Mr David Oakley This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. NEWSPAPERS: Colour towers

   www.dotprint.com/fnewspap/towe - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/7/1997   Last Visited: 6/14/2001

   David Oakley , managing director of printing machinery supplier Techprint Services , Dorking , was UK sales manager for Rockwell Graphic Systems , now Goss , during the massive newspaper re-equipping of the 1980s and was later technical services manager at the Daily Telegraph.
   
   NATIONALS
   
   For the nationals and for many others , they went through transfer from letterpress to offset. They had never had colour before so it was not in the equation. Most sales were mono and some people left space for a satellite unit , or installed satellite units , so they could give their advertisers colour on page five and seven , he says. They later found that what those presses did not have was the flexibility they needed , so the provincials lost orders because of it , he says.
   ...
   Mr Oakley has reservations about the quality , but agrees that towers are now regarded as the answer. Colour towers were not possible before because of operational problems , such as cleaning the blankets. They needed cleaning every 50 , 000 impressions , which would have been no good at all. With newsprint now you don't have to do that..
   
   One of the first newspaper groups to go for colour on every page was Eastern Counties Newspapers at Norwich , which installed four four-high Goss HT70 printing towers with two folders capable of printing back-to-back colour on a 128-page tabloid. ECH has eight reelstands so that some of the towers can be broken down for multi-web production.

2. 2. NEWSPAPERS: Colour towers

   www.printingworld.com/fnewspap - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/7/1997   Last Visited: 1/31/2001

   David Oakley, managing director of printing machinery supplier Techprint Services, Dorking, was UK sales manager for Rockwell Graphic Systems, now Goss, during the massive newspaper re-equipping of the 1980s and was later technical services manager at the Daily Telegraph.
   
   NATIONALS
   
   For the nationals and for many others, they went through transfer from letterpress to offset. They had never had colour before so it was not in the equation. Most sales were mono and some people left space for a satellite unit, or installed satellite units, so they could give their advertisers colour on page five and seven, he says. They later found that what those presses did not have was the flexibility they needed, so the provincials lost orders because of it, he says.
   ...
   Mr Oakley has reservations about the quality, but agrees that towers are now regarded as the answer. Colour towers were not possible before because of operational problems, such as cleaning the blankets. They needed cleaning every 50, 000 impressions, which would have been no good at all. With newsprint now you don't have to do that..
   
   One of the first newspaper groups to go for colour on every page was Eastern Counties Newspapers at Norwich, which installed four four-high Goss HT70 printing towers with two folders capable of printing back-to-back colour on a 128-page tabloid. ECH has eight reelstands so that some of the towers can be broken down for multi-web production.