Deccan to expand Goss pressline

Indian newspaper publisher Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd. purchased additional presses from Goss International Corp. to expand its current Goss pressline.

In addition to the 4-by-1 Uniliner S press that was installed in 2005, Deccan Chronicle Holdings will install four Uniliner S and five Community presses this year. The presses will be used to print regional versions of The Deccan Chronicle and a recently acquired English language publication, The Asian Age, Goss said.

The Uniliners will be configured for straight only newspaper production, with the ability to print broadsheet and tabloid formats. The presses will also be equipped with motorized inking, circumferential and lateral register controls and Goss OPCS press controls that will deliver high automation for runs of up to 75,000 copies per hour, Goss said.

Meantime, Goss said it increased the speed capacity of its Mainstream press to 100,000 copies per hour for Berliner formats and 90,000 copies per hour for larger cutoffs. Mainstream presses are also now available with the high-speed Goss Flexible Printing System 2:5:5 folder and Goss modified platforming and connecting structures to allow Mainstream towers and Global Newsliner towers to be configured within the same pressline.

Goss sells 3 postpress systems; 1 with polybagger

Goss International Corp. will install postpress systems at three newspapers, including one deployment that will mesh a Magnapak inserter with a wrapper from CMC for The News Journal in Wilmington , Del.

The paper plans to use the wrapper to produce Sunday completes, according to Goss. The News Journal is buying a second Magnapak inserter as well. The equipment is expected to be in production this fall.

Meantime, The Orange County ( Calif. ) Register will install two 18:1 Magnapak inserters that will be used for daily production. The machines will help the paper accommodate growing insert demands, according to Rick Sant, vice president of operations for the paper.

Finally, The Inland Valley News Bulletin in Ontario , Calif. , purchased an NP642 inserter. The 25:1 dual delivery machine will also be equipped with Goss’ Omnizone software.

 

Forum to design plant expansion in Wyoming

Forum Architects LLC was tapped by the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle in Cheyenne to design an expansion to the paper’s press hall and mailroom. The project will also consolidate the publisher’s commercial printing operations, said Charles Rosati, Forum’s principal.

 

Olive, Clickshare partner

Olive Software Inc., Clickshare Service Corp. and Zustek announced a cooperative partnership that combines the companies’ content delivery, subscription management and e-commerce technologies.
In a separate announcement, Olive said it will be reselling the software-as-a-service product Urchin, used for Web analytics. Olive had previously been using the service for its ActiveMagazine product, but is now in the beta-testing stage to expand it to its ActivePaper Daily line. The software can display statistics on articles viewed per page, specific articles retrieved, and how many have been printed or e-mailed.

 

SLP, Nela, Screen, ProImage set alliance

Southern Lithoplate today announced major partnerships with Nela, ProImage America and Screen USA to market and sell those companies’ products. SLP will now market and sell Screen’s PlateRite News 2000 computer-to-plate units as standalone devices, or bundled with its Viper 830 thermal plates. Paxton Media and the Bradford ( Pa. ) Era are the first newspapers to purchase the bundled solution. The Owensboro ( Ky. ) Messenger-Inquirer will be the first of Paxton’s sites to install. SLP will also sell Screen’s TrueFlow News workflow app.

In addition, SLP will now sell ProImage’s Newsway app and Nela’s punch benders.

Meantime, ProImage said it sold Newsway to the Daily Times-Call of Longmont , Colo.

John Ialacci of ProImage, Edward “Trip” Casson of SLP, Mark Crawford of Screen and Dave Klein of Nela, announced major partnerships for SLP to sell their respective products.

 

Tansa inks pact with AP

Tansa Systems AS signed a new licensing agreement with The Associated Press to allow Tansa to include the complete style and spelling data from the current editions of the AP Stylebook. The AP Stylebook data will be provided as an additional component of a custom Tansa dictionary feature.

 

Oklahoman goes with CCI Europe

The Oklahoman purchased CCI Europe’s CCI NewsDesk editorial and CCI NewsGate content management applications. The agreement calls for 150 seats to be installed immediately at the newspaper.

 

MacDermid makes CTP sales

MacDermid Printing Solutions said it sold its NappFlex CTP unit to four newspapers. Gazetta di Parma and Corriere della Sera of Italy each installed manual-load units in November, which the papers will replace with auto-loading versions of the platesetter later this year. The Union-Leader of Manchester , N.H. will install two manual-load units and the Providence (R.I.) Journal will install two auto-load NappFlex units by year-end.

NappFlex can image up to 80 single-truck NappFlex plates per hour on a manual load unit and up to 120-150 plates on the auto-load units, MacDermid said.