June
2006





 

The Denver Newspaper Agency’s $130 million upgrade project is continuing on schedule, and the first components of the five MAN Roland Inc. GeoMAN presses were expected to be delivered by the end of May. DNA, which publishes The Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News, is also bolstering its postpress operations, installing systems from Goss International Corp., Ferag and Schur Packaging Systems. DNA also tapped HK Systems to install a 3,400-bay ASRS to house inserts and newsprint.

DNA said it expects the new presses to be on-edition next year and will result in a slimmed down Post and News. The broadsheet Post will whittle two inches from its current web width, dropping to 48 inches with a 21-inch cut-off, while the tabloid News will lose four inches of its length, shrinking from 58 to 54 inches. DNA will shutter a sister plant now used to print The Post upon completion of the project.





Crews at the Denver Newspaper Agency’s production plant in north Denver prepare footprints that will house five new presses from MAN Roland. The $130 million project will be completed next year.
Photos: Newspapers & Technology




Work continues near one of DNA's quiet rooms.




On the northeast corner of the building, which opened in 1992,
preliminary work has begun on the HK Systems’ ASRS.




Equipment is transported through an entry way cut into the
western end of the plant.