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East Coast publisher breathing new life into local advertising u by Tara McMeekin Contributing Writer

For many local newspapers, social media — namely Facebook — plays a major role. However, the social media giant is continually changing its algorithms — often to the disadvantage of local advertis-ers — and controlling which businesses its users see. This has made it increasingly difficult for newspapers and their advertisers to reap all the potential benefits from the platform.

Straus News, which publishes 17 local weekly newspapers in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, recently decided it was time to do something to enable advertisers to gain better market share and visibility on Facebook.

To accomplish that goal, the publisher launched its ShopLocal pro-gram in partnership with Innocode.

Extending advertisers’ reach“We were looking for ways to jump on the Facebook bandwagon and help our advertisers extend their reach,” Jeanne Straus, CEO of Straus News, told News & Tech. “As Facebook has changed its algorithms to businesses’ disadvantage, we thought Innocode could help.”

Established in 2011 in Norway, Innocode provides digital products aimed at helping newspapers secure their positions as community hubs and develop new sources of revenue through social media.

Straus said she first discovered Innocode and the Local Offers prod-uct that underpins the publisher’s ShopLocal program at an annual National Newspaper Association convention. Local Offers provides subscription-based access to a hub of local deals and offers, and al-

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is taking its single-copy sales racks to the next level, launching Virginia’s first digital out-of-home video marketing solution that combines technology with customer data.

In January, the Times-Dispatch rolled out the Virginia Video Network, a location-based video advertising solution, across 25 loca-tions across Richmond. VVN uses demo-graphic data to determine the best locations to market directly to consumers at the point of purchase in high-traffic retail locations. The Times-Dispatch also partnered with GPM In-

vestments to place 10 displays in its most traf-ficked Fas Mart convenience store locations.

“It is a TV display monitor on a newspaper rack,” Broderick Thomas, director of VVN advertising, told News & Tech. “They can be mounted anywhere — so it doesn’t have to be on the rack — but putting these where we already have racks is the easiest way for us to get into the market.”

Thomas, who served as director of digital sales for the Times-Dispatch before the launch of VVN, said the project was a year and a half in the making. The publisher first became

interested in the technology in late 2017, but when Lee Enter-prises took over management of the paper for Times-Dispatch parent BH Media Group in June of 2018, the initiative stalled.

With Thomas at the helm, the project ramped up again in Oc-tober 2018 when the Times-Dis-patch ordered a total of 50 mon-itors for its single-copy racks.

“Since we started in January, we’ve been getting phenomenal data,” Thomas said.

How it worksThe technology, underpinned by Phoenix Vi-sion’s SiteView digital billboard technology, is essentially a monitor that features a data-collection mechanism.

“It’s sort of like the (Nintendo) Wii strip in that it’s picking up movement,” Thomas said.

The displays do not collect images or vid-eo, so there are no privacy issues.

“It picks up people within 50 feet of the screen and if they engage for more than three seconds, the scanner is picking up data that is based on shoulder width, facial character-istics, etc.”

The technology can deliver information on age and gender, with a 90 percent accuracy rate. It allows the Times-Dispatch to give its ad-vertisers reporting on how many people have seen their ads and some information about who those people are.

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U.K., is getting a new Lithoman from manroland Goss, according to a news release from manroland Goss. The Lithoman will replace one of two existing Rotoman 16-page commercial presses.

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manroland Goss web systems, with all inline control systems for cut-off, dy-namic cut-off, color and ink density, according to the company. The automa-tion package is complemented with QuickStart and QuickStopp features for frequent job changes.

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New WE-Druck press equipped with QIPC automationPress manufacturer Koenig & Bauer has entered into a partnership with

Dutch company Q.I. Press Controls and presses from the German manufac-turer are often equipped with QIPC automation. This is the case with a new Commander CL from Koenig & Bauer that will be put into operation by WE-Druck, a printing company in Oldenburg, Germany.

WE-Druck invested in the new press at the end of 2018 and the press will be put into operation in the summer of 2019.

The new press in Oldenburg is part of a modernization of the plant, which produces 1.5 million newspapers and 7 million other supplements per week,

and is to become the heart of the plant. "We have decided to equip our press with QIPC systems because this will further increase the degree of automa-tion of our press," says Margit Schweizer, at WE-Druck. "The fact that the systems can be fully integrated into our new press and that QIPC is Koenig & Bauer's standard supplier also plays an important role.”

The Commander CL from Koenig & Bauer will be equipped with the mRC-3D system (6 cameras) for color register, the mRC-3D system (2x 6 cameras) for cut-off control and the IDS-3D system (6 cameras) for color control.

Hearst Newspapers will use Dart, Publishers Circulation Fulfillment’s last mile delivery and distribution fulfillment software platform, PCF announced.

Dart’s solution includes service management tools, route management tools, daily route book production and delivery reports, automated recovery dispatch, delivery verification, complaint management and carrier compensa-tion tools.

Work is underway to set up Dart for a phased implementation in distribution operations across a large segment of Hearst, including the Houston Chronicle,

San Antonio Express, Albany Times Union and all newspapers in the Hearst Connecticut Media Group: the New Haven Register, Connecticut Post, Green-wich Time, Stamford Advocate and Norwalk Hour, according to PCF.

“Hearst joins Cox Media Group and Gannett as the latest multi-publication client to capitalize on Dart’s suite of solutions to efficiently view, maintain and optimize their footprint for a sustainable and scalable last mile distribution model,” said Michael Giordana, executive vice president-strategic business integration.

Hearst to use Dart distribution tech

Dumont subsidiary buys Commander CL from Koenig & Bauer

CCI Europe acquires Digital Collections

Halle, Germany-based DuMont subsidiary MZ Druckereigesellschaft is buying a Commander CL from Koenig & Bauer, continuing a partnership that has lasted for more than 180 years, according to Koenig & Bauer.

It is a little over two years ago since the company’s last investment, also a Commander CL. “Our current press offers all the essential prerequisites for success: A high level of automation, reliability, exceptional flexibility and fast makeready. It was clear that we would continue along the chosen road with Koenig & Bauer at our side,” says MZ Managing Director Bernd Preusse. The new Commander CL will enter production in the fourth quarter

of 2019. Since the initial market launch just a few years ago, Koenig & Bauer has now sold 27 presses of this type to users in Germany, France, China and the U.S., and it is currently the most frequently ordered newspaper press, according to Koenig & Bauer.

Alongside the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, with a circulation of almost 200,000 copies, the 115 employees at MZ produce advertising supplements, brochures, booklets and other print products in the Rhine and half-Rhine formats. Other activities include extensive mailing and logistics services.

CCI Europe has acquired full ownership of Hamburg-based Digital Col-lections. DC will now join the existing collaboration between CCI and its other subsidiary company, Escenic, in the development of the CUE publish-ing platform.

In the last six months, CCI has received orders for CUE installations from several large media companies such as The Economist, Polish broadcaster TVN, and German news publishers Der Tagesspiegel, Handelsblatt, Badis-

che Neueste Nachrichten and Ippen-Gruppe, the company says. DC is known for its DC-X digital asset management platform, which enables

media companies to manage content assets such as pictures, text, and videos in a central content repository and integrate external sources, such as RSS feeds and agency wires, into their content creation workflow, according to CCI.

DC-X will continue as a stand-alone digital asset management solution, but will also be added as a native component of CUE.


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lows advertisers to control which ads are shown in a newspaper. The tool is essentially a widget that makes it easy for local advertisers to add and aggregate their own social media content.

The widget is a subscription service that newspapers can sell to local stores. When the advertiser posts something on Facebook using the lo-cal newspaper hashtag, it is automatically added to the widget.

“Now, when people show up in a store, they have seen the retail-ers products in the local media,” Innocode partner Morten Holst told N&T. “Then that post will have much better distribution than it would as a standard Facebook post.”

Advertisers can also monitor performance on a weekly basis and change offers on the fly.

“We want to help local newspapers deliver the local information needs and secure that position as the digital information hub and the

glue that people miss in the local community,” Holst said. “That led to different services, and Local Offers is one of those.”

Better photos attract viewsStraus’ ShopLocal is the equivalent of standalone photos on Face-book, so the better the photo, the better the response.

“Good and intriguing pictures always perform better on Facebook,” Straus said. “So a great dress or someone throwing a hatchet is going to get a response.”

Straus said her newspapers take the analytics piece a step further. Rather than advertisers deciphering that information on their own, someone from the newspaper advertising staff walks them through the data in an effort to make it more meaningful and actionable.

Local Offers has enabled Straus News to go to market with some-thing for advertisers that are heavy Facebook users and looking to ex-pand their local reach. The publisher offers its advertisers subscription durations of three to six months.

“They did a lot of training and helped us with best practices,” she added. “We now have a number of clients using ShopLocal on a regular basis.”

Straus believes the Innocode product is another tool in the arsenal of hyperlocal newspapers, which she said have distinct advantages over their regional counterparts.

“Publications that are devoted to a town or two have continued to do well because these newspapers play a role in helping to build the community,” she said. “They’re talking about things like where a new traffic light is needed, or how many kindergarten teachers or police-men there will be in a community. These papers that are able to focus on a specific area and what matters to people’s daily lives and to serve them relative advertising will continue to do well.” p

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New advertising targetsThe Times-Dispatch’s sales force has been creating promos to market VVN. Most of the program’s cur-rent customers are existing print advertisers who are relatively new to digital advertising. But Thom-as said the program is also allowing the publisher to target traditional TV advertisers by offering them a cheaper, yet highly effective, advertising buy.

“We can give them a similar type of ad, and the best part is that we are catching the viewers when they are out in the marketplace buying, rather than at home on their couches where they’re often get-ting up to go to the fridge or bathroom during an ad,” Thomas said. “It’s a much more captive audi-ence.”

VVN runs and repeats content every seven min-utes and new content loops in 15-second incre-ments. The displays run news, updates and in-store promotion for the retail location of the rack. The remainder of the time is for Times-Dispatch adver-tisers.

“Your advertisers get a high level of frequency — they’re getting more screenplay than they ever would on a TV ad,” he said.

Thomas said VVN welcomes all advertisers will-ing to spend money, but he believes there is a huge opportunity to attract those advertisers with a tele-vision budget.

“If they’re spending “$20,000 a month on TV, we can give them visibility here for $2,000 a month and increase their reach — they don’t have to do one or the other.”

Locally, Thomas said VVN is a great fit for busi-nesses that appeal to customers that frequent these news rack locations, such as transportation com-panies (think buses and carpool pairing services). The best audience depends on the objectives and the market the advertiser is trying to reach, of course, but Thomas said he’s excited that the Times-Dispatch can provide advertisers with the data to help guide those decisions and ad buys.

“We all know that traditional print is in decline and this is a huge benefit for papers,” he said. “We aren’t just going to let the newspaper die.”

Thomas is hopeful that VVN will increase news-paper subscriptions as well. Oahu Publications was the first publisher to roll out video marketing and Thomas said the Star-Advertiser in Honolulu has seen a small increase in subscriptions.

“This gives us the ability to continue to put out quality journalism,” he said. “As we move to the future, we can continue that and help our advertis-ers shift to a new paradigm.” p

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“We are on a mission to spread the word to publishers, executive committees and OEM partners of all shapes and sizes, encouraging them to support, endorse and fund the attendance of their production and operations managers at ING 2019,” said Newton. “This is so im-portant to newspapers everywhere that they have the opportunity to find answers and solutions to their needs from fellow professionals.”

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N&T: What are “the Innova-tors” doing dif ferently to lead/coach baby boomers and millennials alike?

I recently took over as GM at a new company for Hearst called Bay Area Production Services.

The company (Transcontinental Printing) we took over was printing the San Francisco Chronicle. The first thing I noticed was how young the vast majority of employees were. Seventy percent are under the age of 35. Anyone who’s running a newspaper production plant has undoubtedly had to reduce the size of their operation over the past 12 to 15 years. And while buyouts were used in some cases, the across-the-board layoffs many of us had to do led to reducing by seniority.

