Web Specialities Three-Wide System
For many years, the economy of narrower newspaper page widths (and depths) has driven interest in three-wide systems, delivering an extra 50 percent more pages from the same press.
Noting that, Web Specialties, based in Twin Falls, Idaho, engineered a two-web three-wide system for newspaper printers, but the company closed some years ago and owner Ken Floyd has since died.
His legacy lives on, however, with imPRESSions Worldwide. The assembly takes two webs and converts them to four webs of uneven width, each being cut into a one-third and two-thirds arrangement. The webs are realigned and sent down the former board on a centerline.
Each deck of the assembly has a 3 hp AC drive that powers the infeed roller, and each assembly has one full-page motorized compensator and four chrome-plated angle bars, two of which are stationary and two motorized.
The system can be installed anyplace after the printing units and before the folder.
Alternative requirements require alternative solutions, and imPRESSions can also supply this system for a Goss Urbanite press, which features both web splitting and stream separating. The automated 25-unit press (featured in a YouTube video) prints multiple community newspapers simultaneously. – Video to go to the right or below.
