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 CONSTRUCTION FACTS |
| OUR NEW PRESS |
| 2 |
The new press is actually two presses with a total of 48 color couples. |
| 6 |
The new press will be six stories tall, twice the height of our current press. |
| 21 |
The cutoff will be 21 inches, meaning the length of the newspaper page will be 21 inches long: the printed image on the page will be 20 inches long. |
| 48 |
The web width for the press will be 48 inches. |
| 2,100 |
Each roll of newsprint on the new press will weigh about 2,100 pounds, more than the rolls on our current press. |
| 90,000 |
The new press will have a capacity of 90,000 copies per hour. |
| OUR OLD PRESS |
| 8+4+2 |
The press lines are made up of eight Goss Headliner letterpress units, four MAN Roland flexo units and two folders. In 1988, the four flexo units cost $3.5 million. |
| 23 9/16 |
The old press has a cutoff of 23 9/16 inches, meaning the length of the newspaper page is 23 9/16 inches long; the printed image is 22 inches long. The web width is 54 1/2 inches, which means a page is 13 5/8 inches wide; the printed image is 13 inches wide. |
| 126 |
The old press is 126 feet long. |
| 1,600 |
One roll of newsprint weighs between 1,600 and 1,700 pounds. If rolled out, it would stretch six miles. |
| 17,000 |
One roll of newsprint prints 17,000 copies and lasts about 20 minutes on the press. |
| 60,000 |
The old press can produce 60,000 papers in an hour. |
| 67,000, 370,000 |
Fort Wayne Newspapers uses about 67,000 pounds of colored ink and 370,000 pounds of black ink each year. |
| OTHER FACTS ABOUT MAKING NEWSPAPERS |
| 10,615 |
In 2005, Fort Wayne Newspapers consumed 10,615 metric tons of newsprint. Of the total, 56 percent had recycled content. One ton of recycled paper saves approximately 17 trees and 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space.
FWN recycles all old newsprint and blank newsprint from the main building as well as its distribution centers. The main building also has drop-off bins for the public at the corner of West Main and Fulton streets. The recycling company we use, ServAll Recycling, sells our recycled paper to newsprint mills to make recycled newsprint. |
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