Printing presses due for upgrade in new contract

THREE printing presses will receive upgrades as part of a seven-year contract.
By The Newsroom
Published 20th Jul 2016, 05:55 BST

Multimedia organisation Johnston Press, which owns The News, has reaffirmed its relationship with Agfa Graphics, a prepress supplier to the newspaper industry.

The seven-year contract covers a complete upgrade of the prepress facilities at printing sites in Dinnington, Portsmouth and Carn in Northern Ireland.

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This will include the replacement of all 10 existing Polaris platesetters with the latest Advantage N-XXT machines, new Agfa Attiro clean out units producing Agfa’s N95VCF chemistry-free polymer litho plates as well as upgrading the group’s Agfa Arkitex workflow software systems.

David Crow, managing director at Johnston Press print and logistics, said: ‘This agreement has been a long time in the making but, having reviewed all the offerings from other vendors, we are pleased to select Agfa in what has been of a long-standing working relationship. Agfa has improved its current equipment and software systems enhancing performance and reducing maintenance.’

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