Tensor Group Inc. said it sold two T-500 commercial presses to Turkish printer Dogan Offset Publishing and Printing.

Installation of the machines will begin later this year, Tensor said. Each press is configured as two four-high towers and one H-50 folder.

The T-500, introduced last year, incorporates three vibrator rollers and three ink form rollers to meet ink coverage demands of heatset and UV printing. It’s rated at 50,000 copies per hour.

The presses will be equipped with Essex Products Group remote inking, Quad Tech Inc. register guidance and Megtec vertical dryers and splicing systems.

Dogan Offset prints magazines, inserts, books and telephone directories. The new machines will allow Dogan to produce more than 1.5 billion signatures a year, Tensor said.

The sale is the second Tensor has made to Dogan, which also uses a 76-unit coldset Tensor press to produce its flagship newspaper, Hurriyet (see Newspapers & Technology, April 2004).