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Indiana daily's $9 million production plant will feature a new press of the same color
FOR MORE THAN a quarter of a century, one of the landmarks in downtown Columbus, Ind., has been the Goss Urbanite press - painted a brilliant yellow that sits in the modern glass headquarters of the Republic.
"When [architect] Myron Goldsmith was designing the building, he conceived of the Urbanite not only as a press - but a kind of sculpture," recalled Republic vice president Jeffrey N. Brown. "So we had to paint it something, and yellow seemed like a pretty color."
Now that the Republic is constructing a $9 million production plant in an industrial park out by I-65, the new press will sit under glass facing the interstate - and it will be yellow as well.
"Of course, our production folks don't like it because it shows ink a lot," Brown said with a laugh.
And this newest yellow press should make quite an impression: It will be almost twice as big as the one downtown. The Republic is replacing its old press with a 12-unit Dauphin Graphic Machines DGM-850 press, which is similar to a Goss Urbanite.
With a press speed of 50,000 copies per hour and with...