China’s ‘paper for intellectuals’ ups quality, productivity with Goss press

Feb 02, 2012 at 07:22 pm by Staff


Beijing based newspaper publisher ‘Guangming Daily’ will boost colour capacity and go after more contract printing with the installation of a new single-width Goss Universal press.

The new double-circumference (2x2) press will be mainly print the 150,000 copies a day of the flagship daily, and 250,000 copies a day of the tabloid ‘Xin Jin Bao’.

Deputy general secretary and factory director Zhao Ping  says ‘Guangming Daily’ has established itself 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,” he says. “We look forward to a new level of technology and productivity with the installation of the Universal press in the first half of 2012.”

The new press will include three four-high printing towers, three reelstands and two 2:3:3: jaw folders. It will have closed-loop colour registration, an ink leveling system, blanket washers, two counter stackers and an inline stitcher.

Rated at a maximum of 80,000 cph, the press will generate higher productivity and more colour pages for the national daily central government newspaper.

Launched in 1949 by the China Democratic League, and based in the Chinese capital, the Chinese language ‘Guangming Daily’ considers itself ‘a newspaper for intellectuals’. The paper is also printed in Shenyang, Shanghai, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Chengdu and Kunming. It has correspondents in many countries worldwide it has a large global circulation.

As well as the ‘Daily’, the group also publishes three other newspapers, four periodicals and a website.

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