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A power outage has reportedly halted production at Tesla's German factory. The company told German newspaper Bild it doesn't expect to resume production quickly. Suspected arson on an electricity pylon [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] EVEN IN GOOD TIMES, NEWSPAPERS, KIDDING ON THE SQUARE, referred to themselves as The Daily Miracle. Nowhere perhaps does that name resonate more than in operations, with its [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE OLD PRESSES ARE STILL THERE, SILENT in their darkened hall. Of the New York Daily News Libertyview plant's original equipment, only prepress and postpress systems still operate, [...]

Press manufacturers believe that 64 to 75 newspapers, approximately 4% of all U.S. dailies, still use the old-fashioned letterpresses that were first introduced 60 years ago. Although modern flexo and offset presses can print larger newspapers, with better color reproduction, higher quality and greater consistency, offset presses still attract small market newspapers who are willing to adjust to the incapabilities of their 50-year old equipment., Conventional wisdom pegs the number of newspapers still printing on letterpress at 75, but the actual number, the largest U.S. press manufacturer calculates, is 64 -- suggesting letterpress is dwindling [...]

With a new arrangement and a new press design, a printer and a newspaper break the rules in Canada. One of North America's leading printers, Interweb, Inc., of Quebec, and [...]

Sales of double-width newspaper presses have dropped dramatically as US newspapers recover from a deep advertising recession. Press manufacturers have cut prices 20% since the 1980s and are drastically reorganizing operations in order to survive. Industry sources note that none of the three largest double-width press manufacturers is currently profitable and this situation is likely to continue in the near term. Newspaper publishers are avoiding big-ticket purchases, creating a booming market in used press equipment., IF IT WEREN'T for bad luck -- and commercial press sales -- to paraphrase the blues expression, newspaper press manufacturers wouldn't have any luck at all lately. After a boom [...]

Edison plant set to print New York Times 'This plant will not have the capacity to do it all. They are looking at other locations,' Martin Donner told visiting newspaper [...]

Publishers of newspaper television guides are being forced to adapt to the changing industry, with online TV listings becoming increasingly popular while Sunday readership is flat, newsprint prices constantly fluctuate and the number of cable channels contintuous expands. The Syracuse Newspapers initially published TV listings in log form in 1983 and then published both log and grid form simultaneously, which appears to remain appealing for most readers. Readers also expect the TV book to include comprehensive 24 hour listings for all channels.

Women are moving into newspaper production management because they have experience with personal computers. The use of computers in newspaper production has enabled a more diversified workforce to enter production management. These findings were discussed at the first diversity session at the America East newspaper operations conference., FOR ITS FIRST session to look at workplace diversity, this spring's America East newspaper operations conference in Hershey, Pa., examined women's path production management, as well as the obstacles along [...]

El Mundo, a color weekly newspaper in Peru that was launched on April 17, 1994, plans to become a daily newspaper in late 1994 through the addition of a single-section weekly supplement. The multi-section color weekly edition will then become the Sunday edition. A large Sunday edition to a newspaper, common in North America, is a new idea in Peru. The weekly edition has sections on national and international news and sports, business, styles, and arts & letters. Production of the newspaper is described., PERU'S EL MUNDO debuted on April 17, a fitting day to launch a national newspaper begun not so much as a weekly as the Sunday edition of a soon-to-be daily. [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts Honda Siel, 99.9% owned by Honda Motor and 0.1% by India's Siel, has halted Brio hatchback assembly because of a shortage of parts from Thailand, caused by [...]

Byline: Graeme Roberts Honda Motor said production in Taiwan will be suspended from 15 December as the flooding in Thailand has stopped supply of some key components. Honda Taiwan said [...]

When teenage German novelist Helene Hegemann, whose debut novel has become a runaway bestseller in Germany, was accused of plagiarizing parts of her story, she defended her work by saying [...]

San Francisco Newspaper Agency, responsible for printing both the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner, has become the largest facility exclusively running flexographic printing plants. The daily run of the Chronicle is spread across the agency's three plants, which form a triangle across the Bay area. Meanwhile, the Examiner is printed entirely at the San Francisco, CA, plant. In all, the plants produce 650,000 copies of the Chronicle, 180,000 of the daily Examiner, and 800,000 of the combined Sunday edition., [No text [...]

