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M A G A Z I N E
Issue 69
Goss at drupa
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Seeing Things
Differently
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Web Offset for
Packaging
Reshaping the Debate
Mission
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Zero
In Pursuit of
Zero Waste

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“...See things differently” is the new Goss International
theme for drupa 2012, but it is also the key to how we
have delivered value for more than a century.
Jochen Meissner
President and CEO
Goss International
From the earliest newspaper press towers,
to gapless-blanket Sunday presses, to
Autoplate , DigiRail and the world’s
first 96-page web press, the name Goss ®
has been synonymous with technologies
that break through barriers and drive
our industry forward. We take pride in
being the first to introduce new ideas
and innovations. More importantly, these
ideas and innovations are developed
in collaboration with printers and
publishers. They reflect a vision of what
they need to differentiate, strengthen
their competitiveness and seize new
opportunities.
We have also followed the “see things
differently” philosophy in structuring
our own organization. We are ‘local’
throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas;
in touch with requirements specific to
each market and ready to respond with
immediacy. We are also global; able to
deliver the additional benefits of scale,
resources and diversity. You can read more
on how and why this works in Europe, in
particular, in this edition of Web Offset.
In fact, there are examples of how Goss
International and its customers “see things
differently” throughout this issue of Web
Offset: from new capabilities exploited
on the Sunday 5000 press in Germany
to AT productivity in the U.S.; from a
multiple-press Universal ® XL installation
in Europe to the brand new Magnum
HPS press en route for installation in
China. And, with several printers in Europe
and North America building successful
business models around Goss web presses
augmented by in-line inkjet capabilities, we
even analyze the potential of inkjet in the
web offset market.
As you will read, the Goss products
featured at drupa 2012 strongly support
our overall theme. They all give printers
and publishers the chance to take a new
approach to how they print current and
future products. The Goss drupa portfolio
demonstrates that, in a challenging
climate, we are responding with new ideas
and sustained – not diminished – R&D.
Nowhere is the “see things differently”
approach more evident than in our Sunday
Vpak packaging presses. We examined
the demands that will confront the
packaging sector, envisioned an expanded
role for web offset, and developed an
all-new press platform that presents an
exciting alternative to sheetfed, gravure,
flexo and previous web offset options.
Our drupa stand and the pages of Web
Offset are limited, but examples of Goss
International and its customers around the
world seeing things differently are virtually
unlimited. They range from the large
Colorliner ® CPS compact press installation
coming up at DC Thomson in Scotland
to dozens of aftermarket enhancement
projects delivering major performance
improvements and a fast return on
investment.
Beyond being a drupa theme, “see
things differently” is a challenge and an
invitation. As always, we look forward to
engaging with you in pursuit of new ideas.

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Sunday 5000 a Perfect
Fit at Stark Druck
German printer doubling up on commitment to 96-page web offset
platform as part of growth strategy.
As a full-service print and media provider, Stark
Druck GmbH + Co. KG of Pforzheim, Germany is
continually reviewing and investing in technology to
ensure its offering to customers is second to none. The
company epitomizes the vast array of technical skills
and capabilities required to address today’s diversity
of modern media, through services covering digital
prepress, web offset, sheetfed offset and digital printing,
as well as converting and distribution.
Despite widespread emphasis on digital as the key
growth area in print today, Stark Druck represents the
reality: that judicious investment continues to offer
increased market share opportunities across many
areas of commercial print. It was for this reason that
installing Germany’s first-ever 96-page web offset press
was a logical step, and also the reason why the strategy
has been successful. The long-grain Goss Sunday 5000
went into production on schedule in 2011 to the wide
approval of Stark’s customers – not only for the ability
to print 96 A4 pages per cylinder revolution, but also
the versatility to print lower page counts double- and
four-up, delivering high volumes with extremely quick
turnaround times.
As well as taking the title of first offset printer with a
2860 mm wide web in Germany, Stark also immediately
became the first printer worldwide to have the
capability to print 96 pages in both short-grain and
long-grain format. The former was possible utilizing its
two 48-page Goss Sunday 4000 presses.
“The press fit so perfectly into our portfolio that before
we knew it, it was running at full capacity,” comments
Reiner Wormitt, managing director of Stark Druck.
Stark’s solution was to order a second, identical model
which is due for imminent installation and will make
Stark the first company in the world to run two 96-page
presses.
The new press will have a PCF-3 combination and PFF-3
former folder, both designed to run at up to 100,000
copies per hour for optimum product versatility. Stark
A second identical Sunday 5000 press will soon make Stark
Druck first in the world to run two 96-page presses.
Druck will also add a Goss PFF-3 former folder to its
existing Sunday 5000 press. The features and ribbon
configuration of each of the PFF-3 former folders will be
absolutely unique in Europe, allowing the company to
offer specific products and very high copy output in low
page count magazine format with very short makereadies
to its customers.
According to managing partner Andreas Ruf, throughout
its 65-year company history Stark has a tradition of being
innovative and agile: “Our strategy today is driven by the
desire to ensure we are best positioned for the changing
world of print and media. We aim to enhance the potential
for added value across our entire product spectrum – first
of all in conventional print offering and then focusing on
new media. Our plan is well underway through investment
in printing presses, in digital printing and in our continued
commitment to the digital technologies.”

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“Better Ways of Doing Things”
The Church of Scientology has a saying that Scientology
is “not just something you believe in, it is something
you do”. That mantra drove a new model for
communicating with members and a new in-house
print facility where a Goss ® Sunday 2000 press with
Automatic Transfer technology is the centerpiece.
The Church of Scientology International
(CSI) printing center in Los Angeles,
California (USA) opened in 2010, serving
the worldwide network of Scientology
followers and printing materials in as
many as 19 languages and with up to 168
regional versions. The agility of the Sunday
press has improved how CSI senior project
manager Jamie McClintock and his team
manage the diverse product mix. The press
has even opened their eyes to new and
improved options.
“We print 1.8 million products every
week, and the complexity, with all the
languages and versions, makes efficient
job scheduling and changeovers a must,”
McClintock explains. “Adding to the
challenge is the tight deadlines we have
to meet, as 50 percent of our production
goes overseas. The Automatic Transfer Goss
press system gives us the vital advantage
of instant, on-the-fly job changeovers.”
Previously, all CSI print work was
outsourced, but the Church took a bold
step in 2010. McClintock’s team opened
the new in-house facility and equipped
it with state-of-the-art digital, offset,
finishing and auxiliary capabilities,
including the six-unit Automatic Transfer
Sunday press.
Automatic Transfer technology allows
non-stop production at the CSI facility. Four
of the six units are typically set up to print
CMYK, while the fifth and sixth units hold
different language overprint plates. While
one of the units with a language plate
is on impression and printing along with
the CMYK units, operators prep the idle
unit using the Autoplate automatic plate
changing feature. That unit then comes
on impression while the unit printing the
previous language simultaneously comes
off impression.
This sequence of toggling between units
can continue across multiple editions
without stopping or even slowing down
the press. Waste is minimal thanks
to advanced Goss ink presetting and
closed-loop controls. As a result, shortrun
jobs that might have been printed
using another process – or not printed at
all due to the prohibitive cost – can now
be produced with the speed, quality and
economic advantages of web offset.
McClintock says Automatic Transfer
technology was significant in the selection
of the Sunday 2000 press, but other
features were also important in a web
offset production environment where
changing editions or entire jobs five or six
times per hour is not uncommon. “Gapless
blanket technology gives high quality and
faster blanket changes, and the overall
fast makeready and waste reduction
package provides considerable cost and
productivity advantages for the multifaceted
work we need to do,” he explains.
The Sunday press with a PCF-1 pinless
combination folder allows CSI to produce
standard 16-page magazine signatures
plus a wide variety of specialized folds
and product formats at up to 55,000
impressions per hour. The gapless,
pinless combination allows a shorter
cutoff for considerable paper savings. A
sheeter provides additional versatility for
specialized covers or products requiring
offline folding and finishing.
“We maintain the highest quality
standards for all of our publications and
accurate and pleasing color was high
on the list of hard requirements,” states
McClintock. “We opted for full closed
loop color and register control on the
press and a 100-percent visual inspection
system which inspects at full press speed,
comparing each impression against a
master, thus ensuring high-quality products
going to bindery and out the door.
Left to right: Jud Posner, Pressroom Manager, Nicky Byrne, Production Manager,
Owen Varrall, Project Manager, Toby Updegrove, Plant Manager.

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A single source for printing
The CSI print center also features
sheetfed and digital press capacity and
a comprehensive portfolio of finishing
and auxiliary equipment. The result is
an ability to produce everything from
posters, foil stamped covers, invitations,
greeting cards, fliers and brochures
to wide-format banners and screen or
digitally printed garments.
The Sunday press is a workhorse of the
operation, turning out 80 percent of the
print volume. The bulk of that web offset
work is saddlestiched and perfect bound
publications with up to 152 pages in
run lengths that extend from 5,000 to
500,000 copies.
Utilizing the flexibility
“Our printing requirements like everyone’s
have changed in recent years and
employing our own technology to fulfill our
requirements in-house has certainly put a
new perspective on our production goals,”
explains McClintock. “For example, we
have made considerable cost savings due
to the ability to manage our own workflow.
But the wider capabilities of the Sunday
press have also opened our eyes to better
ways of doing things, such as tailoring
Church magazines to regional areas, as
well as by language. Something we would
have never considered in the past when we
outsourced the publications due to cost,
time and complexity.
“We have increased the
languages we publish in,
and drastically increased
the regionalization of some
publications to make them more
relevant and informative.”
• 1.8 million products per week
• 300,000 products per day
• 35 makereadies per shift, two shifts per day
• 500 web press plates per week (average)
• 50 percent of output sent overseas
Unique Goss training
opportunities
The all-new CSI print operation was up and
running at high capacity much faster than
McClintock thought possible. “Our training
needed to be very thorough, particularly
with the Sunday press, as our operators
had no previous web offset experience,”
he recounts. “We had comprehensive help
from our equipment suppliers and other
industry professionals, and Goss was
particularly creative.”
Prior to the Sunday press installation,
Goss International arranged customized
offset lithography courses for CSI crews at
top-flight colleges where Goss web presses
have been donated. The first session was
at California Polytechnic Institute, and the
second was held at The Rochester Institute
of Technology. Crews then spent three
months operating a similar Sunday press
on an apprenticeship basis at a commercial
printing company.
“Goss has honestly been a pleasure to
work with. Everyone involved in the
project has been extremely helpful and
went out of their way to ensure the entire
training and installation process went
without a hitch.”
A view on the future
McClintock says print volume and quality
are increasing. The new in-house facility
and the organization behind it are driving
this growth. “Goss has played a big role
in getting us to this level. They have
been very supportive of any issues and
continually worked with us to improve our
processes and procedures,” he says.
As the complexity of publications and
marketing collateral steadily increases,
he projects that his team will be able
to respond. “I see the future of print as
increasingly customized publications, with
perhaps personalized inserts that have a
higher value to the reader and are much
more relevant,” he concludes. “We’re
excited because that is what we excel at
with the Sunday press.”

