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News Release from: KBA | Subject: Comet
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 August 2005
Comet Presses Help Newspapers Scoop All
Awards
Two titles printed on a KBA Comet at The Natal Witness Printing and Publishing Company have won all three major design and production trophies awarded by the Newspaper Association of South Africa.
Two titles printed on a KBA Comet at The Natal Witness Printing and Publishing Company in Pietermaritzburg have won all three major design and production trophies awarded by the Newspaper Association of South Africa It is the first time that has happened in the history of the competition and was achieved with work printed on a three-year-old KBA Comet press line
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 10 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The awards are national accolades for outstanding design and production.
The Frewin award, launched in 1949, recognises urban daily newspapers of any circulation, whilst the 44-year-old McCall competition is restricted to those titles with a circulation of 50,000 or less.
The Joel Mervis competition, which has now been running for 10 years, recognises urban weekly newspapers with any circulation.
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This year the number of entries increased by nine, with a total of 16 dailies and 31 weeklies.
They were judged by a panel of industry experts according to the following criteria - typography, pictures and graphics, printing (ink density and consistency, trapping and register, halftone quality, page alignment (for example, cut-off register and fold, flaws such as toning and smearing) and advertising presentation (layout, appeal).
Founded in 1846, the Natal Witness Printing and Publishing Company is the oldest newspaper publishing house in South Africa.
Apart from The Witness and Weekend Witness, its Comet press line currently prints Ilanga, Soccer Laduuma, UmAfrika, the Mail and Guardian, Daily Sun, Echo, Village Talk, Greytown Gazette, South Coast Fever, Free4All, Rapport and the KwaZulu-Natal editions of the City Press.
The Comet is engineered for a 820mm (32.25") web width and 578mm (22.75") cut-off.
At present it delivers a combination of a broadsheet newspaper with a tabloid inserted in full colour throughout, if required.
In spring 2006, the company is planning to add two more towers and reelstands, plus a folder and a console to increase colour capacity from 32 to 48 broadsheet pages and enable two titles to be printed simultaneously on the same press.
According to Witness managing director Piet le Roux, the investment in the press had contributed greatly to the awards success.
A special issue commemorating the award dubbed 'The Comet' 'the country's best press'. Request a free brochure from KBA ...
Trevor Ncube, the president of the Newspaper Association of SA, agreed: "The finalists can be compared with the best newspapers in the world.".
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