Pressehaus Stuttgart Druck GmbH of Stuttgart, Germany, is live with a Generation News platesetter from Kodak.

The platesetter, which can image up to 260 plates per hour at 1,270 dpi at the publisher’s current plate size, has been in testing at the Stuttgart printing facility since the end of March. The Generation News was installed and fully commissioned within two days, according to Reiner Wormitt, managing director for Pressehaus Stuttgart.

It has four plate trays capable of holding 1,600 broadsheet plates. Imaged plates are fed into a Kodak Mercury P-HD plate processor and then punched and bent with optical registration before they are placed into a compact sorter and finally sent to the publisher’s KBA Commander coldset press.