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Technical Specifications - Press

 

Our presses 

 Horton Media’s Goss Super Suburban Community press in NZ was bought new in 1996 and has since been upgraded with a $2 million enhancement program. It comprises four, four high-colour towers, three mono units, and two SSC folders with quarter folders and one  double-digest folder. The press drives can be split to create two printing presses. This helps guarantee production with the ability to make part of the press redundant should any major mechanical or electrical failures arise. Our peak delivery is a 56-page tabloid with 32 pages of four-colour at 30,000 copies per hour. Alternatively, the press can produce a 28-page broadsheet in one or two sections with 16 pages of colour or an 80-page quarterfold magazine with 64 pages of four colour. Smaller paginations can be printed on a split press creating an output of 60,000 copies per hour.

Horton Media Australia also runs a Goss Super Suburban Community with four towers and the same features as the NZ model. The press, which was bought new in 2005, differs mainly in that it came equipped with a commercial dampening system. It is also a full-colour press offering 32pp of tabloid, 16pp of broadsheet and 64pp of quarterfold or digest in full-colour in a single pass.

Both presses also offer both upper and lower former options. The double digest folder offers the ability to produce small books and catalogues two up with to 64 colour pages in a single pass.
Both presses are enhanced by Quadtech automatic colour registration, automatic in-feeds (web tension control), electronic web guides and zero-speed paper splices for low waste and fast running of four-colour newspaper publications.