| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION the press on which the plates were mounted was still one designed for letterpress the Goss Mark Acid-etched zinc plates were utilized along with several brands of plasticcoated photo sensitive plates We tried or studied number of methods to make our presses print near offset but never with great success Brennan recalls We could say we printed great letterpress but great letterpress printing is not what the advertising customers of the 80s and 90s were looking for So it continued until 1978 whenGoss Metro press was installed and portions of the two papers were printed by the offset process The paper produced with this mixture of offset and letterpress only emphasized the difference in reproduction because the offset version was sharper and cleaner Under more and more pressure to print all our copies and all our ads on our Metro offset press we knew we needed to find more offset capacity orbetter way to print letterpress Brennan continues We were not able to findconversion for our letterpresses that worked as well as offset and the conversions ended up being nearly as expensive as new offset presses master plan developed in 1988 brought aboutdecision to change entirely to offset and to retain the printing plant in its longtime location It necessitated operating the old plant whilecomplete new one was built inside the old shell NACpresident today is Dominic Welch who was then in charge of NACaccounting He described the change-over in these terms Brennan remembers You re either crazy to attempt this or ita case study in good planning and management It was the latter NACpapers are printed on three Goss 10-unit presses with extensive color facilities One of the three is the original Metro reconfigured to operate with the two new Goss Headliners Atex III and other computer and scanning equipment provides the bridge from input directly to offset plate Printing observers rate the Trib and the News among the nationbest-looking daily papers 240 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
