Newspaper & Mailroom
manroland users triumph at Newspaper Awards
Friday 29. May 2009 - On what was hugely successful night for manroland customers, COLORMAN, XXL user, Newsprinters Knowsley, were in effect four-time winners at the 2009 Newspaper Awards, held on the 22nd April 2009 in London and judged by 13 industry experts.
The company scooped the prestigious Newspaper Printer of the Year Award for its work on The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) while The Times and The Sunday Times, also printed by Newsprinters Knowsley, were awarded National Newspaper of the Year and Weekend Newspaper of the Year respectively. The Sunday Times was also handed the Most Outstanding Use of Color Award in the newspaper category. On the night, a charity auction for a VIP ticket to the Champions League semi-final first-leg between Manchester United and Arsenal London, also raised 650 pounds for the Help for Heroes appeal, a charity for wounded service men and women.
In handing the award for Newspaper Printer of the Year to Newsprinters Knowsley, Gary Cullum, a director of the Newspaper Awards, praised the company for its skill. In judging The Times as National Newspaper of the Year, Mr Cullum said he was impressed with the color, printing and production and its superb unmarked print quality. The Church Times, printed by manroland UNISET customer, Mortons in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, was named as Niche Market Newspaper of the Year award. Mr Cullum praising the weekly publications “outstanding quality with good use of color, consistent reproduction and “beautifully smooth tones”.
Andrew Latham, manroland Great Britain, said: “The Newspaper Awards are the premier event in the newspaper industry and we are delighted by our customers success this year. I would like to extend my congratulations to each of them. Users of manroland presses are so successful in this industry because of the machines speed, accuracy, reliability and flexibility of design. But, of course, this counts for little without skilled operators. Newsprinters Knowsleys team is highly skilled and has been fully trained on the COLORMAN press.” This years Newspaper Awards winners represented a good cross section of manrolands market leading newspaper printing solutions. Newsprinters Knowsley uses a total of five triple-width COLORMAN, XXL press lines. Each press line consist of five eight-couple satellite-printing towers with one 4:7:7 folder, inline stitching facilities as well as PECOM press controls. Furthermore, manroland installed a fully automatic reel handling and storage system, type AUROSYS, for the entire plant.