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Short and Perfectly Formed
Announced at the end of 2011 with an order for DC Thomson in Scotland, the
Colorliner ® CPS press is the new Goss ® compact press for high-volume newspaper
and semi-commercial production.
Featuring the latest in automatic
plate-changing technology, ergonomic
benefits and high productivity its unique
double- or triple-width press platform
delivers the print quality, efficiency,
operability and long-term production
versatility to suit a continually changing
publishing landscape.
Designed from the outset for coldset,
heatset or mixed production, with
fast changeover between these print
applications, the Colorliner CPS is a true
workhorse for high-volume production.
With a maximum straight running speed
of 90,000 copies per hour it delivers key
quality and operational benefits from its
compact four-high tower configuration,
employing the latest automation
technology. It joins the Colorliner FPS ,
providing customers with two versions
of compact press platform. The CPS press
incorporates many of the FPS design
features, but in a smaller footprint,
enabling it to be installed on existing
press bridge structures.
This package is fitted within a 4.5 meter
(14.8 feet) frame height and benefits
from a 2.7 meter (8.9 feet) first to last
impression distance, minimizing fan-out
and producing excellent print quality. The
low height, non-splitting design maintains
excellent ergonomics for operation and
maintenance through a patented and
unique cylinder configuration.
Shaftless drives, with one-motor per
printing level, and cylinders with bearerto-bearer
design, as typically seen on
commercial presses, provide proven
print quality. Users can select press
configurations offering double- and
triple-wide output, depending on their
publishing requirements.
Providing one of the most cost-effective
printing systems available for a highoutput
press, the Colorliner CPS press
benefits from a specialized air ducting
arrangement that produces a natural
flow of air circulation for optimum heat
dissipation. This results in extremely low
heat generation, removing the need for
the additional cooling systems employed
by other manufacturers. Substantial
reductions in power and energy costs,
as well as low waste between jobs and
the use of proven, reliable technologies,
contribute to lowering the overall cost of
ownership of the press.
A host of modern features create
a highly automated production
environment including the Goss
Autoplate fully automatic platechanging
technology and automatic
blanket washing. Pioneered on the
Goss M-600 and Sunday press units,
Autoplate enables re-plating operations
to be completed within minutes for fast
edition or job changes, and caters for
variable page widths. Combined with
the optional Goss DigiRail digital
inking system, a number of additional
automated features include ink and
damp train wash-up, start-up and rundown
sequences, automatic pre-inking
and roller adjustment (optional feature).
Cut-off options range from 45cm to
60cm (17.7 – 23.6 inches), and a choice
of web widths up to 1,905mm (75
inches) enables a variety of print formats
to be produced for newspaper and semicommercial
work.
The press comes with split-arm, reel
tension pasters, closed-loop in-feeds and
an efficient automatic web lead system.
A versatile 2:5:5 jaw folder with twin
or triple formers enables products to be
produced with up to 96 broadsheet pages.
To optimize the control and automation
of the press, a Goss OPCS system
provides fingertip control of all elements
of print production, using large displays
and intuitive screen dialogs and a
press function keyboard. Ink presets,
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maintenance dialogs are all controlled
from a single interface.
Theo Buchmeyer, managing director of
Goss International – France, comments
“The Colorliner CPS is compact but
extremely powerful – a ‘pocket sized’
press that packs a big punch. Its unique
design provides a shorter ‘first-to-last’
impression than most rivals, faster
running speeds, and provides a level of
automation that is hard to beat on speed
of job changeovers.”
D C Thomson & Company Ltd.
D C Thomson & Company Ltd. is a family-owned publisher and printer based in Dundee. The eighttower
Colorliner CPS press to be installed at D C Thomson will print up to 90,000 copies per hour,
driven by a full automation package including Goss Autoplate plate changing technology and
closed-loop controls. Goss International will equip the system with Goss Contiweb FD pasters,
two Goss Ecocool ® heatset dryers and two J2:5:5 jaw folders. Installation begins in mid 2012.
As part of its investment in the future of its newspaper printing and publishing business, the
company will also reconfigure existing Goss Colorliner equipment into a seven-tower, two-folder
system. “A major controls upgrade and other enhancements, combined with the robust design of
the Colorliner press family, will extend the productivity and competitive efficiency of our existing
equipment well into the future,” explained Chief Operating Officer David Thomson.
Italian Publisher Competes on Quality
Family-run publisher Loghicon srl of Pordenone, North-East Italy, has gone on-edition
with a 16-unit Goss ® Community ® SSC press at its new print facility, Centro Stampa Friuli.
“We expect the new Community SSC
press to help us claim a leadership
position for our titles, differentiated by
quality in a market that has become
flooded with low-grade products,”
comments company owner, Simone Saletti.
“Our two key titles, Città Nostra and La
Gazzetta Immobiliare, are high-quality
advertising newspapers for the north
eastern region of Italy. We plan to increase
production by up to 30 - 50 percent in the
coming months, extending our readership further afield
and possibly even looking beyond national borders, to
Slovenia, Croatia and Austria.”
The new Goss Community SSC press, comprising four fourhigh
towers, has an SSC 1:2 jaw folder with quarterfold
capability and a 578 mm cut-off. For phase two of the
project, Goss International will add three mono units and
a folder to the new press line, all existing equipment from
another facility.
“We’re working hand-in-hand with Goss International to
produce the most productive press site in the region. From
the first drawing to every milestone along the journey,
we feel Goss is helping us move towards a very positive
future,” says Saletti.
Established in 1992 with the purchase of free newspaper
Città Nostra, Loghicon is a family-run publisher with
headquarters in Pordenone and its printing facility, Centro
Stampa Friuli, in nearby Zoppola. Total production and
distribution of its main titles La Gazzeta Immobiliare,
printed in magazine format, and the tabloid publication
Città Nostra reaches 8,000,000 copies per year.
Loghicon owner Simone Saletti (left) with Pivetta Luisa Saletti, director.