Leading a much younger workforce today has different challenges. Most of the millennial em-ployees here really want more time off to pursue their passions, whatever they may be. One ad-justment we were able to make to meet that need was making use of 10- and 12- hour schedules with odd start and off times to allow employees to have more days off and shorter commute times

by starting and ending shifts at low traffic-flow times. Living in the South Bay area is expensive and a mess with traffic. By using these schedules, we give our employees more options for days off and travel time to work.

N&T: How are you employing today’s formal coaching methodologies to empower your team?

We use front line supervisors as “Champions” of different processes. We have Champions for ink, plates, rollers, packaging supplies, etc. The Champions are meeting directly with suppliers, testing products and negotiating prices. This push-es the decision-making deep down into the orga-nization and the Champions are encouraged to use employees in their process. They have to pres-ent to the senior team when they wish to make a change. But the suggestions are almost always approved. This serves a dual purpose for us. First, it pushes the decision-making down closer to the folks that are dealing with the reality of daily pro-duction. I know as a young press man, I had to run a press with complications caused by a poor ven-dor for one of the many key suppliers that it takes to run the press. The people making the decision often would make the choice on price. When our Champions suggest a higher cost vendor, they al-most always prove to us the wisdom of the deci-sion. Fewer stops or better quality quickly make

the higher priced product cost effective.

N&T: What has been your most effective cost savings solution (workforce excluded)?

We work with four employee press crews work-ing 12 hours a day covering two presses. With 18 total employees, we cover 24 hours a day, four days a week and 12 hours a day the rest of the week and all vacations. Any work we can fit in the schedule doesn’t cost us any pressroom labor. And if we land another seven-day-a-week news-paper, we only have to add three employees in the pressroom to make that work.

N&T: The industry as a whole is involved in a daily battle, from aging equipment to reve-nue challenges. How could INg 2019 benefit folks in the industry?

They will have the chance to take with lead-ers from virtually every newspaper chain out there who have dealt with these challenges and can share with them the pros and cons of each idea. Some papers have added color capacity through used equipment, some papers run col-lect to reduce packages and improve deadlines for more sections, some papers have outsourced to operations with more current equipment. There are many more examples of good ideas for the at-tendees of ING 2019 to consider. p

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N&T: What are “the Innovators” doing differently to lead/coach baby boomers and millennials alike?

I believe the greatest responsibility of a leader is to be able to affirm that I have done my part and met my obli-gation first. When I first think of this, traditional wisdom jumps to the staunch management phrases like commu-nicate, bring clarity, set strategy — goals — and tactics.

Before I can ever go there, I must first challenge my-self to do these things in the best, most advanced and open mindset possible. This means I must dedicate time to my own learning, believing fully that “You can’t give what you don’t have.” I’m completely convinced, as leaders, it is the kiss of death to believe what we have done in the past will suffice in the future — or even tomorrow morning!

Personally, I have tried to improve my own awareness and truly understand what is important to others. What is it that creates feelings of motivation, encouragement and commitment across a wide and varied group of people?

My hope is to be part of an evolving and developing leadership group that is able to incorporate concepts of empathy, connection, playfulness and capitalizing on chaos into our vocabulary along with the favorites of ac-countable, responsible and dependable. To me, regard-less of your generation, these are all things we want or we are good at doing. I also believe there can be a mi-gration to appropriately incorporate all of these into our working cultures together. When we do this in the right way I believe it can absolutely un-cork creativity, instill resilience and unfold an appreciation for one another, positioning us so we can better take on a multitude of challenges together.

N&T: How are you employing today’s formal coach-ing methodologies to empower your team?

In my 1:1 meetings with direct reports, they lead the discussion and educate me on their initiatives and plans. The table is somewhat turned so that my primary role is to listen for clarity of purpose and alignment with our goals. I also ask questions to uncover opportunities or reveal logic to reason through a puzzling challenge. It is a much more give and receive experience where they share with me the things they believe to be the highest priority or where they need the most support.

Among the roles I cover, I try to bring and maintain alignment on our overall goals. I secure and help to pri-oritize or allocate resources. And lastly, I want to protect and safeguard.

Protect and safeguard may sound a little “different,” so to be clear: I encourage robust risk taking! Calcu-lated, cautious, calculated again but nonetheless — risk taking. I believe leaders are able to be somewhat abandoned in their approach to problem solving when they know someone has not only reasoned through the risk with them, but also if things “don’t go so great,” we’ve established safety valves and plan Bs — together. I believe this builds trust, encourages ownership and ultimately confidence in their own abilities and judge-ment.

N&T: What has been your most effective cost sav-ings solution (workforce excluded)?

It goes back in time quite a way, but it was an initia-tive focused on waste, quality, safety and attendance. Based on performance against specific goals, employ-ees were awarded “points” in these various categories. Points were ambiguous in value but could be redeemed for prizes such as golf clubs, watches and even patio fur-niture if you were strong willed enough to save up over a period of time. The program was actually funded from the savings generated by reducing downtime, squash-ing waste and improving our safety record, ultimately reducing insurance premiums.

N&T: The industry as a whole is involved in a daily battle, from aging equipment to revenue challeng-es. How could INg 2019 benefit folks in the indus-try?

As we are more and more challenged for capital in-vestment, understanding the granular details of calcu-lating ROI that can get projects approved.

Bring me a vendor that is willing to talk about “CRA-ZY” ways to finance capital investment, i.e. install the equipment that will save me operating dollars and take quarterly payments as the savings are realized.

What more can capital investment do besides reduce operating/salary expense, generate revenue, address obsolescence and maintain compliance/regulatory re-quirements.

Tell me how to manage talent acquisition and reten-tion. What can I give employees beyond salary dollars? Is the new employee a hybrid of talent and if so, what is the best makeup?. p

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N&T: How does the annual INg meeting enable/empower you?

Currently, my company owns no print sites At the ING confer-ence, I often discuss with folks in attendance subcontract print op-portunities and/or shipping op-portunities more than anything else, since that is the world in which I operate. I also look for print and shipping referrals from the suppliers. If I hear of an idea at the ING Conference presenta-tions that I want fleshed out, I will try to have a conversation with the speaker or someone from the speaker’s company to get more information.

Attending the ING conference puts all real-time thinking, and often cutting-edge information, right at your fingertips, availing face-to-face conversations with folks having actual experience with new processes and ideas.

If applicable, I can take these ideas back to our subcontractors and direct them to the presenta-tion on the ING website. Any-thing that improves operations for our subcontractors has a direct, positive impact on my company.

With regard to working at a publishing company, I pay close attention to ING conference pre-sentations that facilitate a pub-lisher’s journey to paring down to its core competencies. All of this enables/empowers me to make a difference at my company. p


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specifically on managing different work styles of teams that contain Baby boomers, millennials, and employees from Gen x and Gen z.

N&T: How are you employing today’s formal coaching methodologies to empower your team?

Employees at The Times are provided with a variety of coaching options. Our Talent & Inclusion (Human Resources) department offers private ses-sions twice a week dedicated to career advice and coaching via the Talent Open Door program. The sessions are run by our Talent & Inclusion partners and sometimes feature external career coaches and Times executives. The

Times also trains managers on tools to coach their teams effectively in our Leadership Training program. Additionally, we collaborate with a variety of external vendors to provide customized one-on-one coaching to high potential employees.

N&T: What has been your most effective cost savings solution (work-force excluded)?

Over the past several years our continued focus on optimizing our na-tional print site footprint and our transportation and distribution logistics has resulted in sizable savings. With 27 national print sites, over 350 home delivery markets and well over 800 transportations and distribution vendors, we are continually working with our partners to drive efficiencies and im-prove service. That said, all decisions made are viewed through the lens of our subscribers and the service levels that they expect and deserve.

N&T: The industry as a whole is involved in a daily battle, from aging equipment to revenue challenges. How could INg 2019 benefit folks in the industry?

The industry is clearly facing strong headwinds and the challenges are many. ING is one of the last operations-focused newspaper conferences that still remains. I have been attending the ING conference for close to 30 years and I have been on the ING board for more than 20 years. I know that over those years I have come away with some great ideas and invaluable contacts that we have been able to leverage in our operation. ING is also a great net-working event where attendees have the opportunity to meet and interact with senior industry leaders from both the newspaper and vendor side. This year we will once again have a truly compelling agenda with great keynote speakers and topically pertinent presentations from our expert speakers and panelists. I am confident that there will be plenty of takeaways from this year’s conference that will more than justify attending. p

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Nicholas Thompson, Wired magazine’s editor-in-chief, will deliver the keynote address at PRINT 19, the printing industry event slated for October 3-5 at Chicago’s McCormick Place North.

Thompson’s address is entitled “The Wired Future: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Privacy, Social Media, Truth, Tech Companies, and More.” Pro-duced by the Association for PRINT Technologies (APTech), the event will feature an array of printing equipment and tech and 80+ educational sessions including hands-on labs, according to organizers.

“We’re delighted to welcome Nicholas to Print 19,” says Thayer Long, presi-dent, APTech. “His insight and expertise is a huge value-add to attendees and ex-hibitors, and indicative of the quality and depth of the annual Print experience.”

Thompson previously played a pivotal role with The New Yorker, first as se-nior editor, then as editor of the magazine’s digital platform. He is also the au-thor of the biography “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War.” Earlier in his career, Thompson worked as a senior editor at Legal Affairs, as an editor at the Washington Monthly, and co-founded The Atavist, the National Magazine Award-winning publishing company. p

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MainPad bundles pertinent information on press diagnostics and main-tenance. Required documentation, maintenance, and repair instructions can be called up using QR codes affixed to electrical cabinets. This makes it easier and faster to identify and order replacement components, according to MGWS.

“The new MainPad enables me to support the team in the pressroom comfort-ably from my home when it comes to a malfunction during night production,” Ulrich Muller, head of technology at Herold Druck, said in a statement. “I can immediately have an overview of the current situation on the printing press.”

If an issue cannot be fixed in-house, MainPad facilitates communication for remote support from the TeleSupportCenter using images and video.

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“We have installed parallel in-house software on the MainPad hardware, which we were already using for spare parts administration,” Muller said. “MainPad has become the central maintenance application for the entire printing house.” p

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The smartphone app from Beijing-based ByteDance Technology calls it-self “the world's leading destination for short-form mobile videos.” It’s one of the latest apps to quickly grow legions of young aficionados, competing with Snap, Vine, Dubsmash, Instagram, You-Tube and Facebook’s Lasso.

“I downloaded it with a friend to use at sleepovers,” said one American

tween girl. “We used it to create lip-synching videos. There are also comedy sketches.” The videos are no longer than 15 seconds and can feature special effects.

In 2018 ByteDance, launched in 2012 by Zhang Yiming in an apartment close to Beijing’s Tsinghua University, was reportedly val-ued at $75 billion. That unconfirmed figure made it the world’s most valuable startup, Bloomberg and others reported.

The TikTok app, formerly known as Musical.ly, recently passed one billion installs on Google Play and the App Store, according to mobile market research firm Sensor Tower. That number doesn’t include Android installs in China. TikTok was the top non-game app in the U.S. in January 2019, according to Sensor Tower.

Publishers have taken note. “U.K. publishers are betting on short-form video platform TikTok as a new way to reach younger audi-ences” reads a recent Digiday headline. U.K. publishers the BBC, MTV and Kyra TV have been looking at TikTok as a source of talent or a content distribution partner, according to Digiday, which points out that the app doesn’t provide a means for publishers to monetize content.

NBC’s Snapchat show “Stay Tuned” has uploaded content to Tik-Tok, and ESPN and iHeartRadio are on the app, as well.

Banned, finedIn April the app stumbled when it was banned in India after a court in Tamil Nadu state said the app could make children vulnerable to predators and allow children to see pornography or suffer online bullying, CNN and others reported. Google and Apple pulled the app from their stores in India, but users who already had the app could continue to use it. The court lifted its ban after an appeal from TikTok, which said it had moved against inappropriate material.

In another snag, the operators of the app agreed in February to pay $5.7 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company illegally collected personal information from children. The payment is the largest civil penalty ever obtained by the commission in a children’s privacy case.

