These days it is more and more difficult to attract advertising, especially national advertising. One helpful tool for newspapers seeking national advertising is to get SNAP certified. Last month I worked with a newspaper that was going through the SNAP (Specifications for Newsprint Advertising Production) certification, and I was amazed at how much this paper’s print quality […]

Roll pins can be removed by using a pin puller, which is basically a milling machine collet with a slide hammer attached. The collet is squeezed against the pin to be removed and the slide hammer portion is used to impact the pin, causing the pin to release from the frame. What can be done if the […]

Do your Goss Community or Goss Urbanite nips need to be cut down so that you can run narrower newsprint? Normally the cost to replace the nips with narrower ones can cost more than $4,000 for singlewide presses. But what if you could do the work for $1,500, for three sets of nips, and without removing the […]

Newspapers are reducing their web widths at an increased rate in an effort to decrease operating costs. Here are some tips to consider if you are reducing yours. Fortunately, at least for single wide press users, cutting web widths on such presses as the Goss Community, Goss Urbanite, Harris V15 and Harris 845 is a fairly straightforward […]

Have you ever experienced a fluctuation in the speed of your press as it runs? The problem may be a $2.50 part. Many newspapers have presses equipped with a motor-operated potentiometer (MOP), which controls the speed of their machine. A potentiometer (pot) is a variable resistor, manually controlled, and used primarily to vary voltage. Simply put, the […]