Synapse NewsManager provides greater automation and the ability to control remote and multiple sites, as needed by larger newspaper groups.

The software, which joins Prinergy Newsrun, a version of its PDF production workflow for newspapers, is based on the technology it acquired from Italian firm Hit Internet Technologies.

It will be shown for the first time at Drupa.

Creo announced it had bought the underlying technology from Hit at Ifra in October last year. Prior to that, Agfa had used the technology as part of the NewsFlow module of its newspaper workflow Intellinet. Agfa announced at Ifra that it was launching a new newspaper workflow Arkitex, which doesnt use the Hit software.