A deal with German maker Dotline will see its NewsMax line of newspaper CTP systems distributed through most of the world by ECRM.

Rick Black, president and chief executive of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, based ECRM says the platesetter will extend their semiautomatic and automatic newspaper CTP range to speeds of up to 400 plates per hour.

“The ECRM-Dotline partnership will enable ECRM to provide a broader range of CTP solutions capable of handling the needs of every newspaper,” he says.

The partnership will be on show at IfraExpo in Vienna next month, with Black joining the team on the Dotline stand.

Bielefeld-based Dotline claims an installation base of about 120 units worldwide, with newspaper customers in Germany, Russia and Venezuela.

New print sites for Druckzentrum Rhein Main (DRM) and ‘Der neue Tag’ in Weiden, use Dotline, DRM with three lines to serve four 48-page all-colour presses to print 30 editions totalling 350,000 copies a day.

In India, Bhaskar Group, DLA Media, Malayala Manorama, Phrabat Khabar and Samachar PVT use the technology.

ECRM’s speciality is flatbed violet laser-imaging, for which it is a technology leader. It claims more than 5000 CTP devices and over 27,000 imagesetters in 110 countries.