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Novel 3-around printing
features lower costs,
compact size, more color
By Jamie
Ducharme
Bulletin Correspondent
In 1440, Johannes
Gutenberg’s freshly minted printing press changed the course of
publishing.
In 2012, it could
be the so-called three-around printing method that reshapes the newspaper
business, Jim Gore, vice president and general manager of Pressline
Services, based in St. Louis, Mo., said.
The three-around
system optimizes efficiency by allowing printing press cylinders to
produce three pages per revolution instead of the usual two, Gore explained
in a presentation Friday, Feb. 10, at the New England Newspaper and
Press Association winter convention.
Gore said The Columbus
(Ohio) Dispatch is the first newspaper to begin the switch to three-around
printing, and he focused on its experiences in his presentation.
The Dispatch will
print the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Kentucky Enquirer later this year,
when Gannett Co. Inc. becomes the first to make the conversion to a
three-around-printed newspaper. Gannett, based in McLean, Va., is the
largest newspaper group in the country, based on daily circulation.
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