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The Dallas Morning News orders press retrofits from ABB
Wednesday 14. April 2010 - Orders covering five TKS presses
ABB has announced that it has received a series of orders from The Dallas Morning News for press controls upgrades on a total of five TKS presses at its print center in Plano, Texas.
As well as printing their own newspapers, the presses in Plano also print other titles such as the New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.
ABB has already supplied press controls and automation solutions for two presses at the Plano site – one OF370 press from WIFAG and the first of six TKS presses. These new orders will ensure that the same press controls solution, the same operating concept and the same production planning will apply across all seven Dallas Morning News presses.
Each of the TKS presses has the configuration shown in the diagram below.
Each press will be equipped with two ABB MPS Control Consoles, one each of which will be fitted with ABBs soft-proofing solution. Each console is also fitted with ABBs zoneless ink adjustment keyboard, which simplifies any future conversion to operation with multiple web widths. All five presses covered by the new orders will be integrated with ABBs MPS Production press management system that is already installed at Plano. This means that The Dallas Morning News production staff will be able to plan all their work on the one system.
ABBs on-site work will start with a press audit in April. The first press will then be upgraded and back into production in November of this year. The subsequent 4 presses will be upgraded sequentially over the following three-year period.
Jeff Gelfand, ABBs National Sales and Marketing Director for the US newspaper business, comments “by choosing ABBs press control solutions The Dallas Morning News is protecting their investments in press hardware, ensuring the long-term sustainability of their commercial printing business and also boosting the efficiency of their operation”.