The FTC’s complaint alleges that Musical.ly violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which requires that web-sites and online services directed to children get parental consent before collecting personal information from children under the age of 13. p

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News & Tech: What’s new with the Association for PRINT Technologies?

Long: In short, every-thing. Unfortunately, there are still far too many com-panies who are fooling themselves that it’s busi-ness as usual or trying to go back in time. There are also too many companies who are so afraid of losing what they’ve got, they are only focused on themselves and don’t want to play in the sandbox with others. Well, good luck. We’re seeing that the companies that are continuing to do well are the ones coming up with innovative products de-signed to meet the needs of their customers. They are also very open to shar-ing, because it takes more than just a piece of equip-ment and good business practices to succeed today. Creating a success formula

is really tough, and not one that can be easily replicated. Even with all the right ingredients at your disposal and a great cake recipe, it still may come out tasting like garbage.

For APTech, we are working to move the print industry towards the future and as a result we are refocusing our products and services. Last year we launched LeadingPRINT, a magazine for entrepreneurs who are focused on the future. The success of the magazine and the conversations that it has generated is a great lead-in to the next ser-vice that we’re going to be offering, which is an online community forum called APTech Connect. With so many opportunities available to our industry, this community of entrepreneurs needs a place to collaborate and needs a place to cut through all the BS.

This new online community is like having a peer group available to you 24/7. It is designed and built to drive engagement across all areas of the print industry. And that means everyone — manufactur-ers, printers, designers, creatives and all who have a connection to print.

APTech Connect is for the innovators and idea generators and those who want to be associated with them and it’s free for both APTech members and non-members.

We expect that the discussions on the forum will be frank, honest and to quote a favorite board member of mine, we plan to “poke the bear” at all times.

News & Tech: What can you tell us about PRINT 19?Long: PRINT 19 isn’t going to be all things to all people. And we don’t expect or pretend that it is. It isn’t for the survivalists — those who remember and lament when print/PRINT (and they mean both!) was as large as (fill in the blank). It's not for people who think that a piece of machinery is going to solve their declining revenue. It’s definitely not for the hordes looking to invade the next vertical only to start another race to the bottom.

PRINT 19 is for those that agree that there is no better time to be in the print industry. It's an event for those who are broad-minded risk takers and those looking to write a new chapter for the print industry. Chicago is the place to get you on the path to building a bright and relevant future.

News & Tech: so why should members of the newspaper industry come to the show?Long: PRINT 19 is designed to tempt those who want to construct a better product for print consumers. Newspapers have been facing many challenges, and let’s be honest, some newspaper printing will probably never come back nor should it, yet does mean it’s a goner? Of course not. Our keynote, Nicholas Thompson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, will talk about “The Wired Future: Artificial In-telligence, Robotics, Privacy, Social Media, Truth, Tech Companies, and More” and still Wired produces a printed magazine because the physical experience is still very relevant. So those people who are in the newspaper segment should come to PRINT and engage and collaborate with those in other verticals who have very similar chal-lenges and see how we can address them in a collaborative way.

News & Tech: Historically, APTech has been an advocate for postal re-form. Are there any updates you can share about what’s happening?Long: Yes, we are still advocating for postal reform, which of course affects everyone in the print industry, including newspapers. This is an issue that we recommend that everyone become familiar with. On April 30, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing on the financial condition of the Postal Service and the need for postal reform. Many groups from within the print industry were involved including postal management and the postal unions. Joel Quadracci, president and CEO of Quad, represented the print industry and gave testimony. I suggest that reviewing the committee’s website is a great place to get more details of the hearing and to learn about the issues that impact us all.

But I’ll also say let’s be real, postal reform by itself is not a strategy for industry success. Let’s get entrepreneurial: How can we innovate and develop print products that aren’t even around today? If we put equal energy into that as an industry as we do with postal reform, I think we’d be better off. p

News & Tech caught up with Thayer Long, the president of the Association for PRINT Technologies, about what it takes to succeed in the print industry today and the upcoming PRINT 19 conference, to be held Oct. 3–5 at Chicago’s McCormick Place.

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Once upon a time — and this is not a fairy tale — there was a Golden Age of journal-ism.

I was fortunate during that Golden Age to work for three profitable daily newspapers, five bureaus of The Associated Press, and own and edit a weekly newspaper.

Today, times are tough for most journal-ists, as we’ve all seen.

Of particular concern to me is The Asso-ciated Press — arguably the most important news organization in the world.

A media bias chart (produced by Ad Fontes) rates the AP as the best news media company in terms of most original reporting and least (or balanced) bias. That’s a lofty achievement in today’s badly fractured media and political environment where viewers of MSN-BC see news presented in an opposite fashion from Fox News — i.e., Rachel Maddow’s worldview vs. Sean Hannity’s.

Despite cutbacks in budgets and staffing — and reduced support from its original owners, newspapers — the AP continues great work.

But not as great as it once did.In its latest annual report, AP CEO Gary Pruitt and AP Chairman

Steven Swartz note proudly: “In an unprecedented performance for the AP, five of our reporting efforts were finalists for Pulitzer Prizes this past year, and one of those — our coverage of the Yemen civil war — won the 2018 prize for international reporting.”

Newspapers were once the bedrock of support for the AP, but as the newspaper industry has struggled mightily — so has the AP.

The noble struggle now is to keep the AP alive and viable, which means selling AP’s content to virtually anyone capable of paying for it.

The AP ran up a $25.6 million deficit in 2012 on revenues of over $622 million. The AP narrowed its losses to 2013 to $8.2 mil-lion, and has broken even or better ever since (and has paid off all debts).

Total revenues have fallen from $622 million in 2012 to $518.4 million in 2018 (according to the AP’s annual report, published in early May.)

In the 36 years since I left the AP, much has changed at the news cooperative.

During the “Golden Age,” journalists ran the AP. Most states had bureau chiefs who’d risen through the news ranks. The bureau chief was in charge of member relations (i.e., sales to newspapers and broadcasters) but was also in charge of the news report.

Today, there are no more AP bureau chiefs.

In the last decade, the AP reorganized, laid off many of its vet-eran bureau chiefs and replaced them with regional directors who have no responsibility or authority over the news content. The six regional directors rarely visit newspapers anymore as few local newspaper executives have buying authority.

The concept of a member-owned news cooperative also has di-minished. In its heyday, AP members ruled the roost. Today, far less than half of AP’s revenue comes from member-owned newspapers, and AP executives talk about “our customers” and not “our mem-bers.”

Instead of having well-staffed bureaus in many states, the AP has centralized its editing functions to 10 hubs. In some smaller states, the only AP news staffer is a statehouse reporter. Senior newspaper editors tell me that the AP’s once-famous state report is almost non-existent, except for statehouse coverage.

When I worked for the AP, the news staff worked devoutly to de-velop and nourish a stringer network that bolstered the state (and sometimes) national AP report. In 2012, for example, the AP paid out $367 million in payments to stringers. The AP no longer reports stringer payments, but my sources tell me that the stringer expense has been almost eliminated.

Editors grumble that while award-winning AP stories about Ye-men are great, they no longer get full or timely coverage of im-portant state and regional news. They also complain that AP news stories often aren’t well edited, and that bias leaks into more and more stories.

To be fair, most staff-starved newspapers (and radio and TV news departments) produce far less news that could be shared with the AP and its other members/clients.

Pruitt and Swartz’s annual letter states, “AP’s greatest strength remains the power of our objective reporting and the credibility that comes with it. Our reporting has advanced the truth since our founding in 1846, and with another big news year in full swing, we are working every day to provide the content and services our customers need and the leadership they expect from AP as journal-ism’s one true north.”

I’m not crazy about many of the changes at the AP, but I con-gratulate the dogged efforts to remain journalism’s reliable “true north.” p

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ImPRESSions Worldwide gets order from Romania sC Editura Paralela 45, a book printer and publishing house in

Pitesti, Romania, has ordered a 22-3/4” cut-off four unit Goss SSC Community Press from imPRESSions Worldwide. The press will be delivered in “ready-to-run” condition including new rubber rollers with two mono units, two stacked units and a folder with cross per-forator for book work. The mono units have Jardis pneumatic tension

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“We wanted to buy a Goss machine and the first option was im-PRESSions Worldwide,” said Stancu Silviu, production manager.

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Panay News, a daily paper in Iloilo on Panay Island in the Philippines, will be adding a Goss Community SSC 22-3/4” tower, one mono unit and an SSC folder, all purchased from imPRESSions Worldwide.

“At the Panay News, we are committed to ink on paper. Our father’s final wish was that we reinvest in a printing press,” according to brothers Daniel Farjardo II and John Dan Elijah Farjardo, managing directors, Panay News. “Our family has provided impactful local news for generations and with this investment that will continue.”

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Ignite is part of the ESW Capital Group, based in Austin. The company focuses on buying, strengthening and growing mature business soft-ware companies. In June 2018, ESW Capital bought Olive Software, a provider of e-publishing solutions and digital archiving.

News & Tech talked to Ignite CEO Davin Cushman about Olive and other happenings at Ignite.

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News & Tech: Why is Olive software a great fit for Ignite Technologies?

Cushman: We are excited to have Olive become part of Ignite Technologies. It was great to share the news back in February and welcome Olive-powered publishers to Ignite.

Demand for quality digital content continues to explode, including a massive advertis-ing shift to digital away from print. It has been estimated that digital publishing is 10 times greater than it was in 2001, and it is not showing any signs of slowing down.

By integrating the Olive digital publishing platform into the overall Ignite enter-prise software portfolio, we saw the potential to immedi-

ately deliver incremental capabilities and increase value for both our new Olive customers and our existing Ignite customers.

To share one example that I’m extremely excited about: Olive customers now have access to our capability for sourcing and gain-ing usage rights for reader-generated images for use on both their websites or in their e-edition. After we enhance the Olive customer experience in this way, we will then turn to our long-standing Ignite customers, particularly those in publishing, to extend the capabilities of the Olive digital publishing platform, providing discounted access to Olive to every Ignite customer with digitization or digital archiving requirements.

News & Tech: In the first few months of Ignite ownership, what key en-hancements has Ignite made to the Olive digital publishing platform?

Cushman: Our Ignite engineering teams have made great progress already on two key fronts.

First, we’ve enhanced the Olive Dynamic Newsstand (ODN) Opti-mized Reader Experience to be fully modernized and mobile-friend-ly. Content is increasingly consumed on phones and tablets, and we saw this initial update as a critical first step in ensuring the platform is optimized to address today’s reader demands.

Second, based on our introductory conversations with customers, we have developed customer support programs, specifically for the Olive digital publishing platform, that align to what we heard.

To provide options for publishers to address their specific require-

ments, we offer three support tiers: Standard, Gold and Platinum. The support programs include services such as a review of your Olive platform with detailed reports on audience engagement indicators, including usage trends and patterns, and skin configuration services to enhance the look and feel of Olive ePublications, updating brand-ing and color palette, site rails and table contents, ad positions, and button and toolbar layouts, as well as configurations for desktop and mobile formats to improve overall engagement.

News & Tech: What is next for Olive software? Cushman: Digital transformation in the publishing industry, I be-

lieve, has not yet reached its zenith, as we’ve only started to scratch the surface of really getting insights from digitized content and read-ers’ interaction with it. As we look to 2020 and 2021, we see innova-tions in the realm of smarter digital publishing, which for us is about building audience intelligence, predictive content, and providing dy-namic mash-up engagement of new and younger readers. These are just a few of the components of Ignite’s overall vision for the Olive digital publishing platform, and we will continue to engage our Olive customers for input into the product plan as we move forward.

While we look ahead at the possibilities for digital publishing, at Ignite, we also understand the criticality of ensuring platform per-formance for customers today. Ignite serves thousands of customers around the world. While preparing to accelerate our customers’ busi-nesses in this changing industry with “smarter” innovations, we are committed to ongoing investment in rigorous, build test and deploy-ment platform maintenance to meet a growing global customer base and to address higher levels of mission-critical publishing demands.

