-Freedom Communications Inc. rolled out a new tabloid daily in Orange County, Calif. The full-color OC Post is home delivered and printed Monday through Saturday. Freedom upgraded the production capacity of The Orange County Register to print the Post, but is also evaluating purchasing a new press dedicated to producing the paper, an official said.

-The Town Talk in Alexandria, La., purchased two violet Advantage platesetters from Agfa. One of the units will produce the daily while the second is earmarked for The Town Talk’s separate commercial operations facility.

-Investor’s Business Daily said it would roll out Newscolor’s newsprint proofing application throughout its 12 print sites. All the sites will use Newscolor’s 4.3 app in conjunction with printers from Hewlett-Packard. IBD and Newscolor will work together to create a standard color match at each site to ensure consistency.

-KBA North America added three staffers to its customer support operation, the company said. Stefan Prohaska was named western regional service manager, based in Portland, Ore. The firm also added two electrical field technicians: Robert Moore, based in Buffalo, N.Y., and Steve Purcell, in Nashville, Tenn.

-Quipp Inc. posted a $322,000 profit in the second quarter on sales of $8.6 million, the company said. New orders booked in the second quarter 2006 were valued at $4.5 million, compared to $5.3 million in last year’s second quarter. Backlog as of June 30 amounted to $8.8 million, more than double the year-earlier total, Quipp said.

-Tensor Group Inc. sold two four-high T-400BE  towers and two flying pasters to Venezuelan publisher C.A. Diario Panorama. The units will be added to the publisher’s existing 8-unit Tensor commercial press, the company said.

One year ago

The newly christened Detroit Newspaper Partnership LP begins printing the Detroit Free Press on its new MAN Roland Inc. presses capping a 30-month, $177 million production facility upgrade.

Five years ago

The Roanoke (Va.) Times is the first newspaper in the United States to install a Mainstream 80, Heidelberg’s 4-by-1 double-wide press, as part of an upgrade of the newspaper’s production facility.

10 years ago

The International Trade Commission rules unanimously that Rockwell Graphic Systems and the U.S. press industry are injured by the dumping of large newspaper printing presses in the domestic market by foreign manufacturers.

15 years ago

Harris Corp.’s controls and composition division introduces a Unix-based pagination server.