NewsWay

Automated workflow system Cost-effective customization for every publishing-industry need Scalable to meet tomorrow’s needs

ProImage’s NewsWay is a highly advanced digital workflow and production tracking solution for the newspaper and magazine printing industries. Designed based on four major generic technologies that form the foundation of ProImage’s web-based products, these technologies dramatically improve the performance of your production workflow. The highly modular NewsWay software will control and manage your production workflow from a variety of front-end editorial systems through to the press via a plate-making process. Because it uses a simple web browser, NewsWay will monitor production status from origination to print sites, regardless of their location.

Web-Browser-Based License-Free Clients ProImage’s NewsWay was designed and built as a web-based-browser software platform from the ground up. As such, none of the web and browser-related features of NewsWay are add-ons but an integral part of the solution. The NewsWay platform is the software foundation on which the user, through a browser, may interact with the solution’s powerful plugged-in modules. Moreover, the web server foundation of NewsWay gives high visibility to all functions of any NewsWay system throughout the entire enterprise, be it on a local or wide area network (LAN or WAN). It even provides visibility through the Internet for authorized users. NewsWay also allows for very easy software upgrades. As the core software resides on the server and the workstations are simply license-free web clients, all that is needed is to upgrade the software in the server. Unlike most other software applications, users do not need to upgrade each workstation.

Instant Views
The NewsWay platform automatically generates thumbnails and composite, low-resolution views of all page elements that go through the system. This provides users with instant views of every production element and full control of the entire process.

Job Tracking
The NewsWay platform has flexible built-in mechanisms for highly sophisticated job tracking capabilities. They support layered views – from very general views to highly detailed separation level information – that provide users with the actual status of each system element in real time.

Drag and Drop
Drag-and-drop is the method of working that is native to the NewsWay platform. A highly intuitive GUI and user screens make it very easy to operate.

Flexibility and Adaptability
The NewsWay platform has been designed with flexibility in mind. It is tailored to the environment in which it is installed, not the other way around. To further enhance this flexibility, ProImage has developed a highly adaptable Naming Convention Engine that can be programmed to accept virtually any naming convention.

Outstanding Collaboration Tools
The NewsWay platform is the natural platform for collaborative working. Because of its web-server-based architecture, NewsWay is open to all methods of messaging and collaboration offered by modern communications technology, and also supports its own highly developed notes and collaboration tools.

Custom Built
Through the unique Scripting Tools of the NewsWay platform, each system can be customized to the exact requirements of each user. Not only are these scripting tools essential during the setting-up of each system, but they also provide customers with the flexibility to further alter and customize their NewsWay systems as their requirements change.

Highly Scalable
The NewsWay platform was designed and built with scalability in mind to address the ever-changing requirements of the printing and publishing industries. An integral part of the solution is its clustering capability, which allows multiple slave servers to run under the control of the main server. NewsWay Cluster has a single server manager that coordinates the tasks, as well as any number of NewsWay servers assigned to different processes. Each NewsWay server manager and server runs on single PC. As many as needed may be clustered to spread the workload and provide back-up. In short, the platform can “grow as you go,” adapting to the changing needs of the industry.

Standard Platform

The NewsWay platform runs on standard Windows 2008 R2 Operation System PC hardware, making it very easy to maintain, source spare parts, and upgrade.


Superior Technology
ProImage is one of the world’s most experienced companies in web-server-based development, and has also developed proprietary technologies for real-time response to web server clients. Based on distributed component relationships and on a dynamic web application model, these superior technologies put the NewsWay platform at the forefront of web-server-based production tracking systems.

TabellaNews

TabellaNews- Content Delivery Evolution
Bringing the news to mobile devices is no longer an option. It’s a necessity. ProImage makes it easy. TabellaNews  a cloud-based content delivery solution lets you publish newspaper content automatically on a wide variety of tablets and smart phones.

With ProImage TabellaNews we have put our workflow automation experience to work to bring you a system that automatically gathers content, formats it for multiple devices, updates content  lets you edit and publish—all while maintaining the look and feel of your brand. Best of all, you can do all of the above with minimal investment.

How it Works
Content is captured or delivered from any content system in use today at the newspaper – be it Editorial or Web – by the TabellaNews erver. The data is analysed and automatically processed through ProImage’s intelligent content mapping and template technology to produce an issue that is ready to preview and edit if necessary.

The final publication is delivered to any hosting environment to be accessed by the complementary branded reader application. Within the App, that also supports dynamic content, the reader then accesses a highly interactive and robust reading experience.

Absolute Automation
With TabellaNews data is analyzed and automatically processed through ProImages’ intelligent content mapping and template technology producing an issue based on your desired publishing schedule for multiple devices.
The TabellaNews cloud-based server puts common tasks at your fingertips. You can preview issues modify content and preview for approval .You will also be able to see exactly how the content will appear on all targeted devices.

Flexible Connectivity
We understand workflow complexities and we understand that publishers cannot always have the latest systems. That’s why we designed TabellaNews with unlimited flexibility.
That means it is compatible with multiple data sources. It can be configured to work with whatever you have available, it eliminates the need for costly technology upgrades.

Unique Versatility
TabellaNews uses the newspaper’s existing methods for content creation – both print and on-line – so minimal effort is required.
Unlike other e-media publishing solutions it is not a design centric, which can be extremely time consuming, and costly. No other mobile publishing solution provides absolute automation of content and layout for all mobile devices simultaneously. TabellaNews does it with the ease and security of ProImages’ cloud computing.

