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Printing
With their stable growth and flexible, high-quality and efficient work principles, DPC’s lead the Turkish market and are among the most advanced facilities in the global newspaper industry.
DPC’s create operational synergy between the newspapers of Doğan Yayın Holding and play an important role in cost savings thanks to their ability to purchase paper in bulk and provide storage for all the group's newspapers. Hürriyet is printed at DPC facilities in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Adana, Antalya, Trabzon and Frankfurt. In addition to Hürriyet and its supplements, these printing facilities provide services to other companies both inside and outside the group, thus contributing to the revenue and profitability of the Company. DPC’s consume between 200,000 and 250,000 tons of paper annually; nearly half of the printing paper in Turkey is consumed by DPC’s. Capacity Utilization at Printing
With their stable growth and flexible, high-quality and efficient work principles, DPC’s lead the Turkish market and are among the most advanced facilities in the global newspaper industry. The main driver of the 1.35% growth in newspaper printing volume last year was the increase in both the circulation and the number of pages of Hürriyet and its supplements.
Istanbul DPC, which is the largest printing center in Turkey and among the three largest printing centers in Europe, operates within a covered area of 18,000 square meters and has a storage area of 15,000 square meters. The facility is equipped with two Man Colorman printing presses that can print 85,000 copies per hour, each with 72 pages, 48 of them in color. Istanbul DPC also has three Goss HT-70 printing presses. Thanks to the folding apparatus on it, two 72-page newspapers can be printed at the same time, which enables the facility to print 170,000 newspapers per hour. It is also possible to print in sections with 4 funnels simultaneously. The Man printing presses are also linked to the latest technology Müller Martini insert system. Total insert capacity was increased by 75% in 2007 by adding three new insert systems to the existing machinery. Thus, up to eight inserts or supplements can be inserted into the newspaper, either during or after printing. 350 tons of printed matter can be stored on the facility's 600 rolls. Daily paper consumption of the facility is between 280 and 380 tons and its monthly ink consumption is between 160 and 180 tons. The mailroom section of the facility has an overall indoor area of 8,500 square meters; it allows delivery vehicles to park at the loading area through 21 electronically-controlled gates and the newspaper packages to be loaded onto the delivery vehicles easily. The share of the DPC Istanbul Facility in total printing is 49%. The Doğan Media Group newspapers distributed in the Central Anatolia and Central Black Sea regions are printed at the Ankara DPC. The share of the DPC Ankara Facility in total printing is 17%. Three different newspapers can printed simultaneously at the Antalya DPC. The share of the Antalya DPC Facility in total printing is 6%. Adana DPC has three Tensor printing presses with maximum hourly printing capacity of 35,000 newspapers. This is the longest Tensor printing press line in the world in terms of number of units and coil stands. The share of the Adana DPC Facility in total printing is 9%. Trabzon DPC carries out its operations with two Goss Community printing presses with maximum hourly printing capacity of 35,000 newspapers. Goss Community I printing press has the capacity to print a newspaper of 40 pages, 32 in color; whereas Goss Community II printing press has the capacity to print a newspaper of 40 pages, 28 in color. Using the two folding apparatuses on the printing press, maximum of 70,000 newspapers are printed hourly. The share of the Trabzon DPC Facility in total printing is 4%. The 120-unit Goss Universal printing press at the Izmir DPC can print four newspapers simultaneously thanks to its four folding apparatuses. It is one of the longest Universal printing lines in the world. Four different newspapers each of which has between 24 and 32 color pages can be printed simultaneously with the existing printing equipment. The share of the Izmir DPC Facility in total printing is 15%. back to top
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