Goss Sells Its First 3-By-1 Press to U.S. Paper

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By: Mark Fitzgerald Goss International has sold its first Community press with a 3-by-1 tower to a U.S. customer, the 11,351-circulation daily Waycross (Ga.) Journal-Herald.

The 3-by-1 four-high tower has a 40-inch web width, allowing the Journal-Herald to run 6 pages of 4/4 color when producing a 12 1/2-inch broadsheet or a 12-page short tabloid section folded into a broadsheet. A ribbon deck assembly will allow the paper to introduce extra color, Goss said.

All other press units will have conventional 35-inch web widths and the Community press configuration of one four-high tower, three mono units with integral reelstands, three stacked units, one SSC folder, and two standalone reelstands.

The new Community offset press replaces a 42-year-old Goss press, which was converted from letterpress 29 years ago.

"This is a strategically important order for Goss, being the first 3-by-1 in the U.S.A.," said Goss Senior Sales Manager Tom Reardon.

Delivery of the press is scheduled for April 2004. The sale was announced in Chicago at Graph Expo, a commercial printing industry equipment show.

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