newspapers

Henan Daily orders third Comet press [newspapers]

2010-03-04T03:00:00+01:00

Henan Daily Newspaper Group in Zhengzhou, China has singed a contract for a third Comet press line. The order follows the installation in 2001 and 2005 of two Comet press lines with a total of eight towers and four folders.

SWUG conference goes a little bit country [newspapers]

2010-03-02T03:30:00+01:00

The Single Width Users Group (SWUG) will be taking its annual conference to Tamworth this year. The conference will begin on Friday, March 19 and conclude with the SWUG Awards gala presentation on the evening of Sunday, March 21. There will be no Monday morning conference sessions as in previous years.

Swiss press maker Wifag to be bought by manroland [newspapers]

2010-03-01T13:00:00+01:00

The world’s largest web offset manufacturer manroland is negotiating the purchase of Swiss newspaper press maker Wifag, with the deal expected to be finalised later this year. No details have been given on the terms, which are likely to be favourable to manroland. Wifag’s turnover in 2008 was around CHF500m, (A$520m) but the 2009 figure is likely to be substantially reduced.

Swiss press maker Wifag to be bought by manroland [newspapers]

2010-02-28T13:00:00+01:00

Swiss press maker Wifag to be bought by manroland [newspapers]

2010-02-28T03:30:00+01:00

Coromandel newspaper increases speed with Watkiss booklet maker [newspapers]

2010-02-28T03:00:00+01:00

After purchasing the latest Watkiss booklet maker, along with a Digivac collator, Whitianga-based newspaper The Informer has sped up production of its 5500-run weekly community paper, which it distributes from Mercury Bay to Whangamata.

APN turns to full year profit [newspapers]

2010-02-27T03:00:00+01:00

APN News & Media, the company that publishes the New Zealand Herald, the Listener and other major kiwi newspaper and magazine titles, turned to a full-year profit after impairments pushed its previous year’s results into the red, saying a pickup in trading in the fourth quarter has continued into the current year.

Digital printing for publishers? [newspapers]

2010-02-23T17:58:00+01:00

Tribute asks whether this will be the year publishers look seriously at the benefits of high speed inkjet printing

Half-century of printing [newspapers]

2009-07-29T20:17:00+01:00

Horace Burgess Harvey is the third part of the Burgess story that has been unfolding through this column and the fourth generation of the Burgess printing dynasty that was starting newspapers in New South Wales in the 1860s. Part 1 was told in May and Part 2 in June

From Bombala to Bundaberg [newspapers]

2009-06-16T20:11:00+01:00

“But wait, there’s more.” This could have been the qualification when a Rockhampton sub-editor wrote the headline for the retirement in 1991 of long-time printer, Horace Burgess Harvey: ‘Ink runs dry on four generations of news’

From little acorns ... [newspapers]

2009-02-17T17:34:00+01:00

The Australian Newspaper History Group, which emerged from a conference on local newspapers and local identities at Chiltern in north-eastern Victoria in October 1999, is an example of whatindividuals rather than committees can achieve

Digital newspaper printing – a future application? [newspapers]

2008-11-07T13:55:08+01:00

Among the more interesting demonstrations at the recent drupa exhibition was the digital printing of newspapers, says Andrew Tribute

Masthead change after 150 years [newspapers]

2008-11-07T13:44:03+01:00

The Adelaide Advertiser celebrated its 150th anniversary in July and changed its old masthead in September

Digital newspapers coming [newspapers]

2008-11-07T13:35:47+01:00

Digital printing is making inroads everywhere, with newspapers now a key target market for Oce’s new high speed colour inkjet printer, says its global marketing manager Michaela Frisch

Newspaper opportunity [newspapers]

2008-11-07T13:29:23+01:00

Melinda Healy reports straight from the conference floor at the annual Panpa newspaper publishers talkfest, which this year took place in Queensland

From the country to the outback [newspapers]

