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News Release from: Goss International | Subject: Newsliner 90 press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 May 2008
Japanese Publisher Chooses Newsliner
Presses
Sankei Shimbun is to replace six existing double-width presses with four Goss Newsliner 90 presses at its Hokusetsu Centre printing facility in Osaka (Japan).
Printing Sankei Shimbun and the daily Sankei Sports, the publisher has ordered the new presses for increased flexibility and greater colour capacity for its growing newspaper circulations, said Goss The new presses will each be configured as two five-high towers, two four-high towers, one folder and four reelstands
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Claimed to be capable of printing 32-pages in full-colour, the presses are scheduled to be in production during 2009.
Goss said that the specification for Sankei Shimbun will give the company a more flexible approach for printing a variety of different products.
Adopting the five-high configuration with the fifth unit being a mono unit with open fountain inking, the company will gain the ability to obtain a specific colour that is difficult to reproduce in full-colour by colour separation.
The morning newspaper, Sankei Shimbun, currently has a circulation of 2.2 million copies per day, which has increased by seven per cent over the past five years, despite many national and regional newspaper companies suffering from decreasing circulations, added Goss.
Mutsunori Funatsuki, senior manager of the production department at Sankei Shimbun's Osaka headquarters, explained: "We were looking for a state-of-the-art press with much higher performance levels and greater colour capacity for this latest investment." The company visited Asahi Shimbun's Hanshin plant to see the Newsliner 90 press, which has been in operation at the facility for 18 months to evaluate its performance, efficiency and suitability.
"In the end, we have recognised the Goss Newsliner 90 press as the best solution," Funatsuki commented.
Seiji Kato, president of Goss Japan said: "I am confident that the Newsliner press with its enhanced features and excellent performance record will provide Sankei Shimbun with the flexible production it desires and will contribute to higher productivity and enhanced quality printing." Part of the Fuji Sankei Group, Sankei Shimbun was established in 1933 and is one of the five largest national newspaper companies in Japan.
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