1. PRINTING QUALITY
MANAGEMENT
An overview to
in ZAMAN
Prepared by: Muharrem Yaşar
Quality and Coord. Manager
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2. İstanbul, Turkey
Feza Gazetecilik A.S. known as Zaman
BS Newspaper in Turkish
daily 1 million circulation
printed in 6 printing sites

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4. Zaman Head Office İSTANBUL

5. Zaman Head Office İSTANBUL

6. Ankara Printing Plant
Printing Plant ANKARA

7. Printing sites, Distrubiton areas, % Circulation
own
contracted
% 30
% 20
% 20
% 10
% 15
% 5
6 Printing Sites
5
1

8. Zaman & its weekly sisters
Cuma
Cumartesi
Pazar

9. Todays ZAMAN & its Sunday
version Sundays Zaman
Daily English newspaper
10. 000 copies

10. Weekly news magazin
50. 000 copies
Separatly sold
Weekly magazin
250. 000 copies
magazin
size

11. What we have
Newspaper Machines
75.000 copies / h., single side-double around
40pages, 24pages colorful
+ Presetting ink keys
+ Soft proofing
- Automatic register control
- Automatic density control
- Automatic cut off register
Plate making Rooms
CTP lines ( CTP s and P&Bs)
+ Ink saving program

12. General
Vice General
Production
Printing Plant
Director
Quality Eng.
. Quality Eng.
. Quality Eng.
. Quality Eng.
. Quality Eng.
Quality and
Coordination
Director
Quality
Manager
Technica
Manager
Planning and
Reports M.
Purchasing
Dep. Director
Hierarchy

13. Quality Management
System
Environmental
Management
Systems (EMS)
14001
Occupational
Health and
Safety (OHS)
18001
(ISO) 9001 Printing Quality
Main Topics
Integrated Plant Management System

14. Printing QualityIntegrated Plant Management
(EMS,OHS,ISO)

16. Printing Quality Management
To get ISO 12647/3
Check printing defects
Report consumabels

17. A ) ISO 12647/3 :2005

18. Dep. Property Set values
Electronic data delivery PDF/X-1 or PDF/X-3
Press profile ISO 12647-3 (IFRA 26)
C
T
P
Ink saving
GCR
Ton value sum Max 240-260,
Black >%85
Rips
Ton values 500 lpcm
Screen frequency 40 L/ cm
FM screen 40 micron
Screen angle CMYK 15,75,0,135
Dot shape elliptical dot,
link-ups %40,%60
Purchasing Newsprint La*b* 82,0,3 ( tolerances: 3,1,1 )
Adver. , Design,
Prepress, Page
Delivery

19. A ) ISO 12647/3 :2005

20. A ) ISO 12647/3
• ISO color coordinates
• TVI dot gain curve
So;

21. A ) ISO 12647/3
… and technology develops
• ISO color coordinates
means decrease the ink
density ISO Lab (IFRA 26)
measuring mod :
ISO-Check

22. A ) ISO 12647/3
• ISO color coordinates
* With black backing
ISO (IFRA 26) values
Red 52 41 25
Yellow 78 -3 58
Green 53 -34 17
Cyan 57 -23 -27
Blue 41 7 -22
Magenta 54 44 -2
Paper 82 0 3
Black 36 1 4
only Paper and CMYK is used
M
C
Y
g
r
b
K

23. A ) ISO 12647/3
• ISO color coordinates
Only yellow b*
value changed
BUT ; not practical
Our referance values ? Why not?
First : determine perfect dots in ISO
Second: measure Lab with no b.backing

24. A ) ISO 12647/3
• ISO color coordinates
You can put your new referance values
ColorScale mod for new ref.
values
ISO-Chek mod ISO Lab values
has already loaded

25. A ) ISO 12647/3
• Dotgain

26. A ) ISO 12647/3
• Dotgain
old ….. 4,5 mm
new ….. 3 mm

27. A ) ISO 12647/3
Change the apparatus with a
smaller one and make tests

28. A ) ISO 12647/3
• Dotgain
%100
%40

29. A ) ISO 12647/3
• Dotgain
%40

30. 0,78 66,8 0,81 69,5 0,82 67,8 1,14 63,6
density
% dot gain
• Dotgain
A ) ISO 12647/3
*Recordings are done by automatic measurement mode

31. While the Q. Engineer measures and records the dots to ERPVideo-1 :
Picture
.

32. Daily Printing Quality Report
Ref. densities
difference Operator succes
DG
Production Name

33. WEEKLY P. OPERATOR DENSITY SUCCES REPORT

34. Averages
DG average
The values to be
applied to CTP rips

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For consistence Printing DG,
plate controls is obligatory
Every week produce a test
plate which has a “plate
scale” job on it.
Plate Scale

37. Measurements are done and recorded by a plate measurement
device. Then the program calculates the dot gain of the plate

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Plate Quality Report

40. %2, %98 and % 50 tone values are measured with plate
densitometer by the prepress man to understand if there is
an abnormality or not. If the values are seem to be changed,
he produce a test plate for exact measurement and
calibration
Daily Plate Checking
A tone scale stays on the bended side of the plates is checked daily.
Plate is taken before P&B machine for measurement.
only Plate
Plate + Press
Applied dot gains

41. While the Q. Engineer evaluates and records the print defects to ERPVideo-2 :
B Printing Defects Checking

42. Printing Quality Report
Solve mains
Notice news
Main target:

43. DEFECTS INCQC points PAGES
B Printing Defects Checking

44. INCQC defects table is used
B Printing Defects Checking

45. So ; we are checking ourselves like we are in competition INCQC
everyday
B Printing Defects Checking

46. First run or restart - following a stop copies:
Customers complains mostly :
from the “startup “ newspapers or “restart - following a stop ” newspapers.
Because mechanically they are the worst.
salable , low quality, not salable,
B Printing Defects Checking

47. C Consumabels Reporting
a) are being used (Current)
Ex: Newsprint Evaluation Report
b) Test metarials
Target is;
To prepare a list to our purchasing department.
Show preferred and not preferred
So we ask:
not to bought unwanted,
instead, the preferred if possible much

48. every month automatically produced by ERP

49. Printing plant / Type of newspaper -IFRA reel code- / Newsprint making machine number
Weight is for weighted average

50. forms to the chief of printers
Point are given as ;
5 Better
4 Good
3 Normal
2 Bad
1Worse

51. QE records to ERP

52. Described by our
personals;
criterions , weights
4 different working
areas
Ex:
Ex:
Register and tension
control
Cleaning
Reel Stand
Ink and water
adjustments

53. Ex: 45gr. Std Newsprint
Newsprints from top to bottom
they are in 3 groups
GOOD, BAD, WORSE
GOOD
BAD

54. Printing Quality Management
Try to get ISO
Newspaper standart
check printing defects
Report newsprint
AS a SUMMARY

55. Thanks for listening

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Muharrem YAŞAR
ZAMAN Newspaper
Quality & Coord. Manager
Ahmet Taner Kışlalı Cad. No:6
Yenibosna / İstanbul / Türkiye
+90 (0)212 454 87 03
m.yasar@zaman.com.tr
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