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Stockton Record to get $20 million upgrade
Thursday June 19, 2003
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) The (Stockton) Record will upgrade its
color offset press and its mailroom to improve the printing quality
and publishing speed of the newspaper.
Construction on the project, which is expected to cost $20
million, will begin next spring, the newspaper said.
The decision to invest in a new press facility was made
Wednesday by the board of directors of Dow Jones & Co., which
purchased the paper last month for $144 million.
The Record, a daily newspaper serving San Joaquin and Calavaras
counties, recently purchased new property to house the new press
and mailroom. The press will be able to produce a 56-page press
run, including 16 color pages, at a rate of about 55,000 copies per
hour. The current press has a 48-page capacity, including eight
color pages.
The equipment will replace obsolete technology and increase both
reproduction quality and publication flexibility, company officials
said.
The Record's current press, installed new in 1956, prints by the
letterpress process which is rarely used. As of September 2001,
only 33 such presses were known to be operating in the United
States.
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