Left to right, QIPC’s Gerald Ferron, with Transcontinental’s Richard Ruffino, QIPC’s Jaco Bleijenberg, Transcontinental’s Pierre Manseau, and QIPC’s Kamiel van Riel, after Transcontinental agreed to purchase QIPC’s markless registration system. Photo: QIPC full story>>	Doug Klimes, project manager and Jason Celce of Presteligence, setting up The Repository’s NewsXtreme workflow software. Photo: The Repository full story>>

McClatchy shifting printing to rival
The (Nampa) Idaho Press-Tribune is bolstering its Manugraph DGM Inc. pressline with two MDGM color towers and a folder as it prepares to print The (Boise) Idaho Statesman under terms of an agreement between the dailies’ publishers.

FPS gets thumbs up
Contract printer F.D. Hoekstra Boom in Emmeloord, the Netherlands, in April went on-edition with its Goss International Corp. FPS press, becoming the second company to go into production with the model.

N&T Radio looks at video
News&Tech Radio broadcast its first live radio show last month, detailing the recent video training program conducted by The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J.

Digital presses stream into drupa
DUSSELDORF, Germany — One of the hottest trends emerging at last month’s Drupa 2008 was the explosion of short-run digital presses aimed at newspapers.



Transcon to launch 3-D proofing app
Transcontinental Inc. last month rolled out FFEI Ltd.’s RealVue 3D Server Pro proofing and tearsheet software to power the printer’s Digital Workshop suite of workflow tools.

Calif., Minn., dailies upgrade workflows with NewsWay
Gannett’s Visalia (Calif.) Times-Delta in February converted from a homegrown workflow to ProImage’s browser-based NewsWay app to consolidate a number of job functions for the production of its daily and its sister publication, the Tulare (Calif.) Advance-Register.

Putting InCopy through paces shows pluses, minuses
Newspapers & Technology three months ago began its transition to Adobe Systems Inc.’s InCopy CS3, the word-processing component of InDesign. The goal: to further streamline the editing and production of the publication.

Repository rolls out workflow app, thermal CTP
The Repository in Canton, Ohio, at the end of May went live with NewsXtreme software from Presteligence Inc. to drive its new computer-to-plate workflow consisting of two Kodak Trendsetter News 150 machines, which the publisher commissioned in June.

Washington Times updates workflow foundation to streamline operations
In a bid to simplify its production operations, The Washington Times last month said it would install workflow software from Polish supplier ACCHSH.

Study: Local online ad revs on the rise; newspapers top media rivals
Even as newspapers continue to explore the value of rolling out grassroots-oriented Web sites and special sections, one of the first publishers to pioneer citizen journalism has quietly halted syndicating the concept to other publications.

Philly.com gears up for local content dominance
Philadelphia Media Holdings this spring ushered in a redesigned Philly.com Web site as the publisher attempts to land a knockout punch against its local online competitors.

Sonoma Index-Tribune going greener with hybrid options
The twice-weekly Sonoma (Calif.) Index-Tribune is hoping its readers join the revolution as the newspaper moves to reduce its paper and energy consumption.