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The Hindu's state-of-the-art Coimbatore press is a year old

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— Photo: K. Ananthan

HI-TECH: A view of Mitsubishi's ‘DiamondSpirit' press installed at ‘

COIMBATORE: On Saturday, January 22, 2011, the printing plant of The Hindu on Kamarajar Road at Singanallur completed a year of bringing out the copies of the newspaper and other publications in the group such as BusinessLine and supplements such as MetroPlus, Property Plus and Education Plus by using the state-of-the art DiamondSpirit press.

The Coimbatore facility is the third in The Hindu group's plants to install the equipment made in Japan by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, following successful operations in Hyderabad and Chennai.

The press installed is rated at 75,000 cph with a cut-off of 546mm (21.5 in) and a web width of 1,397mm (55 in). It is configured with two 4/4 tower printing units, one 1/1 tower printing units, one 2:2 double rotary folder, three reel stands and future provisions for coldset/heatset hybrid printing. The press is operated by the Mitsubishi press control system with automated features that include press presetting, ink presetting with CTP interface, colour register control and dual web tension control. Kasturi & Sons Ltd., headquartered in Chennai, publishes more than 1.4 million copies of The Hindu a day across 14 printing centres in the country: Chennai, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Madurai, Delhi, Visakhapatnam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Vijayawada, Mangalore, Tiruchirapalli, Kolkata and Hubli. The company also publishes a weekly sports magazine Sportstar and a fortnightly on current affairs Frontline.

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