Expedi Printing produces color newspapers in more than 25 languages. Expedi's digital prepress operation is equipped to handle the exotic typography for these newspapers, in 25 languages. The company prints five dailies, several newspapers that are issued several times a week, more than 25 weeklies, and more than 50 monthlies. Sharon Chen, digital prepress supervisor, oversees the complex, multilingual workflow, which involves three imagesetters, one in Manhattan and two in Brooklyn. The company is installing Preps, an imposition program from ScenicSoft, to assist in its transition to CTP workflow.
Publishers do most of their own layout.
Mr. Chen reports that 95 percent of newspaper jobs are provided by the customer in Quark, Pagemaker, or some other layout program. Most jobs also come with slides or photo prints, which need to be scanned and added to the layout. The plant operates a traditional process camera, for those jobs that still come into the plant as traditional paste-ups. Yes, Virginia, someone still uses rubber cement. Most jobs are transmitted to Expedi on one of its three T-1 lines.