Flexibility of ProImage NewsWay Workflow Solution appeals to Concord Monitor

Speed, efficiency and flexibility were the key features of ProImage NewsWay Production Workflow System that appealed to the decision makers at the Concord (N.H.) Monitor.

The Concord Monitor prints numerous daily, weekly and seasonal commercial newspapers, magazines, catalogs and preprints and spurs a circulation of 12,500 daily and 14,500 Sunday for its own paper. With such a variety of products, NewsWay allows the paper to centralize tracking of page/plate status and to critically review RIPed pages prior to CTP. This results in streamlined impositioning, publication planning and softproof/review of "real" RIPed pages.

Concord's production team uses NewsWay for a multitude of production specific tasks such as integration of the Pitstop Server for Preflighting and down sampling PDFs, tab and mini-tab/4-up impositions, page size normalizations for various publications and scenarios. This comes especially handy for accepting new customers who don't want to change their design dimensions for Concord's web widths and cutoffs.

In addition, Concord can retrieve jobs automatically from a variety of locations via FTP since NewsWay automatically pulls these jobs into its workflow and makes them available via Windows-based networking. Proofs of Ripped pages can be sent to Windows printers and varying page and plate approval settings by publications are possible. A high-resolution preview assists with CTP setup and quality control. 

Ben Allen, IT manager for the Concord Monitor said: "NewsWay has become an essential time saver to accommodate all our quick turn-around for commercial customers. We will be testing remote production and TIFF delivery for a sister paper soon, and anticipate going live shortly thereafter."