Advance Orders First Six-Tower Goss Magnum Compact

STATEN ISLAND, NY—Advance Publications will install a new Goss Magnum Compact press here this fall—a move that will add versatile, short-run capability in combination with output capacity approaching that of its existing double-width system.

The installation, which is expected to be completed by October, will make Advance Publications the first United States user of the press.

The six full-color Magnum Compact print towers and one folder will accommodate a growing volume of contract newspaper, commercial and insert printing, and also back up a double-width press used to print the daily Staten Island Advance newspaper.

Advance Publications executives were on hand for live print tests at the Goss manufacturing facility—tests that included fully automatic plate changes.

“We looked at many double-width, single-width and digital options to support our vision of a modern, multi-product print operation,” said John Giustiniani, director of production at the Staten Island Advance. “Versatility, job-change speed, print quality and simple, cost-effective operation make the Magnum Compact unique—and the right press to meet our needs.”