News & Tech: What do you recommend to publishers for how to fur-ther leverage technology to engage audiences, grow readers and stay competitive?Cushman: We believe that smarter digital publishing is a journey — a series of ongoing strategy decisions and investments that are com-plex and can become costly very quickly. To assist publishers, there is a lot of expertise to be leveraged, and we recommend building partnerships with technology companies who can augment in-house expertise and provide access to programs to advance strategies. For example, at Ignite, we offer an innovative customer program where existing customers have complimentary use of other solutions to digitally transform more aspects of their business, which includes access to our experts for strategy and implementation discussions. The software industry is all too familiar with the challenges associ-ated with digital transformation. Working together, combining pub-lishing expertise with technology expertise, I believe is the best path to accelerate digital transformation for publishers, and together we can drive toward creating opportunities to benefit from the signifi-cant changes occurring in the publishing industry. p

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Marsh: In the six years since the company was originally formed, our industries have evolved rapidly. Newscycle has also evolved, expanding our product landscape through multiple acquisitions and growth initiatives. This has created the need for a new company identity.

News & Tech: What does the new name and tagline represent?Marsh: We chose the name Naviga because it conveys that, as a

partner, we help our customers navigate toward an ideal future. Our new tagline, “Venture Forward,” reinforces a commitment to partner-ing with global media companies to move toward digital expansion and revenue growth in rapidly shifting markets.

News & Tech: What does the rebranding mean for your customers? Marsh: In addition to changing our name, logo, color scheme, web-

site and office signage, this rebrand creates an excellent opportunity for us to become unified as one company and one team. As hard as we’ve tried, many of our customers still know us as DTI, Saxotech, Atex, MediaSpan, etc. In the past year, we have also acquired Market-ing G2, Media Services Group, Infomaker, and Acquire Media. We now have solutions for audience engagement, personalized subscrip-tion offers, digital advertising, event management, and AI/ML-driven content tagging and enrichment. This is an exciting chapter in our six-year evolution, and we hope everyone will embrace our new mis-sion statement: At Naviga, we combine the best thinking in content creation, syndication, presentation and monetization to help you get

the right information, amplify your message and generate new rev-enue in a rapidly shifting market. Tomorrow’s challenges demand an agile partner that offers you access to a flexible suite of solutions that prepare you for what lies just over the horizon. When you need guid-ance to move your business toward future growth, Naviga can point the way forward.

News & Tech: What does the Naviga product roadmap look like?Marsh: As part of our rebranding effort, we interviewed and surveyed over 200 customers around the world. When we asked customers about their needs and expectations from their technology partners, the one word that kept coming up was “simplify.” Our customers want us to build solutions that are simpler to install, use, and main-tain. They want user interfaces that are more intuitive. They want workflows that are less complicated. This is especially true in news-rooms, and it is one of the main reasons we invested in Infomaker. The Infomaker Digital Writer product — now called Naviga Writer — can be learned in a matter of hours, not days or weeks. Why is this impor-tant? Look at a few recent statistics: Editorial employment fell by 25 percent from 2008-2018; 40 percent of global newsrooms suffered layoffs in 2018; and globally, less than half of all new journalists hired last year have experience working with digital media or publishing across platforms. All these metrics suggest a need for ease-of-use, ease-of-support, and streamlined workflow across all our products. This applies equally to our ad management platform, our audience solutions, our mobile apps, and our self-service tools for subscribers and advertisers. We hope our new brand reflects our commitment to simplification in our products and our enduring commitment to proving the enabling technologies that media companies require to ensure future business success. p

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The Findlay Publishing Company (Ohio) will implement software developer Presteligence’s My News 360 Platform for their editorial system, website, e-edition, and mobile apps, a Presteligence news release said.

Findlay Courier, Review Times, and three radio stations will share a database allowing content to be written one time and distributed among the sister sites, the release said.

With their print-first mentality, staff can continue to write for print

but at the same time schedule stories and social media posts for when the content is published, the release says.

“Knowing the support of our legacy editorial system was coming to an end, it was imperative to look at the choices available. The My News 360 platform encompasses all of our print-first needs while providing us the tools for our digital future,” said Karl Heminger, president of Findlay Publishing.

Findlay Courier to use My News 360 for editorial production

Naviga, formerly Newscycle Solutions, has recently undergone a rebranding, including a new company logo, visual design, website and mission.

Naviga, a provider of software and services for media-rich indus-

tries, has headquarters in Bloomington, Minnesota, and regional of-fices around the world.

Naviga Vice President of Marketing Peter Marsh discussed the com-pany’s rebranding with News & Tech.

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Manroland Goss web systems launches Prima Controls Group After obtaining intellectual property rights to the assets of Harland Simon

following the company’s insolvency in October 2018, manroland Goss web systems has announced the launch of the new group focused on controls and drive upgrades and remote support programs for all newspaper press brands, Prima Controls Group.

Made up of former Harland Simon engineers and technicians and led by Senior Manager of Engineered Solutions Steve Withers, Prima Controls Group is focused on providing solutions for all different makes and models of newspaper press equipment and supporting the large installed base of

controls and drives systems and remote support programs in place around the world, according to manroland Goss web systems.

“With the launch of Prima Controls Group, we believe that we are in the best position we have ever been to offer support and enhancements to the newspaper market,” said Ron Sams, vice president of sales for manroland Goss web systems. “We now have the expertise and the portfolio with solu-tions for press controls and drive upgrades at every size and for every brand on the market.”

Norwegian newspaper Sunnhordland Trykkeri, located in the town of Leirvik on the island of Stord on the Norwegian west coast, has contracted with DCOS for an extensive press addition and upgrade project. Sunnhord-land Trykkeri is a privately owned newspaper and printshop and one of the few in Scandinavia that is independent from larger groups. The closing of printshops in the surrounding area of Stord has enabled Sunnhordland Tryk-keri to attract more contract work.

DCOS will install three Goss Community 4-high towers and a Tensor H50 folder to the existing Goss Community/Global press in a multi-phase instal-lation, while maintaining daily production at the facility.

DCOS will perform a complete electrical retrofit, replacing existing drives

and controls with new drives and controls, a new control console, and con-verting the shafted drive system to a group shaftless drive configuration of 1-motor per 2-4 High towers. Other DCOS upgrades include adding remote inking and register motors to all current manual 4-high towers.

“Our acquisition of Tensor now allows us to be heavily involved in the mechanical aspects of a project, like the removal and reinstallation of equip-ment, adding remote inking, along with the traditional DCOS capabilities such as drive, controls, and automatic press registration and density con-trol equipment upgrades,” said Mattias Andersson, managing director of DCOS.

DCOS was set to complete the project in April.

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El Liberal gets manroland Goss web systems retrofit El liberal, a regional newspaper in Argentina, has opted for a com-

plete retrofit by manroland Goss web systems. The plant will now be completely modernized and equipped with the

latest PECOM technology, according to manroland Goss web systems.The control system retrofit including the latest PLC technology will

upgrade all components, such as printing unit, section, folder and

drive control systems. The new network technology connecting the PLC and PECOM control system to a diagnostic computer (ADS) via ethernet will ensure more powerful diagnostic options and more ef-fective tele-support, according to manroland Goss web systems.

The retrofit at El Liberal was to be completed in short order, manro-land Goss web systems said.

The Rheinische Bergische Druckerei in Duesseldorf, Germany, which prints well-known newspapers like the Rheinische Post, is modernizing the press controls on part of its KBA Commander press.

The order, which was placed with ABB through press manufac-turer Koenig & Bauer, covers the replacement of the control systems on two printing towers and the turner bar units associated with two folders.

The project sees the use of ABB’s footprint-compatible adapters that have exactly the same form, dimensions and connections as the original KT94 CPUs and CS31 I/O devices. The adapters mean that modern ABB AC500 PLCs and I/Os can be installed easily while retaining the original wiring, according to ABB. The compatibility

of the new and old systems means that the original controls can be replaced on a step-by-step basis, ABB says.

The additional processing power provided by the AC500 PLC means that the number of CPUs required for the tower control sys-tems can be halved, ABB says.

“This project helps to ensure the reliability of the press at the Rhei-nische Bergische Druckerei and at the same time eliminates any diffi-culties with the availability of spare parts. The modular retrofit on two towers frees up parts that can be used as spares for other press units,” says Thomas Troendle, ABB Printing’s sales manager for Germany.

The commissioning of the new systems will begin in Duesseldorf at the end of August of this year.

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ddv druck, part of DDV Mediengruppe, Dresden, Germany, has ordered a comprehensive QIPC-EAE Performance Package from Engineering Auto-mation Electronics (EAE) to modernize its newspaper printing line.

In 1998, the company commissioned the Geoman press line with ten four-high towers and four folders in a newly built newspaper printing plant in the north of Dresden. Today the printing center produces various regional newspapers: the Sachsische Zeitung (200,000 to 250,000 copies depending on the day of publication), the daily tabloid Dresdner Morgenpost (40,000 to 70,000) and more recently the Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten (20,000 to 25,000). A series of advertising journals, publishing supplements and third-

party products as well as semi-commercial products complete the output.The package ordered includes numerous upgrades and extensions with

which the printing center can jump over several generations of operating systems and software: replacement of the eight previous OS/2-based press control consoles with EAE Baltic Star consoles with new hardware and con-sole software based on Windows 10; replacement of the old EAE AVE system with the production planning and presetting system EAE Print and the exist-ing EAE MuP system with the reporting and logging system EAE Info; and installation of new PC hardware where necessary. New for DDV Druck will be the use of four control console tablets.

Implementation of the project on site will start in July 2019. The project is scheduled to be completed this year.

Cue, a publishing platform developed by CCI Europe and Escenic, re-cently increased its footprint in the German media landscape. In the last few months, BNN, Handelsblatt Media Group, Der Tagesspiegel, and Verlags-gruppe Ippen have all announced their upcoming implementation of Cue, according to a news release.

“As the need for digital transformation increases and new business models arise, we are happy to see that the market trusts in CUE to be the publishing

platform that will support and lift their mediabusinesses now and in the future,” says Dan Korsgaard, CEO of CCI.Cue is a browser-based platform for multichannel content creation and

publishing. The four media companies will use CUE for all of their online activities, the release said. BNN, Handelsblatt Media Group, and Der Ta-gesspiegel will also use Cue for their print publications.

The four media companies join CCI’s German customer base, which in-cludes Axel Springer, dfv Mediengruppe, Focus Online and mh:n digital, according to the release.

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q.I. Press Controls, the Dutch specialist in measuring and control equip-ment for the printing industry, has an order to again automate the manroland REGIOMAN press in Bangalore of the Times of India group. QIPC also an-nounced new orders from Malayala Manorama and The Printers House.

According to Rakesh Dave, managing director of QIPC, the Times of In-dia order offers "golden opportunities" for QIPC. "Within the Times of India group there are many manroland presses. Our market share in India will increase again and everyone in the country can see that the market is ready

for our IDS-3D system.”The IDS-3D system (16 cameras) for closed-loop color control is installed

in Bangalore on a manroland Regioman press. In addition, the mRC-3D sys-tem (12 cameras) for cut-off control is added.

For Malayala Manorama’s printing company in Palakkad, the order in-volved a mRC-3D system for color control (2 cameras) and cut-off control (2 cameras).

QIPC is also providing the color register and cut-off check for a new The Printers House press. On a TPH Orient press, 4 mRC-3D cameras for color register and 2 mRC-3D cameras for cut-off control will be installed.

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Honolulu Star-Advertiser-Oahu Publications, AMR work with VoicePortHonolulu Star-Advertiser-Oahu Publications and marketing agency AMR

have chosen VoicePort to provide customer care with interactive voice re-sponse system CircPort, according to VoicePort.

Deployed in geo redundant data centers and using SIP technology, Circ-Port provides callers with self-service options and, when contact with an agent is required, smart dynamic routing directs callers to representatives

knowledgeable about their product and service, according to VoicePort.“We needed the ability to provide customers with the highest level of

service while making it easy for them to quickly and easily manage their subscriptions,” said Joe Cooper, AMR general manager/Pacific Division. “VoicePort’s IVR is highly intuitive and our expectation is to see an increase in customer satisfaction while protecting our bottom line.”

