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A case study of flexible short-run digital printing

At the Media Port Power of Print on Wednesday, Stefaan Vanysacker, Project Manager at Halewijn Drukkerij in Belgium, reports on a special newspaper: Kerk & Leven (Church & Life), which is published by the Catholic Church and has a weekly circulation of 300,000 copies – spread over 481 different editions. It is printed digitally.

by WAN-IFRA Staff executivenews@wan-ifra.org | October 11, 2013

Before the switch to entirely inkjet printing, Kerk & Leven was printed by Halewijn on a Mediaman offset press in circulations between 2500 and 75,000 copies, complemented by 4-page local editions with circulations between 5 and 2500 copies printed on two Drent narrow-web presses and inserted in the mailroom. “Since offset is not viable for the many small editions, it was difficult for the Catholic Church to find a printer for its newspaper,” says Vanysacker.

Kerk & Leven abandoned web offset production with the installation of two Océ ColorStream 3900 presses with Hunkeler finishing.

To compile the local editions, the newspaper counts on many contributors among its readers. Thanks to web-based editorial software with a template-based layout, the reader-journalists are able to flow their material right into the pages.

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