2008-10-19T13:50:52+01:00

I flew out of Madrid ten days before that disastrous Spanair takeoff late in August when more than 150 people died. Spain was the last port of call on a 26-day overseas trip that took in Scotland, France, Belgium and Spain. From a newspaper perspective, I saw few publications bigger than tabloid format, and many in a smaller format (generally about 260mm by 185mm)

Pictorial treasures unearthed [newspapers]

2008-09-11T14:26:57+01:00

The approach of an anniversary at the SMH and the Age triggered special efforts to recall times past, and to unearth artefacts that speak powerfully of those times

Golden pills for lawyers [newspapers]

2008-08-29T16:09:15+01:00

Trust The Bulletin to get it right, and in only four words! “Golden pills for lawyers” – that was its comment when two south coast papers were sued for libel in 1884

Digital newspaper printing - a future application? [newspapers]

2008-08-09T15:23:07+01:00

Among the more interesting demonstrations at the recent drupa exhibition was the digital printing of newspapers, says Andrew Tribute

Going to the wall [newspapers]

2008-06-16T19:41:00+01:00

Rod Kirkpatrick recounts some of the more interesting ways newspapers sued to drum up readers, and each other out of business.

The education of three journalists [newspapers]

2008-05-29T14:53:47+01:00

Meet Connie Ellis, three of whose children became journalists. Connie Ellis, born in London in 1860, migrated to Queensland in 1889 because she wanted a job in a new land. Her first job in Australia was as a ladies’ companion at Kyabra, an isolated town more than 1100km west of Brisbane.

Rupert and Morna report for duty [newspapers]

2008-04-08T20:17:54+01:00

With the vast volume of words that have been written about Rupert Murdoch in his seventy-seven years, you would think you would struggle to find a new anecdote about the man, but Rod Kirkpatrick comes up with the goods.

Kingmaker dead 100 years [newspapers]

2008-03-16T07:00:00+01:00

Australia's nineteenth-century press magnate, David Syme, died 100 years ago on February 14, and the Canberra-based Melburnian, Dr Elizabeth Morrison, who is working in a book about Syme, took special note. Here are some of the reflections she shared with the Australian Newspaper History Group

After the ball [newspapers]

2008-02-09T04:18:40+01:00

It’s amazing what is tucked away in our libraries. For example, there is Mrs Butters’ extraordinary Press Dress, which was donated to the Pictures Collection of the State Library of Victoria in 1951. It has undergone extensive conservation recently.

Icing on the cake [newspapers]

2007-11-14T15:00:00+01:00

Although I never worked in Fleet Street, at least I can now say that I have walked Fleet Street.

Bad news slashes advertising [newspapers]

2007-10-01T14:00:00+01:00

During the two world wars of the 20th century, newspaper economics was turned on its head, especially when it came to newsprint. Stocks were scarce and the price rocketed.

Newspaper ghost towns [newspapers]

2007-07-11T14:00:00+01:00

Visiting the country towns where pioneering newspapers operated is always fascinating, but if the town no longer boasts a newspaper the fascination is tinged with sadness.

Le Figaro orders biggest-ever KBA Cortina press line [newspapers]

2007-06-10T14:00:00+01:00

Le Figaro, one of France’s leading national titles with a daily circulation of around 480,000 copies, is planning to make the technology leap to waterless with the biggest KBA Cortina installation to date – a six-wide version comprising two press lines with five towers apiece. KBA won the contract following an intensive screening of all the newspaper technology on the market.

KBA making a splash [newspapers]

2007-05-24T14:00:00+01:00

KBA Australasia is offering a wealth of information about the innovative KBA printing press range, which extends from small, half, medium and large format sheetfed offset presses through commercial web offset presses to single, double and triple-width newspaper presses.

World premiere at Main-Post in WÃ¼rzburg [newspapers]

2007-04-25T14:00:00+01:00

Zip’n’Buy, an invention patented* by press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer (KBA) some years ago, made its pressroom debut recently at Würzburg-based German media house Main-Post when the C&A retail chain pounced on the idea of a “zip” in a newspaper for an ad campaign. The zip took the form of a perforated line applied – with no reduction in press speed – during production of the Main-Post’s flagship title on a KBA Commander press line.