By: E&P Staff Tensor Group Inc., Woodridge, Ill., recently installed T-1400 presses at three separately owned newspapers in Australia, where the four-high has been chosen to expand existing equipment to accommodate greater circulations and better color.
The Murray Pioneer, a 7,000-copy twice-weekly in the Riverland of South Australia, added a tower at its Renmark plant. General Manager Ben Taylor called the T-1400 "very user friendly" and said in a statement that it delivers high quality. The Pioneer also prints The Mid North Broadcaster (2,000 copies), Pinnaroo Border Times (1,200 copies), The Loxton News (2,700 copies), The River News (2,800 copies) and The Gawler Bunyip (11,500 copies), as well as commercial products.
The Courier, Mount Barker, founded in 1880, expanded its Goss Community press with a T-1400.
In Jimboomba, Queensland, the weekly Jimboomba Times and Beaudesert Times (over 20,000 combined circulation) added a tower to an existing Tensor tower and Goss Community mono press. The addition runs a meter-wide web and has a 630mm cutoff for its mostly quarterfold production. Q.I. automatic color register and cutoff controls were added to improve color.
The T-1400's "bearing-in-a-bearing" eccentric design "provides optimum dynamic support of the blanket cylinders, reducing print disturbance," according to Tensor. The press features stainless-steel-clad cylinders with tapered journals, to add stiffness for print and registration control, and arch geometry for easy operator access.
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