June
 2004

The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., tapped Heidelberg to install a 42-hopper dual-delivery Magnapak inserter to anchor a postpress expansion project.

The newspaper will use the Magnapak in concert with beltveyors and stackers from Quipp Systems Inc. and a winder/unwinder system from Ferag to store advance runs. The inserter can cycle up to 30,000 newspapers per hour in single-delivery mode and 60,000 in dual-delivery.

“We looked at packaging systems from several suppliers, but the speed of the Magnapak, the versatility and the integrated approach really fit our way of production,” said Steve Favero, facilities service director at the Belo Corp. daily.

Heidelberg will supply its own Omnizone supervisory and downstream bundle controls and hopper loaders with the Magnapak. The supplier will also oversee integration of the other vendors’ systems. When installation is complete later this year, The Press-Enterprise will be able to wind up sections from the press and deliver them to the Magnapak for simultaneous or later inserting.

Favero said the retooled system will initially be used for Sunday packages, which routinely include 30 to 35 inserts. Single-delivery mode will allow the paper to stuff up to 41 products into a single jacket.

Future plans call for Heidelberg to add selective total market coverage label controls, allowing The Press-Enterprise to imprint address information on selectively packaged products for delivery by the U.S. Postal Service.

In addition to the Magnapak, The Press-Enterprise will continue to operate three Heidelberg NP1372 inserters and a Heidelberg NP1472 inserter.

Belo is the second publisher to add a Magnapak in the past several months. In April, E.W. Scripps said it would buy a Magnapak and gripper equipment from Heidelberg for its Treasure Coast Newspapers facility in Stuart, Fla.