2. “The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts
into your mind, but how to
get the old ones out.”
- Dee Hock

3. What have we learned from the past to move forward in our industry?
The Old Days
Circulation, ad revenue couldn’t do anything but go up.
Big money….no competition
Big plants….multiple plants
Large manpower requirements….remember the days of 16 men on a press
One product model….newspapers
Single focus from the top to the bottom….the daily miracle
The New World
Circulation and ad revenue declining….when will it level off
Little money …. competition everywhere
Stuck with big plants….multiple plants go away
Production becomes the cost saving universe through cuts in web and manpower
Question becomes how can we do more with our equipment as idle time rises
Focus is now on everything with less people….print, web, mobile, etc.

4. Where does that leave Production / Print
Reactionary mode to corporate and publishers
Sit and wait to see what happens….is there any influence we can bring
Print or be printed....choice
Consolidation….result
No plant is sacred ground
We understand what is going on around Production / Print, how do we influence the outcome. How do we move forward from what we see around us.
Make our focus print, its our business
Everyone in production is an analyst focused on the most efficient ways to get things done, this can never stop
We must get better continually
Research and understand the cost effective technologies that can help your production and save you money.

5. Pressline Services focus for promoting print into the future
100% of our business is newspaper printing from Canada to South America. Our focus is simple “what can we do for newspapers to help wring every dime out of printing” what is the lowest cost common denominator to printing.
Two things stood out to us at Pressline as the last cost savings horizon.
FORMAT
PRINTING PLANTS

6. Pressline Services focus for the future (FORMAT)
Format has been the untouchable since the beginning of print. We have cut 10” off the web in the last 15 years and if we go back further in time it’s more like 20” , but have not addressed the length of the newspaper at all. Until a few years ago when the Columbus Dispatch and the Cincinnati Enquirer adopted Pressline’s 3volution or 3v 3around printing. This allowed for a cut-off change and an increase in production speed never before achieved in legacy equipment.

7. Pressline Services 3V PRODUCTION COLLECT MODEL
PRODUCTION STRAIGHT MODEL
50% MORE SPEED
More through put – Less equipment
Less equipment – Less consumables, maintenance, utilities and press crews.
Shorter run times
Later deadlines
Print more products
Works well with sites that are use to running straight – offers current
paging and color (max 9 webs)
PRODUCTION COLLECT MODEL
50% MORE COLOR / SECTIONS
More color/sections with current equipment
Less webs (max 3 webs)
Less Equipment - Less consumables, maintenance, utilities and press crews.
Less capital dollars
All color press- May need some reconfiguration
Current collect speed

10. Pressline Services focus for the future (PRINTING PLANTS)
Printing plants built in the 70’s and 80’s were built for the equipment that was being purchased. Huge chunks of land massive multi-level facilities Designs that didn’t always support work flow as much as old work rules and the printing press that was purchased Separation of pressroom and mailroom that requires miles of conveying Newsprint storage way off press Pre-press in a totally different area because that’s where it landed. These issues are all part of the cost structure of todays newspaper and cannot be supported in todays printing environment.

11. Pressline Services FlexPress
Building Benefits
Warehouse environment
Single floor production
Less floor space
Less utilities cost
Press / Production Benefits
Less manpower and maintenance
Flexible color capabilities
Multiple presses within the zones
New print opportunities
Build for the present expands for the future
Adaptable to multiple web widths, 3V or Stitch Tab

16. Thank You