Monotech Systems Limited

Express NewsFlow

Express NewsFlow, a digital workflow solution designed for newspaper printing production. Designed to continuously incorporate new features, NewsFlow allows the user to keep pace with the ever-changing needs of today’s demanding print industry. Its modular based architecture makes NewsFlow easy to configure and customize production specific workflows. NewsFlow provides tools to automate and streamline your production process such as publication planning, intelligent page pairing and automated imposition eliminating unnecessary wait time, ensuring a smoother more efficient workflow.

Highlights:

• Processing jobs in a wide range of formats
• Powerful PDF processing
• Newspaper Imposition
• Production Monitoring
• Browser based management and tracking - anytime, anywhere
• Support for over 200 output devices
• Web Growth Compensation
• Proofing

BrainNew Newstrack

Newstrack supports Progress Monitor to display the real time status of each step in the workflow, including the completion time, version of the output, warning for the possible delay and overall schedule of more than 2 newspapers in production. Mewstracl supports Tablet Manager to manage and schedule the plate-making process for each plate individually before the actual jobs start. Including the expecting completion time, color, page-pair relation between pages & plate, priority, double burn, layout template...etc, all the attributes needed for plate making automation for newspaper production.

Highlights:

• Newstrack supports 2 news pages and one advertisement strip in the middle, as well as 4 news pages and 2 advertisement strips in the middle.
• Newstrack supports 1-bit TIFF (digital film) page pairing and proofing for newspaper.
• Newstrack supports more than one newspaper job to be processed at the same time.
• Newstrack supports to re-scale the width of the selected separation, in order to compensate the fanout

GapFinder

GapFinder, now in version 2 release, is an unique and easy-to-use application specifically developed to provide significant production benefits to the traditional narrow web printers. GapFinder is a proven product that was previously only available exclusively through our OEM partner, it intelligently aligns print jobs against the printing cylinder, it re-arranges job images on the plate so as to optimise and eliminate the press cylinder gaps. The powerful features of GapFinder reduce production errors, lower media wastage and press downtime.

Highlights:

• Extends the printable area of web presses
• Automatic gap shift optimisation
• Unique 2-Plates Lock Up features
• Saves setup time and production costs
• Reduces errors going through to press
• Intuitive GUI and WYSIWYG features
• Extensive pre-defined marks support
• Automatic colour matching of registration marks
• Re-arranges colour order
• Enables sales department to response quickly to job enquiry and quotation
• Post-RIP Technology provides data integrity