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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

Major Chinese newspapers will soon be printed on presses fitted with innovative tools supplied by German offset printing systems suppliers, technotrans.

South Australian newspaper, the Yorke Peninsula Country Times (YPCT), is making the transition from analogue to digital plate production. The newspaper is installing an Agfa chemistry-free CTP solution, which is the first of its kind to be commissioned in Australia and comprises the Advantage N-SA CTP, a VCF85 clean-out unit and an Arkitex Essentials workflow.

The Beijing Shengtong Printing Company of Northern China has ordered its second Goss Sunday 2000 press. Scheduled for shipment in May 2010, it will be installed in a new facility currently under construction. The company’s existing Sunday press will be relocated alongside the new one.

Fairfax Media has reported a whopping full year loss of $350m for the financial tear 2008/09, and has indicated it is wanting to fall in with Rupert Murdoch’s plan to charge readers for online content.

Publish Asia set to be held in Chennai, India, next month will feature a production and technology conference. The event will examine the latest trends in technology and modern print management, with a special focus on how publishers can improve their production efficiency and cost controls in newspaper production.

News Limited is now printing The Australian in Tasmania at its plant in Hobart, which features a single-width, double-circumference KBA Comet press line. The company adds the local printing will allow delivery to news stands earlier every day, and reduce air freight costs previously required to transport copies from the Melbourne print plant.

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

“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’

Australian newspaper’s advertising and classified pages are facing a gloomy future as advertisements make the permanent migration to the internet, according to recent research.

The days of digitally printed newspapers seem to be finally arriving. This is not to say that we have not had such newspapers before. In fact in the past week I have received information from Océ that at their largest digital newspaper printing operation at Stroma in London, the five millionth digitally printed newspaper copy has rolled off their Océ monochrome presses after eight years of operation.

The days of digitally printed newspapers seem to be finally arriving. This is not to say that we have not had such newspapers before. In fact in the past week I have received information from Océ that at their largest digital newspaper printing operation at Stroma in London, the five millionth digitally printed newspaper copy has rolled off their Océ monochrome presses after eight years of operation.

The Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association’s (PANPA) newspaper advertising awards are now open for entries with organisers saying the awards have already begun to received entries from throughout the Asia Pacific region.

The Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association’s (PANPA) newspaper advertising awards are now open for entries with organisers saying the awards have already begun to received entries from throughout the Asia Pacific region.

The Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association’s (PANPA) newspaper advertising awards are now open for entries with organisers saying the awards have already begun to received entries from throughout the Asia Pacific region.

International newspaper association IFRA’s first Asian design seminar is set to be held in Jakarta this month. Organisers say the event will host a number of international experts who will explain how to improve newspapers and magazines’ visual impact and attractiveness with outstanding usage of photos, graphics and design.

Zhengzhou Daily, a major newspaper publisher in central China, has ordered a Goss Universal press, which is capable of printing 75,000-copies-per-hour, in order to improve its colour capacity. Goss says the new press will include 16 shaftless Universal printing units, two jaw folders and five reelstands.

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

Baldwin Technology Company has announced what it has dubbed aggressive capacity adjustments, which will reduce the company’s worldwide workforce by 12 per cent leading to savings of $12m. Meanwhile the company has received an order from a Japanese newspaper, which is the fifth major order in the last 6 months for equipment on newspaper presses in Japan.

The World Association of Newspapers has decided to postpone its World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo, which was scheduled to be held in Hyderabad, India from 22 to 25 March, because of the impact of the global financial downturn on newspaper companies.

The World Association of Newspapers has decided to postpone its World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo, which was scheduled to be held in Hyderabad, India from 22 to 25 March, because of the impact of the global financial downturn on newspaper companies.

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.

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) is organising a study tour to Japan and Korea, which the association says is home to some of the world’s most innovative multimedia companies.