AlphaGraphics to Print Newspapers
By Lisa Cross
By Graphic Arts Online Staff -- Graphic Arts Online, November 3, 2008
Newsworld Corp. selected an AlphaGraphics franchise to print U.S. copies of the U.K.’s Daily Mail and
Mail On Sunday. The
publisher will buy a Screen Truepress
Jet520 on-demand newsprint solution with a dedicated Standard Hunkeler finishing system to be installed at Dayton, NJ-based printer. AlphaGraphics parent company Pindar is based in the U.K.
Newsworld, which offers newspaper publishers 100% certifiable copies of their editions in remote locations, signed a contract with Associated Newspapers in July to produce the two publications and is looking to add further titles. The Truepress Jet520 features two print engines, printing at 128m/min, the equivalent of 1,200, 48-page tabloid newspapers an hour.
“This announcement marks the successful culmination of over two years work and is a significant development within the newspaper sector as a whole,” says Brian Forsdike, president, Screen Europe. “Remote newspaper production on the day of publication means that both tourists and business travelers can keep in touch with what is happening at home through the medium they know best.”
He says that the Truepress Jet520 allows publishers to reproduce a complete facsimile of their title in full color in the quantities that are required anywhere in the world.
The device has been
King Printing, Lowell, MA, which has been operating the Jet520 in a production setting for the past year.
Separately, HP reports that an unnamed U.S. newspaper will test its 30” Inkjet Web Press machine to produce 14 zoned daily versions. Although no newspapers have ordered the press yet, reports The San Diego Union Tribune, the HP Inkjet Webs are also
commercial printing and book publishing companies. HP showed a 36” version of the press earlier this year at drupa. At last week's Graph Expo in Chicago, the company unveiled a new
relationship with U.K.-based Timsons Ltd
. to develop a digital inkjet system for short- and medium-run book production.
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