TEWKSBURY, MA  June 30, 2008  ECRM with their partner, Southern Lithoplate (SLP), is pleased to announce that Ogden Newspapers, Inc has agreed to the installation of 12 MAKO NEWSmatic 250 platesetters by the end of 2008. SLP will provide the system installation, integration, and ongoing service and support for these violet-laser newspaper CTP platesetters.
 
SLPs ECRM offering is in tandem with their TIGER V? violet lithoplate, recently announced at NEXPO 2008 in April. TIGER V violet CTP plates are targeted to North American newspapers as an excellent and efficient printing solution. TIGER V lithoplates deliver crisp 2-98% dot resolution and up to 175 lpi at 2450dpi image quality, giving it extra versatility for imaging quality plates for newspaper inserts. For more information go to www.slp.com and www.ecrm.com.
 
Ogden Newspapers
 
A fourth-generation, family-owned company, Ogden Newspapers, Inc., is a diversified media corporation that publishes 40 daily newspapers, several magazines, weekly newspapers and shoppers located in 12 states from Florida to upstate New York and as far west as Maui, Hawaii. The company has been headquartered in Wheeling, WV, since September 22, 1890. Ogden Publications, Inc., an affiliated company based in Topeka, Kansas, publishes several rural-lifestyle magazines, including such well-known titles as Grit, Cappers and Mother Earth News.
 
ECRM MAKO NEWSmatic
 
Ideal for all popular single-width newspaper presses (from Berliner to Goss); the MAKO NEWSmatic accommodates the widest range of web widths up to a maximum format of 635mm x 927mm (25 x 36.5).  The fully automated MAKO NEWSmatic provides enhanced levels of simplicity, versatility and economy and is the ideal transition to unattended CTP production for newspapers. The MAKO NEWSmatic is part of a family of automated CTP for newspapers that produce from 60 to 150 broadsheet plates per hour.
 
ECRMs high-capacity plate cassette and trolley can hold up to 340 8-gauge (0.2mm) plates or 250 12-gauge (0.3mm) plates at one time.  By designing a straight-through plate path, complex load/unload cycles have been eliminated. Using ECRMs patented Flex-Arm slip sheet removal system, sensors track slip sheets through pick-up, removal and disposal, ensuring fast throughput and superior reliability. The high-capacity slip sheet bin was engineered with a tamping mechanism that ensures a jam-free unattended operation
 
To provide added flexibility, the optical configuration includes eight resolutions from 1016 to 2540 dpi and three anamorphic resolution sets (1016 x 2032 dpi, 1200 x 2400 dpi, and 1270 x 2540 dpi).