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www.newsandtech.com www.newsandtech.com January/February 2020 The premier resource for insight, analysis and technology integration in newspaper and hybrid operations and production. Pennsylvania printer adopts closed-loop technology u BY TARA MCMEEKIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Bayard Printing Group in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, or- The closed-loop system from DCOS will integrate with exist- dered a closed-loop ink density and color registration system ing Perretta remote ink fountains and the printer’s new color- from DCOS Automation. The printer will install the equip- DCOS Photo: register system will replace an existing one. ment on its 16-unit DGM 440 heatset press, which consists “We’re excited about this install,” Lundberg said. “It will of four 4-high towers and one folder. The install is slated for take us where we’re going with closed-loop color.” completion in March. This is the third recent DCOS order for a printer with DGM Ron Ehrhardt, “This is something we’ve been looking at for six months or so sales director presses. Bayard joins PressWorks Ink in Carson City, Nevada, as part of a continued effort to reinvest in our plant and our top for DCOS, with and Stuart Web in Stuart, Florida, which also tapped DCOS for Bayard Printing goals — quality, efficiency, and consistency,” President Mark President Mark closed-loop in 2019. Lundberg told News & Tech. Lundberg. “We are very excited to install our closed-loop automa- Bayard is a heatset web and sheetfed commercial printer, and tion on another DGM press,” Ron Ehrhardt, sales director for Lundberg said he takes the demands of his customers very seriously. DCOS, said in a statement. “This year we have sold to the DGM cus- “The DCOS system allows us to address consistency and quality tomer base retrofit drives and controls, and soon we will have our — and that was the main driving force because our goal is to always closed-loop automation on DGM heatset and UV curing presses.” keep our customers happy,” he added. Bayard Printing Group was developed from the merger of Webb Bayard prints approximately 50 weekly newspapers and a number Communications, Unigraphic Color Corp. and Reed Hann Litho. Ba- of monthlies, as well as special sections for dailies. The majority of its yard serves the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region of Northeast and work is direct mail products, including periodicals and catalogs. Central Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, New England, Maryland “We are able to run different stocks all in the same press run, “ and Washington D.C. from multiple locations in Pennsylvania. Lundberg said. “With our four web presses we can run coated covers, Bayard is also a direct mail and fulfillment specialist, processing offset interior pages, and then we can also collate, stitch, trim and more than 45 million pieces per year through its in-house United mail.” States Postal Service substation. p ‘Now we have a future’ u BY MARC WILSON SPECIAL TO NEws & TECH The last daily edition of the Arkansas Dem- Sundays. body might say, ‘You know, I don’t read the ocrat-Gazette will be printed and distributed He’s bought 27,000 iPads — at a cost ap- paper as much as I used to. I think I’ll just on Saturday, Jan. 25. But Little Rock’s daily proaching $12 million — and given them to drop it.’ And we’ll say, ‘Have you returned newspaper is not folding — far from it. subscribers who agree to pay $34 a month for that iPad?’ Then they’ll say, ‘Return the iPad? In one of the boldest moves in American a subscription to receive the Monday through I don’t want to return that iPad!’” newspaper history, Publisher Walter E. Huss- Saturday editions electronically. They get the The project started almost two years ago, man Jr. will continue to produce a daily and Sunday paper in print (and electronically). in March 2018, when Hussman and his team Sunday newspaper in the traditional format, Readers have to agree in writing that if they determined that the traditional model of but only print and deliver a newspaper on quit their subscriptions, the newspaper will printing and delivering the daily newspaper charge their credit cards for the had become unprofitable — and would con- cost of the iPad. tinue to decline. He hopes readers will use “After years of making money, we began Turn to their iPads for all kinds of pur- losing money,” he said. “We had to do some- poses — to scroll the World thing or face the possibility of going out of page 25 Wide Web, download books, business.” watch movies, etc. Hussman, a journalist by training and for expanded “We want them hooked on education, likes to say “every town needs a industry their iPads because we think police department. Every town needs a fire they also will be hooked on department. Every town needs a water