Cape Cod Times press controls upgraded

The Hyannis, Mass.-based Cape Cod Times’ Goss Metro press will be upgraded this fall by Harland Simon, an Oak Park, Ill.-based vendor of press control and management systems.

Production of the paper is not expected to be interrupted, because the old press system will be used until the new one is fully functional. The new system is expected to be in full use by the end of 2009, Editor & Publisher reported.

A similar project was done last year at the Times Herald-Record of Middletown, N.Y., which is owned by Dow Jones Local Media Group, the parent company of the Times.

Mike Fabia, the Times’ operations director, observed the system change at the Times Herald-Record before the Cape Cod Times chose Harland Simon.

At the Times, Harland Simon will replace the main press controls and install a variety of new pieces, including new operator consoles and system modules that will allow auto-impositioning, color advisory, and direct ink presetting.


The item above was written from a published report by Jen Slothower, a graduate student at the Northeastern University School of Journalism and a news staff coordinator for the Bulletin.

 

 

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