Coldset Web Presses -- Newspapers Staying Cool

"Along with high print quality, high page capacity folders are required—folders with the ability to run as many as 12 single-wide webs into as many as four separate formers," Gustafson says. "This creates four-section broadsheet newspapers on a single-width, straight running press."

The trend is toward higher and higher quality levels achieved through a variety of technologies, explains Dave Moreland, vice president of sales and marketing at Dauphin Graphic Machines (DGM). Printers are now looking to prepress technologies such as CTP devices utilizing stochastic screening for non-heatset printing, he says. "Printers are equipping non-heatset presses with commercial printing technologies such as tension infeeds, closed-loop color-to-color register, and CIP3-driven remote ink systems."