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www.newsandtech.com www.newsandtech.com September/October 2017 The premier resource for insight, analysis and technology integration in newspaper, magazine, digital and hybrid production. Tulsa World embarks on $2M press upgrade u BY TARA MCMEEKIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Photos: John Clanton, Tulsa World Tulsa John Clanton, Photos: The Tulsa World continues to invest in technology to improve quality not only for its flagship daily, but to bolster its claim as a competitive regional printer. To that end, the publisher has embarked on a multi-phase project to increase efficiency and redundancy to meet commercial demand. The World, which was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2013, partnered with ABB for the bulk of the project. Late last year the World, in partnership with ABB and Joel Birket, beefed up redundancy to meet commercial customer demand with the addition of two Goss Metroliner folders to the publisher’s ex- isting Wifag OF370 pressline. ABB provided the motors and drives for the new folders and integrated them with the World’s existing press control system. “That upgrade was geared to our disaster recovery plan because we had single folders on each press,” said Sam Hightower, vice president of operations for BH Media Publishing Solutions. “That was OK when we were only printing the World, but now that we have The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and The Okla- homan (Oklahoma City), we need two presses each night to get production out.” Four-phase project The World has begun the first phase of a four-part, $2 million project with ABB to replace all obsolete electrical components of the Wifag presses, originally installed in 1999 and 2000. The entire project is slated to be complete in 2020. The first phase of the project includes the step-by-step modular retrofitting of The pressroom at the Tulsa World has seen major improvements recently. Tulsa World continued on page 5 Mobile seen as dominant for news future u BY CHRIS LYTIKAINEN MANAGING EDITOR Mobile platforms offer a lot. The variety of the dominant position for the future. Quality matters platforms and the freedom of customization can lead "Processing power is getting faster, cheaper The problem then becomes the quality of the video to award-winning strategies, such as the Economist's and a hell of a lot more powerful," Mulcahy said. content, as an article by Marilyn Wilkinson of Mo- "Read, Watch, Listen" strategy. These platforms will "Very quickly, you'll probably see Apple release bile Business Insights points out. The strategies of gain increasing importance in the next few years, and a 4K Apple TV, so you can stream that content to attack, so to speak, must change to adapt to video the media industry is reacting to the rise. your super high-resolution television in your home content that is easy for the consumer, useful, new, In article titled “Why Mobile Will Dominate without going through the broadcast chain—for me and innovative. Some of the advice that MBI recom- News Media by 2020” on journalism.co.uk, the as a broadcaster, that is a very scary proposition," mends is investments in 360-degree video and VR. author looks to Glen Mulcahy, head of innovation Mulcahy said. This isn’t necessarily anything new, but it is at RTE Tech. Mulcahy spoke at mobile journalism Mulcahy is right when it comes to video con- something that many publishers have been eyeball- conference Mojo Meetup to explain why mobile is tent. With an increasing number of phones able to ing, waiting for the right time to move into that use 4K video capture and display, sphere of content. many traditional broadcasters real- A while back News & Tech reported on aug- ize that this creates a challenge to mented reality being used specifically for a news immediately bring 4K without mas- platform. That still hasn’t changed, however, the Turn to sive changes in infrastructure. technologies of virtual reality are becoming more It would also force a reliance and more of a viable possibility, as well. page 37 on the consumer to purchase “future-proof ” 4K home TVs that would be quite costly. Watch video length for expanded Another major thing to watch out for is the size of Mobile then becomes the dom- the content. Though a 20-minute expose might be industry inate platform for the shift. 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The upgrade is set to begin in The upgrade from Harland Simon, supplier of newspaper press the third quarter of this year, with the press in production through- control and management systems, will replace EAE ANK interface out the process. modules, ABB KT98 control modules and DC IO on the paper’s The latest upgrade follows projects in 2014 and 2016, when the existing KBA reelstands, as well as the ArcNet communications. paper upgraded the frontend EAE press controls and on-unit KBA/ Harland Simon will use off-the-shelf Allen-Bradley PLC hardware ABB controls on their KBA Colora towers. Butler Eagle to upgrade press The Butler Eagle (Pennsylvania) is get- press control functions can be accessed via trol systems up to the latest standards. ting a second-phase controls upgrade to a Harland Simon touch screens. The Control- Installation was set for September this Goss Uniliner press. Harland Simon will do Logix processors in the press control rack year. The existing system will remain op- the upgrade, which will involve replacing will also be upgraded along with the central erational until the new equipment has been three RotoVision PCs and two-drive Control- maintenance and diagnostic capabilities via commissioned. Logix PLCs to remove obsolete components RS Logix 500 software (by Allen-Bradley) to The upgrade has also been done at and future-proof the press, a news release allow quick fault finding and maximize up- Advance Web Offset (California), Tribune- says. Screens will be replaced with additional time. Review, (Pennsylvania), Engle Printing (Penn- Prima PressNet control screens, meaning all The upgrade brings Butler Eagle’s con- sylvania) and the Arizona Republic. Euro-Druckservice gets new press European printer Euro-Druckservice is getting a new Lithoman gary and Romania. S 48-page press from manroland web systems. The short-grain format Lithoman S with sleeve technology has The press will print mainly magazines and will boost the pro- a maximum production speed of 65,000 cylinder revolutions/h and ductivity of the Severotisk printing plant in Usti nad Labem, the is equipped with top automation features such as fully automatic Czech Republic. plate change (APL) and inline control systems for ink density (IDC), Euro-Druckservice GmbH (EDS) was founded in 1992 and has dynamic cut-off register (ICCD) and color register control (ICR). eight printing sites, in Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hun- Indian paper retools The Times of India, India’s largest than 3 million. The company operates EAE Desk 7 generation will simultaneously English-language daily, has hired EAE 13 printing centers around the country. replace the present PECOM press control Engineering Automation Electronics for Ahrensburg, Germany-based EAE will ex- consoles. an upgrade of a manroland GEOMAN web change the entire press and drive controls, EAE in Ahrensburg will take care of press at its printing center in Sahibabad, the most important drives and the obsolete the planning, software development and outside Delhi. The retrofit represents EAE’s Interbus loop system. The existing PECOM project-related coordination, and the op- biggest-ever direct order from India. system will be superseded by a modern erational implementation in the field will The Times is owned by media group EAE solution plus an EAE Print production be in the hands of QIPC-EAE India. Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (The Times planning and preset system. Three con- The retrofit is set to take place between Group) and has a daily circulation of more trol consoles belonging to the very newest February and July 2018. News & Tech September/October 2017 u 3 Volume 29, No. 7 September/October News & Tech P.O. Box 478 CONTENTS 2017 Beaver Dam, WI 53916 p: 303.575.9595 www.newsandtech.com Publisher & Editor Mary L.