HOUSTON - More than 600 registrants, representing 113 newspapers and 90 vendors, packed this year’s Goss Metro Users Conference. 

Left to right, Terry Harrington, president, Pressroom Solutions; Tom Bryant, president, J. Thomas McHugh, and Jack Egender, lithographic pressroom consultant, H&S Supply Co.

Russ Christensen, print quality manager at the Los Angeles Times and president of the Metro Users Group, kicked off the conference praising delegates for their participation. “We continue to grow. Our success is based on having annual participation. It’s the sharing, networking and communicating that makes a successful conference.”

Pam Doss manages the Goss booth.





Board of directors for the Metro Users Group: Left to right, president, Russ Christensen, Los Angeles Times, president; Larry Appleby, The (Phoenix) Arizona Republic, treasurer; Wayne Bean, Los Angeles Times, executive board member; Matt Theiler, (Minneapolis) Star Tribune, secretary; and Jeff Lansing, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn., executive board member.

Goss International Corp. Executive Vice President Jochen Meissner said Goss will intensify its efforts to rebuild the industry’s confidence in the press vendor. The next 12 months, he said, will see increased merger activity, a generally better economy and an improving advertising climate.

Next year’s meeting will be held in San Antonio.