You can look at past stories from The Capital newspaper on the Internet. These online archives include stories from 1995 to the present. This high-speed Goss press can print 80 pages of the newspaper at once, at an average speed of 30,000 papers per hour. The composed newspaper pages are transferred by photo negative to thin aluminum plates which are then mounted on the press cylinders. The principle of offset printing utilizes the concept that oil and water do not mix.
Water is receptive to, or adheres to, the non-image area of the plate.
During the actual printing process, the plate comes in contact with a rubber surface first and then offsets to the newsprint ensuring the clearest possible image on the printed page. The Capital uses an average of 20 tons of newsprint a day. The combined Capital-Gazette Newspapers use about 138 tons a week, or 7,200 tons a year. However with the help of the newsprint and ink companies and their alliance and introduction of new products, we have witnessed a decrease in the ink-rub factor. With additional concerns for the environment, we use color inks that are soybean based, instead of refined crude oil based.