Fairbanks paper to be early adopter for BrainworksThe Fairbanks Daily News-Miner has committed to be an early adopter for

Brainworks’ new Stratica Advertising and CRM system, according to Brainworks.The News-Miner first installed Brainworks’ advertising system in 2004. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner is a morning newspaper and is, by circu-

lation the second-largest daily in Alaska.Brainworks Software has been installed at more than 1,000 publications

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Watertown daily Times battles cyber attackThe Watertown Daily Times (New York) battled a cyber attack that began April 27 and disrupted the delivery of the Sunday paper. The attack, or a second attack, showed up again on May 2, and staff worked without hard-wired internet to get papers out, the paper reported.

The paper said it didn’t know if the May 2 incident repre-sented a second attack, or if the virus had been undetected for days before spreading anew.

The newspaper is working with cybersecurity experts to identify the virus and stop it from recurring.

The virus carried the label “Ryuk: Balance of the Shadow Universe” and is the same one that hit Tribune Publishing in December, according to reports, the paper said. It also hit the city of Stuart, Florida, on April 13.

Johnson Newspaper Corp. owns the paper.

Yahoo News launches XR Partner Program with 5G techYahoo News has launched its Yahoo News XR Partner Pro-gram, which will offer “unprecedented access to groundbreak-ing 5G technology” at Verizon’s 5G Labs and the Verizon Media RYOT 5G Studio in Los Angeles, according to Verizon. The studio is the first 5G production studio in the country, Verizon says.

The program launches with partners that include USA Today, Reuters, The Associated Press, TIME and NowThis. They will work with Yahoo News and RYOT to explore what XR (extended reality) news and immersive journalism can be in a 5G world, and plan to distribute these new formats on Yahoo News, according to Verizon.

“The Yahoo News XR Partner program will transform Yahoo News into the world’s largest aggregator of premium content and immersive journalism,” a Verizon press release said. Yahoo News will distribute, measure and monetize XR content created through the program. Assets will be mon-etized through the RYOT Augmented Reality Ads software development kit.

Tampa Bay Times delivering magazines through doorfront directThe Tampa Bay Times is now delivering national monthly magazines in the Tampa-St. Petersburg market through the Doorfront Direct network.

“Delivering monthly magazines broadens the services we offer and adds a new revenue source for our delivery organi-zation,” said Ben Hayes, director of operations for The Tampa Bay Times.

Tampa Bay is the 34th market to join the Doorfront Direct network, which delivers more than 700,000 magazines month-

ly across the country, serving major publishers like Hearst and Conde Nast, according to the company.

“The Tampa Bay Times is the largest newspaper in Flor-ida, and now they’re delivering the largest of our six Florida markets,” said Randall Brant, executive director for Doorfront Direct.

Doorfront Direct is a venture between Gannett Publishing Services, printing company Quad, and ACI Last Mile Network.

Petoskey News-Review changes schedule, adds print workThe Petoskey News-Review (Michigan) has changed its print schedule. The paper has gone to a Tuesday-through-Saturday schedule, dropping its Monday edition, the paper said. The pa-per’s website will be updated every day of the week, the paper said.

Friday’s print deadline is now later, which means Friday sports results can get into the Saturday issue. The paper will continue to be mailed to subscribers.

“We also see an advantage to some of our advertisers that now they have Saturday to reach the market of people,” said Christy Lyons, co-general manager of Northern Michigan Re-view publication group, which includes the News-Review. “For example, restaurants or Realtors may find that Saturday is a good day to reach the market, or visitors to the market that are here for the weekend.”

Along with the schedule changes, the company says it will start printing two dailies, in Sault Ste. Marie and Cheboygan. The News-Review press prints more than 10 outside Northern Michigan products, plus the two new papers, the paper said. The new work will mean the addition of two full-time employ-ees and a few part-time employees, said Michelle Harrington, co-general manager for Northern Michigan Review.

G/O Media lays off 25G/O Media is laying off 25, around 6 percent of its team of 400, according to Variety.

The new company owns The Onion and the former Giz-modo Media Group, which Univision sold in April to private-equity firm Great Hill Partners and Jim Spanfeller.

The cuts come not long after CEO Spanfeller told Variety that “We don’t plan to cut our way to growth,” but that the company is “looking to run things more efficiently.”

The cuts “are not about making the company smaller,” Spanfeller said in an internal memo to staff seen by Variety. The company believes it will end its year with more than 400 in staff, according to Spanfeller, Variety reported.

The layoffs were inspired by the “need to re-configure spe-cific processes” and “were not performance driven but rather process motivated,” according to Spanfeller.

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Gannett launches imagn image agency, wire serviceGannett Co. has rebranded its business unit USA Today Sports Images to Imagn and expanded its offerings for news and media outlets to include original sports, entertainment and breaking news images from the USA Today Network.

Along with photos from the USA Today Network, spe-cialized images by partner SIPA US are now available on the Imagn licensing platform. Some 1.8 million images per year will be added to the platform, which already houses 600,000 per year from 10,000 sporting events covered by 300 sports photographers nationwide, according to Gannett.

The agency serves clients with per picture and per project needs across news and media segments. The wire service is subscription based (or flat fee) and offers unlimited images for all editorial purposes across all platforms, with three content subscription options: only sports, only news and entertain-ment, or combined sports, news, and entertainment. The wire subscription service is best suited for enterprise customers who have high volume content needs and for clients or work teams who desire content delivered via API (application pro-gramming interface), Gannett says.

Bloomberg designs article template aimed at social usersBloomberg Media’s innovation lab, BHIVE, has looked into the question “What do social news audiences want from a mobile article experience?”

In an initiative they dubbed Project Dora, BHIVE is trying to zero in on why “Bloomberg.com’s social article readers were the likeliest of our online audience to “read-and-leave,” accord-ing to Karen Johnson, head of Design Research at Bloomberg Media.

The information garnered from the project inspired BHIVE to create a mobile web article template designed for users coming to Bloomberg.com from social, Johnson says. In a test to 5 percent of Bloomberg’s audience, Dora tripled article engagement (through articles shares) and showed significant rises in article completion rates and drops in exit rates, ac-cording to Johnson.

“Dora social article readers were three-times likelier to share what they read (we saw a 200% increase in article shares) and significantly more likely to read articles through to the end,” Johnson writes.

Dora is launching to the entire Bloomberg mobile audi-ence this spring, Johnson says.

Warroad Pioneer closes; crookston Times changes scheduleThe Warroad Pioneer (Minnesota) has closed, putting out its last edition on May 7. The weekly carried a banner headline reading "FINAL EDITION," over a story written by Rebecca Colden, owner and publisher. A New York Times reporter and a documentary team from Japan chronicled the event, Minne-sota Public Radio reported. The GateHouse-owned Crookston Times (Minnesota), meanwhile, is going from Monday-to-Fri-day print publishing to twice weekly, starting May 6, the paper reported.

Prensa arizona launches after Prensa Hispana’s closingPrensa Arizona was set to start publishing in print and online on April 26, the Arizona Republic reported.

A lot of the employees for the Spanish-language paper came from Prensa Hispana, which published its last issue on April 4, the Republic reported. Prensa Hispana and the new Prensa Arizona did not provide details behind the shuttering of Prensa Hispana, the Republic says.

“We are very excited with the launching of this totally new and different publication in the Spanish market,” said General Manager Lety Garcia in a statement, the Republic reported. “This will be a newspaper not only of news, but of special reports, in-depth investigations, free journalism and lots of value."

Bill would let Texas sue social media firmsThe Texas Senate approved a bill in April that would allow the state attorney general to sue social media platforms over charges of blocking users or erasing posts because of their content, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

Senate Bill 2373 was inspired by claims from conservatives and conservative groups of discriminatory treatment, accord-ing to Sen. Bryan Hughes, the Republican author of the bill, the paper reported.

The proposed legislation would apply to social media firms that say they’re impartial.

“If you hold yourself out as being an open forum and that you don’t discriminate based on viewpoint, then you have to keep your word,” Hughes said.

The Senate voted 18-12 to send SB 2373 to the Texas House of Representatives.

According to the bill, a social media firm could not be penalized for restricting content it “reasonably considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable,” the paper reported.



eU copyright reform clears final hurdle The Council of the European Union gave its green light to its new Copyright Directive on April 15.

The directive will make online platforms liable for illegal posting of copyright-protected material onto their platforms. It will also make Google, Facebook and other outfits pay pub-lishers for copyrighted material they post.

The directive was backed by 19 countries. Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Finland and Luxembourg voted no. Bel-gium, Estonia and Slovenia abstained.

“With today's agreement, we are making copyright rules fit for the digital age,” said European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. “Europe will now have clear rules that guarantee fair remuneration for creators, strong rights for us-ers and responsibility for platforms. When it comes to com-pleting Europe's digital single market, the copyright reform is the missing piece of the puzzle.”

“The new Directive will boost high-quality journalism in the EU and offer better protection for European authors and performers,” said an EU press release on the measure. “Users will benefit from the new rules, which will allow them to up-load copyright protected content on platforms legally. More-over, they will benefit from enhanced safeguards linked to the freedom of expression when they upload videos that contain rights holders' content, i.e. in memes or parodies,” it said.

The European Parliament voted on the measure in March. EU member states will have 24 months to transpose the direc-tive into their national legislation.

2019 Pulitzer Prizes announcedThe 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners in 14 journalism and seven letters, drama and music categories were announced on April 15.

The winners in journalism are the South Florida Sun Senti-nel for Public Service; the staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for Breaking News Reporting; Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times for Investigative Reporting; David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times for Explanatory Reporting; staff of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for Local Reporting; staff of The Wall Street Journal for National Reporting; Mag-gie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty of Associ-ated Press for International Reporting; staff of Reuters, with notable contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo for International Reporting; Hannah Dreier of ProPublica for Fea-ture Writing; Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Commentary; Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post for Criticism; Brent Staples of The New York Times for Editorial Writing; Darrin Bell, freelancer, for Editorial Cartooning; pho-tography staff of Reuters for Breaking News Photography; and Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post for Feature Photog-raphy.

A special citation was also given to honor the journalists, staff and editorial board of the Capital Gazette, of Annapolis, Maryland, for their courageous response to the largest killing of journalists in U.S. history in their newsroom on June 28, 2018.

UsPs to deliver indiana’s Times-Union The Times-Union (Warsaw, Indiana) is now partnering with the United States Postal Service for delivery of its newspapers.

The new delivery was set to begin on April 18.The move will not affect the timeliness of the news, the

paper says. The paper has gone to an a.m. publishing schedule, with press runs at midnight instead of noon.

“Given the current landscape of the newspaper industry, the move affords us significant savings in distribution costs,” the paper says. “We want to thank our many newspaper carri-ers, who over the years have toiled so loyally for us,” the paper said.

High-Key Enterprises publishes the paper.

drupa report: Global print industry stable The 6th drupa Global Trends Report, available at www.drupa.com, says the global print industry is in stable condition overall.

Globally 40 percent of printers stated their company eco-nomic condition was “good” in 2018 compared to 13 percent who described their condition as “poor.” The rest rated it as “sat-isfactory.” This results in a positive net balance of 27 percent. For suppliers the positive net balance was 19 percent. Both groups remain optimistic, with 50 percent expecting better con-ditions in 2019, according to a news release on the report.

North America continued to enjoy strong growth in 2018, Europe and Australia had steady growth, while Asia, the Middle East and South and Central America were cautious and Africa was in decline, the release said.

The packaging market thrives as does functional, but there are clear signs of increasing caution in the commercial market and publishing remains subdued, with the encouraging excep-tion of the books market, the release said.

Conventional print volumes continue to decline but slowly, according to the release. In 2013, 23 percent of print-ers reported that digital print was more than 25 percent of turnover. In 2018, the proportion of printers had increased to 29 percent. Nevertheless, sheetfed offset remains the most common form of print technology, present in 66 percent of all printers. Sheetfed offset volume continues to grow in packag-ing but there was a clear decline among commercial printers for the first time.

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The News Media Alliance has elected Mark Aldam, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Hearst, as chairman of its board of directors for the 2019-2020 term. Aldam, who previously served as vice chair-man, succeeds Terry Kroeger, president and CEO of Smith Kroeger Marketing Communications.

