More Color: Kendallville
Courier Kendallville customers will enjoy a dramatic increase in 2- and 4-color capacity when four additional units for the plant's newest 4-color press come online in May, and a recently purchased 2-color web press is installed in July. "We are expanding capacity now to meet our customers' growing demand for color," says Sybella Wilder, Plant Manager. "And to accommodate this surge in color printing, we have timed a significant increase in binding capacity to coincide with the press startups."

Stoughton's new Cover Press
A brand-new Heidelberg 5-color sheetfed press will be installed in May in Stoughton. The state-of-the-art press boasts an in-line aqueous coater and will print covers, jackets and inserts. Kendallville will begin printing covers this summer when the 4-color Heidelberg running today in Stoughton will be moved there, and Book-mart already prints covers. As Rob Chilton, Stoughton Plant Manager, points out, "Expanding this in-house capability to three plants will continue to ensure quality and service across all Courier facilities."

Computer-to-Plate Phase II: Westford
Computer-to-plate technology began for Courier with 4-color work in Kendallville. Soon, all 1-, 2- and 4-color work in the plant was going CTP. Faster turnaround time, improved print quality and improved flexibility for Courier customers quickly became a reality. Now Courier Westford is coming on line with CTP, beginning in May. The partnership between Creo Products and Courier continues to be an overwhelming success. Westford is Courier's largest plant, roughly twice the size of Kendallville, and produces one- and two-color books. Don Hunter, Plant Manager, says, "With CTP, our customers not only get a better book, they get it faster. CTP has been a great success in Kendallville, and Westford is the next logical step." By the end of '00, all of Westford's new web work will be CTP.

More Lightweight Paper Capacity: New Web Press at National
Courier's National Publishing Company has ordered a specialized new Timson web press, which will serve the religious market and create an opportunity for medical and professional publishers. The press will print one- and two-color right-grained books with a trimmed size in the 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" range. This equipment is especially tailored to lightweight paper, long runs and high page counts, a segment of the publishing trade that has always been National's strong suit. "The new press will give us the ability to produce small format reference works and anthologies that are of the absolute highest quality," says Bill Flavell, President of National Publishing. The new press is scheduled to go online in May of 2001.

Book-mart Press: Renovation Doubles Prepress Space
Courier's Book-mart Press, Inc. is in the process of renovating the entire prepress area to incorporate several technical improvements, resulting in almost twice the production space as before. Book-mart will continue its conventional prepress operation, but soon will provide in-house digital prepress services with a computer-to-film solution. There will be a new server, workstation and film imagesetter, including a PostScript III RIP.

Job Status Reports
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to open the e-mail version of your job status report in your spreadsheet or database application so that you can perform your own analysis on the information? Well now you can. Upon request, we will start sending you the data in a delimited text file format that you can import into your own applications and sort any way you like. Contact your account manager, and make the move!

Courier People On the Move
Congratulations to George Nichols and Bill Flavell of National Publishing. George has been promoted to Chairman of the company after having served as its President since 1976, and Bill has been promoted to President. Congrats also go to Bill on being named President Elect of the Book Manufacturer's Institute. National Publishing also welcomes Fred Boardman as Assistant Production Manager. Fred has a Bachelors degree in Management from York College, and has fifteen years of management experience. Derek Callender has joined Production Services at Courier Kendallville as an Account Manager, primarily servicing West Coast accounts. Derek comes to us from Sheridan/Book Crafters and has a degree in Printing Management from R.I.T.

Right From the Start Tip
In both Macintosh and Windows systems, when you send PostScript files it's important that you also send your original application files. Exception: Microsoft Word. In Word for Windows or Mac, Courier accepts only the Postscript file.