CPI Sells Times Press to Inland
by January 19, 2004 12:00 am 54 views
Community Publishers Inc. of Bentonville sold an eight-unit Goss Urbanite press in January to Inland Newspaper Machinery Corp. of Lexena, Kan. Inland buys, refurbishes and resells old newspaper presses.
The press was installed at the Northwest Arkansas Times of Fayetteville in 1985, said Jeff Jeffus, who is vice president and general manager of Northwest Arkansas operations for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and publisher of Times.
Although the press was owned by CPI, Jeffus said, “it was an asset of the alliance” between CPI and the D-G.
The Times and D-G have both been printed for the past three years at the D-G’s printing facility in Lowell, which has a Goss Headliner press. The Times’ old press had been kept during that time in case it was needed as a backup, but Jeffus said no problems occurred that required the Times press to be used.
The press was disassembled and hauled to Kansas in four truck-load shipments.
Jeffus refused to reveal how much Inland had paid for the old Times press. But Dauphin Graphic Machines Inc. currently has a used nine-unit Goss Urbanite press for sale on its Web site for $630,000.