Newspaper Workflow Suggestions

[illuminatus]

... and we have been using this setup since 2005 ~ trouble free

I've used Agfa Director, Producer Grafix RIP & Newsdrive and they've worked well with their CTP

[Printservedigital]

Three Colorman's Bound For Guardian And Observer: News from MAN Roland GB

http://www.manroland.co.uk/PDFs/news...s/sfactor2.pdf

Same here

Just before the Times of India paid us a visit to admire the set up and decided they wanted some too.

http://www.manroland.com/com/pdf_en/..._14_E_1208.pdf


Apart from the odd Pecom issue with corrupt file/plans.

[jschrieber]

Funny you should ask about pecom! .... we're waiting for Germany to dial in now to fix it!

Don't think this is a big issue, actually, but when users tried to do a new press import from PPM (Pecom) to PPI yesterday morning it failed.

PPI checked the logs and found an issue with the XML pecom was sending and we forwarded that on to Pecom .... they thought it had to do with one of our night operators deleting some old schemes and they may have missed a step.

all things considered, however, the PPI-Pecom-ManRoland link has been pretty solid. 'Taint cheap though!

Things were much easier to troubleshoot when we were hanging lead plates from the castors on our old Goss !

j

[Printservedigital]

LOL true..

Sometimes the Database corrupted, normally like you said, operator fault; and then Man had to dial in and delete the offending file. Didn't happen very often but when it did it was a pain as plans couldn't updated during edition changes which mean't stop press.. Ousr linked directly to our Arkitex system through something we had set up from the beginning... via the Integrator Component

[Printservedigital]

You might want to be aware we found that if your press operators don't get the naming structure correct on the plans and then they try to delete it this can sometimes cause the exact same issue.

It's down to training really sometimes people type things wrong and it's easy done.

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