Newsquest is installing Autologic PDF-based digital workflow and CTP at its new print centre at Wingates, near Bolton.


"We see the Wingates system as a showcase for this technology, which will demonstrate the benefits of CTP to the group," said Newsquest information technology director Graham Hodgson.


The Autologic system consists of two APS-3850 CTP Wide/240 platesetters each capable of producing 240 broadsheet plates per hour, four NT-based APS RIPs, APS PagePair, Output Manager, and APS Plateroom Manager (PRM) software.


Printing Techniques is supplying Agfa N91 plates to Wingates, which, with two daily evening papers and around two dozen weekly papers, gets through 10,000 plates per week. Its subsidiary company PTE supplied plate processors.
Once fully operational, Wingates will replace Lostock, situated a mile away, which services all of Newsquests Lancashire centres (PrintWeek, 11 May).


l Printing Techniques has also won the contract to supply The Newark Advertiser with Agfa N91 plates for use with it Purup-Eskofot DMX platesetter.


Story by Andy Scott