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Reshaping the Debate
Reinvigorating the debate about printing processes for
packaging, Goss believes that changing requirements
are creating the right conditions for a wider adoption
of web offset for folding carton, flexible packaging and
label applications.
Peter Walczak, Goss International director of
product management for packaging presses
The Goss Sunday Vpak packaging press – here outputting to 18pt SUS paperboard – is
available in web widths up to 1905mm
New Goss ® Sunday Vpak variable sleeve
presses introduce an entirely new way to
exploit the inherent print quality, cost and
agility advantages of web offset, according
to Peter Walczak, Goss International
director of product management for
packaging presses.
Walczak says that, while packaging has
not been directly threatened by electronic
alternatives and remains a growing
print sector, the pressures on packaging
producers mirror those found in the other
sectors. “Margins are tightening, brand
owners and marketers are demanding
higher print quality, and run lengths and
turn-around times are coming down to
achieve more dynamic, targeted and
personalized packaging,” he explains.
Add in emerging environmental, product
safety and security issues, and it is no
wonder that current print production
methods are being analyzed so closely
with an eye on improvement opportunities.
“With new variable sleeve press
technology available in web widths up
to 1905mm (75 inches) to address these
requirements, the time is right to consider,
or reconsider, web offset alternatives to
flexo, gravure or sheetfed offset for some
applications,” Walczak adds.
In addition to the benefits of high
productivity and comparatively low costs
for imaging versus gravure and plates
versus flexo, offset provides a more
versatile and stable process for many
packaging requirements. Simplified and
automated makeready processes not only
mean fast start-ups for new or repeat jobs,
but also quicker and easier adjustments
during production.
High line screens and sophisticated
screening techniques, such as FM
or stochastic screening, can also be
accommodated easily via offset, improving
print quality while avoiding screen clashes,
moirés and other defects. The ability to
print solids and screens for a particular
color from one plate on the same unit
further enhances simplicity and costeffectiveness.
“Consumers and marketers increasingly
expect the print quality and vibrancy of
a product’s packaging to make it stand
out from competitors and match the
brochures, videos and other promotional
materials for that product,” according
to Walczak. “Offset is the proven print
process for the highest quality at high
speed and competitive cost.”
Powerful productivity complements the
quality and cost advantages of web offset.
The new Goss Sunday Vpak presses print
at up to 457 meters (1,500 feet) per
minute. The result is output capabilities
up to 200 percent higher than those of
a sheetfed press, along with reduced
substrate costs, greater substrate range
and inline converting.
Variable-sleeve Sunday Vpak models are
also preferable alternatives to cassettestyle
web offset packaging presses that
rely on cumbersome and costly cassettes
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web widths up to 1905mm (75 inches)
and 1041mm (41 inches), respectively, the
Sunday Vpak 3000 and Sunday Vpak 500
press models feature quick-change blanket
and plate cylinder sleeve adapters, which
make ‘infinitely’ variable repeat lengths
easier and more affordable.
(3,000 feet per minute) and on webs up
to 2860mm (112 inches) wide. “We have
also demonstrated that we specialize in
working with customers to integrate web
offset lithography within advanced and
highly-customized production systems, a
key for packaging.”
Proven concepts and technologies
from industry-leading Goss Sunday
commercial web presses were
incorporated in the new Vpak presses.
Sleeve experience and unique, proven
Goss technologies to manage presetting,
ink, water, web tension, register,
closed-loop controls, drying and other
variables in the most demanding offset
environments support the advantages
of the packaging presses, according to
Walczak. He notes that more than 2,000
Goss Sunday printing units with sleeve
technology are in operation worldwide,
printing at up to 15 meters per second
“Innovative wide-web Sunday press
technology revolutionized commercial
printing over the past two decades by
dramatically improving the productivity,
short-run efficiency and overall cost
model of web offset,” concludes Walczak.
“With the Sunday Vpak presses, we are
presenting a similar, game-changing path
forward for the packaging sector.”
For flexible packaging the Vpak benefits include finer line
screens and fast, easy color adjustment.
Concealed in a Sleeve — the Gapless Secret
Weapon for Offset Packaging
Extensive experience with sleeves and a unique new “white light”
cylinder layer give Sunday Vpak presses unique advantages.
Goss ® Sunday presses with gapless
sleeve blankets revolutionized
commercial web printing and have
been setting – and resetting – industry
standards for print quality, productivity
and reliability for 20 years. More than
2,000 Sunday printing units now operate
worldwide at speeds of up to 15 meters
per second (3,000 feet per minute) and
widths of up to 2.8 meters (112 inches).
Now, with packaging print requirements
moving toward the leap-off-theshelf
print quality, shorter targeted
run lengths, faster turnaround
times, and absolute-lowest-costpossible
requirements of commercial
printing, it is only logical that Goss
International would adapt its Sunday
press advantages and experience for
specialized packaging applications.
20 years of sleeve press experience allowed Goss engineers to quickly perfect the air
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Goss is certainly not the first to envision
the potential for web offset to provide
packaging printers with a preferable
alternative to flexo, sheetfed offset
and gravure for folding carton, flexible
packaging and label applications.
Solutions have come and gone, but
barriers ranging from costly and
cumbersome size-change systems to
limited web widths to ineffective supplier
support and execution have prevented
web offset from making serious inroads.
A different reference point in terms of
web offset technology and experience
allowed Goss International to take a
unique approach. One with a stronger
foundation and a higher prospect for
long-term success, according to Peter
Walczak, product development director
for the company’s variable sleeve Sunday
Vpak presses.
“We recognized, of course, that we
could not simply take a commercial web
press, add variable repeat, and call it a
packaging press,” acknowledges Walczak.
“Instead, we took the proven core
principles of Sunday technology and our
experience with sleeve presses and started
from the ground up to create a specialized
packaging press.”
That effort included collaboration
with Flint Group / Day International,
a longtime supplier of gapless Sunday
press blankets, and its Rotec division.
The result is a breakthrough blanket and
plate cylinder concept that reduces the
cost and complexity of achieving multiple
repeat variations with a Sunday Vpak
press significantly.
Size changes with the Sunday Vpak
presses are achieved by sliding cylindrical
bridging sleeves and plate and blanket
sleeves of varying diameters over
cantilevered mandrels. That is nothing new,
and 20 years of sleeve press experience
allowed Goss International engineers
to quickly perfect the air pressure and
cylinder registration mechanisms for fast,
simple size changes.
Model
Sunday
Vpak
3000
Sunday
Vpak
500
Max Web Width
mm (in.)
1905 (75)
1625 (64)
1400 (55)
1120 (44)
1051 (41)
850 (33.5)
520 (20.5)
Min Repeat
mm (in.)
850 (33.5)
700 (27.6)
700 (27.6)
700 (27.6)
508 (20)
406 (16)
406 (16)
bridging sleeve adapters a Vpak press user
needs to buy and manage.
“For each set of blanket bridging sleeve
adapters, a printer can vary the repeat
within a range of 1.57 inches (40 mm) by
using a new set of blankets with a “white
light” layer of an appropriate thickness,”
Walczak explains. “This is a far less
expensive and complex alternative to buying
and organizing separate sets of bridging
sleeves for every single size requirement.”
Surface compounds for the blankets
developed for the Vpak press are available
for UV and electron beam curing and
heatset printing.
In parallel with the sleeve change and
“white light” concepts, the Goss team
designed the Sunday Vpak press cylinder
stack so that ink train rollers and the plate,
blanket and impression cylinders maintain
a correct contact profile regardless of the
diameter of the sleeves. The design work
included automatic setting of the plate to
blanket nip to ensure ease of operation
and fast changeovers.
The result, Walczak summarizes, is a press
design that merges the proven lithography,
operability and productivity traits of the
world’s most advanced Sunday presses
Max Repeat
mm (in.)
1400 (55.1)
1400 (55.1)
1400 (55.1)
1400 (55.1)
812 (32)
812 (32)
812 (32)
Unit Design
Speed
mpm (fpm)
457 (1500)
365 (1200)
with a size-change capability that is easy,
reliable and cost effective. He says print
testing in the Goss International R&D
lab has produced excellent results on
a wide range of packaging substrates,
from unsupported films of 12 microns in
thickness to heavyweight board.
“We’re used to printing 200 lines-per-inch
or stochastic screens and achieving precise
web tension – a critical challenge with
packaging substrates – at 3,000 feet per
minute on 112-inch webs,” he explains.
“So it is not surprising that we have been
able to do this with the new Vpak 500 and
Vpak 3000 units in our lab.
“The track record of Goss International
in introducing game-changing printing
technology, executing large-scale
integrated installations and supporting
them over the long term with a solid
company infrastructure should also give
packaging producers confidence in the
Sunday Vpak presses,” he concludes.
What is new is the Goss and Flint concept
of affixing a layer of lightweight material
known as the “white light” layer under the
blanket and plate sleeves. The thickness
of this “white light” layer can vary from
0 to 0.25” (0 to 6 mm). The key benefit
is a reduction in the number of blanket
The Goss “white layer”
reduces the number
of blanket bridging
sleeve adapters a Vpak
press user needs.

Packaging World First for Precision Press
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Precision Press, an innovative U.S. packaging and label producer for the
food, beverage and consumer markets, will be the first in the world to
install the new Goss Sunday Vpak web offset printing system.
Precision Press president Lee Timmerman (left) and vice president of technology Lane Gravley (right) confirm the order with
Goss International sales director Tim Van Driessche (center)
The new press will be configured for flexible packaging
applications, with Sunday Vpak 500 web offset printing
units as well as a Goss in-line flexo and coating unit.
The press will also be equipped for UV and EB curing.
The system will go into operation at the company’s
213,000-square-foot (19,800 m 2 ) facility in North
Mankato, Minnesota in late 2012.
High offset print quality, quick-change sleeve technology
and the prospect of lower production costs were key
factors in the investment decision. Goss International
support resources in the United States were also
important, according to Lee Timmerman, president
of Precision Press. Timmerman says the Sunday Vpak
500 press will accommodate a wide variety of film
substrates, product formats and high-quality lithographic
requirements, supplementing the company’s extensive
web offset capabilities.
“We have made a deliberate decision to do something
different,” explains Timmerman. “There is a lot of
untapped potential for web offset in the packaging arena,
and we’re excited about the new print quality, productivity
and efficiency benefits the Goss press technology will
bring to our customers.”
Printing at up to 1,200 feet per minute (6.1 m/s), Goss
International will equip the system at Precision Press with
a closed-loop color, registration and inspection system.
“Precision Press is a well-established leader in delivering
differentiating packaging and label capabilities to
its customers,” according to Jochen Meissner, Goss
International president and CEO. “We appreciate
this opportunity to support the company’s ongoing
commitment to cutting-edge offset technology.”
Timmerman notes that Precision Press has worked closely
with Goss International over the past year in development of
the press configuration. “We had the chance to actually work
with the high-caliber Goss engineering team as the press was
being developed and tested at their U.S. headquarters,” he
explains. “As a result, our experience in printing on films and
understanding of the challenges, as well as our vision of the
capabilities that our customers will need going forward, are
built into the new press technology.”
Precision Press produces a comprehensive range of flexible
packaging as well as in-mold, shrink sleeve, roll-fed and cutand-stack
labels to help customers throughout the United
States distinguish their food, beverage and consumer
products. The company is part of the Taylor Corporation,
one of the top-five largest graphic communications and
commercial printing groups in North America.

