Kodak announced sales of its thermal Trendsetter News platesetters and associated consumables and software to a number of newspapers. A wrap-up:

Scripps Texas Newspapers in Corpus Christi, Texas, bought two Trendsetter News 70 platesetters, ThermalNews Gold plates and Kodak’s Preps imposition and Staccato screening apps as part of a corporate move to Kodak software and standardized production systems.

Gannett’s Palladium-Item in Richmond, Ind., purchased a Trendsetter News 150, ThermalNews Gold plates, and Preps software to print its daily as well as USA Today and other commercial projects.

“We went with the Kodak CTP device because it offers a great solution to web growth on our press,” said Ray McCandless, production director at the Palladium-Item.  “It promises to handle fan out and get much sharper reproduction with photographs.”

Other newspapers implementing Kodak’s thermal platesetters and associated products include News Publishing Co. in Fort Wayne, Ind., which purchased two Trendsetter News 100 units and thermal digital plates; the Post-Bulletin Co. of Rochester, Minn., which bought two Trendsetter News 70 units, and Kodak’s Staccato screening, Prinergy Evo and Newsmanager workflow apps to produce a daily, weeklies and real estate guides; and Sound Publishing Inc. of Everett, Wash., which purchased a Trendsetter News 100, Staccato screening, Prinergy Evo and Preps imposition apps to print a number of daily and weekly newspapers.

Earlier, The Miami Herald installed three Trendsetter News 200 units, Kodak ThermalNews Gold digital plates and Prinergy Evo workflow software (see Newspapers & Technology, March 2007).