-The Wall Street Journal said it would boost its color advertising capacity by 17 percent, or four pages each issue, in a $30 million project to be completed by 2009. The paper will add a combination of Goss Headline Offset 4-color towers and half-decks - all previously used equipment - to its presslines. It’s the first Wall Street Journal color expansion for advertisers since 2002, the paper said.
 

-Net-linx said The Buffalo (N.Y.) News and Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal agreed to roll out its XMLBridge content management app. The papers will use the software to transform content in their System 77 systems as XML, thus allowing them greater flexibility in how they display and distribute content. The News will use the firm’s Classified software while the Beacon Journal will use its Editorial software.


 

-KBA North America Inc. said it will close its York, Pa., web press sales, service and parts office and transfer operations to Williston, Vt., which currently houses the vendor’s sheetfed division.

The transition should be completed in about six months. KBA said it’s making the move to optimize customer service, “thus ensuring all printers have one contact point for all their needs,” according to Ralf Sammeck, KBA North America’s president and chief executive officer. Additional details about the consolidation, including the number of jobs affected by the move, will be released at a later date, KBA said.
 

-Amerikal Products Corp. introduced, Brigl, a new blanket and roller wash. The company said the wash is comprised of more than 90 percent raw materials grown on American funds and boasts a VOC rating of 34.3 grams per liter. It can be used for coldset, heatset and ultraviolet printing on web and sheetfed presses, the firm said.
 

-Derrick Publishing tapped Software Consulting Services to roll out the vendor’s AdMax and ClassPag apps at its dailies and semi-weekly newspapers in western Pennsylvania. Installation is scheduled to begin this month.
 

-Swiss vendor SandyScreen AG unveiled SandyStar, a screen printing technology aimed at supplanting traditional AM, FM and hybrid screens. The printing element works with a standard of 1,270 dots per inch and can be used up to a screen frequency of 203 lines per inch, the company said.

One year ago

The South Bend (Ind.) Tribune chooses Quipp Systems Inc. to upgrade its postpress operation.

Five years ago

The Chicago Sun-Times completes the transfer of printing from its downtown letterpress facility to a new $120 million web offset printing plant.

10 Years Ago

Rockwell International sells its Rockwell Graphic Systems printing press unit to an investment group for $600 million. The new entity is called Goss Graphic Systems.

15 Years Ago

Ferag is tapped to supply 13 single-copy conveyors at the  Toronto Star’s new production plant in Vaughan, Ontario.