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Mission Impossible
For many printers, zero waste is the Holy Grail. The ultimate goal. The
obvious way to help drive the ‘lean, mean and green’ philosophy that they
need to adopt to remain competitive.
The Goss Omnicon system helps target waste by addressing the chemistry and behavioral
variables specific to each production run.
The achievement of zero waste is, of
course, behind many of the press and
prepress innovations that we take for
granted today, especially in the field of
digital print where “a print run of one”
was the mantra that drove Benny Landa to
his revolutionary work on digital offset.
At Goss International, development
teams have been marching to the beat
of a different drum. “In the web offset
sector, our drive towards zero waste has
delivered dramatic progress and benefits
for our customers in recent years,”
according to Jeff Upchurch, senior vice
president of Research & Development
and Service. “Digital has some powerful
applications and is forging several new
avenues for print, but so is web offset.
The speed, quality and economy of a web
press are still preferable for a very wide
and expanding range of applications
that are an essential part of everyday
lives: newspapers, magazines, advertising
inserts, catalogs, direct marketing, and
packaging. More importantly, for the
future of print, many of our customers are
using Goss ® innovations to harness web
offset’s potential in new ways. So our focus
is on supporting them with continuous,
incremental steps towards an ultimate goal
of eliminating any wasted materials, labor,
time or cost.”
This “Mission Zero” approach is a
fundamental part of every printing solution
Goss International designs. All efforts
are focused on developing products and
process-optimized systems along with
controls to create seamless integration
throughout the print production chain,
from reelstand to finished product.
A good example of this holistic perspective
on waste can be seen in the new Goss
Colorliner ® CPS compact-tower press
launched in the fall of 2011 [see page
6]. As compact-tower presses become
more compact, heat build-up within the
units is becoming a critical issue in some
models, with the close proximity of the
printing couples preventing effective
natural dissipation of the heat produced
by the cylinders. This can adversely affect
the print quality and overall reliability of
the press. Competitive presses require
complex, costly, energy-consuming
extraction systems to remove the heat.
The Goss Colorliner CPS, in contrast, has a
specialized cylinder and roller arrangement
that creates a natural flow and circulation
of air within the printing unit for optimum
heat dissipation. This eliminates the need
for expensive additional cooling systems
and allows users to avoid unnecessary
power and energy costs.
Elsewhere on a press, it can be the process
sequencing software that makes a dramatic
difference to waste levels. The Goss
trademark system is an open architecture
CIP4/JDF-based workflow solution that
helps target waste by addressing the
chemistry and behavioral variables specific
to each production run. “Apart from giving
press crews ultimate control over all press
operations, Omnicon takes ink and color
control to a smarter level, focusing on the
overall characteristics of the inker and
dampener to get from one job to the next
as quickly and efficiently as possible,”
Upchurch explains.
Achieving target ink densities, to match the
job with the proof, is in itself a challenging
process which Goss has improved with the
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Above: Goss
DigiRail is
just one tool
in the pursuit
of zero waste.
Left: energyefficient
Goss dryers
conserve
resources
and reduce
emissions.
Advanced Goss reelstand technology delivers in excess of 99 percent splicing accuracy.
with closed-loop color control, the Omnicon
system works in conjunction with the Goss
prepress interface to preset a job using
area-coverage values derived from the
digital file. Self-learning algorithms using
data from a predetermined number of
previously run jobs automatically enhance
the preset accuracies over time.
Putting the first few cylinder revolutions
of a press run under the microscope has
delivered another incremental step towards
the Holy Grail of zero waste. Even when the
ink keys are correctly set for the upcoming
job according to prepress data, the ink train
still contains coverage volumes relating to
the previous job. Omnicon again comes to
the rescue. Utilizing ink coverage data from
the upcoming job, ink is partially removed
during the deceleration phase of the
current job. The inker is then pre-charged
based on the difference between the
amount of ink remaining and the quantity
required for the next job. Using this unique
Goss feature, printers can slash the time
and waste necessary to get to good copies
and steady-state operating, even when
subsequent jobs have a dramatic variation
in inking levels.
Several other Goss International waste
saving features and options make an
instant impact on any printer’s drive
to reduce waste. Gapless blankets – in
addition to allowing high-quality, highspeed
printing on wider webs – deliver
a significant reduction in paper waste
through minimal trim requirements and
shorter cutoffs. Advanced Goss reelstand
technology delivers in excess of 99 percent
splicing accuracy, and leaves virtually no
paper on the core during a reel change.
The development of right- and left-handed
commercial web presses, for use in multipress
plants, has brought reductions in press
crew manning requirements. “Likewise,
technologies such as our Autoplate option,
folder presetting, advanced imposition
software and the Omnicon controls
discussed earlier, have freed up operators
to concentrate on the quality aspects
of production, therefore reducing waste
copies,” according to Upchurch.
And of course, savings on the power to run a
press and reducing emissions have become
more important of late as energy prices and
environmental concerns escalate around
the world. Here, energy-efficient Goss dryers
and low-energy servo drives both conserve
resources and reduce emissions.
For printers desiring the latest advances
integrated into a press which comes
closer to zero waste than any other
conventional press, there is Automatic
Transfer technology. This automatically
takes printing units off-impression and
instantaneously brings other units onimpression,
allowing, in conjunction with
automatic plate changing, on-the-run job
changeovers and non-stop running. Less
waste more production…
Many printers around the world operate
Automatic Transfer presses, but perhaps
none do it more effectively than Valpak
in the USA, which prints 25 billion
targeted direct mail coupons per year for
its national direct marketing program.
Running two Goss Sunday 4000 AT
presses around the clock, without stopping
for makereadies, it completes four-color
job changes every 12 minutes. Integrated
into a completely automated workflow,
the presses contribute to the production
of sealed coupon-filled envelopes without
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human intervention and with absolutely
minimum waste. They have also taken the
time-to-market from four days to four hours
and reduced labor by more than 50 percent,
while at the same time, doubling capacity.
“Recent Goss advances in press design,
digital workflow and control systems
have made the goal of zero waste a real
possibility for the future,” says Upchurch.
“For example, our M-600 press, the
industry standard in the 16-page sector
since 1992, has continually been enhanced
with many of the latest features described
here. Over the years, we have seen its
waste on job changeover fall consistently.
“Our mission of actually achieving zero
waste in web offset production might be out
of reach today, but it drives us to relentless
innovation that is delivering real-world
competitive advantages for our customers
right now. Of course, we are not excluding
the possibility that innovation may turn into
true revolution one day, as we also continue
to research future technologies.”
Gapless blankets deliver a significant
reduction in paper waste.
Five New Finishing Systems in the U.S.
Big leaps in productivity and efficiency that are only possible with new
technology have prompted five investments in Goss ® finishing systems in the
United States this spring.
The Chicago Tribune Company and
Newsday in the New York City area
will each add a 42-station Magnapak ®
system to bolster their large metropolitan
newspaper inserting operations. Brown
Printing and Publishers Printing –
companies that operate dozens of
Goss finishing systems – will install a
high-performance Goss saddlestitcher
and adhesive binder respectively for
publication and catalog production.
A new 16,000-copies-per-hour Pacesetter
1600 saddlesticher will be the first Goss
finishing system for a smaller, private
publisher that was impressed with easeof-use,
job changeover and maintenance
advantages as well as how crews at other
facilities routinely hit net productivity
numbers that are very close to the full
rated speed of the system.
Joe Sweeney, bindery manager at
Publishers Printing in Kentucky echoes
those sentiments. He says performance
of two recently installed Pacesetter 2200
saddlestitchers prompted investment
in a third. “Those stitchers are more
than twice as productive as our older
stitchers,” he confirms.
At Brown Printing, a new Universalbinder
adhesive binder will join a large fleet of
Goss Pacesetter, Universalbinder, and
Sunday web press systems used by one
of the leading catalog and publication
printers in the United States.
For Newsday and Chicago Tribune
Company, the Magnapak investments
are driven by steady or growing preprint
advertising volumes and the business
opportunities created when those inserts
can be processed more efficiently and
targeted more precisely. Both systems will
be equipped for address-specific selective
inserting and ink jet personalization.
The new Magnapak system at Newsday
will replace two older inserters to meet
the high-volume and heavily zoned
requirements of the Sunday newspaper
and the high-speed requirements for
inserting into the daily paper.
The Chicago Tribune Company will
install the new Magnapak system – its
seventh since 2007 – at its Tribune Direct
Marketing operation for its total market
coverage (TMC) product delivered to
non-subscribers. The company is also
Chicago Tribune Company has ordered its
seventh Goss Magnapak inserting system
since 2007.
enhancing two existing Magnapak systems
to further increase inserting speeds and
zoning capability for The Chicago Tribune
and other daily publications.
“Our Magnapak systems provide
exceptional quality and productivity, so
the decision to add another to support
our growing preprint business was an
easy choice,” says Craig Sipich, director of
technology and engineering.
“Those stitchers are more than
twice as productive as our older
stitchers.”

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Seeing Things Differently with
‘World-First’ Technologies
The Goss presence at drupa 2012 demonstrates how the latest advances
in automation, formats, configurations and supporting technologies have
the power to produce more impactful, immediate and cost-effective
printed products.
The 1,820-square-meter Goss booth is
organized into zones including Commercial
Offset, Newspapers, and Packaging.
With a focus on enhancements, service
and support, a fourth Lifetime Support
zone also demonstrates the unique Goss
commitment to extending the lifespan
and competitiveness of existing press and
finishing systems.
The Packaging Zone
• The Sunday Vpak 3000 and Sunday
Vpak 500 presses take center stage at
drupa in a dedicated Packaging Theater,
with a full presentation covering the
technology, market applications and
production advantages.
Read more from page 8.
The Commercial Zone
• A ‘world first’ expo appearance of a
96-page Sunday 5000 gapless blanket
printing unit is the highlight feature
of the commercial zone. With features
including full Autoplate and DigiRail
digital inking, the Sunday 5000 is the
most productive large format offset press
ever developed. It capitalizes on its fast
job changeovers, smart energy usage, and
wide-web flexibility to cost-effectively
deliver full tabloid and magazine down to
slim-jim and digest formats.
• With nearly 2,500 units installed
worldwide,– a new-generation 16pp
M-600 printing unit on display on the
Goss International booth highlights
latest features for enhanced efficiency.
[see also page 28]
• Supporting Goss International’s web
offset portfolio, the latest generation
Goss Web Center workflow system
delivers advanced features to automate
processes and maximize efficiency and
press utilization.
• Following the recent acquisition of Vits
Print, Goss International will highlight
its expanded portfolio of advanced
Goss ® Contiweb and Vits splicers,
pasters, dryers, folders, sheeters, and
inline converting solutions.
The Newspaper Zone
• The Colorliner ® CPS (Compact Printing
System) press joins the Goss FPS
(Flexible Printing System ) press in
the Goss family of ‘true compact’
newspaper press solutions. Derived from
the latest-generation Colorliner press
model, it incorporates FPS technology
features modified into a more
conventional ‘non-split’ four-high tower
arrangement. [see more on page 6]
• drupa marks the first global
presentation of a new Goss Magnum
HPS single-width, one-around highspeed
press [see page 19]. Designed
for heatset, coldset or combined
production, the press offers extended
capabilities for producing a mix of
magazine and newspaper work more
flexibility and productivity.
“We have a history of introducing
groundbreaking Goss technologies at
drupa and we continue that tradition
in 2012. But beyond the introduction of
specific technologies, our presence at
The Colorliner CPS expands the Goss family of
compact newspaper press solutions.
drupa conveys our long-term perspective
and our focus on actively exploring new
concepts with our customers,” comments
Goss president and CEO Jochen Meissner.
“Even in these highly competitive industry
conditions, Goss has continued to invest in
its core markets and extend the advantages
of its core technologies. Printers know they
are collaborating with a strong, visionary
supplier who can work with them to
replace outdated equipment with advanced
web offset solutions that will help them
see things differently.”
See next page for the booth overview.

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Goss International at
drupa 2012
1
Lifetime Support …
The Customer Relationship Center provides
a quiet environment to discuss Lifetime
Support packages as well as training and
service needs. This dedicated area reflects
the company-wide Goss ® philosophy
of providing support for products from
order to end of life. A display of parts
and enhancements demonstrates the
possibilities for optimizing the performance
and competitive lifespan of every system
along the way.
1
2
3
2
Wider webs...
The world’s first 2860 mm-wide web press,
the Sunday 5000, is now in operation at
three plants in Europe, with Stark Druck
in Germany planning to run two presses
side-by-side using the unit displayed at
drupa. Results, both in terms of quality and
productivity, have exceeded expectations -
the gapless blanket technology minimizing
cylinder vibrations even at high press
speeds. The demonstration at drupa shows
a blanket change and a fully automatic
plate change.
3
The world’s most popular
commercial press...
The latest-generation M-600 web press,
which Goss International will feature at
drupa 2012, introduces new improvements
to the impeccable legacy of this 16-page
model. Advances in automation, operability
and integration are delivering industry
leading short-run efficiencies that are in
step with modern market requirements.