The 'State Journal-Register' of Springfield, IL, became a leader in color quality by devoting more than ten years to the process and investing in state-of-the-art equipment. The technological key to the newspaper's success is its ability to print high-quality separations with 175-line to 200-line screens. However, assistant managing editor Barry Locher credits the paper's commitment to photojournalism. The paper's photographers are notorious for taking great pains to properly light shots., After more than a decade, the State Journal-Register of Springfield, I11., is suddenly finding itself lionized as an overnight success in color quality. Its sharp, snappy color reproduction now wins [...]

Byline: just-auto.com editorial team General Motors Thailand on Monday it had temporarily shut its manufacturing plant in the country due to a workers' strike. The strike was called by the [...]

The Boston Globe literally stopped the presses at about 1:30 a.m. to change the paper's front page and several inside pages to include the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy today. [...]

In the past 12 months, two family-owned newspapers switched to each other's printing process, starting new presses in new press halls at existing plants during the industry's most difficult years [...]

To achieve savings and better print quality, the Santa Fe New Mexican has installed ProImage OnColor Eco ink optimization software. Calling the software a 'set-it-and-forget-it system ... seamlessly integrated within [...]

La Provence in Marseille, France, is upgrading its content management system to H11, the Atex multi-platform and cross-channel publishing environment. The Atex system allows the 180,000-circulation regional daily to manage [...]

This month, ad workflow software from ppi Media GmbH will combine all areas of the ad department at Germany's Saarbr?cker Zeitung in a single workflow and automate all ad-management processes, [...]

Byline: just-auto.com editorial team Mitsubishi Motors has cut expected output for fiscal 2011 at its new plant in Russia by 20%, the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun reported Monday. Without citing where [...]

The weekly Bay State Banner, which has served Boston's African American community since 1965, suspended publication Monday, laying off its staff of 12. Editor and Publisher Melvin B. Miller said [...]

The Tribune-Herald will move its printing and packaging operations on July 13 from Waco, Texas, to the larger Austin American-Statesman, eliminating 25 full-time and 18 part-time jobs in the process, [...]

When The Item of Sumter, S.C., dropped its Monday print edition in April, it wasn't a simple matter of posting that day's news on its Web site. Managing Editor Chip [...]

Panamanian newspaper group Editorial El Siglo-La Estrella recently put in production a new Goss Community SSC press. The group publishes Latin America's second oldest newspaper, La Estrella ( founded in [...]

PetroChina has commenced with construction to expand capacity of its 30,000 b/d Hohhot refinery to 100,000 b/d by 2012. The Chinese government green-lit the project earlier this month. China's largest [...]

When The Item of Sumter, S.C., dropped its Monday print edition in April, it wasn't a simple matter of posting that day's news on its Web site. Managing Editor Chip [...]

The newspaper industry may find out this year if converting two-plate-around presses to three-page-around printing is a viable production option. A large daily tested one supplier's converted plate cylinders earlier [...]

PetroChina has commenced with construction to expand capacity of its 30,000 b/d Hohhot refinery to 100,000 b/d by 2012. The Chinese government green-lit the project earlier this month. China's largest [...]

It's the moment any editor dreads. Word comes down that the newsroom budget's been cut, and finding cost savings is the top priority. Some things are going to have to [...]

Tuesday's edition of The Southern Illinoisan was the first printed in Carbondale since a windstorm damaged to the area on Friday. Power to the 27,451-circulation Lee Enterprises daily was out [...]

The Star-News, Wilmington, N.C., will begin printing Monday at The Fayetteville Observer, about 90 miles to the northwest. The 46,031-circulation Star-News, part of the New York Times Regional Media Group, [...]

The Post Register in Idaho Falls is looking at summer completion of a two-phase installation of a 32-couple Goss Magnum press to serve the paper's 26,000 subscribers in Idaho, Montana [...]

Gannett Co.'s major U.S. dailies are using GMG InkOptimizer from color management and proofing solutions supplier GMG Americas, Hingham, Mass., the U.S. office of GMG GmbH & Co. KG, Tuebingen, [...]

Web-width reductions have taken pressrooms about as far as most dare go to save newsprint. Further savings must be made in another dimension -- page length or, from the web's [...]