Twilight of letterpress

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 [...]