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5
New packaging presses
unveiled…
Shown for the first time at an exhibition,
Goss Vpak presses provide an alternative
to gravure and flexo for the printing of
packaging products ranging from cartons
to flexible packaging. The presses use
proven sleeve technology, pioneered on
Sunday presses, to provide repeat-length
change and also printing cylinder size
change. The result is a highly productive
and versatile technology which also offers
lower production costs.
4
5
6
Single-width newspaper
production...
6
7
The highly successful Community ® /
Magnum press range is now available
on an entirely new platform that delivers
higher speeds and lower cost-per-page
printing. The new Magnum HPS press has
a two-page across, single-around format
and is available at speeds up to 70,000
copies per hour. Productivity and quality
are delivered through an ergonomically
designed H-frame configuration, equipped
with the very latest printing cylinders and
controls, to dramatically improve plating
access and hence job changeover times.
4
Automated workflow
solutions...
Goss International continues to lead
the transformation to automated print
production. Goss technology and software
innovations, including the Goss Web
Center for newspaper and commercial
applications, are cutting waste, time and
run lengths.
7
Compact quality for
volume newspapers...
On show for the first time, the new
Colorliner ® CPS compact press, features
the latest in automatic plate-changing
technology, ergonomic benefits and high
productivity for fast, efficient newspaper
and semi-commercial production. The
unique new double- or triple-width
press platform delivers the print quality,
efficiency, operability and long-term
production versatility to suit a continually
changing publishing landscape.

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China Invests in
Productive Technology
Growing requirements for better print quality and greater
productivity are fuelling orders for Goss ® technology across
both the newspaper and commercial sectors in China. Two
recent investments for the Beijing area have been driven by
the desire to ensure a differentiated service.
Eleventh Goss press for C&C
One of the leading suppliers of high-quality commercial and
magazine printing in China and forerunner in raising printing
standards, C&C Joint Printing Co., has ordered its ninth Goss
M-600 16-page web offset press and its eleventh new Goss
web press since 1998.
Web Offset Standards Research Base’. In this role the
company employs its Goss presses in print tests aimed at
developing optimum standards for the commercial web offset
industry in China.
Universal appeal at Guangming Daily
The latest order was primarily driven by the growing demand in
the Beijing area for the production quality and efficiencies that
differentiate the multiple award-winning C&C service offering.
In addition, the company’s strong focus on ‘green’ issues was
a key factor in the specification of features designed for low
waste and low energy consumption, according to Jackson
Leung, CEO of C&C. “We are highly committed to providing
a sustainable solution that will ensure print maintains its
profile within the media mix for many years to come. Today’s
Goss M-600 technology package supports this objective with
efficiencies that improve productivity and reduce waste.”
Rated at up to 61,000 impressions per hour, the new 16-page
press with 598.5mm cut-off and 965 mm web width will
feature Goss Autoplate automatic plate changing. For added
versatility the company has chosen a JF55 Plus folder with
quarterfold capabilities and a four- and eight-page module. It
will also be equipped with a Goss Contiweb SH splicer and
Ecocool ® dryer with integrated afterburner, closed-loop controls
and Goss Web Center technology for automated makereadies,
presetting and control.
As well as satisfying high-end commercial print requirements
for both domestic and international clients, C&C Joint Printing
Co. also serves as China’s designated ‘National Commercial
Beijing based newspaper publisher Guangming Daily has
ordered a new Goss Universal ® press to increase color capacity
and to pursue more sub-contract printing in the Chinese
market. The new single-width, double-circumference (2x2)
press will be mainly used to print the 150,000 copies a day of
the Guangming Daily and 250,000 copies a day of the tabloid
Xin Jin Bao.
Mr. Zhao Ping the deputy general secretary and factory
director at Guangming Daily, comments, “We have established
ourselves as an influential newspaper in China in the fields
of science, technology, education and culture with a high
reputation among academic institutions and state agencies.
It is therefore imperative that we meet the demands of our
readers by employing technology of the highest print quality to
match our impactive journalism.”
The new Goss press will include three four-high printing towers,
three reelstands and two 2:3:3: jaw folders. The system will
also include closed-loop color registration controls, an ink
leveling system, blanket washers, two counter stackers and an
in-line stitcher. Rated at a maximum of 80,000 cph, the press
will generate higher productivity and more color pages for the
national daily central government newspaper.
(Left to right) Wen Hong Wu, chairman, and Jackson
Leung, CEO, of C&C Joint Printing sign the contract for the
company’s ninth new Goss M-600 web press with Tim Mercy,
vice president of Goss commercial web sales in Asia, while
other officials from the two companies look on.

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Magnum Reaches 70
With the market for single-width presses maintaining pace and evolving,
particularly in Asia, the Middle East and Africa, Goss International has expanded its
highly successful Community ® /Magnum press range with an entirely new platform
that delivers higher speeds and lower cost-per-page printing.
The first two Magnum HPS presses have
already been delivered in Asia.
“The new Magnum HPS model builds on
the features of the existing Community/
Magnum, the bestselling Goss ® newspaper
press series ever, as well as the current
world market leader in the single-width
newspaper press sector,” says Jacques
Navarre, Goss International senior vice
president of sales and marketing. “Our
development objective for the new HPS
version was to harness the experience
gained from over 40,000 installed units
to make a positive impact on the bottomline
performance for printers looking for
single-width versatility in combination with
higher speeds.”
The new Magnum HPS press has a twopage
across, single-around format and is
available at speeds up to 70,000 copies
per hour.
“We are always striving to provide
higher value from our products. Often the
improvements are incremental, but this
new Magnum platform has the potential
to make a fundamental difference in how
our customers approach their newspaper
and semi-commercial operations,”
confirms Navarre.
To achieve a high performance-to-cost
ratio with the Magnum HPS press, the Goss
International development team drew from
the strengths of the entire Goss portfolio of
newspaper and semi-commercial presses.
Modifications of the standard Magnum
platform included such improvements
as an ergonomically designed H-frame
configuration to dramatically improve
plating access and hence job changeover,
and the latest design of printing cylinders
with triple race bearings, through bearers
and narrow gap, reel-rod lock-ups.
Other performance-enhancing technical
features include optimum web tension
control with synchronized shaftless drives
for infeed and outfeed as well as on the
printing towers; and centralized control
of all essential press operations such as
adjustment to ink keys, spray bars
and registration.
“Automation is the key to press utilization,
which in turn optimizes a printer’s
capital outlay,” states Navarre. “For that
reason, in parallel to the engineering
improvements, we have included a new
version of Goss press controls for the
Magnum HPS press, which reduces job
set-up and recall, as well as giving quality
control down to page level.”
The new Magnum HPS press will initially
be available with 546mm, 560mm and
578mm cut-offs and two jaw folder options
– J1:3:3 suitable for production speeds up
to 50,000 copies per hour and J2:3:3 for the
highest speed production. Both folders have
the usual array of advanced features and
quarter folder or double parallel options.

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Myths of Green — Separating
Fact from Fiction
With environmental messaging today becoming a sophisticated marketing tool,
misconceptions proliferate and differentiating myth from reality can be a tricky
task for the uninitiated. In the interests of helping printers to better understand
the issues, the following extracts from an article prepared by the Verdigris*
project (www.verdigrisproject.com) take a look at some of the myths affecting
the business of web offset printing today.
1. Recycling is good.
Recycling media, silver and aluminum
is generally recognized as a good thing.
But there are some studies that have
shown that the environmental impact
of paper recycling processes may not
be altogether positive. Consider, for
instance, the collection of polluted waste
which must then be discarded. Recycling
is definitely a good thing, but it must be
managed effectively.
2. Recycling is bad
This is, of course, a nonsense for materials
that can be reused such as the aluminum
in plates. The reuse of aluminum means
a reduction in the amount of bauxite
that must be mined and processed into
aluminum. Recycling old aluminum requires
only 5% of the energy required to produce
new aluminum. Aluminum is one of the few
infinitely recyclable materials because its
quality doesn’t degrade with reuse.
When it comes to papers however, it
may not be such nonsense, depending
on the processes involved. Paper and
its production are part of the planet’s
carbon sequestration processes, so there
are some who would argue that recycled
papers sequester no new carbon, which
makes virgin fiber a preferable choice. It is
certainly worth considering particularly in
regions where methane is captured from
landfill and reused as a fuel. In Malmö,
Sweden, for example, the city’s buses run
on natural gas processed from methane
captured from landfill waste sites.
3. Print on paper is more
harmful to the environment
than digital media.
This is the myth most commonly touted as
a reason not to use print. The argument
that digital media have less impact than
print is not easy to disprove, however
there are a number of isolated studies that
have compared the impacts of electronic
and print media. There are difficulties
with proving the question either way. For
instance, how are emissions allocated
in a media supply chain, or how long
is the media kept Books stay on the
shelves for decades, quietly but effectively
storing carbon and having no negative
environmental impact unless they are read
using artificial light. An e-book on the other
hand requires a digital infrastructure to
support and access it, plus upgrades to the
technology required to deliver and use it.
But how do we compare production
scenarios for the two alternatives
This is one of the goals for ISO 16759

