ACROSS the nation

NEWTON—Total Printing Systems has acquired a new five-color Kodak NexPress 2100 plus printing system. This system will be used to expand its short-run book and variable publishing capabilities.

LOUISIANA

ALEXANDRIA—The Town Talk, a Gannett-owned daily newspaper, has purchased two of Agfa’s violet :Advantage platesetters, one for the news-paper and the other for its McCormick Graphics commercial operation at a separate facility.