Goss International has introduced a solution, which the company claims overcomes barriers deterring many newspapers from converting to a more attractive and cost-effective compact format.
According to Goss its new Triliner technology converts two-pages-around newspaper presses to print three pages around, allowing publishers to save paper and increase productivity and color capacity while still maintaining broadsheet sectioning and the ability to accommodate standard-size advertising inserts.Plate cylinders are modified to accommodate a single plate containing three shorter newspaper pages imaged around the circumference. A Goss SuperBerliner folder allows off-center folds, and adjustments can be made to postpress inserting systems to accept the smaller, asymmetrically folded papers.
Publishers can modify existing double-circumference presses to produce papers with two-thirds of the previous cutoff. The Triliner technology is also available for new presses, according to Goss.
John Richards, director of newspaper product management at Goss International says, “Triliner technology offers the convenient, compact size previously reserved for tabloids, while retaining key advantages of the broadsheet format, including multiple sections and premium advertising positions.”
Richards continues, “With web widths shrinking, Triliner technology also brings cutoffs into a more familiar and pleasing proportion to page widths.”
Goss also claims that converting to Triliner technology saves paper by reducing the cutoff of the finished product by 33.3 per cent. Operational advantages accrue in both straight and collect production.