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(Calculating the carbon footprint of
print media products) which is currently
under development. Conducting a carbon
footprinting study is complex and requires
a standard framework, in order to produce
studies that can be reasonably compared.
This framework is what ISO 16759 seeks
to provide. However with comparable
frameworks it should be possible to use
carbon calculators compliant with ISO
16759 to compare the carbon footprint of
different media across geographies and
market sectors. This includes electronic and
paper-based media.
4. Paper and print
destroys trees.
For every tree harvested for paper in
Europe, three are planted. Paper is made
from a sustainable and commercially viable
crop. Forests and plantations capture
carbon and provide amenities that benefit
wildlife and local citizens.
When it comes to environmental impact
reductions in manufacturing, the pulp
and paper industries have led the rest of
industry because their raw material is a
harvested crop that can also be recycled.
They have made tremendous improvements
over the last couple of decades. Waste has
been considerably reduced and recycling is
commonplace. The industry has consolidated
to become far more energy efficient.
5. Print is not as effective
as digital media.
This is the kind of generalisation that is
often used to criticise print and justify low
marketing and advertising spends. It is a
myth because it is both true and untrue.
For short or trivial messages electronic
media can be far more efficient than
print, because distribution and receipt of
such messages are close to immediate.
However for information that perhaps
is more complex or difficult to absorb,
print may be more efficient: the subtleties
and sophistications of high resolution
typography, composition, colour, special
effects and beautiful finishing are not yet
available to digital media. All of these
characteristics contribute to efficient
understanding and absorption of ideas and
complex concepts. Media effectiveness
depends on the medium, the message and
the nature of the expected response, so
effectiveness is highly subjective.
6. Paper production
wastes energy.
The days are long since gone when any
manufacturing process was allowed
to waste energy. Since the oil shocks
of the 1970s to current awareness of
anthropogenic carbon’s impact on world
climates, energy efficiency has been at the
heart of all manufacturing processes.
The paper industry, as a traditionally high
energy user, has made huge progress
to reduce its energy usage and so its
power bills. Paper companies have also
come up with highly imaginative ways
to reuse heat generated through energy
use. M-real in Husum Sweden for instance
heats the village school and football field
with the heat generated from its pulp
production processes.
7. Carbon dioxide is evil.
Carbon dioxide is a bi-product of
metabolism in humans and a raw material
for plant metabolic processes. If it is
unavailable plants cannot grow or release
oxygen into the atmosphere. Carbon
dioxide is a necessary compound for life
on this planet so carbon management at
least should be at the heart of any printing
company’s business plan.
8. Print is bad for the
environment.
The printed word has driven human
progress since the first characters
were scratched onto a surface. The
mechanization of print production in the
fifteenth century led to a massive and
unstoppable flowering of knowledge,
economic growth, creative expression and
social development.
Print has made huge progress to reduce
its environmental impact and continues to
do so. Misconceptions about print media’s
environmental impact can discourage
printers from investing in a greener future
for their business, and this is extremely
damaging for the industry. Perhaps even
more seriously, they also influence print
buyers and end users’ perceptions of print,
reinforcing false opinions with ersatz facts.
Buyers and consumers need reassurance
and to understand that, of all media types,
print is the only truly sustainable one.
* This article is part of the Verdigris series of
stories about understanding the environmental
impact of print. The Verdigris project is
supported by Agfa Graphics, Canon Europe,
Digital Dots, Drupa, Fujifilm, HP, Kodak, Océ,
Ricoh and Unity Publishing, and associate
members Presstek, Xeikon and Strålfors.

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The Inkjet Challenge
With high-speed ink jet sure to be a hot print topic at this drupa, Web Offset
decided to ask leading industry consultant Andy Tribute just how much
attention should web offset printers be paying inkjet
Digital label press units complement existing print technologies providing fast versioning
At this time, high-speed continuous feed
inkjet presses have mainly targeted the
sheet fed offset market, particularly in
book printing, however we can expect
a number of developments at drupa
that will also target other printing
applications. These will specifically be
faster and wider presses.
The current situation with high-speed
inkjet printing is its excellence for medium
quality work on uncoated or specially
treated matt finish substrates. Up to this
stage, these systems have not worked
with gloss-coated substrates, however all
indications suggest that progress will be
shown in this area at drupa.
The current installed base of these inkjet
presses is predominantly found in three
market areas, these being transactional,
book and direct mail printing. A smaller
market is for newspaper printing of
international editions printed by print
service providers at sites in other
countries. At this time, newspaper
printers, while taking an interest in the
technology, have not moved in any way to
implement it. The same thing applies with
magazine printers.
There are a number of reasons why
we have not seen a greater level of
acceptance of inkjet technology in these
print markets. The main one is the cost of
the presses and their running costs. These
are far higher than for offset presses
once the presses are up and running.
The main benefit of inkjet printing is
quick production start-up with minimal
makeready time and cost compared to
offset. In terms of book printing it is
considered to be economical at present
against offset for run lengths up to 5,000
copies of a book. It also has the benefit
that like other forms of digital printing
every page can have different content.
This is why it is attractive to direct mail
and transactional printers.
In terms of running costs the two key
items are the high cost of the inks, and

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the needs for special papers or paper
treatments. With the one exception of
the Xerox CiPress 500 press, inkjet ink is
water based and unless paper is specially
treated, ink will tend to sink through the
paper fibers. This has the disadvantage of
show-through on the reverse of the paper,
as well as a diminished color gamut. The
solution is currently to use higher priced,
specially treated papers - of which few
are available - or pre-treating the paper.
This can be done by printing a special
bonding agent where ink is to be printed,
as with the HP inkjet presses, or using a
pre-coating unit, as is being launched by
Kodak at drupa.
I have felt for a long time that it is wrong
for the inkjet press suppliers to expect
paper makers to adapt their papers
for the presses, when it is possible by
changing the pigment structure of the
inks to work with many existing offset
papers. I believe we will see a change in
this area at drupa.
In terms of substrates I am expecting
to see a number of the presses working
with gloss coated papers, but probably
only papers that are optimized for
inkjet inks. Coated substrates are a key
requirement for many direct mail printers
who are waiting for this capability before
adopting the technology. We will also see
a number of these press vendors offering
post-coating solutions to coat uncoated
or matt coated papers to give the effect
of a gloss coat and also to protect the
printed image in the finishing process.
For web offset printers one of the main
areas of interest in inkjet technology will
be in add-on overprinting inkjet systems
rather than inkjet presses. This is where
a battery of inkjet print heads can be
mounted either on a web offset press
or in a finishing line, to overprint offset
printed pages with variable data. Kodak
is the leading player doing this in many
areas with its Prosper S5, S10 and S20
print heads. A number of other suppliers
including HP are also offering such
overprinting systems. The problem with
this is getting print heads to run at web
offset press speeds and with web offset
quality. Expect more developments in this
area that will allow optimizing the use of
existing press hardware.
The most immediate opportunity for
web offset printers in the newspaper,
magazine and direct mail areas is to
work out how to build business models
that allow for inkjet printing to work
with their existing printing technologies.
Will there be a market in the newspaper
and magazine areas that will realize the
benefits of using variable data Perhaps
micro zoning in newspapers will allow
for targeted editorial and advertising
to be printed in special supplements
that can then be incorporated into the
newspaper in the mailroom. In the B2B
magazine markets where the details
are known about the subscribers, will it
allow for either much smaller circulation
magazines or targeted sections for the
recipients to be handled
I believe that linking inkjet printing into
a web offset environment opens up
new opportunities for printers. It will
be some time before high-speed inkjet
printing is competitive with web offset
for longer run print work, but when
used together with web offset it will
open up new business opportunities. I
think that the opportunities are more in
adding digital overprinting, either onto
the web offset press or into the finishing
lines. However, for newspapers there
are good opportunities to use inkjet for
Andrew Tribute is an internationally
known expert in the applications of
digitization of the media, publishing
and printing industries. He is also
visiting professor of digital media
at University of the Arts, London.
He obtained a Degree in Printing
Management in 1964 at the London
College of Printing, and has specialized
in the application of computers in
printing and publishing since 1968.
In 1984 he established Attributes, a
specialist consultancy company in this
business area.
micro zoning and personalization and
to merge its output with offset printing
in the mailroom. What printers must
realize is that high-speed inkjet printing
is still in its infancy, but it will become
increasingly competitive in terms of
both running costs and quality and will
directly challenge offset printing for
certain work.

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Essential Investments
for Cost and Quality
(From an article by Luca Michelli, TecnoMedia magazine)
The new Financial Times printing center of the Colasanto Group in Italy has been
fully up and running since August last year. Built in record time, it was part of a
substantial investment aimed at offering quality services to the publishing industry
at home and abroad, as well as to those in the market for semi-commercial print.
The project dates back to February 2011:
the new, Goss ® Universal ® XL web offset
press, arrived at the new plant in Villasanta
di Monza, just outside Milan in May; and
at the end of July the first copies of the
Financial Times were produced. By August,
the whole plant was fully up and running;
and copies of the English financial daily
have been leaving every night since, in
two sections, averaging 36 pages each,
Michele Colasanto, CEO of the Colasanto Group.
plus related daily supplements. These are
generally two to three inserts per week
printed on newsprint and focused on a
variety of subjects, including Home&House,
FT FM, and supplements dedicated to
specific business issues. With paginations
ranging from anything between four to
30 full color pages, they may be produced
both in broadsheet and tabloid formats.
On Fridays the weekend edition is printed
which, as is typical of British titles, includes
content with less of a current affairs focus
as well as a color magazine. This edition
has a significantly higher circulation.
The Colasanto Group’s new plant was
devised to handle all the printing activities
of the Group in the Milan area – including
distribution. The objective was to be able to
offer high quality at rigorously competitive
costs, thanks to an industrial policy, which
the CEO of the Group, Michele Colasanto,
defines as “essential”.
Essential investments
“Why invest during such difficult times
Because our clients are asking us to,”
explains Michele Colasanto. He shares
management responsibilities for the
Colasanto Group with his father Luca,
president and founder of the Group. The
new printing center was not an easy
decision. A project divided into several
stages, the first tranche of which – the
pressroom and press – amounted to 17
million Euros; and there is more to come
before completion.
“Our relationship with the English
Financial Times Group dates back to
the second half of the 1980s, when we
resolved a distribution problem for them
in Southern Europe,” says Colasanto.
From that point on, the Colasanto
Group has been the point of reference
for printing the flagship publication in
this strategic area. It was previously
produced in the Paderno Dugnano plant,
one of the first printing plants in Italy to
get ISO 9001certifcation, according to
Colasanto. Copies of the English daily
paper are also produced at the Group’s
plant in Nivelles, Belgium.
“We are working with publishers who are
asking us to invest and believe in the daily
newspapers they produce,” says Michele
Colasanto and this decision to create
a new plant – not easy in the current
climate – is a consequence of this. The new
Goss Universal XL press outputs up to 56
broadsheet pages, 32 in full color, with a
56cm cut-off.
“Our industrial set-up is crucial,” stresses
Michele Colasanto. What publishers
require is quality and a competitive price,
not necessarily all the technological
bells and whistles, he says, and these
are objectives shared by the printer. Why
change production equipment if it is still
functioning perfectly well According to
Colasanto, the essential investments are
those that can provide publishers with a
guarantee of the production costs involved
when they are entrusting their jobs to
independent printers.

