The Seybold Report

McCallum Print Group Chooses Metrix

McCallum Print Group, a Seattle-based printer serving markets across the United States, has chosen Metrix to streamline and automate its job and imposition workflow. The software, which McCallum will use to replace a manual system, has reduced imposition from 50% to 5% of the prepress operation timeline. more

Schwabisch Media Installs ppi Web-to-Print Portal

Schwabisch Media will install ppi Media’s Web-to-print OM portal solution on the Schwabisch Web store. more

Tagesspiegel Goes Live with Magazine Production on Atex

German publisher Tagesspiegel-Gruppe has moved its magazine publication to the Atex Content platform. Publisher of one of Berlin’s largest daily newspapers, the company is also using Atex to manage newspaper production. more

RR Donnelley announces ProteusJet Multiweb Digital Print Platform

RR Donnelley has announced development and installations of its new proprietary ProteusJet Multiweb platform in two of the company’s direct response production facilities. more 

Bloque de Armas Modernizes with Protecmedia

Venezuelan media group Bloque de Armas has installed the Protecmedia Milenium Cross Media editorial platform as part of a comprehensive modernization of all its systems to provide a strong base for moving into multi-channel publishing. more 

Media24 Magazines Selects WoodWing

Media24 Magazines, part of Africa's leading publishing group Media24, has selected WoodWing for the publisher's multi-channel efforts to publish more than 60 consumer and business magazines. The company plans to have the entire system up and operational within 18 months. more

Japan Times Chooses WoodWing Software

The Japan Times, the oldest English language daily in Japan, began using a 60-seat license of the WoodWing Enterprise cross-media publishing system in mid-April, WoodWing Software has announced. more

Agfa Sells First :M-Press Tiger with In-line Screening in North America

California-based Graphic Tech has become the first North American printer to purchase an Agfa :M-Press Tiger with an in-line screen printing system. The full-service graphic communications service provider will install the Tiger in the first quarter of 2011. more

Major Brazilian Newspaper Chooses Glunz & Jensen

Correio Brazilienze, the largest newspaper in Brazil’s capital city, has chosen Glunz & Jensen to supply punch/benders, universal transition modules, and plate stackers. The newspaper has also added the Blunz & Jensen Press Locks to its system to improve color registration and reduce paper waste on press start-up in conjunction with its installation of a new press. more

Admiral Products is First Color-Logic Process Metal Color System Certified Digital Printer in North America

Admiral Products of Cleveland, OH, is the first digital printer in North America certified to offer the Color-Logic Process Metallic Color System. The printer uses Color-Logic on its HP Indigo ws4500 press. Admiral Products specializes in package printing and in marketing services and prints on paper, film, pressure-sensitive labels, and advertising specialties. more

Trade & Logistics Siam Co., Ltd. Installs vjoon K4

Bangkok-based logistics industry publisher Trade & Logistics Siam Co. Ltd. has implemented the complete vjoon K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform with the aid of vjoon integration partner EvioTech Co. Ltd. more

Fotobooks A.S. Automates Workflow with Ultimate's Impostrip OnDemand Digital Automation

Norway’s Fotobooks AS has two HP Indigo 7000s and wanted to streamline its PDF-based streamline without human intervention. The company decided Enfocus’ Switch and on Ultimate's Impostrip OnDemand Digital Automation. Christoffer Reina, CEO of Fotobooks AS, says the new tools have made the work go much more smoothly, "It is easy to grow now, as our workflow is capable to absorb new jobs and an increase in volume in peak seasons without any additional costs." more

Schmidt Printing Installs HP Indigo Press

Palo-Alto based Schmidt Printing has installed an HP Indigo W7200 Digital Press to capitalize on an opportunity to move into large-scale variable postcard printing. A large customer wanted large quantities of short-run personalized postcards, up to millions a week at about 1,000 per run. more

Non-Profit Printer Impressions Alliance 9000 Installs Presstek 52DI-AC Short-Run Press

Quebec-based printer Impressions Alliance 9000 has installed a Presstek 52DI-AC short-run digital offset press. A non-profit whose mission is to provide jobs for disabled individuals, the printing company uses the press to produce calendars, diaries, and other marketing collateral for large financial institutions and other customers. more

Cellesche Zeitung Installs ppi Content-X Workflow Solution

Cellesche Zeitung, a daily German newspaper, has become the first customer to install the Context-X workflow solution developed by ppi Media, a subsidiary of manroland, and Digital Collections. It will be used with the iDater 3.0 project and issue management system from Desatec Systems. more