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| The Brownsville Herald Converts to alfaQuest FasTRAK CTP Rolling Meadows, IL, May 19, 2006 - alfaQuest Technologies, Inc., a leading newspaper production system developer and integrator, is pleased to announce the completion of the installation of FasTRAK CTP at The Brownsville (TX) Herald owned by Freedom Communications, Inc. The Brownsville Herald, oldest newspaper in the Rio Grande Valley and recipient of numerous awards from the Texas APME organization for excellence in journalism, has installed the alfaQuest Technologies violet FasTRAK CTP solution with two 150 PPH units and two 1000 plate capacity TRAKmate 2 autoloaders. Besides producing The Brownsville Herald, they also produce a Spanish daily, El Nuevo Heraldo, and a weekly Spanish product. Freedom Communications, Inc., headquartered in Irvine, CA is a privately owned diverse media company of newspapers, broadcast television stations and interactive media businesses. The company publishes 66 daily and weekly newspapers, with a combined daily circulation of more than 1.2 million subscribers. FasTRAK Violet CTP utilizes a field-proven opti-mechanical system for alignment and positioning, ensuring repeatability of ± 0.001 inches, for highest quality color registration. The straight through flatbed design incorporates a new plate transport system, which has proven to be both very reliable and simple to maintain. FasTRAK Violet CTP can image single or double-truck newspaper pages at 1016, 1200, 1270, 1524, 1800, 2400, or 2540 DPI. Rated at either 150 or 180 broadsheet plates per hour (at 1016 DPI), FasTRAK Violet CTP allows manual feed for small to medium sized operations or quickly connects to the 1,000-plate-capacity TRAKmate 2 autoloader. alfaQuest Technologies is a leading provider of innovative and leading edge publishing systems, imaging devices and workflow management systems. Its products include the FasTRAK Violet, FasTRAK UV and a complete line of film imaging devices. Workflow solutions include PrintExpress/CPM (Consolidated Production Management) and PLATEmate systems for Sun and Windows and Panther workflow systems for Macintosh and Windows. alfaQuest Technologies, Inc., a member of the IPA Group of companies, designs, integrates, and supports powerful cost-efficient, newspaper workflow page processing and imaging systems for the publishing industry. The number of worldwide installations now exceeds 10,000.
For more information contact: John Lally, Senior Vice President, Group Sales |