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Focuses on the collaboration between press maker MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG and publishing software house Pape + Partner Media to create a total management-information system for newspaper planning and production.

Reports on Heidelberg Web Systems' merger of its research and development and order-management departments at its equipment factory in Dayton, Ohio and its corresponding departments for its printing equipment business.

Reports on `The New York Times' newspaper's conversion to computer-to-plate output starting in 2000. Shipment of the first unit to the newspaper's plan in Edison, New York in July 1999; Plan to ship additional DiamondSetter imagers to its College Point, New York plant.

Reports on a plan by `The Daily News' newspaper to use color on its pages. Retrofitting of keyless offset presses with inkers; Disappearance of color from weekday editions; Use of Rockwell Graphic Systems' original keyless inking system; Lawsuit against Rockwell and Goss Newsliner over technical shortcomings and breach of contract. INSET: Mercury prints Navajo Times.

Focuses on Monotype Systems Inc.'s sale of printing-press equipment such as raster image processors, recorders and spoolers to newspapers in different states. Sale of output systems to newspaper sites in Brazil and South Korea; Increase in brisk sales for Autologic Information International Inc.'s family of imagers and related output systems.

States that Germany's M. Dumont Schauberg is printing the German newspapers `Express' and `Kolner Rundschau' on plates from Autlogic Information International APS 3850 flatbed platesetters. Installation of the plates at the newspaper's plant in Cologne, Germany; Weiss Druck's use of a similar 3850 CTP in printing government publication.

Reports on `The Dallas Morning News' newspaper's purchase of a DiamondSetter 347 computer-to-plate imaging system from Western Lithotech of Saint Louis, Missouri. Features.

Reports on the installation of Man Roland Inc.'s Uniset printing-press at Record Commercial Printing's production plant in Morris County, New Jersey. Services offered by Record Commercial Printing; Features of Uniset.

Reports on orders and installations in newspaper printing press industry. NAPP Systems Inc.; PressTech Controls Ltd.; TKS (USA) Inc.; Koenig & Bauer-Albert; Allen-Bradley Co. Inc.; Denex Inc.; Willow Bend Communications.

Reports on a computer model of press configurations that quickly can calculate available color-page positions. Rockwell Graphic Systems' test of a prototype at several sites; Low-tech method.

Announces the installation of CompuText's CompuClass classified advertising and pagination systems and CAT display ad makeup system for the `Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal' in Tupelo. The Journal's use of Data Sciences Inc.'s Papertrak-2000 circulation management database marketing/TMC package since 1991.

Announces the installation of Colormax common impression cylinder and Colormax mono flexographic printing units for the `Herald & Review' in Decatur, Illinois and the `Journal Times' in Racine, Wisconsin. Features of the Colormax combination; Installation and upgradings by KBA-Motter.

Reports on the production problems experienced by Puerto Rico's newspaper `San Juan Star,' because of saboteurs who poured glue into press equipment.

Reports that five daily newspapers in Ohio are working together to build a printing center in Marysville. Printing press chosen by the owners; Features and capabilities of the presses selected; Newspapers' circulation.

Reports on developments concerning newspaper presses manufacturers as of March 14, 1998. Sale of six of Wester Lithotech's Optical Punch Benders to `Newsday'; Sale of Prepress Solutions Inc.'s Panther imagesetting systems to four Canadian newspapers.

Focuses on the utilization of shaftless technology in packaging and distribution operations in the newspaper industry. Advantages of shaftless technology; Influence of shaftless technology on post-press productivity; Control and operation of shaftless presses.

Reports on appointment and promotion of employees in the newspaper printing and publishing industries in the United States. Appointment of W. Robert Allison as president of Harlequin Inc.; Promotion of Vickie Bair to general manager of at Baseview Products; Hiring of Lynn Yawn as sales manager for Mactive Inc.

Reports on the construction plans of Standard-Examiner for a production plant in Ogden, Utah. Purpose of the planned plant; Statement of publisher Scott Trundle on the construction plan; Contract negotiations for a press.

Reports that the `Washington Post' began printing copies on the first of eight Mitsubishi keyless offset color presses. Advantages of new presses; Changes in the paper during the yearlong transition from old to new presses.

Focuses on King Press Corp.'s introduction of left-hand printing units for its Color King 2000 and Process King to complement existing right-hand units of those presses. Advantages of the availability of the units; Announcement of the company's combination heatset and cold web offset installations for four-color printing in the Middle East; Latest unit additions.

Reports on the total amount invested by Media News Group Inc. for the renovation of Goss Urbanite press for its `Express-Times' newspaper. Media News' acquisition of the Goss Urbanite press from the `Asbury Park Press'; Features of Goss Urbanite press.

Reports on the development of newspaper digital printing. Outlook for the development of a high-volume, high-speed digital newspaper printing press; Advantages of digital press; Technological innovations toward digital press.

Cites executive developments at newspaper printing equipment vendors as of March 30, 1996. Includes the appointment of Ulrik T. Nygaard as vice president of AM International Inc.; Jeffrey Miller as midwest region vice president and general manager for Heritage Inks International; Ronald W. Stephens as the media sales vice president at Sysdeco Group AS.

Reports on technical advancements in mailroom systems used in newspaper printing presses. Exhibition of inserting systems and software controls at Nexpo '95; Newspaper Association of America's annual survey of capital spending in newspaper offices; Kinds of equipment and mailroom products displayed at exhibition.

Presents newspaper press installations as of April 1, 1995. KBA Anilox-Colora press at Windsor Star publishing; Colora presses installed in Korean newspaper publishing houses; Installation of Single Copy Conveyors at Belgium's `Het Laatste Nieuws,' mailroom systems.

Reports on the testing of Xerox Graphic Systems' Verde film at the production center of `USA Today.' Test of an imagesetter version of the film; Use of the film in live production on all pages; Advantages offered by the Verde film.

This article reports on the plan to reprint USA Today's International Edition via satellite in London, England, starting September 1993. USA Today's International will be printed via satellite in London for service to Great Britain and Ireland. The Gannett Co. newspaper has two other international presses, in Switzerland and Hong Kong, and has recently begun circulation in the Baltic areas of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, as well as in Cambodia

Reports the upgrading of the newspaper presses of the `Miami Herald.' Print problems of the newspaper; Design changes in the newspaper; Expectations regarding the outcome of the improvements.

Discusses computer-to-plate (CTP) newspaper system in the commercial printing marketplace. Utica's `Observer Dispatch' production director Charles Gallagher's signing of a contract for the first CTP technology; Components of CTP technology configuration; Utica's replacement of the CTP by a joint Systems Integrator Inc./Scitex computer-to-film system; User benefits from direct-to-plate production systems.

The article presents information on the launch of a newspaper network, designed to help advertisers penetrate suburban markets, from the Chicago Sun-Times Co. The network combines the circulation coverage of the company and 61 paid community news papers, for a combined weekly circulation of almost 759,000. The company recently acquired the 43 papers of Pioneer Press and the 18-paper star publications chain, marketing the network possible.

The article discusses the benefits of flexography as printing process for newspapers. An experiment in Fort Lauderdale, Florida proved that flexography is more economical than the dominant offset printing process. It could eliminate the problem of newspaper ink rubbing off the readers' fingers, clothing, and anything else that come in contact with the paper.