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News Release from: Goss International | Subject: Uniliner press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 January 2008
80,000cph Presses Help Push Production
Boundaries
Two shaftless double-width Goss Uniliner presses that are rated for 80,000-copies-per-hour production speed have been ordered by Fairfax Media Group.
According to Goss, the two new 4 x 2 presses will print up to 128 pages tabloid in full colour and will be configured as four four-high towers and two 2:5:5 jaw folders with 578mm cut-offs Each folder will feature in-line stitching and one will have quarter-folding capability
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 4 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new presses will be installed at Rural Press Printing in the Brisbane suburb of Ormiston, Queensland, (Australia) and at Christchurch Press in New Zealand by the end of this year.
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The Ormiston plant currently produces a localised edition of the Sydney Sun Herald, as well as Trading Post and Australian Financial Review, with heatset sections being outsourced to other contract printers, whilst Christchurch Press prints leading title, The Press, as well as national Sunday title, Star Times and tabloid title, Christchurch Mail.
The Uniliner press at Christchurch Press will be installed at a new dedicated facility on a greenfield site on the outskirts of Christchurch and will bring new flexibility and opportunity to The Press' 95,000 circulation six-days a week broadsheet with up to 172 pages on Saturdays, said Goss.
Anthony Payne, regional manager at Fairfax Media Group, said: "The new Goss Uniliner press will be fast, flexible and a very significant upgrade for us here in Ormiston where we have been running a six-tower single-width Goss Community press.
Since our merger with Rural Press last May, we have been running at almost maximum capacity, so it's definitely time for a change." He added: "The right angle arrangement with webs slit and turned in-line with the formers is the solution to the issue of double-width presses running different paper web-widths.
By moving the turner bars, the ribbons are aligned with the formers giving infinite web-width variability between two set points.
I think more installations will go this way, as people realise the benefits." The new press will have the ability to print square and standard tabloid products of varying sizes, as well as different broadsheet formats.
General manager of The Press, Chris Jagusch, explained that the new plant will be 'state-of-the-art' in terms of its colour capabilities and speed and will comprise specialised publishing equipment to better manage preprinted sections and packaging.
"The new production facilities will give The Press the capability to push production boundaries, raise standards and give readers a better end product, whilst giving advertisers greater options for promoting their goods and services," said Jagusch.
And Anthony Payne concluded; "We believe we have got the best press for the job required.
We've been very impressed by what we've seen so far from Goss and if the projects go as smoothly as they have to date we'll be very happy.".
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