The Stader (Germany) Tageblatt purchased two LaserJet computer-to-plate platesetters and the JetNet digital workflow from Krause CTP.

The Stader Tageblatt building in Stade, Germany.
Photo courtesy of Krause

Requirements for the newspaper’s vendor of choice included the ability to handle individual, full pages for different editions and decentralized quality control and releasing of pages for different departments via soft proofing. The newspaper also required that the system allow normalizing of page naming with control and adjustment of the file name if necessary, positioning of the bitmap in TIFF data, merging of control elements and text. Calculation of ink values, automatic or manual control of the platemaking on a bitmap basis and status control of the platesetter were also important requirements.

Stader Tageblatt uses the JetNet modules LaserStar Server bitmap server, TPU News for softproofing and JetNet Integrator for merging and interfacing.

The newspaper’s workflow is based on organizational production and involves the identification of the separations according to file naming. In addition to the product name, date of production and the color, the file name also characterizes the individual, full pages for different editions.

JetNet Integrator normalizes file naming based on an individually defined structure and only after successfully normalizing the merging of register marks, clear text information and generating layout files for the calculation of the ink zone values.

JetNet Integrator transfers bitmaps to TPU News and LaserStar Server. TPU News calculates bitmap for the softproof so they appear in the client proof as composite or separation, or as a subsequent print on a plotter.

In addition to implementing CTP, Stader Tageblatt is extending its web press for increased color capacity and quality.

Stader Tageblatt has been privately owned for over 131 years and has a daily circulation of 60,000 with its main titles Stader Tageblatt, Buxtehuder Tageblatt, Altländer Tageblatt newspaper and its contract printing of Niederelbe-Zeitung and Bremervörder.