Good press

Citation

(2002), "Good press", Work Study, Vol. 51 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ws.2002.07951bab.009

Good press

Good press

Océ Printing Systems is establishing a global digital newspaper network that can print any of a whole range of newspapers on Océ digital printing equipment located just about anywhere in the world. Océ wants to enable publishers of daily newspapers to produce their foreign editions cheaply and rapidly in the country of distribution. The first daily to take Océ up on this offer was the NZZ – or Neue Züricher Zeitung – of Switzerland. Other world-class dailies are following suit. The Digital Newspaper Network decentralises the printing of newspapers and distributes the process all over the world. It is aimed chiefly at business and finance papers, plus dailies that want to have short runs printed at remote locations. At the heart of this digital newspaper-printing solution is a system based on the Océ Demandstream 8090, augmented by two collecting stations recently given a full rework by their manufacturer, Hunkeler. The printing system operates with a resolution of 600 dpi and prints up to 700 A4 pages per minute, which makes it the fastest LED printing system in the world. Combined with the Hunkeler post-processing modules, the system turns out up to 400 ready-finished 48-page newspapers per hour. The format of the newspapers is 463 x 320mm. After being printed on both recto and verso sides, the sheets are cut by the CS4 wide cross cutter and then collected in four-page sets to produce sections of the required length. Following the first lengthways fold, the sections are assembled, and the multi-section newspapers leave the production line as a finished product with two folds. The sectioned format – and the use of standard newspaper – give the digital products the look and feel of conventional offset-printed papers. Companies which already run a Demandstream 8000 system can easily upgrade to a Demandstream 8090 in order to deal with larger volumes and the Hunkeler finishing modules can be integrated quite simply.