A More Scalable Approach to Newspaper Prepress

A regional newspaper publisher producing more than ten titles needed a more cost-effective, scalable alternative to its in-house prepress operation.

Its six-person team managed everything from edition planning and pagination to proofing, classifieds, ad creative and imaging. With production volumes and deadlines constantly changing, the publisher needed dependable support that could accommodate fluctuating workloads.

VMG took over the publisher’s prepress responsibilities, bringing together a trained, multidisciplinary team and standardized workflows designed to handle varying production demands.

The new model gave the publisher a more scalable way to manage its prepress workload, reducing annual production costs by nearly $400,000.