The Boston Globe, for example, recently began using digital inkjet print heads from Kodak, integrated into its offset press lines, to run a variable data advertising campaign for a local grocery chain. Inside Topweb, LLC, a commercial printer in Chicago that runs two lines of TKS JetLeader digital presses.īut there’s nothing like a local success story to use as a proof of concept, and Sams and Richardson refer to examples in Boston and Chicago, respectively, where digital printing has gained a small foothold in the newspaper sector, albeit using systems their companies did not provide. The equipment will be installed during “the first or second quarter of next year.” The company has sold 23 digital finishing systems abroad, mostly to non-newspaper customers. “The Pacific Daily News (in Guam) will be printed with a Kodak Prosper 5000 and a manroland FoldLine finishing system,” Sams said. However, the company has sold a FoldLine to Gannett for its use at a newspaper it owns on the island of Guam, a U.S. for that application,” said Ron Sams, vice president of sales, regarding the FoldLine, manroland’s digital finishing solution targeted at newspapers. “Until now, we haven’t sold any of our systems in the U.S. “We’re working on that.” The company has sold two digital machines abroad to non-newspaper customers. “Unfortunately, we don’t have a RotaJET into a newspaper environment yet,” said Bruce Richardson, national sales manager for KBA, regarding that company’s digital print line. While they’ve had some successes abroad-mostly with short-run, on-demand book and industrial print applications-neither has managed yet to place their digital equipment with a newspaper publisher or printer in the continental United States.

Press vendors KBA and manroland, both having developed disparate solutions associated with digital printing, have been trying to gain traction in the U.S. Can digital printing, likewise, expect to achieve its crossover moment in 2016, shifting from a technology primarily serving a niche in the commercial print industry to broader use among newspaper publishers? Taylor Swift made the conversion from country to pop music.

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