“Aldam and the board will continue to navigate the rap-idly changing media landscape and vigorously advocate on behalf of the industry while introducing new strategies and initiatives to maximize member value,” said a release from the organization.

“Mark has been a tremendous asset to the Alliance and I am confident he will continue to exhibit the same strong leadership and enthusiasm for the industry as chairman that he has always shown,” said News Media Alliance President and CEO David Chavern.

Other News Media Alliance officers elected include Kirk Davis, chief executive officer, GateHouse Media (vice chairman); Terry Egger, chief executive officer and publisher, Philadelphia Media Network (secretary); and Antoinette “Toni” Bush, executive vice president and global head of government affairs, News Corp (treasurer). Elected to initial one-year terms on the board with terms beginning May 1 are Jim Brady, Spirited Media; Pamela (PJ) Browning, The Post and Courier; Frank Filippo, Dow Jones; Timothy Knight, Tribune Publishing; and Bill Marcil Jr., Forum Communications.

The Post and Courier (Charleston, South Carolina) an-nounced that Scott Embry and Chris Zoeller have been named to new management positions at the newspaper. Embry has been promoted to president of King & Colum-bus digital marketing agency to lead its expansion into new markets in South Carolina. Zoeller will expand her role as chief revenue and marketing officer to include di-rect responsibility for the paper’s advertising department.

Doug Oathout, a longtime editor for the Erie Times-News (Pennsylvania) and www.GoErie.com and the news-paper’s executive editor since 2015, is stepping down from that role to accept a position with Gannon University.

Oathout will be chief marketing and communications officer for the university.

Bruce Richardson has joined imPRESSions World-wide’s sales team. Richardson will remain based in York, Pennsylvania, and focus on the Eastern half of the U.S. He will also spend time at the company’s headquarters near Seattle and SE USA Service Center in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Steve Riley has been named executive editor at the Houston Chronicle.

He has served as interim editor since Oct. 30 after for-mer executive editor Nancy Barnes resigned to become senior vice president for news at National Public Radio.

Matt Sandberg has been named publisher of the Elko Daily Free Press in northeast Nevada and the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho. Sandberg a former newspaper execu-tive and publisher in Colorado, succeeds Kevin Kampman, who left the company in March.

Times Record (Fort Smith, Arkansas) publisher Crystal Costa has accepted a new role as events director with Gatehouse Live and has stepped down as publisher. Gate-house Live is the events and promotion division of Gate-house Media.

Gordon McLeod, a distinguished and well-respected media executive who held senior positions at Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, Time Inc., and CBS News, among others, died of complications from a nine-year battle with cancer on April 26 in New York City. He was 60.

Bill Fleischman, a former columnist and sports report-er for The News Journal and Philadelphia Daily News who covered the Flyers during the team’s glory years in the 1970s, has died at age 80.

Emily Weaver has been named managing editor of The Daily Record and The Mount Olive Tribune (North Carolina).

Mark Walker has been named general manager and advertising director for the Sentinel-Echo (London, Ken-tucky) and the Times-Tribune (Corbin, Kentucky).

Jerry Hug has been named general manager of the Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, Washington). Hug is currently


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McClatchy’s Northwest director of finance/CFO, based in the Tri-Cities.

After 35 years in journalism, Providence Journal Group President and Publisher Janet Hasson has announced her retirement. Stepping into her role will be Peter Meyer, GateHouse Media regional vice president and president and group publisher of GateHouse New England. Meyer will oversee operations in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine, including 14 daily newspapers and more than 100 weekly publications and digital products.

Nicholas Pugliese announced that after nearly five years at The (Bergen) Record, he’s moving to WHYY, South Jersey’s public radio station.

Catherine G. Boone has been named president and publisher at Vicksburg Newsmedia and was set to assume those duties in early June. Vicksburg Newsmedia publishes The Vicksburg Post, VicksburgPost.com and Vicksburg Living magazine and owns and operates Signs First and Speediprint.

William J. Pape II, editor, former publisher and presi-dent, and chairman of the board of the Republican-Ameri-can (Waterbury, Connecticut), has died at the age of 87.

Jennifer Licary has been named digital sales manager for the Daily Journal (Kankakee, Illinois). Licary had been with the Chicago Tribune from late 2016 until her hiring at the Journal.

Tricia Johnston has been appointed publisher of The Goshen News (Indiana), effective immediately. Johnston is a former group president and publisher for GateHouse Media in Michigan, based at the Holland Sentinel.

Debe Johnson announced her plans to retire as adver-tising director at The Sentinel-Record (Hot Springs, Arkan-sas). Her retirement is effective May 1.

Charles Westmoreland, managing editor at The Tri-bune (Columbia, Missouri), has announced he’ll be leav-

ing the newspaper this summer. Westmoreland joined the Tribune in June 2017 following the retirement of longtime editor Jim Robertson.

Jonathan Wolman, the editor and publisher of The Detroit News who helmed the newspaper during a tumul-tuous economic upheaval for the news business, has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Brian Skoloff, an Associated Press video journalist who has covered numerous big stories across the United States while training many text reporters on visual storytelling, has been appointed West deputy news director for video. Skoloff will oversee and drive video coverage across 13 Western states from the regional hub in Phoenix.

The nation’s largest trade association of African Ameri-can-owned newspapers and media companies, the Nation-al Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), announced Claudette Perry as its new executive administrator. NNPA’s member newspaper and media companies reach over 25 million readers each week in print and online.

Joseph Leong has been named senior group publisher for Lake Media/GateHouse Media Holdings (Missouri). He will oversee operations in the lake area for all of Gate-House Media’s holdings.

Postmedia Network Canada Corp. has announced the appointment of Mary Anne Lavallee to the role of execu-tive vice president and chief operating officer. Lavallee will be primarily responsible for operational matters, particu-larly those focused on digital growth.

Timothy D. Burke is stepping down as publisher of The Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily News.

Tom Schultz, managing editor of the Watertown Daily Times (Wisconsin) for 45 years and a full-time member of the newspaper’s staff for nearly 53 years, has retired.

Janine Gibson has been named assistant editor in the newly created role of editor, special projects at the Finan-cial Times.

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Susan Smith Richardson has been named chief execu-tive officer of the Center for Public Integrity. Richardson will take the helm of one of America’s oldest nonprofit investigative journalism organizations as it celebrates its 30th anniversary.

The Los Angeles Times has named Shani Hilton a

deputy managing editor for news. Hilton will report to executive editor Norman Pearlstine and managing editor Scott Kraft. Hilton is currently vice president of News and Programming at BuzzFeed News, where she has been an editorial executive for the past six years. She’s joining The Times in June.

Warren C. Dews Jr. has joined the National Press Insti-

tute for Audience Growth, a New York-based consulting company, as chief operations officer, NPI-AG President Mark Vinciguerra announced.

Patty Henetz, a reporter who covered everything from the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to environmental issues for both of Salt Lake City’s major daily newspapers and The Associated Press, has died at 69.

Henetz died March 23 after suffering for several years from corticobasal degeneration, a neurological disease that attacks the cerebral cortex.

Millennial-focused personal finance site The Penny

Hoarder has named Sharon J. Prill its chief operating officer and veteran journalist Molly Morehead its senior editor and team lead.

Jaci Smith has been named editor of the North Iowa Media Group, which includes the Globe Gazette. Smith will oversee news gathering operations of the Globe Ga-zette and its two weekly affiliates, the Summit-Tribune and Mitchell County Press News.

Emma Moody has been appointed standards and ethics editor of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.

Susan Chira has been named editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project, the award-winning non-profit newsroom covering the criminal justice system in the United States.

Thomas Krischke has been named president and CEO of Muller Martini North America. Krischke has been in-volved with the graphic arts industry for more than 20 years, beginning his career as a strategic planner at East-man Kodak in Germany in 1996.

The Poynter Institute has announced that Bridget Donovan, a former director of online education at the University of South Florida and e-learning partner for NBC News, will oversee Poynter’s News University (NewsU) as the interactive learning manager.

Tom Hill, longtime publisher of The Oak Ridger and a leader in Tennessee media and Oak Ridge for more than a half century, died March 23 at his home surrounded by family. He was 90.

John "Gene" Chambers, former Macomb Daily pub-lisher, has died at the age of 79.

Stephen Meurice, editor-in-chief of The Canadian Press, has announced that he’s leaving the national news service for personal reasons, effective April 26.

E. Ralph Hostetter, the former publisher and owner of the Cecil Whig (Maryland) and current chairman and publisher of American Farm Publications, has died of heart disease at his home. He was 97. American Farm Publica-tions of Easton publishes The Delaware Farmer and The New Jersey Farmer newspapers.

Newsroom leadership appointments were announced among GateHouse New England’s southeastern Massa-chusetts publications, said Lisa Strattan, vice president of news for GateHouse New England and general manager of SouthCoast publications. Herald News and Taunton Daily Gazette editor in chief Lynne Sullivan was named region-al executive editor of SouthCoast Media Group, The Herald News, The Taunton Daily Gazette and The Enterprise. Beth Perdue, editor of The Standard-Times, will become region-al executive editor for engagement and community.

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Post’s arc Publishing investing in growth The Washington Post’s Arc Publishing has announced a sig-nificant investment in the organization, adding nearly 100 new hires in the last 18 months to strengthen its ability to respond to client needs and support its expansion.

In the last year, Arc has experienced “incredible growth,” according to The Post, tripling revenue, expanding to new regions and powering several large broadcasters. Arc powers sites that serve more than 600 million unique visitors a month, according to The Post.

“Arc’s growth has been exceptional and the platform has quickly become one of the go-to publishing systems in the world,” said Shailesh Prakash, chief information officer and vice president of product at The Post. “We have brought on senior level talent to help us scale the business and, under Scot Gillespie’s leadership, we have expanded significantly, adding more publishers and broadcasters as well as serving brands across industries.”

With the investment, Arc is opening a dedicated engineer-ing office in Chicago.

The Arc platform was initially built for The Post and lever-ages technologies from Amazon Web Services. It serves as the tech behind a large number of brand-name publications in the top U.S. markets and around the world, according to The Post.

Honolulu star-advertiser-Oahu Publications, aMR work with VoicePort Honolulu Star-Advertiser-Oahu Publications and marketing agency AMR have chosen VoicePort to provide customer care with interactive voice response system CircPort, according to VoicePort.

Deployed in geo redundant data centers and using SIP technology, CircPort provides callers with self-service options and, when contact with an agent is required, smart dynamic routing directs callers to representatives knowledgeable about their product and service, according to VoicePort.

“We needed the ability to provide customers with the high-est level of service while making it easy for them to quickly and easily manage their subscriptions,” said Joe Cooper, AMR general manager/Pacific Division. “VoicePort’s IVR is highly intuitive and our expectation is to see an increase in customer satisfaction while protecting our bottom line.”

evvnt, site impact partnerEvvnt, an event marketing automation platform, has estab-lished a strategic partnership with Site Impact, an email mar-

keting operator for the newspaper industry.“Consumers love email and we wanted to make it as simple

as possible for local event organizers to create and send com-munications marketing their events to a targeted, opt in audi-ence,” said Richard Green, CEO of Evvnt.

Evvnt is an event marketing automation platform that syndicates events content to multiple event listing sites and calendars as a service.

The new integration now brings email to the forefront of its product offering for events promoters and local venues, the company says.

“Utilizing our email marketing capabilities on Evvnt’s in-novative platform expands our ability to connect event orga-nizers with their ideal event-goer,” said Jennifer Gressman, Site Impact’s vice president of operations.

Launched as a full integration, Site Impact’s proprietary technology includes a real-time counts system, order manage-ment system and tracking platform, the company says. Site Impact’s database consists of 145 million email records plus 750 selects and filters that help the customer reach a hyper-tar-geted audience by age, gender, geo, levels of interest and more, according to Site Impact.

aBB reorganization won’t affect support, says printing headAs ABB undergoes a major reorganization and the power grids division is being sold to Hitachi, the head of ABB Printing is en-deavoring to reassure clients that the reorganization “will have no effect on the support you get from ABB Printing.”

