"The days of big iron are over."
-- Anonymous@7:37 p.m., commenting on plans for The Times of Shreveport, La., to inaugurate a new $16 million press, allowing the paper to shift to a Berliner format, effective Sept. 27.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Shreveport's new press will likely be one of the last
-- Anonymous@7:37 p.m., commenting on plans for The Times of Shreveport, La., to inaugurate a new $16 million press, allowing the paper to shift to a Berliner format, effective Sept. 27.
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Apparently, the new press will allow Shreveport to reduce its press operators from 12 to four--and they won't find out until right before the new press goes live Sept. 26/27.
ReplyDeleteWe in Shreveport wonder whether printing for some of the other Gannett papers in Louisiana will be consolidated as the company continues cost cutting.
We are still in the early innings of this technological revolution, but I think one thing is clear: print is not going away. So there will continue to be a need for a press, if only on a regional basis serving several newspapers.
ReplyDeleteSniff, Sniff, snuffle, a new press...I'm so proud and sad at the same time. There's nothing like a big newspaper press when it starts up with your hard work all over it....the lights dim, the building shakes and hums....ah...the good old days.
ReplyDeleteSomeone should clarify. I don't think that this press is new, but it is new for Shreveport, from what I have heard.
ReplyDeleteI have also heard that it has a 19-inch cut off, which would be a huge cost saver for the other papers in Louisiana. Newsprint usage would drop about 16% with the same number of pages.
Priting already has been consolidated in Louisiana. The Lafayette Advertiser now is the print site for three of Gannett's five papers in the state. It would make sense for Shreveport to begin printing the Monroe paper, although Monroe got a new (at least to them) press a couple of years ago.
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