“I’m in the luxurious position of having four presses and the same amount of copies. We’ll be taking more copies across, and if things go well we’ll keep printing,” said de Wit.
Testing of the twin seven-web presses, each with 35 printing couples, will continue. The printer expects to produce the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph later this summer.
At the end of last month the firm, jointly owned by the Telegraph Group and the Guardian, printed 123,000 copies of the Daily Telegraph’s Appointment supplement, producing a quality that was “easily sellable,” according to de Wit.
Heidelberg sales manager newspaper presses John Coad said that the West Ferry installation would start only after Trafford Park’s had been completed.
Story by John Davies
