Pre-Press - Computer-to-plate

HUDSON, NH—09/12/08—At Presstek’s booth 2811, companies of all sizes will find digital solutions that offer a competitive advantage in today’s marketplace by boosting productivity and profitability, while offering environmentally friendly operations. Presstek 52DI and 34DI digital offset presses offer both conventional offset and digital printers the most profitable solution for meeting the demand for quick turnaround, high quality color printing in runs from 250 to 20,000. Capable of printing on a broad road range of substrate thickness up to 20pt., the DI supports up to 300 lpi and FM screening without incurring additional time or expense. These highly automated, environmentally-friendly DI presses combine the

CHICAGO—The Chicago Sun-Times has obtained nine Agfa Advantage CLS digital platemaking systems, as well as Arkitex workflow components that include Autoplan and Afirma for increased monitoring and automation. The Advantage CLS is a cassette-loading system with a throughput of up to 220 plates per hour.

ANN ARBOR, MI—August 21, 2008—Xitron, the prepress industry’s leading independent developer and integrator of Raster Image Processors, RIP management software and workflow solutions, today announced that its Xenith User Group meeting will be held Saturday, October 25, 2008 in conjunction with the October 26-29 Graph Expo show in Chicago. The Xenith User Group meeting will cover a variety of topics for Xenith users including: • Preview of Xitron’s latest software products to be unveiled at Graph Expo • Increasing productivity and profitability with an Adobe PDF Print Engine workflow • Integrating web-based job submission solutions • Ask The Staff: One-on-one time with Xitron Product

ROCHESTER, NY—Aug. 11—Dow Jones & Co. purchased 14 Kodak Trendsetter News 150 Thermal CTP Platesetters and 17 Kodak Prinergy Evo Workflow Systems as part of a modernization effort at six of its printing plants. Dow Jones produces The Wall Street Journal, the second largest newspaper in the country by circulation. The agreement with Kodak will bring digital CTP technology to the company’s facilities in Chicopee, Mass.; Bowling Green, Ohio; LaGrange, Ga.; Dallas; Palo Alto, Calif.; and South Brunswick, N.J. Additionally, Prinergy Evo Workflow Systems will be installed at the Dow Jones advertising services location in Orlando, Fla. “We evaluated all of the factors and

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY—08/05/2008—In the first quarter of financial year 2008/2009, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) recorded a significant improvement in incoming orders over the previous year thanks to the industry trade show drupa. In the period under review, the Heidelberg Group increased its incoming orders by around 23 percent over the same quarter the previous year to 1.151 billion Euro (previous year: 934 million Euro). As already announced on July 10, 2008, sales and earnings were significantly down on the equivalent figures for the previous year due to difficult market conditions and customers’ reluctance to invest in the run-up to drupa. Sales by the Heidelberg Group

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY—08/04/2008—Following in the footsteps of prepress and press, all current generations of electronic postpress equipment have also been covered by Heidelberg Remote Service since drupa 2008. Heidelberg thus provides Internet-based services for all value-added operations in the print shop. This makes it the only supplier in the print media industry offering solutions that can be fully maintained online. By the end of 2008, online remote diagnosis of postpress equipment will be supported for the latest generations of the Stahlfolder, Stitchmaster, Eurobind, Dymatrix and Diana product families from Heidelberg, plus POLAR brand machines. In addition, the online Remote Service module eCall will

OAKDALE, MN—July 25, 2008—Two more North American printers decide on NELA equipment to automate and control their plate flow in the prepress department. NELA is proud to be one of the partners of Transcontinental Transmag on their new press project in Montreal, Canada. The NELA system will vision register, punchbend and inspect plates exiting three (3) CTP devices. With the help of NELA NPS Barcode & Page Tracking Software, the plates will be then transported to the quiet room next to the press consoles. Plates destined for the upper press deck will be navigated by a plate lift onto a multi-bin plate stacking

DRUPA’S STANDING as an international printing exhibition makes it the place to see the course of technological development in the industry laid out for the next four years. As even the following press and postpress wrap-up stories note, digital printing technology had its strongest showing yet. Even the developments in digital workflow were muted by comparison. Many of the product introductions were already covered in one of the Drupa Countdown stories published in editions of Printing Impressions leading up to the show. Therefore, this wrap-up will primarily focus on what was new in Düsseldorf. The event lived up to its billing as The Ink-Jet

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY/OAKDALE, MN—June 19th, 2008—During the two weeks of drupa, Nela was able to close many transactions with customers from all over the world. Among Nela’s new customers are “Freie Presse”, Chemnitz; “Thairath Newspaper”, Bangkok; “Times of India” and “Dainik Baskar” both of India; “Zero Hora”, Brazil and “Quick Marsh” of England newspapers. The evening before drupa, the Freie Presse in Chemnitz, Germany decided to use Nela punchbending devices for complete automation of their prepress area. Three (3) Nela Evolution Vision PunchBenders, in connection with Kodak CTP devices, will punch and bend the plates before they are transported to the new

HUDSON, NH—June 17, 2008—Presstek, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRST), the leading manufacturer and marketer of digital offset printing business solutions, had one of its most successful trade shows ever when nearly 400,000 professionals from the world of printing convened in Düsseldorf, Germany, this month for drupa, the World’s largest printing trade show. “The response from the global print community to our expanded array of digital solutions confirms that our strides towards the goal of becoming one of the leading global providers of high quality, fully-integrated digital solutions and services is what the market is looking for,” said Jeff Jacobson, President and Chief Executive