Tecnau has introduced a new digital print finishing system for newspaper and book production.

Shown as an off-line system, the NewsReady handles preprinted inkjet webs as a roll-to-fold or roll-to-cut-and-stack solution.

Digitally-printed newspapers and other formats are produced with minimal intervention from the operator and maximum reliability, the company says. Newspaper products can be up to 96 pages, in which sets of up to 24 sheets are cut, accumulated and folded. Sets can be folded once or twice.

As a roll-to-cut-and-stack solution, stacks of sheets up to 250 mm are produced in one-up, two-up, three-up or four-up mode with an offset between jobs for book-block separation.

Pictured: Two-sheet, double-fold production from the company's video