In Brief

The Los Angeles Times named Sean Gallagher managing editor, online.

Koenig & Bauer AG said Frank Junker, executive vice president of production, retired.

Technotrans said it will open a sales and support office in Chennai, India, next month, to serve the fast-growing Indian subcontinent. The company named Matthew Sunil managing director, India, to head up the office.
www.technotrans.com

Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. selected PuzzleFlow Solutions’ WebPairer app for 16 of its properties in conjunction with a conversion to computer-to-plate. The sale was overseen by Konica Minolta Graphic Imaging USA. Look for more information about CNHI's CTP deployment in the October issue of News & Tech.
www.puzzleflow.us

Flint Group said four of its offset inks earned bio-renewable content certification from the National Association of Printing Ink Manufacturers. The certified inks are Flint’s K+E, Arrowstar and Starbase sheetfed series of inks as well as its Arroweb heatset formulation.
www.flintgrp.com

WoodWing said it has installed its software at two South American newspapers, Diario de Chiapas in Chiapas, Mexico, and La Manana in Neuquen, Argentina.
www.woodwing.com

Web Press Corp. sold a Quad-Stack press to Register Tapes Unlimited Inc. This is the first press order Web Press has filled since filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization earlier this summer.
Houston-based RTUI will put the press unit into production this month, according to Craig Stevens, plant manager.
Stevens said RTUI will equip the press with a UV curing system.
www.webpresscorp.com

Southern Lithoplate said its new Web site was recognized in the Graphic Design USA Web design competition, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard.
www.slp.com

Screen (USA) reported positive results from Print 09, saying it notched $35 million in sales across its portfolio of digital printing and prepress systems, according to Robert Prah, vice president of sales.
www.screenusa.com

The Associated Press launched a 2009 AP Stylebook app for Apple iPhone and iPod Touch users.
www.ap.org

The San Francisco Chronicle said its Web site attracted 112 million page views in August, with unique visitors growing 21 percent to 11.2 million, according to stats compiled by Omniture Site Catalyst.

The Guardian in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, tapped Advantage Newspaper Consultants to help boost ad sales of its TV guide. The Guardian joins the Prince Albert (Saskatchewan) Daily Herald as the first Canadian newspapers to use ANC’s services.
www.newspaperconsultants.com

The Livingston County (Mich.) Daily Press & Argus said the paper began using automatic register control systems installed by CC1 Inc. The paper said Gannett Co. Inc. spent about $140,000 for the eXaminer II system and associated software, part of a $450,000 project to improve production operations at the site.
www.cc1inc.com