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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Colora Press
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 September 2004
President Starts The News Instead Of
Making It
Watched by Stanford Lipsey, publisher of The Buffalo News, US president George W Bush used a computer link-up from the White House to start up a new Colora press line.
Watched by Stanford Lipsey, publisher of The Buffalo News, US president George W Bush used a computer link-up from the White House to start up a new Colora press line at the newspaper's production plant in upstate New York The event marked the third time that a US president has christened a new press, starting with Theodore Roosevelt in 1904
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 2 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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In 1958 Dwight D.
Eisenhower did the honours via a telegraph key.
"It's a neat tradition we have here," said Margaret Sullivan, the paper's editor and vice president.
The two largely identical KBA presses, which are installed at the paper's extended site in downtown Buffalo, print the company's title daily which has a circulation of around 230,000 copies on weekdays and 320,000 copies on Sundays.
They can output 75,000 newspapers per hour with 48 full-colour broadsheet pages.
Each press line is configured with five four-high towers plus two H-type units, ten reel stands and two folder assemblies with three formers positioned side by side.
The KF 5/RF 3 double folder for the first press line and RF 3 gear folder for the second is claimed to deliver 160 broadsheet newspapers.
The installation is controlled and monitored from six consoles with RIP interface. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
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