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Production on one of the Goss Universal XL press
lines in Nivelles, Belgium.
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Founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley, The Financial Times is
the only UK newspaper to publish a daily report on the London Stock Market and
all world markets. Since 1957, it has been part of the Pearson Group. The printed
version of the newspaper and the digital version have a combined distribution of
a little over 592,000 (October 2011), of which around 344,000 are printed copies
and 247,000 go to those who are subscribed to the paid-for digital version. The
combined readership of printed and digital versions is around 2.1 million persons
a day (May 2011). FT.com also has another 4 million registered users.
On January 1, 1979, the first copy of the newspaper to be produced outside the
United Kingdom was printed in Frankfurt (Germany). Today the FT is printed in
around twenty different plants worldwide. In Italy, the Colasanto Group has been
the preferred print supplier for Southern Europe since the mid 1980s, initially from
the Paderno Dugnano (Milan) site and today from the new Villasanta di Monza
printing center.
Publishing and Commercial
Quality
Audi, BMW, Rolex and Rover are just some
of the companies that place advertising
inserts in the Financial Times – companies
from the luxury brands sector. They make
no allowances when it comes to the
“quality” of their promotional images,
in the same way as the publisher makes
none with regard to the printing center. In
order to produce the Financial Times and
other international dailies that come off
the Colasanto Group presses, such as the
International Herald Tribune, the quality of
the printed product is of crucial importance
in relation to the order.
“The new web offset press installed at
Villasanta di Monza, like the industrial
set-up itself, was specified to take into
account the specific requirements of the
clients,” Tullio Giovannini, director of
the Group, points out. The eight-page
Goss Universal XL model has a very
compact configuration, developed for
high-quality semi-commercial products,
with or without a dryer. In particular, the
shorter distance between inking couples
practically eliminates fan-out, according
to Giovanni.
The press features automated inking
controlled via prepress data supplied direct
from the FT’s headquarters in London.
The folder also features automatic setting
capability operated directly from the
central control desk. Additional registration
controls were not considered necessary
for requirements at Colasanto. Overall, the
Group has acquired three such Universal XL
presses, with an additional two installed at
its Nivelles plant in Belgium. All the units are
intended to support the Group’s expansion
plans, dedicated either to daily newspaper
publishing or semi-commercial work.
The Group has a number of additional
production facilities in Italy – in
Medicina (Bologna), Carsoli (l’Aquila)
and at Benevento – all dedicated to
daily newspapers. In the Milan area,
“the competition is particularly tough,”
concludes Michele Colasanto, both in
terms of what is on offer and the quality
available. Nevertheless, with this new
investment the Colasanto Group is
determined to consolidate its own position
and expand by focusing on quality and a
competitive, economic offer.

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Making the News in India
The rapid economic changes and continuing growth potential of the BRIC
countries is an enduring topic in the business pages of the world’s newspapers
today and a pivotal dynamic in global economic recovery.
The front page of a Tamil broadsheet daily Dina Thanthi printed on a
coldset 4 x1 being compared to a color managed inkjet proof.
India has been central to the growth
predictions of the BRIC economies and its
newspaper industry has been notable for
an explosion in color and capacity in recent
years. So, Web Offset decided to investigate
whether the current view from within the
Indian publishing industry matches the
general worldwide perception. We asked
Naresh Khanna, editor of leading trade
journal Indian Printer and Publisher….
How would you characterize
current market conditions in
India’s newspaper publishing
industry
Naresh Khanna:
Although the periodical publishing and
printing industry has continuously outpaced
the more than seven percent Indian GDP
growth over the past decade, it seems that
there is a lull in the boom. It is true that
English language newspapers continue
to launch new editions and increase color
pages, and established groups are even
adding new dailies in yet more languages.
However, in spite of continued investment
in modernizing plants and adding new
machines, many newspapers are rethinking
their strategies for growth.
Although newspapers in India are facing
numerous challenges they continue to
grow in number of editions, pages and
color pages. But they are not nearly as
profitable as they were five years ago
and have to figure out new ways of
remaining viable.
What are the biggest
challenges to profitability
For an industry that imports more than half
of the newsprint it uses, the current price
volatility of this essential raw material
has been exacerbated by a 10 percent
devaluation of the Indian Rupee versus
the US dollar. Domestic mills are unable
The Goss M-600 press at the Navi Mumbai
facility of Thomson Press.
to viably produce newsprint since only
20 percent of the newsprint consumed is
recovered for recycling.
Indian dailies are resorting to economies
such as reducing cut-offs and pagewidths.
While the Berliner format has not
really caught on, one newspaper is busy
setting up five-tower presses with a 533
mm cut-off and while it is currently at a
685 mm width, it is actively considering
going down to 635 mm web widths. With
narrow gap cylinders, the shorter 533 cutoff
has neither reduced the print area nor
the legibility in comparison to the earlier
546 cut-off which is the current standard
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In addition, the continuous double digit
growth in advertising spend predicted
by some of the media and entertainment
futurologists is not currently materializing
for newspapers.
What is the main competition
for this advertising spend
Cross media convergence is coming faster
than many local pundits expected and the
shift to television, outdoor, Internet and
even cellphones is pronounced. However,
this has not yet led to any real shift or
addition in revenues for publishers. In spite
of a huge increase in local Internet traffic
on the websites of multi-edition regional
language dailies, the media planners are
not allocating budgets for websites of
regional language dailies.
Ad rates are under such pressure that
premium position full page ads are being
heavily discounted by leading metro
dailies, and newspapers are just trying
to match their 2011 revenue levels.
Even the fattest 68-page broadsheets
contain a large amount of central and
state government and public sector
advertising, in spite of their raucous
criticism of their benefactors!
What measures are Indian
publishers taking in response
The Indian newspaper industry is
preparing itself for structural changes
and consolidation as some of the smaller
dailies close down or become targets
for acquisition. There is a huge pressure
to increase color pages in order to be
competitive, and while some simply
cannot keep up, more dailies are looking
at sharing printing plants and having deals
with contract printers. Even the bigger
dailies are no longer able to go it alone by
adding plants and new machines. They are
increasingly tying up even with competitors
in cities where they do not want to invest
in new presses for the increased color
pagination that is deemed essential.
About 10 years ago, everyone
was predicting that the future
of Indian newspaper publishing
was 4x1 – have these
predictions been realized
That’s right. A decade ago, industry
experts felt there was incipient demand
for as many as 200 4x1 towers in India.
The double-width, single-circumference
design works well for the frequent single
plate changes that newspapers make
every night for printing as many as 20
editions on each press. Most of the English
language dailies acquired 4x1 presses,
and then some of the regional language
dailies followed suit for at least their
main centers. Every European, Asian and
Japanese manufacturer that makes these
presses now has installs in India, and now
a leading Indian manufacturer has also
ventured into this space.
However, while 4x1 towers approach
the 200 mark and will possibly exceed
this number over the next few years,
another trend driven by the poor transport
infrastructure seems to be forcing
newspaper owners to think of setting up
smaller plants. To differentiate themselves
from established players, some regional
language publishers think it is essential to
launch 20-page broadsheet dailies in full
color. However, with circulations starting
at 20,000 or 30,000 and hopefully rising to
100,000 or even 200,000, it makes sense
for publishers to go back to single width
presses. The quality of Indian roads and
the lower advertising rates for regional
language dailies just do not support
the import of a brand new imported
80,000-copies-an-hour press.
Are there any other growth
opportunities driving
investments by printers in this
arena
While news-magazine circulations in
India are declining, niche magazines and
B2B magazines are increasing in number.
While some newspapers stopped printing
their own supplements and magazines on
heatset presses, other newspapers have set
up commercial printing units where they
print not only their own supplements and
magazines but also those of other publishers.
Many international titles such as Vogue,
Marie Claire, Geo and Time Out have
strong local editions. The education and
text-book industry in India is also booming.
Still, the vast majority of heatset work
in India is produced on an aging fleet
of presses. Only about 15 new heatset
presses have been installed over the past
decade – all in the 16-page format. When
you consider the population, this is very
low relative to the new presses installed in
other countries. We have also not yet seen
an investment in the wider, higher-capacity
presses now prevalent in Western countries
and that are now installed in the other socalled
major developing countries – Brazil,
Russia and China.
To sum up, I’d say that there is growth
overall but, with its diversity and local
flavor, it’s a typically mixed bag!
Malayalam and English magazines being sold on the roadside
in Thiruvanthapuram in the South Indian state of Kerala.

