ProImage NewsWay at heart of Bold Printing Group’s production

‘fewer people can produce more work in a shorter time’

events reported via JDF to central and local systems

providing disaster back-up solution

London – 1^st September, 2006: ProImage has today announced that its Nordic distributor, VBS, has signed an order for another NewsWay system, this time at Sydsvenskan Tryck AB in Malmö, Sweden (STAB), completing its parent company’s concept of a ‘NewsWay village’.

Having installed NewsWay at DNEX in Stockholm in 2000 and at Borås Tidning Tryckeri AB (BTT) in Borås in May 2006, the installation at STAB will finalize the ‘NewsWay village’ solution at the Bold Printing Group, the parent of all three print plants.

“With the ‘NewsWay village’ concept the group is gaining in efficiency by automating many tasks, streamlining workflows, minimizing errors and exploiting better usage of equipment, “ says Bengt Brandeker, director, VBS. “As a result, fewer people can produce more work in shorter time, and with better control from both the print plants’ staff as well as from their customers through the Web-based architecture of NewsWay.”

The concept of the ‘NewsWay village’ is that all prepress work is undertaken at the central prepress department of DNEX, with staffing 24x7. Planning is also undertaken centrally with press information being pulled from the various press control systems.

The NewsWay software receives completed pages as PDFs; barcodes are automatically added to the plate images for managing the CTPs and punch bending equipment. Pages are then RIPed, paired and impositioned, and transmitted by NewsWay to the local and remote print plants.

In total, NewsWay controls nine CTP machines; two at BTT, three at STAB, and four at DNEX. All CTPs (as well as all other resources) are automatically load balanced by the NewsWay software in order to maximise throughput and efficiency.

Information about when plates are ready, and errors and other events are monitored during the process and reported via JDF to the central and local departments, as well as being collected by a central management information system.

In the case of a disaster, all three sites can handle their complete production locally in a back-up workflow.

About Bold Printing Group:

The Bold Printing Group is one of Northern Europe’s leading newspaper print suppliers and has an annual turnover of Euro 1.3 million; more than 700,000 copies of over 40 newspaper titles are printed annually (not including all commercial printing).

More than 120,000 tons of paper are used annually in the 5 presses (1 KBA at BTT, 1 MAN Roland at STAB and 3 MAN Roland at DNEX).

The staffing is approximately 500 for all three plants.

About ProImage:

New ProImage is based in Or Akiva, Israel, twenty miles north of Tel Aviv, with sales and support offices in North America (Princeton, New Jersey) and Europe (London, UK).

The company, first established in 1995, is a leading developer of browser-based digital workflow and production tracking solutions for the newspaper and printing industries. Using a standard Internet browser and standard platform hardware, ProImage's advanced technologies offer the printing industry flexible and feature rich end-to-end communications, workflow management and production tracking solutions

Selling directly in some parts of the world, and through dealer partners in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Scandinavia, Spain, Russia, China and Thailand; the company also enjoys a number of important international technology and marketing strategic alliances.

For further information, please contact:

Izzet Edige, manager ProImage Europe

Tel:  +44 (0)208 446 88909

E-mail: mailto:izzet@newsway.com

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