The Montrose (Colo.) Daily Press this month will flip the switch on a beefed-up press that will double its color capacity.

Inland Newspaper Machinery Corp. upgraded the Daily Press’ 9-unit single-width Goss International Corp. Community machine, adding six reconditioned units, configured as a four-high tower and stacked mono units, said Bill James, vice president of sales.

Inland also installed an upper former to the press, which Inland originally placed at the Daily Press’ production facility last year.



With the press on-edition, the Daily Press will double its color capacity, from 6 pages to 12. It will also be able to produce two sections in a single run.

The Daily Press is the third Wick Communications Co. newspaper to hire Inland to bolster its press. Inland completed a similar project at The Sierra Vista (Ariz.) Herald, which also doubled the paper’s color capacity.

It also placed a 9-unit Community press at the Frontiersman in Wasilla, Alaska. In addition to adding the presses, Wick reduced the machines’ web widths to 48 inches.

James said the market for reconditioned single-width presses is again percolating after hitting a plateau earlier this summer. “Essentially, it’s the demand for color that’s driving the market,” he said. “They already own the iron, we can let them upgrade and add color and spend less money” than buying a new press.