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A sampling of Enternet's customers includes:
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company - Chicago, IL
For Donnelley, one of the largest printers in the world, Enternet developed the
world's first interface between an inkjet printer and a bindery line. Donnelley
also pioneered in the development and commercialization of the network-based
bindery line control
system, Enternet's flagship product. As of June 2007 Donnelley has 183 such systems
installed in the United States and Europe, enabling its Magazine and Catalog group to
offer superior targeted advertising products to publishers and catalogers worldwide.
Denver Rocky Mountain News - Denver, CO
The Rocky Mountain News has four eNews systems to integrate their
NP-630 and NP-642 inserters
with Burt Technologies' production planning software into a single plant-wide network.
The system integrates the packaging and distribution database from the inserters down
to the stackers. All components are connected via one network allowing real time
production data from every component to be available at any and all workstations on the network.
Arandell Corporation - Menomonee Falls, WI
A catalog printer with a well-deserved reputation for quality. Arandell
uses 15 Enternet™ controllers on Heidelberg saddle stitchers and perfect binders as
well as comailers.
Fresno Bee - Fresno, CA
The Fresno Bee has three eNews systems to integrate their 1372 inserters into a single
plant-wide network. This system is fully integrated with Burt Technologies' production
and planning software and is integrated from the production stage through inserting to
the stackers. All components are connected into one single plant-wide network allowing
for real time production data from all devices. This data can be accessed from any
workstation on the network.
The Houston Chronicle - Houston, TX
The Houston Chronicle has three eNews systems on their NP-630 inserters in their Kempwood,
Texas production facility, and six more
on their Sitma collators which produce their weekly TMC Mailing program (430,000
pieces). These nine systems are integrated into one common plant-wide network
along with their Burt Technologies' production planning software. The production
process is controlled from the planning process through the inserter or collator to the stackers and real time production
data is available to all workstations on the network.
In 2007, the Chronicle ordered two eNews systems installed in their Southwest
plant on 2299 inserters.
Quebecor Corporation - Montreal, Quebec
Quebecor, one of the world's largest commercial printers, uses multiple networked bindery
line control systems in plants such as Magog, Quebec; Franklin, TN and others throughout
North America. At Quebecor's Dallas, TX, plant, up to six on-line inkjet
printers are used on eleven controlled saddle stitchers producing office supply catalogs that
can require up to twenty templates of variable images per catalog.
Ft. Worth Star Telegram - Ft. Worth, TX
Using the eNews system to control their two Heidelberg NP-630 and three 1372 inserting machines,
the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, a Knight-Ridder paper, uses the eNews
controller to insert preprints delivered to the subscriber base AND to create TMC mailings delivered by USPS to non-subscribers. Fully integrated into the
Star-Telegram's enterprise-wide Windows® network and their preprint entry and
planning system, the eNews system controls the generation of up to 320,000 daily or Sunday
inserts and 465,000 packaged direct mail pieces per week.
Berlin Industries - Carol Stream, IL
A leading national printer and direct mailer with plants in Illinois and Nevada, Berlin
exploits the e1100 mid-range networked control system on a Harris 705 stitcher. With
thirteen saddle stitchers and a 21-pocket selective collator, Berlin maintains the largest
in-house bindery in the Chicago area.
Detroit News/Detroit Free Press - Detroit, MI
These two papers are produced by the Detroit Newspaper Agency from its Sterling
Heights printing and packaging center. Five eNews control systems are installed
on NP-630 inserters, all of which produce insert packages for a daily/Sunday
circulation of 589/749 thousand newspapers.
Midstates Printing, Inc - Aberdeen, SD
A medium-sized commercial printer offering a full menu of printing and finishing
services from its 300-employee operation in South Dakota, Midstates employs four systems on Mueller and Goss saddlestitchers and a comailer.
In addition to the eNews users above, two Gannett-owned papers have purchased through
EnternetTM system to control their direct
mail packaging lines: the Nashville Tennessean and South Louisiana Publishing Co. of Lafayette, LA.
and The Singapore Times uses the system for its
English-language editions throughout the Pacific Basin.
Brown Printing Company - Waseca, MN
Brown, a Gruner + Jahr company, is the 5th largest printer of consumer, trade
and business publications in the country. At Brown's home plant in Waseca, two
e1000 control systems are installed on Buhrs collators.
EnternetTM Controllers have been in place at Brown's plants in East Greenville, PA and
Woodstock, Illinois, for years, controlling saddle stitchers and perfect
binders.
MetroGroup Corp. (formerly Experian) - Mt. Pleasant, IA
MetroGroup Corp. is one of the largest direct mailers in the U.S.,
processing and mailing over 2 billion mail pieces annually. At MetroGroup's key
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, plant, six e1000 networked control systems are installed
on Buhrs mailing machines, affording MetroGroup both flexible manufacturing
advantages and high throughput rates in their highly competitive business.
Philadelphia Media Holdings, Inc. - Conshohocken, PA
The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia
Daily News produce their daily and Sunday packages under control of Enternet's e3000 inserter control system. The ten GMA SLS1000 inserters used to produce
these packages in its Conshohocken plant have been upgraded to incorporate Enternet's state-of-the-art control technology.
The Oklahoman - Oklahoma City, OK
The flagship paper of the Oklahoma Publishing Company is producing its
daily/Sunday packages and its bi-weekly TMC package on Enternet's eNews inserter
control system utilizing its unique BullsEye TMC software on its NP630 inserters.
Transcontinental, Inc. - Montreal, Quebec
The seventh largest printer in North America and largest newspaper
printer/packager in Canada, Transcontinental was an early adopter of the
state-of-the art bindery line controller on multiple lines at its Owen Sound, Ontario
and Boucherville, Quebec plants.
Contra Costa Times and San Jose Mercury News - Silicon Valley, CA
These two papers each use the eNews systems to control
Heidelberg and GMA inserters at three different facilities, for both daily
packaging as well as TMC packaging. Contra Costa also packages their
regional edition of the New York Times on a Heidelberg 2299 inserter with
triple-out delivery under eNews control.
Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald - Miami, FL
By far the largest newspaper in Florida, with a combined circulation of 950
thousand. The Herald/Nuevo Herald has seven eNews systems controlling both
Heidelberg and GMA inserters at two different facilities in South Florida, for
both daily/Sunday packaging as well as its TMC program.
Fry Communications - Mechanicsburg, PA
Founded in the middle of the depression as a publisher of weekly shopping
guides, Fry has grown to a 1400-employee commercial printers with over a million
square feet of manufacturing capacity and 26 different production lines.
Bindery line controllers are employed throughout, yielding the ultimate in
control over perfect binders, saddle stitchers, and polybagging lines.
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron, OH
With Sunday circulation of 312 thousand, this newspaper packages at two plants,
using a Heidelberg NP630 inserter at its main facility and and NP632 at its
Broadway facility. In each case the eNews control system interfaces to
Versamark 5120 inkjet printers for QC purposes today, but TMC addressing down
the road. Dallas Morning News - Dallas, TX
Enternet LLC was selected by The Dallas
Morning News to provide its eSP3500 control systems for the two FSI packaging
systems for Sunday papers going into the new
South
Dallas
plant. The
Morning News becomes the fourth newspaper in the
United
States
to convert to
collating its Sunday package, as opposed to inserting preprints into various
jackets within the paper. The
collated packages will be polybagged prior to distribution. This eSP3500
installation features sophisticated real-time interfaces to an automated storage
and retrieval system, four different types of ink-jet personalization and a
cart-loading distribution system. Ramp-up began in 1Q2007 and is expected
to be completed by August 2007 |