The printing business is moving to a different business unit, but that’s just a matter of the internal organization of ABB, according to Damian Staedeli, head of ABB Printing.

The ABB Printing team remains intact and the same is true of the other ABB units with which the printing team cooper-ates, for example the PLC factory and the control system and drives development teams, according to a note from Staedeli sent out with an ABB Printing newsletter.

“In 2018 ABB Printing had its most successful year for several years. This shows that we are offering the solutions and support that you, our customers, need in this demanding business. This gives the whole ABB Printing team additional motivation for the future,” he wrote.

sun chemical raises prices Sun Chemical said it would increase the prices of its energy curable, solvent, and water coatings as well as energy curable


inks in North America, effective May 15.A global shortage of photoinitiators will cause prices of en-

ergy curable coatings and energy curable inks to increase while cost escalations in energy and raw materials throughout the first quarter of 2019 will drive the need to increase the prices of solvent and water coatings, according to the company.

“Government initiatives and regulations geared toward environmental protections have caused many suppliers of photoinitiators to either cease or reduce production for limited periods of time, resulting in an unprecedented increase in raw material costs and shortage of photoinitiators,” said Felipe Mel-lado, chief marketing officer and board member, Sun Chemical. “The activities that occurred in 2018 have continued to affect supply of photoinitiators into 2019 and with the recent chemi-cal plant explosion and fires at the Yancheng Industrial Park in China, we anticipate future escalations in the cost of raw mate-rials for energy curable, publication, solvent and water inks.”

Koenig & Bauer acquires all-Print HoldingKoenig & Bauer Coding GmbH has acquired All-Print Holding. All-Print Holding is a majority shareholder in Svenska Allen and All-Print i Linköping, two specialists in marking and cod-ing technologies.

“Koenig & Bauer Coding already has a strong presence in primary and secondary packaging market, so there is a natu-ral synergy between the two companies,” said a release from Koenig & Bauer.

‘With more than 30 years of experience in marking and coding applications and our strong design and distribution departments, we will certainly contribute to and benefit from the growth path of Koenig & Bauer Coding. And so will our customers all over the world,“ said Magnus Folcke, CEO of All-Print Holding.

“This acquisition is of significant importance for our opera-tions and substantially add to the range of capabilities that we can offer our customers,” said Oliver Volland, CEO of Koenig & Bauer Coding.

flint Group cutting 81 at Kentucky plantFlint Group is laying off 81 workers at its plant in Elizabeth-town, Kentucky, the News-Enterprise reports, citing a letter the company filed with the state.

In a March 27 letter to the Kentucky Division of Workforce Development, Melanie Caple, in human resources with Flint Group, said that the layoffs involved 68 production people, nine workers from admin and support and four in manage-ment, the paper reported.

The layoffs are permanent, according to the letter, and are set for on or around June 30.

“While Flint CPS Ink is not a unionized operation, we do have a workforce reduction policy that allows bumping of em-ployee to take place; therefore we will work through the details over the next couple of weeks to notify the specific employees,” the letter says, according to the paper.

In bumping, an employee will be offered a lower-paying or lower-level job at a company that’s cutting the worker.

The letter also says Flint Group aims to use Right Manage-ment to help the laid-off workers in their job situation, the paper said.

Flint Group has said the cuts are linked to the company’s move to discontinue the making of in-house pigments.

“The structural decline in publication printing ink has led to shrinking demand in the primary sector served by Flint Group Pigments,” said Steve Dryden, CEO of CPS Inks, Flint Group’s offset ink business, in a press release.

flint Group sees tightening of raw material supply A recent and deadly explosion at Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical in China is severely impacting the global raw material supply chain, including materials used in publication and UV printing inks, according to Flint Group.

The March explosion spread to adjacent facilities, causing nearly 80 deaths, injuring hundreds of people and forcing evac-uations of nearby areas. The Chinese government has forced shutdowns at the industrial park, as well as others nearby, to allow for investigations and safety inspections.

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2019 Publishers Surveyby Kevin [email protected]

I was excited about the opportunity to speak to the publishers of New York recently at the NYPA Spring Convention. Let’s face it, New Yorkers take their newspa-pers seriously, and the NYPA convention is always special.

I spoke on eight topics over two days while in New York, but it was the second session that drew the biggest crowd. The room was packed to hear me speak on the topic, “What’s Really Happening at Newspa-pers Today.”

Fortunately, I was a week into crunching numbers from my 2019 survey of U.S. news-paper publishers. I quizzed the audience before sharing the results of the survey to see how they thought other publishers would respond to the survey’s 35 questions. On some, they were close. On others, they were audibly surprised.

We began conducting this annual survey in 2014, while I was directing the Newspaper Institute at The University of Tennessee. In each year since, we’ve had between 400 and 700 publishers participate. That’s easily enough to indicate results representative of the industry.

While with the New York group, I took some time to look at the differences between daily and non-daily papers. We examined the numbers of locally-owned newspapers to those owned by large groups. We even com-pared newspapers in New York state to papers in other geographical areas of the country.

In coming columns, I’ll share some of the most interesting details from these compari-sons. In this column, I will share some gen-eral results of the completed questionnaires.

Where are the participants located?

No surprise here. Most respondents came from the Southeast, Midwest and Northeast geographical areas of the U.S. It makes sense, since these are the areas with the most newspapers. These were followed by the Southwest, West Coast, and Pacifi c Northwest.

I always get a chuckle out of this ques-tion. There will always be a few publishers from Texas who select “other,” and insist Texas is its own geographical region.

How many copies are printed?

This one always seems to stump the audience. Most folks usually seem to think

other papers are much larger than their own, so they will guess somewhere around 10,000. Then when I ask how big their papers are, they will usually come in around 3,000 to 5,000. Audience members always seem sur-prised to learn that most of their papers are like most other newspapers in the business.

How is the health of your newspaper?

When it comes to guessing the over-all health of most newspapers, audience members usually guess correctly. Almost 45 percent of publishers in the survey respond-ed their overall health as “Not bad, but not great.” That was followed by 36 percent who responded the health of their papers was “Relatively healthy.”

Only 10 percent oºf newspaper publishers indicated their papers are in “Poor health,” while less than one percent checked “Near death.”

Compared to one year ago, 52 percent of publishers indicate their papers are “About the same” health. 23 percent of papers seem to be in better shape than a year earlier, while 25 percent indicated they are in worse shape.

When compared to three years ago, the numbers aren’t quite as rosy. “Better than three years ago” was selected by 24 percent of respondents. “About the same” was the an-swer for 25 percent, and 49 percent indicated they are in worse shape than three years ago.

Where is the money coming from?

Most folks in the New York audience guessed correctly to the question, “What is the primary revenue source of you main publication?” They were, however, surprised by the low number of papers than answered something besides “Print Advertising.”

A full 95 percent of respondents an-swered “Print Advertising” when asked what was their primary revenue source. Another three percent indicated “Print Subscriptions,” while 3 percent answered either “Digital Advertising” (1.6 percent) or “Digital Subscriptions” (.3 percent).

It seems that digital is a long way from “the goose that laid the golden egg.” While many survey participants indicated they see some benefi ts from their digital presence, many are hard-pressed to fi nd any fi nancial benefi ts.

What’s the bottom line?

Well, I’m still crunching numbers but it’s safe to say this year’s survey looks a lot like the surveys from 2014-2018. There are fewer newspapers without a digital pres-ence. Newspapers aren’t quite as optimistic

about their long-term futures, but most think they will be around for a long time to come (12 years or longer) in printed form, though publishers aren’t as confi dent as they were in previous years.

What surprised attendees the most in New York? From their responses to the survey results, I’d guess they were surprised that their newspapers were so similar to other papers around the U.S.

Like in most geographical areas, the large majority of New York papers are locally-owned. New York has its share of big metro papers, but most newspapers are weekly/community publications. They’re not making the profi ts they were 30 years ago, but they are healthy and expect to con-tinue in business for a long time to come.

When I began to call my session to an end, one of the audience members asked if I could share a little more information. I was surprised when other audience members indicated they’d like to learn more.

I continued to share some of what I’d learn visiting thousands of newspapers over the years and answering questions, while others shared their thoughts.

The truth is that I like just about every place I visit, and my few days in New York left me once again with the realization that our industry is in good shape. With spring convention season behind me, I suppose I’ll have to visit a few papers to keep my adrenaline fl owing.

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Graham buys alabama papersPatrick Graham has bought three Alabama papers from the Walls family and Southern Newspapers of Houston, Texas, The Sand Mountain Reporter reported.

Papers included in the purchase are The Sand Mountain Re-porter in Albertville, The Jackson County Sentinel in Scottsboro and The Times-Journal in Fort Payne.

Southern still owns 12 newspapers in Texas and Oklahoma.Graham also owns The Walton Tribune, in Monroe, Georgia,

and The Covington News, in Covington, Georgia.“Community newspapers have been able to stay relevant in

the lives of readers by providing information about the commu-nity that readers can’t get anywhere else,” Graham said.

Paxton Media buys indiana daily The Rochester Sentinel (Indiana) has been purchased by Paxton Media Group from owner and Publisher Sarah O. Wilson, ac-cording to John Thomas Cribb of merger and acquisitions firm Cribb, Greene & Cope, who represented the Wilson family in the sale. The sale was effective May 1. A price was not disclosed. Wilson and her husband, Sentinel Editor W.S. Wilson, came to the Sentinel in 1982. Neither will remain with the company.

Sarah Wilson's father, the late Jack K. Overmyer, began working at The Sentinel while in high school, bought the paper in 1976 and passed ownership to her upon his death in 2010.

Paxton Media is a family-owned company headquartered in Paducah, Kentucky. It publishes daily and weekly newspapers in more than 50 communities in the Midwest and South.

san diego community Newspaper Group buys five publicationsSan Diego Community Newspaper Group has bought five of San Diego Community News Network’s six publications, sdnews.com reported.

The group bought San Diego Uptown News, San Diego Downtown News, Mission Times Courier, and La Mesa Courier. The group owns the La Jolla Village News, Peninsula Beacon, and Beach & Bay Press newspapers.

Mission Valley News was part of the buy, but it will cease publishing, sdnews.com said. San Diego Community News Net-work kept Gay San Diego.

“It’s a rewarding industry,” said Julie Main, owner and pub-lisher of San Diego Community Newspaper Group. “One of the more rewarding things about the community newspaper indus-try is everyone has a story to tell. It’s very gratifying to peel back the layers and find these treasures (stories) and share it with our readers,” Main said.

Midway como Monitor, Messenger soldTwo neighborhood newspapers in the Twin Cities have sold.

Calvin deRuyter and Tim Nelson of deRuyter-Nelson Pub-lications have sold the Midway Como Monitor and the Long-fellow Nokomis Messenger to Minneapolis resident Tesha M. Christensen, the Monitor reported.

Christensen has been writing for the papers for the better part of a decade.

The ownership change was set to happen May 1.“We want to be reader-centric and make our content —

both ads and articles — engaging and applicable,” Christensen told the Monitor. “ Print is evolving, and we’re looking ahead in innovative and creative ways. More people are reading than ever before in the history of humankind, and we want to ensure that local residents are reading their community newspaper because it is ‘News for You.’”

Magic Valley Publishing buys Tennessee papersMagic Valley Publishing has bought the Tennessee papers that were owned by American Hometown Publishing, the Leader (Covington, Tennessee) reports.

Magic Valley Publishing publications include the paid subscription newspapers The Leader in Covington, the Chester County Independent in Henderson, Collierville Herald, Wayne County News in Waynesboro, the Camden Chronicle, Carroll County News-Leader in Huntingdon, Buffalo River Review in Linden, News-Democrat in Waverly, Lake County Banner in Tip-tonville and Crockett County Times in Alamo. Magic Valley also owns the free publications The Shopper News based in Jackson, the Shopper's Guide in Waverly and Family Classifieds based in Camden.

Western communications selling papersWestern Communications is selling its newspapers, The Union Democrat (Sonora, California) reports. The company, based in Bend, Oregon, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this year.

Western Communications also owns the Del Norte Trip-licate (Crescent City, California), the Bend Bulletin, Redmond Spokesman, Baker City Herald, The Observer and the Curry Coastal Pilot (all in Oregon).

