A German publisher has become the first to make use of workflow specialist ProImage’s NewsWay Mobile monitoring and control product, launched at mediaXchange earlier this year. Publisher of the widely-read ‘Die Zeit’, Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius has become the first newspaper in the world to install the system, complementing the browser-based NewsWay solution it installed in 2000. The system automates and controls print production workflow for the newspaper and its magazine from editorial and planning, to the presses. Several software enhancements have followed and NewsWay Mobile is the latest of these. It provides a real-time view of all devices within the workflow, the status of each device, and ability to amend the workflow - with the added benefit of being able to proof and approve a page whilst on the move - on an iPhone or similar mobile device. “NewsWay provides a high efficiency to our production processes, from origination to data transfer of TIFF and PDF to the print sites,” says Marina Struse, prepress concept and management (pictured). “Now it is possible to control the workflow while on the move, from anywhere." At ‘Die Zeit’, PostScript pages are created and sent to NewsWay which then generates TIFF G4 files for proofing. Once approved, PDF pages are created for FTP transmission from its publishing offices in Hamburg to remote print sites in Ahrensburg, Frankfurt, and Hamburg. NewsWay Mobile allows viewing of page and plate history, and production progress. It notifies the user if errors are detected and, through its built-in security, allows the remote turning of devices and resources on and off. It displays the number of sections and pages in each section, as well as the number of books and forms used for printing each book, with their progress. It also includes the ability to send or receive messages from other NewsWay users within the enterprise. ‘Die Zeit’ is a broadsheet weekly with a circulation of 488,036 and readership estimated at just above two million is Germany’s most widely read paper. The publisher, Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius is owned by the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.