A deadline,
every night.
Local editions multiplying, a newsroom delivering until the very last minute, two or three people in the newsroom at midnight. The workflow has to absorb all of that without us having to monitor it.
PROFILE
Daily, multiple local editions
CONSTRAINT
Night closing, reduced team
BRICKS
Flow · supervision · images · ink
WHERE TO START
The ink, which finances the others
01 — Your constraints
What makes this job different.
01
Local editions
One title, fifteen editions, some pages in common, and others that change. Each variant multiplies the number of plates and the opportunities to get the version wrong.
02
The night shift
Two or three people, often on their own, sometimes new. A tool that requires expertise to recover in the event of an incident is not a good tool here.
03
The editorial team that delivers late
A front page redesigned for a breaking news story, a photo that arrives at 11:50 PM. The feed must handle the last-minute change without requiring manual intervention.
02 — What we put in front
Four bricks, in that order.
The flow, first
Edition planning, plate calculation, imposition, scheduling. This is where meeting the deadline is won or lost. Everything else grafts onto it.
Workflow ↗
Then, supervision
A screen that shows the status of each edition and alerts before the critical hour. This is what allows a small night team to work with peace of mind.
Supervision ↗
Images, automatically
Nobody wants to do touch-ups at midnight. Automatic normalization guarantees a consistent look regardless of the source, even for the photo that arrived last.
Color & images ↗
Ink, to finance
It's often the brick that pays for the others. The savings on ink are immediate, measurable, and easily presented internally.
Ink savings ↗
How many editions, how many plates?
Give us these two numbers and your deadline. That is enough to tell you, from our very first conversation, if your current chain has real room for improvement.
Talk about it ↗