A night on The Berkshire Eagle's Urbanite printing press

The Goss Urbanite printing press has printed The Berkshire Eagle for over 30 years. On September 3, 2021, it will print its final edition. A look inside one of the final nights on the Urbanite press on Tuesday, August 31, 2021. (Stephanie Zollshan/The Berkshire Eagle)

[@martinmallasch2814]

i worked on an urbanite press for 18 years, what a sweet heart, just keep the repairs up and it will run forever. only down side, you had to run over 25 thousand and hour to save copies, because of the flying tucker folder. what made mine unique was it had an ATF jaw folder also, which allowed us to run slower and also run double parraell.

[@robertspence831]

We had an S/U jaw folder on one of ours. Great for commercial work.

[@user-lp3cf5yn5b]

Don't know what kind of press was in the newspaper my dad worked for, but I remember being able to hear it spooling up from outside at the loading dock when I was a kid and we were delivering with grandma. I love that sound.

[@carlosariasluyando5104]

Yo también trabajé con la rotativa goss urbanite modelo 1348 y 770, por 23 años, llegamos a imprimir a 45 millares por hora cuando nos ganaba la hora, y con tirajes mínimos de 250000 ejemplares, tiempos aquellos en dónde tenías que ser rápido en las reparaciones,pues estaba como tecnico electricista.

[@mattb9054]

Got laid off in March after 15 long years with my company. I did everything from mailroom/downstacking to color and registration, rolltending and Utilities to pre press and physically outputting the plates that are hung on the press and have the images. Unfortunately there is less and less demand for physical print as everything goes online. Most big newspaper publicators heavily rely on commercial print to keep the revenue, but even then most companies are barely scraping by

[@lazyhumans8085]

Yes i agree with you. Mark zuckerberg steal ours food on the table. Since I’m from malaysia so our company print 3 types of languages malay/english and chinese. Malay around 2000 copies,english 1800 and chinese 7-8000 copies per day. Luckily we have two line press machines. Goss Urbanite and goss community. We run the urbanite once or twice a month depending on my mood because the wastage is to high and the maintenance costs also high. I can’t imagine the day that our company announce the press will be shut down. I now My company is big they got so many subsidiary like palm,timber and so on. I’m 33 know and can i keeps my current position as a assistant chief if i go to other subsidiaries?! 😂

[@mangyCajun]

Our shop closed the end of 2020, I worked there for 37 years. first press I was on was a Goss letter press steel plates, then I worked on Goss Urbanite, Metro and in the late 80s we got there new press HO headliner off set. In 2006 we got a new Japanese press TKS Color top 5000. I wish you well Matt

[@robertspence831]

I loved those old Urbanites. Kinda miss those days.....

[@gunnerclark]

I worked prepress for a Goss Urbanite and it was a delightful machine to work for. No issues with registration or anything. It was a smooth producer for our plant.

[@nicksmith3147]

I hope this press is still running! I sure miss printing

[@BerkshireEagle]

We have upgraded the press and yes it is running!

[@georgeroy7314]

You can always go back, Nick. They could use you in Auburn!

[@mattb9054]

Dude same I was a pressman for 15 years. Got laid off in March, now I work for Georgia Pacific on a wallboard line and it's so foreign to me. I lost everything my seniority, my holiday and vacation time, all of it. Now I'm 33 and basically starting fresh in a new trade.

[@preachingjesusministry7201]

Technology is taking over miss the goss I was on training and in 3 years later they shut down sold the company it was could the News chief publisher

[@kevinkotchevar2339]

Scrap metal