HT Media Orders Manroland Regioman Press
Indian newspaper publisher HT Media Ltd. has ordered a manroland Regioman 1-by-4 press for its Mumbai plant. Built for a 50.0-inch web width, the 80,000-cph press will go on edition in fall of 2009.The publisher of the Hindustan Times already operates three manroland Colorman two-around presses elsewhere. - August 07, 2008
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Scripps' MPS Takes Over NAA's Newsprint Statistics
The Newspaper Association of America announced Thursday that the strategic plan approved by its directors does not include collection and dissemination of newsprint consumption statistics, a function that will be taken over by E.W. Scripps' Media Procurement Services. - August 07, 2008
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'Wash. Times' Adds 25% to Baltimore 'Sun' Printing
The Sun of Baltimore will begin printing The Washington Times early next month. Value of the 10-year contract was not disclosed. Times commercial work will be transferred to another, soon-to-be-named printer in October. The Times is the Sun's biggest commercial customer, for which it must hire additional staff. - August 07, 2008
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Kodak Offers Choices of Prepress Service Plans
Kodak announced that as of last month it had "streamlined its service and support offerings by creating four new service plans for its prepress equipment and workflow products." - August 07, 2008
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'AJC' Operations VP Stan Pantel Retires
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has announced the retirement of Operations VP Stan Pantel. Senior VP, Operations, Robert Eickoff called Pantel's leadership "critical to the inception and ultimate success" of the newspaper's pending consolidation of all printing at its soon-to-be-upgraded Gwinnett plant. - August 05, 2008
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Ifra Conference Considers Mobile E-reading
On Sept. 18 and 19, Ifra, the research and service organization for the news publishing industry, based in Darmstadt, Germany, will hold an international conference in Paris dedicated to mobile e-reading to help newspapers make the best of the electronic mobile devices' potential. - August 04, 2008
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So. Africa's Caxton Adds Tark to Tera Newsroom System
For its Johannesburg flagship, The Citizen, large South African publisher Caxton CTP bought a 90-seat Tark archiving system from Milan-based Tera Digital Publishing to help expansion in online publishing. Caxton already uses Tera's GN3 editorial content-management system across its 88 free and paid titles. - August 01, 2008
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Pressline Offers Conversion to Three-Around Printing
Pressline Services announced yesterday that it has developed a three-around plate cylinder for use on many existing single- and doublewide two-around presses.Dubbed the 3volution or 3V, the modification, according to Pressline, enables creation of a new "compact sectional newspaper format." - July 31, 2008
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Mediaspan Hosts 'Road Show,' Posts 50-plus Recent Installations
In a series of fall "road shows" featuring World Association of Newspapers Business Director Eamonn Byrne, MediaSpan will look at operational efficiencies and profitability. In the meantime, MediaSpan reports installations at 50-plus newspapers in the last quarter. - July 31, 2008
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Fusion Systems Releases DigiPage 5.0
Fusion Systems International has released version 5.0 of its DigiPage workflow automation solution. Enhancements include improved workflow automation and Dynamic Job Routing, press-accurate halftone dot proofing, reverse filename parsing, and easy set-up of post-RIP imposition workflows. - July 31, 2008
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Swedish Publisher-Printer Orders Goss Magnum 4
Swedish newspaper printer and publisher Tryck i Norrbotten ordered a footprint-shaftless Goss Magnum 4 press as part of a larger project. The press will be used to print a new newspaper next year at its plant in northeast Sweden. The operation already prints three to five newspapers nightly. - July 31, 2008
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Japanese Publisher Places Big Baldwin Order
Baldwin Technology Co. announced that its Baldwin Japan subsidiary received a $2.6 million order from Asahi Newspaper Group's Nikkan Sports Newspaper Printing Co. for Baldwin's automatic guide roller cleaning equipment, automatic press washers, super washers and spray dampening systems. - July 31, 2008
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ECRM Names Millhorn Latin America Business Director
ECRM has appointed Ed Millhorn its business director for Latin America. Miami-based Millhorn manages current and developing sales and marketing channels in South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. He reports to ECRM Vice President, Western Hemisphere Sales, Doug Barr. - July 30, 2008
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GateHouse, Heartland Sign for Shoom eTearSheets
Shoom Inc. in Encino, Calif., announced today it signed agreements to supply its eTearSheet hosted solution to GateHouse Media newspapers, headquartered in Fairport, N.Y., and Heartland Publications LLC, headquartered in Clinton, Conn. - July 30, 2008
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'Naples Daily News' Leads Latest Quipp Stacker Sales
Quipp Systems has sold 12 Quipp Model 500 stackers, seven of them -- five Model 501 Wide machines and two Model 501Cs with bundle compression - to The Naples (Fla.) Daily News, which bought three Model 501s in 2006. It also completed installation of its mailroom systems for the Waco Tribune-Herald. - July 29, 2008
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Harland Simon Appointment, Project
An electrical engineer with five years' experience in the United Arab Emirates, Mohamad Baajour was named sales manager of Harland Simon Trading Gulf for the Persian Gulf region. Harland Simon also is upgrading press controls at New Zealand's Dominion Post.The Dominion Post, Fairfax group's daily in Wellington, New Zealand, has completed a substantial press-controls upgrade with Harland Simon, Milton Keynes, England, and Oak Brook, Ill. It is a complete overhaul of a system Harland Simon supplied the paper in the late 1980s.The new system has three Prima 6000 control desks, a Prima MS press-management system and Harland Simon's presetting and content-proofing systems, and has been in production since December 2007. In the project's recently completed final phase, Harland Simon worked with Goss International to integrate a new Uniliner tower with the existing T70/HT70 press line. The object was to extend the printing equipment's useful life by many years for less than replacement cost. - July 28, 2008
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Nela Installing Major Platemaking Systems in Seattle, Montreal
Nela will supply Transcontinental Transmag's press project in Montreal with vision register, punch-bend and plate inspection at the exit of three platesetters in December and The Seattle Times with full platemaking automation and management in November. - July 25, 2008
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