Newsworld to print U.K. dailies in N.Y. on Screen digital press

Two British newspapers — the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday — will be printed in New York starting in the last quarter 2008 through a four-year contract between Newsworld Corp. Ltd. and Associated Newspapers Ltd.

The papers will be produced seven days a week using a Screen Truepress Jet 520 line and an inline Hunkeler finishing system through Newsworld’s “distribute then print” service, which it launched last year.

The papers will initially be the UK version, but the publishers said plans are to eventually produce a New York edition, complete with local content and advertising. Fifty percent of the 96-page editions will be in full color. 

“In the last two years we’ve pulled together a series of interconnected things — software, a printing machine from Dainippon Screen, and the Hunkeler is the finishing arm of what we do,” Newsworld Chief Executive David Renouf told Newspapers & Technology. “When we pull (those products together) and sell it to publishers around the world, it becomes a compelling package.”

Renouf said the package includes a special ink that Newsworld developed with Epson.