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CA Printer Purchases Web Press

GARDENA, CA—Southwest Offset Printing will install a Heidelberg Mercury web press with 96 printing couples and two JF-35 folders in early 2004. The company will use the new press to print a regional edition of The New York Times, as well as other newspapers and semi-commercial products. The new Mercury press will include 12 four-high towers and 18 pasters.