The headquarters facility in Bend is for sale, along with all property Western Communications owns, The Union Democrat reported.

Merger and acquisition firm Dirks, Van Essen, Murray and April has been brought on to market the facilities.

The Chandler family, which owns Western Communica-tions, wants to keep The Bend Bulletin and weekly The Red-mond Spokesman, and are looking for investors, John Costa, president of Western Communications, said, the Union Demo-crat reported.

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mer printing plant in March for around $1 million. Since the January bankruptcy filing, the company has laid

off 33 people and cut the work week for 13 more, the paper said.

Mullen buys 3 south dakota weeklies, shopperThe Mobridge Tribune, Potter County News in Gettysburg, the West River Eagle in Eagle Butte and Monday Reminder shopper have been sold to independent publisher J. Louis Mullen of Buf-falo, Wyoming. Mullen bought the newspapers from long-time owners Larry and Roberta Atkinson of Mobridge.

The sale was effective March 29. The transaction also in-cluded the group’s web printing operation, Tribune Quick Print, and the advertising specialty sales operation, which are based in Mobridge. Julie Bergman of Grimes, McGovern & Associates represented the sellers.

“We wish Louis well in his new role as caretakers of our communities’ newspapers. As we have seen what his family has done over the years with the newspapers they publish, we feel confident our community newspapers are in good hands,” Larry Atkinson said.

Mullen owns seven other community weekly newspapers in various locales.

anchorage daily News buying three weekliesThe Anchorage Daily News is buying three weekly newspapers in Alaska, the paper reported.

The Daily News is purchasing the Arctic Sounder, The Bris-tol Bay Times/Dutch Harbor Fisherman and the Homer Tribune from Alaska Media. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

In 2017, the Binkley Company purchased the Daily News after the company filed for bankruptcy protection under then-owner Alice Rogoff. Married couple Jason Evans and Kiana Peacock owned Alaska Media.

“Our family is thrilled to add the Arctic Sounder, the Bristol BayTimes/Dutch Harbor Fisherman and the Homer Tribune to the ADN’s lineup of publications,” ADN President and CEO Ryan Binkley said in a statement.

Evans and Hugh Short, chairman and CEO of Anchorage-based Pt Capital, were partners in the purchase of the Daily News, and will stay on the company’s board, Binkley said.

schurz subsidiary acquires Burlington Telecom Schurz Communications subsidiary Champlain Broadband has closed a transaction to acquire Burlington Telecom in Vermont, Schurz announced.

Burlington Telecom has been a municipally owned and operated advanced fiber optic network serving the city of Burlington, Vermont, since 2003. The company will continue to be managed locally in Burlington and operate under the name Burlington Telecom.

With roots in publishing and broadcasting, Schurz Commu-

nications has evolved its business strategy with the purchase of cable, telco, broadband companies starting in 1968, according to a press release. In February 2018, Schurz Communications announced that it had acquired leading compliant hybrid cloud provider Online Tech. An additional investment in the cloud infrastructure assets of Neverfail was announced in December 2018 and highlighted the company’s interest in expanding On-line Tech’s presence on a global scale, according to the release.

Privately held Schurz announced in January its intention to sell its publishing division to GateHouse Media. GateHouse Me-dia is expected to assume ownership during the first quarter of 20 regional papers and several special publications in Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania and South Dakota.

Nashes acquire creswell chronicleHusband and wife Noel Nash and Denise Nash have bought the Creswell Chronicle, an Oregon weekly, from Scott and Jeanne Olson.

The Olsons published the Chronicle for seven years. Along with the paper, the company publishes a number of

bi-annual lifestyle magazines known as Emerald Valley Maga-zines as well as thecreswellchronicle.com.

New publisher Noel Nash has a newspaper background in Florida, Alabama, Nevada, Utah and Texas and also served as vice president, Stats & Information Group, during a stint with ESPN.

advance Publications buying TurnitinConde Nast owner Advance Publications is buying Turnitin, a provider of education tech for academic integrity and writ-ing solutions, from an investment entity affiliated with Insight Venture Partners, GIC and their co-investors, according to a Turnitin news release.

Through machine learning, computer vision, and advanced artificial intelligence, Turnitin’s products check for plagiarism in writing and code assignments, provide real-time feedback for students, and automate grading for teachers across multiple disciplines.

Turnitin’s products are used by over 34 million students in over 15,000 K-12 and higher education institutions in 153 coun-tries, the company says.

“We admire Chris Caren and his team, and Turnitin’s out-standing track record of enhancing integrity in written work at schools, universities, and publishers worldwide through cutting-edge technology,” said Steve Newhouse, co-president of Advance.

The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but The Wall Street Journal reported that Advance agreed to buy the com-pany for nearly $1.75 billion, citing people with access to the information.

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2019 METRO PRODUCTION CONFERENCE May 30~June 2 • Saddlebrook Conference Center, Wesley Chapel, FL

51s� Annual

MPC Conference Soft Agenda – Subject to Change

Thursday, May 30th

8:00 a.m. Vendor Display Area Ready for Setting Up

10:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Conference Registration

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Business Continuity Meeting (Disaster Preparedness)

6:30 p.m. Welcome Reception - full meal

Friday, May 31st

7:00 a.m. Vendor Displays Open

7:00 a.m. Conference Registration

7:00 a.m. Breakfast

8:30 a.m. Welcome & Opening Remarks

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. General Session

5:05 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Beer on the Vendors

6:30 p.m. Gala Reception - full meal & entertainment

Saturday, June 1st

8:00 a.m. Vendor Displays Open

7:00 a.m. Breakfast

User Meetings

12:30-1:30 p.m. Vendor Display Open/Lunch

User Group Meetings

Sunday, June 2nd 8:30 a.m. Vendor Sponsored Golf Outing – 9:00 a.m. Shotgun start

The Business Continuity Meeting will be holding their 16th Annual Summit Thursday May 30, 2019. This focuses on disaster and emergency production preparedness in the event of any type of natural disasters. All are invited!

The 51st Metro Production Conference will have its official kickoff with a welcome reception Thursday evening May 30th beginning at 6:30. It will be a full meal. Friday is a full day of meetings followed by the gala reception in the evening, another full meal and entertainment. Saturday will be various user group and round table meetings with the conference adjourning that afternoon.

Visit our website www.metroproduction.org for information and registration.

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Austin Equipment H:\Production Maintenance\Pkg Maint

SERVICE

LINE DESCRIPTION BRAND NAME / MODEL SERIAL NO. DATE COMMENTS

COUNTER STACKERS1 Stacker QUIPP 351 #9 1680-0 10/6/1998

FORKLIFTS / MAINT. LIFT1 Fork Lift (Electric) #3 HYSTER C114V01644F 3/31/86

Battery Chargers / Fork Lifts

1 PF1 Industrial Batt. Charger S18-600B3 PF-1023V22816 (On Pallet) 480VAC / 6A

2 Power Volt 18E200T JH35 11354475 480VAC / 36Volt

3 IBC Flex200 BA2519F 10G6429M 480VAC / 15A

4 Mac Phazer Batt. Charger 18MP975T 5013300 480VAC / 10A

Clamp Lifts/ Warehouse1 Mitsubishi #7 2FBC30 A2BC320137 12-31-97

Battery Chargers / Clamp Lifts

1 KW Battery Company (5) 18-1200F3B-22 K8570 480VAC/18A

2 Gould GFC18-1200T1 381CS08088 (On Pallet) 480VAC/15.5A

3 Hobart #(7) 865C3-18 388CS06351 480VAC/10.5A

PALLET JACKS

1 Jack (Electric) - 11 TOYOTA7HBW23 7HBW23-27646 10/6/06





6 Jack (Electric) Linde / EGU20-02 7101190430

7 Manual Jack

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8 Manual Jack

9 Manual Jack

10 Manual Jack

11 Manual Jack

12 Manual Jack

13 Manual Jack

PALLET JACK CHARGERS1 MAC Quantum 2200 01158240 12/31/84 480VAC / 24Volt

2 Gould GERR6-450-S1 E340508 12/31/84 480VAC / 4A

3 Patroit MAC PAC 1240 06119885 2006 120VAC

4 Patroit MAC PAC 1240 06119886 2006 120VAC

5 Patroit MAC PAC 1240 07301357 12/19/07 120VAC

LABELING EQUIPMENT1 AccraPly Model 5203HS 2008

2 Image Printer Model 2000 2008

HOPPER LOADERS1 Hopper Loaders GMA/AF 200 96.0200.22 #2 1996

SKID LEVELERS1 Skid Leveler-17 M2425S67FG42E41M01 116691-02 6/2/98 Rol-Lift

2 Skid Leveler-7 M2425S67FG42E41M01 116691-06 6/2/98 Rol-Lift

3 Skid Leveler-9 M2425S67FG42E41M01 116691-08 6/2/98 Rol-Lift

4 Skid Leveler-10 M2425S67FG42E41M01 102210 6/2/98 Rol-Lift

5 Skid Leveler-13 M2425S67FG42E41 160952-02 9/25/00 Rol-Lift



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TABLE JOGGERS1 Joggers SYNTRON /

2 Joggers SYNTRON /

3 Joggers SYNTRON /

4 Joggers SYNTRON /

5 Joggers SYNTRON /

6 Joggers SYNTRON /

7 Joggers SYNTRON /

8 Joggers SYNTRON /

9 Joggers SYNTRON /

10 Joggers SYNTRON /

FERAG CASSETTES Ferag 98 each

PRINT SHOP EQUIP

1 Offset Press, 2 color Multilith / 1862



4 Comb binding machine (manual) ibico AG HB24

5 Comb binding machine (electric) ibico AG EP21

KODAK NELA-CREO

1 Plate Loader 02953-01 & 02940-01 Two each

2 Plate Loader Cassettes Four each

NELA

1 Bender VCP-7411-02 BG707210

2 Bender VCP-7411-01 BG707205

3 Conveyors Various

GLUNZ & JENSEN

1 Pre-Bake Oven CPO 85 Three each

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2 Plate Processor Quartziii 85 Three each

AIR COMPRESSOR

1 1,000 cfm compressor Quincy QSI-1000

AIR DRYER

1 Air Dryer Quincy QFD 1650

2 Air Dryer Quincy QFD 1650

3 Air Dryer Quincy QPNC-500

PKG MAINT SHOP

1 Parts Washer BAC DM-32

2 15-1/2" drill press Craftsman (On a stand)

3 Hydraulic Press Dayton (3Z915)

4 Drill press Craftsman (Table mounted)

PRESS STITCHER

1 Inline stitcher Motterstitch Stitcher Model 103 KBA specific

SPARE MOTORS

13 HP, 3,400 RPM, 40 VDC motor, Type

GSADynamatic Adjusto Speed, Model

MO-200076-0903 Delivery bed motor for Harris

21.5 HP, 220/440 VAC, motor Frame

AEL-147Reuland, Model 8422-BX2754 Reel rotation motors

31.5 HP, 220/440 VAC, motor Frame

AEL-148Reuland, Model 8422-BX2755 Reel rotation motors

45 HP, 230/460 Vac, 1750 RPM, Frame

184 TCBaldor Super E, Model VEM 3665T New in box

55 HP, 230/460 Vac, 1750 RPM, Frame

184 TC Baldor Super E, Model VEM 3665T Used

61 HP, Gast Regenerative Blower, Model

R4310a-2; SPC 4265Used

775 HP, 230/460 VAC, 1770 RPM, Frame

365T Baldor Type 4272M, # M2551T New



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1APC CRAC1 NetworkAIR FM Series Model M40M-EKA-ESU, 40 kw, dual cooling unit

1GMA / SLS 2000 S/N: 96.2000.6, 5/17/96 24 head, double drop, upgraded software for double drop; new

spare computer; with Qunicy vacuum pump

Karl Schmidt ConveyorWaste conveyor w/ diverter and dual compactors; includes power and control panel; secton 1 = 61' 5-5/8", Section 2 = 58' 4-1/8",

Section 3 = 169' 6-3/16", Section 4 = 85' 1"




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