For eight years, three of the publisher’s own dailies printed on a KBA Comet with two three-fold web press deliveries have been finished using Muller Martini systems: the flagship “La Nación” (with a print run of 118,000 copies on weekdays and 158,000 copies on Sundays), “Al Día” (80,000 copies) and “La Teja” (185,000 copies), as well as a number of weeklies and advertising materials with heatset covers. The company’s positive experiences with the NewsGrip A conveyors, the four high-performance NewsStack compensating stackers, the Exacto N rotary trimmer and the MPC control prompted it to turn to Muller Martini again for the expansion of its mailroom capacity.

With the two identical ProLiners (main section and preprinted section feeding and six inserting stations) and the eight FlexiRoll buffers, Grupo Nación wants to ensure that all newspapers are fully delivered. The Proliners, the first newspaper inserting machines of this model in Central America, play to the company’s strengths in the finishing of tabloid newspapers. All three of the newspapers printed in San José use the tabloid format, each with a different width (33, 37 and 42 centimeters).

Costa Rica’s undisputed leader in print media was convinced by both the technical solution from Muller Martini and its swift and flexible project handling. The new systems were ordered last November and will already begin production in April.