-QuadTech said it installed its register guidance system technology at two newspapers, The Salt Lake Tribune and the Daily Sun in The Villages, Fla.

The Tribune attached the system to its TKS (USA) Color Top 5000 press while the Daily Sun installed the system on its Manugraph DGM Inc. 430 press.

-Manugraph Dauphin Graphic Machines Inc. said it sold four DGM 430 press units to the Aspen (Colo.) Daily News. The paper will configure the units as a four-high tower, DGM said. Installation began last month.

-Koenig & Bauer AG said it will open a new parts and service center near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in mid-January as part of its plan to close its York, Pa., plant and transfer sales and service operations to its sheetfed division in Williston, Vt. KBA also said it sold a Colora press to Cambridge Newspapers, which publishes the Cambridge Evening News and a number of other publications in the United Kingdom.

-Goss International Corp. sold a Universal 75 press to Italian newspaper publisher Martano. Goss said the press, which will be installed this year, will be used to print a number of publications.

-Honeywell said it was awarded a $5 million contract by Koenig & Bauer AG to extend its Printa Press Control System on KBA presses at Harmsworth Quays Printing Ltd.’s production facility in London. The extension of the Printa system will let HQP speed up the KBA presses and increase the number of color pages, Honeywell said.

-MediaSpan’s Media Software unit opened a new facility in Melbourne, Fla.

One year ago

The Dallas Morning News picks Prim Hall to provide Sunday packaging systems for a new postpress and distribution plant it’s building in South Dallas.

Five years ago

USA Today completes the conversion of all 36 of its national and five international print sites to computer-to-plate.

10 years ago

Machine Design Services gets a contract from The Washington Post to install a series of postpress systems at the paper’s production plant. The systems will oversee roll handling, bundling, sortation and waste transport.

15 years ago

Ferag notches a contract from the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune to add a packaging line to the paper’s existing postpress system.