Goss International Corp. said it sold four Newsliner 90 presses to Japanese newspaper publisher Sankei Shimbun.

The machines, each configured as two five-high towers, two four-high towers, one folder and four reelstands, will replace six existing doublewide presses at the publisher’s Hokusetsu Center printing facility in Osaka, Japan, Goss said. They’re scheduled to be in operation next year.

 

The presses will be equipped with Goss’ Digirail digital inking system, although the fifth unit will sport open fountain inking to allow the paper to produce specific colors.

Sankei prints the core newspaper as well as the daily Sankei Sports. It needed the new presses to provide additional flexibility and color capacity, according to Mutsunori Funatsuki, senior manager of Sankei Shimbun’s production department.