IndoUS Ventures. The investment will aid in expanding Pressmart's global sales, marketing, and customer-support presence worldwide. - September 04, 2008
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THURSDAY UPDATE: Konica to End Page Film Sales
Late Wednesday, Konica Minolta Graphic Imaging issued a statement clarifying an earlier report, saying that owing to the decline in graphic arts film use as customers transition to digital production and the higher cost of silver, its last production of graphic arts finished film products will be in March 2009. - September 04, 2008
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Arson Suspected at Canwest Building in British Columbia
Canwest News Service reported that its Alberni Valley Times building, in Port Alberni, British Columbia, was the likely target of an arsonist early Sunday morning. The fire was discovered in trash containers by the owner of Houle Printing, housed in the Times pressroom. - September 02, 2008
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Syncronex Manages 'Milwaukee Journal Sentinel' Draw
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contractors have been using Single Copy Edition from Syncronex in Bellevue, Wash., fully since December 2007. The Journal Sentinel launched Syncronex initially to facilitate entry of draw and return data directly into its circulation system, ensuring data integrity at the outlet level. - August 29, 2008
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Florida Printer Runs ECRM WorkMates News
WorkMates News workflow products from ECRM has been adopted by full-service commercial cold-web printer FLP in Callahan, Fla., which prints many weekly newspapers, as well as shoppers, flyers, circulars, magazines, booklets, mailers and other tabloid and half-tab products for other firms. - August 28, 2008
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Adicio Launches SiteManager Real Estate Enhancement
Web-based classified advertising solutions developer Adicio in Carlsbad, Calif., has launched its Real Estate Products and Packages Manager, which, along with other platform enhancements, increases a client's ability to generate more revenue via e-commerce. - August 27, 2008
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Goss Gets Another Contract from Big Turkish Publisher
Following a contract with Goss International to upgrade two Goss HT70 presses at its Dogan Printing Center in Istanbul, Turkey's largest newspaper publisher Hurriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaacilik A.S. -- part of the Dogan Yayin Holding Group -- is buying the country's first Goss Uniliner doublewide press. - August 26, 2008
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German Regional Publisher Moves onto CCI NewsGate
Schwabischer Verlag in Leutkirch im Allgau, Germany, will implement a 300-seat CCI NewsGate system in order to improve workflow and enable cross-media communication for its Schwabische Zeitung newsroom, which produces 22 local editions with a combined daily circulation of approximately 190,000 copies. - August 26, 2008
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AP Names Rossi Global Technology VP
Kurt Rossi was named AP vice president of global technology operations, overseeing worldwide field support of AP journalists and events; global desktop support; support of the main AP multimedia news production centers; broadcast technology operations; and technology business operations. - August 25, 2008
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'Naples Daily News' Installs SCS/Track for Ad Production
The Naples (Fla.) Daily News has installed the SCS/Track ad-production and asset-management system from Software Consulting Services LLC, Nazareth, Pa. The system is used for complete ad-production tracking, automated archiving, storage and retrieval. - August 25, 2008
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