Reader Experience
TabellaNews provides your readers with the type of experience they expect from mobile devices. This includes such features as:
• Integration with social media such as Facebook and Twitter allows your readers to promote your brand.
• Complete issue searching allows readers to quickly locate content of interest via keywords.
• Clear navigation information allows readers to easily navigate their way through your content.
• Connection to live content allows you to provide your readers with up to date information

The bottom line—a rich experience that will generate interest and leave readers wanting more.


Brand Integrity
Automation doesn’t have to mean identity loss. With TabellaNews you can maintain every element of your brand that makes it unique—logos, fonts and color schemes, as well as screen layout and design.
So your mobile apps will reinforce name recognition and position your brand as innovative

Increased Revenue
Attract new digital readers or bundle digital with traditional print. Offer advertisers attractive digital advertising or print combination packages. The end result—a steady stream of new revenue opportunities.

Cost Effective

With TabellaNews all you need is a web browser. There’s no need for costly investment in new equipment or other infrastructure expenses. Automating the entire process lessens your costs even further. WithTabellaNews you will not need to add people in order to create or manage your mobile content.

Proven Reliability
When developing TabellaNews  we drew from our broad experience with cloud-based solution infrastructures for color saving applications. This includes extensive experience working with sensitive and secure data. ProImage also incorporated its proven ICS expertise in print workflow automation. So your newspaper is in the best of hands.

Expert Services
With ProImage you get more than technology. You get the expertise of an organization that has a proven record of bringing innovation to newspaper publishing. Our consultative and educational services are designed to keep your operation productive and profitable.
TabellaNews Expert Services include content capture, integration, monetization to app stores, template designs and more.

MediaWay

MediaWay is an innovative enterprise magazine workflow system developed for unrestricted cross-media publishing: tablet, web, mobile, and print. The system automates and substantially eliminates the production challenges associated with re-purposing content to various media channels. Altogether, MediaWay features a modern platform that supports and builds upon a series of collaborative tools for an enhanced communicative environment not available in a traditional Adobe workflow. MediaWay also integrates with the most popular CMS systems for a seamless integration between all media channels.

Get the content in time to the right place … efficiently.

Unlike other content management solutions, that only handle partial or highly specialized processes in often a rigid way, MediaWay presents the only truly open, dynamic and all-round integrated publishing platform offering flexible, cross-media usage based on industry standards.

User Profile 
Cross-media content creators designers and owners - print or web publishers, service providers and design agencies, medium or large corporations - who need to store, handle, retrieve and archive any type of information for cross-media communication.

Achieve time saving…
Link straight into a publication structure. Access, share, and repurpose assets in a secure and easy way. Use XML so no transformations into proprietary application formats are needed. Maximize metadata information for identification, search, retrieval and reporting. Do proactive planning. Re-use best practices. Collaborate across boundaries of place, process and time. Automate complex page design and proofing. Centralize and simplify maintenance and upgrading…

Achieve a quality boost…

Improve brand streamlining by end-to-end color management. Optimize the use of best practices. Exploit the use of centralized, high quality assets. Minimize process related and human errors by seamless integration. Automate complex tasks and processes. Facilitate highest level collaboration. Reduce stress via intuitive interfacing and user-friendly operation. Maximize user profile based security.

Achieve cost cutting…

Calculate the cost savings of the above time savings! Enjoy web-based services versus the purchase and maintenance of a wide range of desktop software products. Avoid costly mistakes by communicating in a highly visual way, looking at centralized up-to-date information.

Press Register

The NewsWay Press Register – corrects mechanical mis-registration and paper stretching on any press NewsWay Press Register is a software solution that corrects for mis-registration on the printing press without the need to touch or modify the press. The application can scale, rotate, mirror and shift the image to be exposed on the plate. NewsWay Press Register greatly improves the final print registration and minimizes mechanical adjustment on the press. This is done by processing the 1 bit TIFF of each individual separation (C, M, Y or K) to the appropriate size to compensate for any web press mis-alignment. NewsWay Press Register can operate as a stand-alone server or can be easily implemented within the ProImage NewsWay workflow.

On a cylinder of web press, the paper travels a long distance between plates at a very high speed and tension. When ink and water are applied to it, the paper expends and stretches quite significantly, causing mis-registration of the image. This problem is further emphasized in tall towers where the distance between plates is significant and the paper can stretch, for example, from Cyan to Black by up to 2.5 mm (0. 1”). Traditionally, this problem is corrected by the use of tension wheels (also called Bustle Wheels), however, the corrections are not consistent , limited to a specific place on the paper and non linear.

Press Register overcomes those issues by performing precise digital scaling of the entire plate image for each separation at a very high degree of precision. Using a hot folder and an easy to use wizard, the operator defines the plate size, the required registration and angle deviations for each separation (mm or inches). NewsWay Press Register will automatically rescale, rotate and mirror the 1 bit TIFF image data of each plate (while preserving the punch registration marks) and make it ready for exposing on the output device (CtF or CtP). The scaled image will be placed on the plate either with left, right or center justification, to simulate paper stretch on a multiple plates cylinder. It improves the final print quality providing faster make ready while reducing waste.