Newsletters, a great way to communicate within an organization or to reach individuals outside the organization. Businesses, religious units, political groups, clubs, associations, fraternities all make use of newsletters to advertise their services, promote their agenda or build their membership.To be really effective a newsletter should be well designed and printed in color. Color makes a great difference and short run digital color output is very price competitive with single color and two color traditional printing. A typical newsletter is a four page 11?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ¬¨?? x 17?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ¬¨?? half folded to 8.5?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ¬¨?? x 11?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ¬¨??. For mailing they are usually folded again to 5.5?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ¬¨?? x 8.5 and tabbed to comply with postal regulations. With the introduction of the Xeikon 5000 digital web press the size can be expanded to 18?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ¬¨?? x 24?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ¬¨?? making it more the size of a newspaper page. Other sizes are possible too; 11?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ¬¨?? x 25?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ¬¨?? six page tri-fold or even 8 1/2?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ¬¨?? x 44?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ¬¨?? double gatefold.

Variable data can be used to customize each and every newsletter. Printing and addressing can be done in one pass, placing the name and addressee information for the post office and adding personal information throughout the body of the newsletter. This can be done even for multi-page saddle stitched pieces.

The Xeikon 5000 digital web press easily prints on gloss coated text paper, something difficult if not impossible on sheet fed color copiers. Using gloss text for a newsletter makes the pictures pop, the type look crisp and clean and the screen tints smooth and devoid of any banding or blotchiness.