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The Next-Generation Goss M-600 Press:
Proven and Progressive
The latest-generation M-600 web press, introduces new improvements to the
impeccable legacy of this 16-page model. Advances in automation, operability
and integration are delivering industry leading short-run efficiencies that are in
step with modern market requirements.
“With close to 2,500 printing units sold
since 1992, it may be easy to mistake the
M-600 for older technology, but that would
be a major oversight,” according to Goss
International product manager Jean-Pierre
Moioli. “We chose to display a new unit at
drupa to showcase the extremely progressive
automation, integration and ease-of-use
features we have added to this press platform
and the reasons web printers continue to turn
to the M-600 model for the most advanced
print quality, flexibility and makeready
features available from a 16-page press.”
The market needs 16-page
presses
Wider formats – starting with the first Goss ®
24-page Sunday press, all the way up to the
latest 96-page model – have shifted market
demand dramatically in the web offset
sector. When the first M-600 system was
shipped from the Montataire, France facility
that produces the current Goss model, 16-
page presses accounted for 60 percent of
the commercial web market. Over the past
three years, 16-page presses claimed only a
35-percent share of that market.
Still, the once-standard four-pages-across
by two-pages-around format remains the
best choice for many applications, markets
and operations, according to Moioli.
“There is no doubt that wider, faster
presses have radically improved the value
proposition of web offset, even in shortrun
applications, but these presses are
for a dedicated medium- to high-volume
segment,” he contends. “The market
requires a wide range of products, starting
with multiple fold possibilities, high-quality
printed pieces in five to eight colors, varnish
and inline perforations, plow-fold. Product
possibilities as well as compatibility with
existing presses and infrastructures are
factors that continue to steer printers to
the 16-page format. Operator experience,
capital investment capabilities and the
competitive landscape in some regions are
also important considerations.”
These market demands have driven
Goss International towards continuous
investment in the M-600 platform,
alongside its development of gapless
Sunday presses and enabling technologies
like Autoplate , DigiRail , Automatic
Transfer and high-speed folders.
Agility is everything
The world’s first Autoplate fully automatic
plate changing system was introduced on
an M-600 press in 1996. That visionary
feature remains a core Goss advantage,
as the ability to change jobs quickly and
with absolute minimal waste becomes an
increasingly critical priority for printers
evaluating 16-page presses.
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The latest Goss Contiweb splicers and dryers complete the M-600 press system.
Moioli says cumulative experience in
automatic plate changing gained through
that head start over competitors is
incorporated in the latest version. “We still
call it Autoplate, but we have continuously
enhanced the technology based on realworld
feedback to achieve the highest
reliability and repeatability levels across a
wider range of operating requirements and
operator skill levels,” he explains.
Goss DigiRail digital inking is a new
option for M-600 presses, and advanced
workflow, presetting and “smart” inker
technology have been enhanced in the
latest model. These features complement
Autoplate technology and give the press
additional advantages in the race towards
faster makereadies and lower waste.
The Omni Makeready software available
on all commercial presses including the
M-600 “smart” inker uses presets and
software algorithms to get from one job to
the next faster, with minimal waste copies
and minimal operator effort. As a new job
is about to begin, software evaluates the
presets and temporarily boosts the amount
of ink delivered to the ink train, reducing
the time and copies needed to reach good
color quality. Likewise, adjustments to
prepare the inker in advance for the next
form are made automatically, just prior to
the completion of the current job.
The M-600 also offers an automated job
change sequence option that allows job or
edition changes to be completed without
stopping the press. Using this facility, some
M-600 press users are printing several jobs
per day with an average of 35 - 45 fullcolor
forms – an output comparable to that
achievable on Sunday 4000 and Sunday
5000 presses.
“A lot of variables unrelated to the
press itself can impact the waste copies
between jobs, but customer expectation
is to routinely get to good copy in less
than 1000 impressions,” according to
Moioli. “This type of low waste level,
along with the possibility of continuous
operation through the makeready process,
can really change the entire approach to
how an M-600 press is used for short-run
applications.”
single chopper design. Both folders feature
automatic fold change, automatic nip roller
and chopper adjustments that combine
high output, simpler use and less operator
intervention to achieve fast and efficient
job changes. In combination with these
folders, the Goss PFF module produces
four- and eight-page sections with up to
150 gsm paper.
Sheeters, such as the Vits Rotocut model,
are also common additions that increase
versatility, and Goss International’s
acquisition of Vits Print in late 2011
provides further integration advantages for
M-600 press users. Integration at this level
means that, from any console around the
press system, any main component can be
selected and adjusted ensuring maximum
operability for achieving print quality and
efficiency.
The latest Goss Contiweb splicers and
dryers complete the M-600 press system.
Seamless integration of these auxiliary
components optimizes web dynamics
throughout the production process. The
Goss Ecocool ® , Ecotherm ® or Ecoweb
dryers also minimize gas consumption
and emissions. The latest dryer generation,
Goss Ecoset has reduced the average gas
consumption to an extremely low level.
High efficiency servo drives on all M-600
components further help to minimize the
environmental impact of the press.
“It is essential for printers to be able to
have full confidence in an efficient press
system that will remain stable and reliable
for many years to come,” concludes Moioli.
“The M-600 has been proven worldwide,
in every different operating environment
imaginable. The new generation of M-600
shows our continued commitment to
the legacy of an unbeatable press and
to the 16-page web press market, which
continues to evolve through investment in
cutting-edge technology.”
New advantages beyond the
printing units
Goss M-600 printing efficiency is a key
factor, but automation and easy settings
are also crucial. The Goss M-600 folder
provides full presetting, up to 18 product
formats and automatic folder change.
High output is achieved with the doublechopper
JF-70 or with the JF-65 high-speed

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Goss is Local in Europe
Deep roots and resources across the region bring
holistic benefits to Goss ® customers.
new and of longstanding, as well as a
support network of dealers and agents
with industry experience and relationships
spanning decades.
Goss International recently fortified this
strong base yet further with the acquisition
of Vits Print, a leading supplier of webto-sheet
conversion and in-line finishing
components. Part of a long-term focus on
providing more complete systems, this step
expands the company’s portfolio of splicers,
pasters, dryers, folders, sheeters and in-line
converting solutions. With its common
expertise in supplying auxiliaries, the Goss
facility in Boxmeer, The Netherlands – just
120 km away from the former Vits Print
headquarters – is assuming production of
the Vits product lines.
This latest move typifies the Goss approach,
according to Antoine Chevalier, director of
customer support for Goss International
in Europe. “What makes Goss so special
is the fact that it’s a local supplier with
global resources and a global vision,” he
says. Offering a wide and complete range
of products all from one supplier featuring
innovative technologies like gapless
presses, Autoplate , Automatic Transfer
and DigiRail digital inking, Chevalier
asserts that Goss offers some of the most
reliable and highly efficient press systems in
the world. “And many are made as well as
supported from our manufacturing facilities
here in Europe,” he adds.
Working in partnership, locally and globally (left to right): Frank Einzweiler, Ralf Engelhorn
and Antoine Chevalier.
All eyes are on Europe again this year
as the printing industry returns for its
quadrennial date in Düsseldorf. Visitors
come to drupa from far and wide to
see the latest in print technology, but
the vast majority of attendees come
from Europe. Goss International knows
firsthand the importance of location
in attracting interest and maintaining
long-term relationships. With four Goss
manufacturing and support centers
across Europe, the region is a vital hub
of product development, large-scale
manufacturing and service for a company
with a truly global approach.
Ensuring timely support, service, parts
and engineering expertise for the full
portfolio of Goss presses and ancillary
products, Goss International has
close to 800 employees in Europe. A
facility in Montataire, France is a major
manufacturing center for several Goss
press models, while Goss splicers and
dryers are manufactured in Boxmeer, The
Netherlands. Engineering and support hubs
in Preston, England and Nantes, France
round out the strategic network.
Along with these key facilities comes a
raft of expertise from personnel, both
“After more than 20 years in the printing
industry I am still discovering new
applications and new ideas,” explains
Chevalier. “The speed, sophistication
and flexibility of the web offset printing
process make our job extremely exciting
and are what attracted me to the industry
in the late 1980s. I am still amazed at the
logistics, scale and continuous ingenuity
customers apply to do things better, faster
and more competitively.”
Based at Goss International’s Montataire
facility just outside Paris for over two
decades, Chevalier previously held a
variety of sales and product management
roles. In his current role, he experiences
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firm advocate of the wide-web technology
that has transformed its business. “Goss
International shares our vision for creating
new opportunities through innovative,
high-pagination presses and they have
stood behind that vision with their ability
to execute and support these installations,”
the company commented at the time of the
second Sunday 5000 press order.
“Working in partnership with the Stark
Druck team has enabled us to achieve
both long- and short-grain systems that
are among the world’s most productive
and efficient printing presses,” states
Frank Einzweiler, area sales manager at
Goss International. “However, this sort of
teamwork approach in developing unique
production solutions is nothing new.”
For Eddie Smelten (left), the most satisfying part of the process is making customers’
production aspirations a reality.
demanding function but dealing with our
customers and assisting them on a daily
basis brings a continuous satisfaction,”
He explains. “Printers and publishers
appreciate that we are big enough to meet
their requirements and also local enough
to really appreciate the requirements
that are specific to their business and to
respond immediately.”
This view of both the web offset industry
and the Goss position within it is shared
by Eddie Smelten, press installations
manager. “The printing industry is always
developing; it’s innovative and exciting,
and you can always guarantee that Goss
is at the forefront of product development,
working with customers to develop unique
solutions. The high level of technology we
see on the presses now is indicative of
our innovative ethos and the fact that we
know our customers and collaborate with
them,” he asserts.
Smelten takes responsibility for the
installation of a press from the moment
of contract signing right through to
commissioning. With a background as an
engineer and technician, he says his latest
role sees him doing what he loves best:
“Being out in the field with customers
is what I really enjoy. After all the hours,
days and weeks of preparation that go
into ensuring a smooth installation,
getting on site is the climax of those
efforts. The most satisfying part of the
process is making our customers’ plans
come to fruition and their production
aspirations a reality.”
Working in partnership
Just one such example of the results
achievable through working closely with
the customer to maximize an innovative
solution is Stark Druck in Pforzheim,
Germany [see page 3]. Poised to install
its second Goss Sunday 5000 press in just
over a year, the company exemplifies the
insight and vision it takes to realize the
competitive benefits of innovative 96-page
technology. Also running two Goss Sunday
4000 presses, the German pioneer is a
According to Einzweiler, adapting presses
to new requirements and opportunities
will continue to be a theme in the years
to come, and with the consolidation trend
in the printing industry set to continue,
companies that reshape and position
themselves to be stronger, will see
themselves rise above those less able to
adapt. “Those companies that invest in
flexible equipment with higher efficiency
and automation levels will put themselves
in the best position to remain competitive,
profitable and able to take advantage of
future challenges and the ever increasing
demands of their customers.”
Having manufacturing and service
capabilities for Goss products based in
central Europe is a real bonus according
to Ralf Engelhorn, customer relationship
manager for Germany. Engelhorn was
appointed late last year to coordinate
the Goss International German-speaking
service team in providing routine and
emergency service for press systems in
Germany and surrounding countries. “Our
central location enables us to provide a
very good service for all of our customers
with immediate communication and
excellent transportation links ensuring
fast and efficient continued support,” he
comments.
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shipment of frequently requested parts.
This is further backed up by the central
warehouse in France that stocks more than
27,000 different parts to provide aroundthe-clock
fulfillment of orders.
“These recent developments and many
more have enabled us to present a
competitive advantage across Europe:
we can offer the benefit of global scale,
resources and expertise in combination
with local contact to ensure that the
benefits of our unique technologies can
be sustained around the clock,” concludes
Einzweiler. “Our holistic approach with a
network of service personnel in Europe
close to our customers, means that Goss is
never very far away. By providing the tailormade
solutions that optimize production
processes and Lifetime Support solutions
for continuous improvement, we are able
to secure our customers’ production tools
not just for today but for the long-term.”
“Working in partnership
with the Stark Druck
team has enabled us to
achieve systems that are
among the world’s most
productive and efficient
printing presses.”
Frank Einzweiler,
Goss area sales manager
The central spare parts warehouse in France stocks more than 27,000
different parts.
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