The Herald-Times in Bloomington, Ind., is now on-edition with its Americolor add-on tower.

The paper last year purchased the tower from Inland Newspaper Machinery Corp. to boost its color capacity, said Brad Clarke, production director.

Photo: Deborah Stroud, The Herald-Times
 

The tower, manufactured for Inland by Manugraph DGM Inc., is letting The Herald-Times double the color capacity it formerly had with its existing Koenig & Bauer AG Express 50 press, according to Clarke.

The shaftless 50-inch-wide tower is equipped with EPG automatic ink controls, Glunz & Jensen K&F Inc. plate lockups, Oxy-Dry automatic blanket washing systems and a technotrans spray dampening system that extends into the Express machine.

Crews from Hall Contracting Services LLC installed the tower.

The Herald-Times is the third newspaper to buy an Americolor tower. Other towers are in operation at The Herald-Mail Co. in Hagerstown, Md., and Charleston (W. Va.) Newspapers.