de- coverage reading our newspaper. Some- Democrat-Gazette continues on page 5 News & Tech January/February 2020 u 1 www.newsandtech.com Need help? We’re on it! Contact us to request a free training program on Ink Water Balance... Flint Group experts are always available to chat! Inks, blankets, chemicals & more www.flintgrp.com2 t | [email protected] | +1 734 781 4600 www.newsandtech.com move from their downtown double-wide press to the Goss Com- QIPC-EAE supplies Shanghai munity SSC Magnum press will allow the paper more versatility to expand their printing capabilities and bring on more commercial United Media printing, imPRESSions says. Shanghai United Media Group is updating its QIPC automation with a new mRC-3D color register control system. The EAE control system will be updated as well. The new installation by the Dutch specialist in measuring and control equipment for the printing industry will replace an old QIPC system. Kroonpress chooses new press The media group produces around 1.6 million printed copies ev- ery day. automation from QIPC Estonian print company Kroonpress has equipped its Goss M600 "QIPC-EAE already has quite a few installations in China," says heatset press with Q.I. Press Controls (QIPC) press automation. Erwin van Rossem, director of global sales & marketing at QIPC-EAE. Kroonpress is preparing the recently acquired press for the future and He sees great future potential at Shanghai Media Group, one of Chi- wants to keep the M600 in use for another 10 years, QIPC says. na's largest media companies, and also at other printing companies “The automation that was still on the press from the former user throughout China. is no longer up to date and technical support is limited,” said Gerd The new mRC-3D system will be installed on a Goss Universal Lindmaa, production director at Kroonpress. press. The 12 cameras will control the color register. The EAE control On the Goss M600, five mRC-3D cameras for color register, cut-off system will be updated as well, with six new EAE control consoles, register and sheeter-register were installed along with two IDS-3D two INFO systems and NETPC. cameras for color control. “We count on more stable print quality and less paper waste thanks to faster start-ups,” said Lindmaa. “In general, we expect higher ef- ficiency in the use of our raw materials.” Central Oregonian installs press The new printing facility is located east of the city and will operate The Central Oregonian completed its first run on its newly installed under the name Northwest Offset Printing. pressline on Dec. 1, as planned. The second-hand 13-unit Goss Community SSC press was supplied, delivered and installed by im- PRESSions Worldwide. Central Oregonian’s parent company, Pam- plin Media Group, negotiated the press purchase with imPRESSions in order to fulfill their agreement with EO Media to print the Bend Trib Total Media turns to TSC Trib Total Media, a family of community daily and weekly papers, a Bulletin, which recently shut down its printing plant. weekly shopper, commercial printing, promotional products, direct Upgrades to the SSC press allow Central Oregonian to go from mail and digital services, chose The Siebold Company (TSC) for the a four-day work week to seven days a week with capacity to print removal and scrapping of TTM’s Goss Universal 70 press and Goss 16-page broadsheet newspapers with 12 pages in full color. The ma- Newsliner Press. chine will also facilitate additional commercial print products for Also included in the removal were all the reels. the Bulletin. TTM moved all its printing from its shuttered Newsworks facility in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, to its single-width production facility in Tarentum, Pennsylvania, where TSC is replacing all TTM’s press Spokane paper gets press install drives with new TSC Press Drive Controls. from imPRESSions The Spokesman-Review (Spo- kane, Washington) is pouring a Tensor sells second folder to new concrete press pad in prep- Papua New Guinea paper Photo: Submitted Photo: aration for a 32-unit Goss SSC Chicago-based Tensor International, in cooperation with Simon Magnum pressline to be installed Munday at National Printing Equipment of Australia, has been by imPRESSions Worldwide. awarded a contract to add a new H-50 folder with quarter folder to The Spokesman-Review and the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier’s existing 18-unit T1400 press. imPRESSions inked this pur- Tensor will also be responsible for all reconfiguration in the instal- chase agreement in March, lation work. shortly after the paper an- Established in 1969, the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier, with a cir- nounced that it was building a culation of 41,000, is the largest newspaper in New Guinea. Owned new printing facility to house the by News Corp., it was the first daily national paper in New Guinea.