Kodak and Guiton Group have announced the birth of KP Services (Jersey), a collaboration between Kodak and Guiton Group, which also owns the Jersey Evening Post.
KP Services (Jersey) will print the Jersey Evening Post as well as the majority of U.K. national newspapers (11 titles in total) for distribution in Jersey and Guernsey. It is estimated that KP Services (Jersey) will print approximately 35,000 newspapers in total each day(made up of the combined circulations required for each separate publication).
The new service will bring a number of benefits to Guernsey and Jersey and, in particular, will overcome the challenges of reliable delivery by avoiding the frequent weather delays associated with flying newspapers into islands on the day of publication. KP Services (Jersey) will open for business in 2016.
Kodak will install two KODAK PROSPER 6000P Presses and four of the newly-launched Hunkeler Combi-Solution Newspaper finishing lines. The KODAK PROSPER 6000 Presses are powered by an advanced Intelligent Print System (IPS) that continuously monitors, evaluates and adjusts operations to ensure exceptional quality output. With the improved IPS, the KODAK PROSPER 6000 Presses can monitor and instantly correct colour registration, delivering enhanced registration performance. The KODAK PROSPER 6000P Press was designed specifically for publishing applications such as newspapers and books. The KODAK PROSPER 6000 Presses print at speeds of up to 1,000 feet (or 300 meters) per minute on standard newsprint paper delivering close to 3,000 newspapers every hour*. They are ideally suited for print sites that have to print a large number of low-volume titles.
The innovative concept underlying Hunkeler‘s latest newspaper finishing line allows for fully-automated changeover between Tabloid and Broadsheet formats as well as the automated collation of multiple sections. Every newpsaper going through the folding and collating sub-system can have a different number of pages with a maximum page count of 140 Tabloid pages per newspaper.
