Kodak Graphic Communications Technologies Help U.S. Newspaper Printers Go Digital

Kodak Graphic Communications Technologies Help U.S. Newspaper Printers Go Digital

Four North American newspaper printers are going digital with KODAK thermal CTP (computer-to-plate) solutions. The Denver Newspaper Agency, which prints the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post, purchased five KODAK TRENDSETTER NEWS 200 platesetters and KODAK THERMALNEWS digital plates. Newspapers in Abilene, Tex., Anderson, S.C., and DeKalb, Ill. also purchased KODAK digital solutions to accelerate their printing operations.

Computer-to-plate technologies enable printers to write the image of a page from a digital file directly to the printing plate. This method eliminates traditional steps of generating a film image to make a plate. Plates are then affixed to a press to output the printed pages in a newspaper The Abilene Reporter-News, an E.W. Scripps Co. paper, purchased a KODAK TRENDSETTER NEWS 50 — its second KODAK thermal CTP platesetter — and THERMALNEWS digital plates to produce 35,000 daily and 45,000 Sunday copies, plus many weeklies and commercial print jobs.

“We recently ranked the highest in print quality by E.W. Scripps of all of the company’s newspapers. KODAK thermal CTP platesetters and KODAK digital plates are the reason why. It just would not have happened with our previous system,” said Mike Hall, Director of Operations at the Reporter-News. “We’ve been very pleased with the performance of the KODAK equipment. The quality and dependability of the platesetter and plates are key to our operation.”

Independent Publishing Co. in Anderson, S.C., publishes the 38,000 daily circulation Anderson Independent-Mail and commercial jobs, including Clemson University’s Orange & White sports publication. The publisher recently purchased a KODAK TRENDSETTER NEWS 100 platesetter, THERMALNEWS plates, PRINERGY Evo workflow system, PREPS imposition software and STACCATO screening.

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