Recent Installations

Our most recent installations:

Phase 1 of one of NELA’s largest US newspaper plate automation project has been successfully installed. The Denver Newspaper Agency received two of five NELA Vision punchbender in connection with their new press and CtP installation. The complete installation consists of five CTP systems with 1,200 plates/hour plate capacity. NELA is providing five Vision Punch/Benders (VCP) which are capable of processing four different plate sizes (48" & 54" web/singles and doubles). A sophisticated plate transportation and plate handling software system will automatically deliver plates into the press room. Plates will be sorted by seven barcode readers according to costumer specifications. The NELA NPS Software (NELA Periphery Service) will sort plates by press, product, edition, and press tower. Five NELA plate lifts will automatically deliver plates to the upper press deck. The NELA plate tracking system will feedback to PPI and the close loop system will track plates from the image device all the way to the press room. Phase 1 is successfully installed and already in production, and Phase 2 will be complete in April 2007.

NELA also partnered with Dow Jones & Company Inc. to provide equipment and technical support for the launch of the new Wall Street Journal. NELA and Dow Jones worked closely on this extensive web reduction project scheduled to officially go live with the January 2, 2007 edition. NELA delivered and installed 17 Vision Punch/Benders (VCP) with plate handling systems for the Journal's 17 domestic print plants for Goss and TKS press equipment. A special feature of the punch and bender equipment enabled the Journal to use the equipment on both 60" and 48" web formats. NELA also modified all of Dow Jones’ existing Western OPB punch/benders for the new plate size.

NELA completes installation of a NELA plate room automation solution at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Plain Dealer installation includes two (2) high speed, 300 plates per hour, NELA VCP Vision benders connected to three (3) Kodak TrendSetter News platesetters with a total capacity of 450 plates per hour. Two (20) integrated, fully automated, NELA 16-Stations Sortation Systems controlled by NELA NPS software allows flexible sorting of the multiple products printed at the facility. NELA's NPS software combined with NELA PQM, plate quality management system, closes the automation loop by providing platetracking and plate quality information for each plate to the Proimage Newsway workflow management software.

VCP installations (optical registration)
HAO and RAO installations (3-point registration).

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