New Proimage
New Proimage has been developing solutions for publishers and printers for more than 25 years. They are dedicated to serving their customers’ needs by providing new solutions as their businesses and technology evolves.
Proimage’s latest workflow automation and output management software, Newswayx, is now offered in the cloud. The hosted solution provides custom workflows on provided cloud servers. Local sites like Anchorage have logons just as if the servers were local to softproof, approve and track pages and plates. Plate-ready tiffs will automatically be sent to local CTP devices for output or .pdf pages will be sent to contract printers. Proimage maintains the servers, Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and software so versions are always current, eliminating costly upgrades and the need for software and hardware support contracts.
Proimage’s Oncolor and Oncolor ECO cloud solutions are already helping newspapers and publishers reduce costs by automatically color correcting and toning images, removing the need for the operator to manually touch-up images. While ECO ink optimization software reduces color ink consumption and cost up to 30% by applying different levels of GCR to color pdf pages.
Mary Steiert, systems editor for the Anchorage Daily News, told E&P, “Newswayx cloud-based software saved us when the pandemic started, and we instantly turned into a remote workplace. The creation of layout templates for plate output is super simple, and the support is great. The Proimage folks are always able to support whatever workflow I throw at them.”
Rick Shafranek, vice president of sales and marketing for Proimage, said, “We’d like to thank all our customers using our cloud solutions that help streamline production and reduce operating costs. Our hosted workflow solution is now processing over two million pages annually for various newspapers.”
South Carolina Press Assoc., Tennessee Newspaper Assoc., Utah Press Assoc., Virginia Press Assoc., and Washington Newspaper Publishers Assoc.
PNI is a public notice website and platform developed by the Illinois
Press Association to contain all public notices published in their state’s newspapers. Launched in 2011, it was so effective that, by the end of 2012, a state law went into effect that requires all public notices published in Illinois newspapers to also be posted to one site — PNI. The accessible, easy-to-navigate platform has been shared with and replicated by many other state press associations, with significant impact in those states.
Don Craven, president and CEO of the Illinois Press Association, said, “The real beauty of PNI is that it’s operated by state associations and their newspapers, which have the most direct relationships with the people served by their local city councils, county boards and school boards. It puts all of our state’s notices in one, easily accessible and searchable site — all at no cost to the local government and its taxpayers.”
Laurie Hieb, executive director of Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, spoke to the need for PNI for state associations, “This platform allows state associations all across the country to have a place where its newspaper members can upload public notices onto a statewide website. The ability to do this is critical to each state’s list of reason to their legislators as to why public notices should stay in newspapers and their websites… (This ability) is, in some cases, the difference between a newspaper staying open or closing.”
“PNI is constantly being upgraded, modified and tracks everything that’s happening with our site,” said Carol Daniels, executive director of
Tennessee Newspaper Association (TNA). “In short, this innovative platform has allowed TNA to manage our statewide public notice website efficiently, provide support to our member newspapers and partner with another press association to keep public notices in Tennessee’s newspapers.”
Five warehouses nationwide help them get products to their customers quickly and economically, with same day shipping on all stock items.
Rob Jenney, the circulation director for The Courier in Findley, Ohio, nominated Schermerhorn Bros. Co. with this salute: “Schermerhorn
Bros. provides a quality product and excellent knowledge of those products. Tom Warwick is the reason we do business with Schermerhorn. His customer service and knowledge of his products and the newspaper industry are excellent. He works hard to service our needs and has a great balance at serving us and his company. Schermerhorn as a company has always been excellent to work with. They see to it the customer is informed of industry trends for the products we use. Their concern for our industry is evident in how Tom works with us.”
SND’S nominations were full of praise for their platform and service. Brandon Omohundro, vice president, digital operations at Gray Media Group, Inc., said, “Social News Desk provides a single point of entry to post to multiple social media platforms from a single interface that is geared toward publishing. It saves time, allows for centralized support and guidance and allows for easy additions and removal of user access.”
Ian Hill, sr. manager of digital audience development at TEGNA, stated, “TEGNA is one of America’s biggest independent broadcast companies, and for at least the past four years Social News Desk has been our solution for engaging our 30 million Facebook, Twitter and Instagram fans. While other social publishing tools were created by and for marketers, SND was designed to meet the unique distribution and engagement needs of the news industry by its team of former journalists. Other social media tools were built to help brands listen to feedback about their product; SND helps the news industry quickly and efficiently distribute important content while also listening and responding to their communities. The SND team’s background in journalism also has helped them be more responsive when we’ve needed technical assistance or requested new features. In recent years, they’ve recognized the need for TEGNA to secure its station social media accounts, and they have collaborated with us to roll out new features that help TEGNA become best-in-class at social media security. Their efforts have allowed the SND team to become a Business Partner Powerhouse for TEGNA.”
Kim Wilson, founder and president of Social News Desk, told E&P, “The partnership we build between Social News Desk and our newsroom clients is the most important thing we do. We listen to their needs, ask for their ideas and truly make every decision with our newsrooms in mind. Thank you to all of our partners who have helped Social News
Desk build technology that matters in newsrooms across the planet.”