WSJ output at Drupa

During Drupa, Japanese press manufacturer TKS has been printing The Wall Street Journal on its stand (Hall 15, stand B55) every day on an inkjet web press.

The Drupa-printed version is intended to look identical to the edition printed in New York.

The company is using its Jetleader 1500, a web-fed rotary newspaper press, which prints on both sides in four colours on a maximum web width of 546mm.

The manufacturer said the press maintains high print quality even at its top printing speed of 150m/min.

The newspaper is comprised of up to five sections totalling 72 pages, and leaves the Jetleader 1500 in broadsheet format.

The paper unwinder, web guide and first and second folders were all developed by TKS. The manufacturer would not reveal who supplied the inkjet heads.

The web can also be turned 90 degrees prior to the infeed and fed into a cross cutter to enable book production.