ACROSS the nation

GEORGIA

DOUGLAS—The Douglas Enterprise, a paper owned by the Natchitoches Times, recently upgraded from a film-based to computer-to-plate workflow by adding a Kodak Trendsetter News thermal platesetter with PF-N non-process plates, Prinergy EVO workflow and PREPS imposition software.

HAWAII

HONOLULU—HONBLUE Inc., based here, has installed a Heidelberg Suprasetter A52 thermal platesetter with Prinect hybrid screening at its Electric Pencil commercial printing division as part of a move to upgrade its prepress system and advance the company’s ongoing green initiative. The chemistry-free Suprasetter is imaging Saphira Chemfree plates.