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TAP Installs Solna Web Press

CROSSVILLE, TN—TAP Publishing has placed an order for a Solna C800 commercial web press. The 12-unit, three-web heatset press, with a price tag of $10.3 million, is configured as two parallel lines: one with eight units stacked four-over-four, and one with four units. The press is equipped with Solna Digital Press Control, C800 shaftless drives, ink-fountain presetting using CTP data, closed-loop color measurement and control, and two F303 high-speed folders. TAP will use the presses to print its own line of publications: Trade-A-Plane, Rock & Dirt and Tradequip International, serving the aviation, construction and oil field/refining industries.