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January/February 2016 www.newsandtech.com www.newsandtech.com The premier resource for insight, analysis and technology integration in newspaper, magazine, digital and hybrid production. SI Offset retools for the future uBY MARY L. VAN METER PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Last fall Staten Island Media Group, publisher of ing with them as we would with another paper, so we are able the Staten Island (New York) Advance, launched SI Offset, a to demonstrate the best principles of printing.” state-of-the-art regional turnkey printing operation responsi- SI can teach commercial clients how to tone a file, shoot ble for the production of the Staten Island Advance as well as photographs, how to showcase their advertisers’ products a large client base of daily, weekly and bound publications in and make more money with pop-up pages, spadeas and the New York/Tri-State Area. A manroland web systems Geo- special sections. man 70 double-width press and a recently installed single- “We are in a very competitive market where quality and width Goss Magnum Compact press anchor the facility. cost count, but not as much as building trust,” said Giustini- ani. “Clients have to trust that we will be taking care of them Commitment to print in a timely manner with great quality.” SI Offset was launched because the Staten Island Media Group believed in print, said John Giustiniani, vice president Diversifying equipment of operations for the Staten Island Advance and SI Offset. The commitment to being a top of the line printing operation “We have a strong ownership that will continue to John Giustiniani, vice led to the purchase of the Magnum Compact Press. SI started News & Tech president of operations strengthen this commitment,” Giustiniani told . for The Staten Island to migrate to commercial printing 12 years ago with the “SI offers clients prepress, printing, packaging, bindery and (New York) Advance purchase of the manroland Geoman press. mail services and something extra.” and SI Offset. The Geoman press has a 96-page capacity and 128 That something extra is the expertise gained from being full-color position (tabloid) with a 70,000 copies-per-hour a traditional newspaper printer. Photos: Staten Island running speed, two jaw-folders (2:5:5 and 2:3:3) digital presets “We are able to offer traditional commercial jobs our and registration capabilities. newspaper printing expertise,” Giustiniani explained. “We aren’t compet- Staten Island continued on page 8 Globe targeting February ’17 go-live in Taunton uBY TARA MCMEEKIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER The Boston Globe is moving full speed expects to produce the first products at Photo: The Boston Globe ahead at its newly minted 328,000-square-foot the new plant sometime around April 4, production facility in Taunton. according to Vice President of Operations The facility will produce The Globe and Rich Masotta, although not all presses and other papers it publishes, as well as its com- production capacity will be live until mercial contracts with The New York Times, February 2017. the Boston Herald, the Worcester Telegram & The Globe first announced that it had Gazette, and its newest client, Gannett flag- found a new facility in May 2015 (see News ship USA Today, which went into production & Tech July 2015). The building — formerly at the existing facility on Jan. 25. The Globe owned by Chambers Properties — seems to be The exterior of The Globe’s new 328,000 square foot production facility in Taunton. The publisher a perfect fit for a buzzing news- hopes to take production of all internal and com- paper production operation. mercially produced products live by February 2017. “We found the warehouse in Taunton and it was conducive Turn to The new facility, located at 330 Constitu- to exactly what we wanted to tion Drive, has been vacant since 2011 page 33 do,” Masotta told N&T. when its last tenant, the Boston Apparel The biggest boon, he said, for expanded Group, vacated. will be getting into a facility Some 282,000 square feet of the facility industry where everything can live on will be dedicated to production and distribu- one level vs. the three levels at coverage tion operations, with offices comprising the The Globe’s existing 700,000- remaining 46,000 square feet. square-foot production site. 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Give us a call. KBA North America, Dallas, Texas phone: 800-522-7521, [email protected], www.kba.com Koenig & Bauer AG 2 t January/February 2016 News & Tech www.newsandtech.com uIndustry Installs & Upgrades EDG/NSI team up for Dayton Daily upgrade Electronic Design Group and Newspaper Solutions inked a deal with stations will also be removed and the new conveyor controls will incorporate the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News to upgrade two of their three NP200 conveyor some of that functionality. lines with six motors on each. A new touchscreen will be installed at the forwarding station to provide The retrofit will include the replacement of the Electro-Craft IQ500 machine setup and batching requirements. The NP200 PLC will interface to motion module, as well as upgrades of Reliance FlexPak drives. The drives the copy detector, gripper detector, encoders and other discrete signals to and motors will be upgraded from DC to AC technology. The remote release perform the pacing. Gannett Publishing chooses Harland Simon Gannett Publishing Services contracted completely replaced with Harland Simon’s roll be initially retained. with Harland Simon to replace the Jervis Web handling system using off-the-shelf hardware The new system will maintain interfaces Roll Handling System at the Pulliam Produc- instead of proprietary parts. with the manroland Pecom press controls and tion Center. The center is the production Gannett chose to spread the costs of the splicer system as well as Abitrol for stock and facility for The Indianapolis Star. project over a number of financial cycles, billing control. The Burr-Brown HMIs will be The Jervis Web Roll Handling system making it necessary for the new roll handling replaced by ruggedized hand-held windows allows for the maintenance of an inventory system to be integrated with the current tablet devices. of newspaper rolls within the warehouse, stor- induction and roll preparation stations. The The project is slated to be completed age bins and roll preparation areas. most critical system parts will be replaced early in the second quarter of 2016. The application software servers will be first while the current roll retriever robots will Q.I.P.C inks deals in India, Denmark Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing in Kerala, India selected a (OTM) ordered the mRC-3D cut-off register for its printing plant in Ikast. mRC-3D color register from Q.I. Press Controls for its fourth TKS press The deal was inked at the 2015 World Publishing Expo in Hamburg, mark- at its facility in Calicut. Twelve mRC-3D cameras for color register were ing the printing company’s third order with Q.I.P.C. installed on the new TKS printing press with six towers and two folders. Q.I.P.C. installed 10 mRC-3D cut-off register cameras with IMS on the The cameras were fitted with Automatic Ink Mist Shields. two EAE-controlled Goss Universal 45 newspaper printing presses with a Mathrubhumi publishes the Mathrubhumi Daily and 10 Malayalam- total of eight towers and one folder with 12 webs. Q.I.P.C. will also upgrade language magazines. The company manages 14 printing plants spread the hardware already in place. across India and Dubai. “Q.I. Press Controls is pretty familiar with our plant and understands Meantime, Danish printing company Offsettrykkeriet Midtylland what our needs are,” said Frank Haberstroh, plant manager at OTM. Manroland upgrades at two U.S. printing centers The Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald press from manroland web systems. screen control pad and a slide pad. upgraded an existing Geoman press with The four-unit, 64-page press with a web Also included is MobilPad, a wireless con- new electronics at its Freedom Center width of 75 inches and two folders will be on the trol console that enables the press operator to printing plant. platform for Freeport Press’ new publications control and operate the press from any location The retrofit included the PLCs and the plant in New Philadelphia, Ohio. The facility, on the press. discontinued InterbusLoop. This is an addi- purchased in April 2015, provides the Freeport “Our trip to the manroland web systems tional Interbus path for connecting sensors and Press more than 250,000 additional square feet. factory was truly impressive in understanding actuators to the local Interbus structure. The Manroland developed a custom autoprint the extremely high standards they maintain electronic components were replaced at four package for Freeport Press that includes inline in production of these presses,” said David G. printing units, one folder superstructure includ- cutoff control dynamic, inline registration con- Pilcher, president,CEO and owner of the ing turner bars, the section- and safety comput- trol with color balance control, inline fan out Freeport Press.