NEWSPAPER PRESSES -- Creating Commercial Niches
"Most small plants do not have the 16- to 20-foot ceilings necessary for a four-high tower, but can use a four-color unit that will fit within 10-foot ceilings," he notes.
New Innovations
Shaftless drive technology has also been an important innovation for the newspaper press market in the last few years, says Rich Kerns, president of Solna Web Press. Solna's flagship newspaper press, the D400, is a 55,000 pph vertical tower press, which comes fully equipped with such options as spray dampening, water-cooled oscillating rollers, on-the-run plate cylinder cocking, three ink form rollers and digital press control system (remote ink, dampening, press function and register control). The D400's shaftless drive allows for independent unit make-readies and can be equipped for "flying plate changes."
