Robert Koeckeis, Océ’s leading expert on the company’s Océ JetStream range, says the newspaper has gone from 24 pages to 28 pages already, to accommodate interested advertisers.

In Australia to speak to potential Australian customers for the Océ JetStream range, Koeckeis says the Niiu project is a promising model for the future of newspapers.

He says, “To survive, newspapers will be looking at several different models, some on line, some involving print. The Niiu project is one of these and there is considerable interest from newspaper publishers around the world.”

About 30 newspapers are involved in the project, including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Germany’s Bild and the Washington Times. The project was launched by a data management company, using their own software combined with Océ software.

The newspaper, called Niiu, offers various segments taken from any of the newspapers in the coalition, which can be packaged as one unit, using pages selected from the newspapers’ websites. Newspapers involved receive royalties for the number of pages which are used.

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