Apex selects Community press for 'Muscat Daily'

Apex Press and Publishing in Oman has bought a Goss Community SSC press to take control of the quality and deadlines for the 'Muscat Daily'.

The Community press will have four four-colour towers, one of which will be dedicated to heat-set pages for high-quality advertising and cover sections.

Rated at 35,000 copies per hour, the press will initially go into production in June to print the 'Muscat Daily' and two weekly publications, the 'Week' and 'Al Isbou'a'.

Apex Press and Publishing publishes, but does not print, a range of titles for the area.

Print runs vary from 11,000 to 80,000 copies with frequencies from daily to monthly.

With this complexity of titles, using contract printers has become an increasing problem as the company expands.

Mohana Prabhakar, chief executive and managing editor of Apex Press and Publishing, said: 'We wanted a press that has a good reputation for efficiency and quality.

'Price is always an issue, of course, but we did a lot of research to estimate the size of the market and the return on investment we could expect, given our goal for the highest sustained production quality.

'The Community press - along with the back-up and support available from Goss International - convinced us that this was the direction to take.

'We will slowly migrate more work onto the Community press as we grow in confidence with its operation,' Prabhakar added.

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