Printing Services

DEMİRÖREN PRINTING CENTER

Carrying on business in the areas of journalism, printing, advertisement, advertising and Internet publishing, Hürriyet has 4  printing facilities in Ankara, Adana, Trabzon and Germany.

The DPC Facilities which undertake printing of Hürriyet Group’s newspapers are located in Turkey in Ankara, Adana and Trabzon. The printing activities in abroad are being carried out in Frankfurt, within the body of Hürriyet’s Germany Branch (Hürriyet Zweigniederlassung GmBH). While all the investment expenditures of Hürriyet Gazetecilik ve Matbaacılık A.Ş. from 1997 to 2013 are approximately 484.2 million USA Dollars, the amount of the investment expenditures made for DPC facilities in the same period is approximately 296.7 million USA Dollars.

At Demirören Printing Center (DPC) Facilities; in addition to the Newspaper Hürriyet and Hürriyet Daily News and the supplements thereof, contracted intra-group and external newspapers and the supplements thereof are printed daily, weekly and monthly.

The most widespread printing facility network in our country belongs to DPC. DPC has significant competitive advantages with its qualified man-power, machine park, and technical infrastructure. Its qualifications such as the ability to put the products on the market in time, to rush the latest news to printing, and to significantly decrease the transportation costs, are the fundamental superiorities of DPC which bring it to its target of becoming the common printing center of Turkey.

DPC Ankara

This is the facility that is established on the widest area following the DPC Istanbul Facility. Being located on the Esenboğa Airport highway and established on an area of approximately 58.000 m², DPC Ankara Facilities have a closed area of approximately 16.000 m². The facility was constructed in steel construction. In 2018, 5 units have been dismantled from the Goss Universal printing machines at the facility and sent to the Germany printing house. The Facility is currently continuing its production with 115 units and 4 folding. 

With its printing machine which is designed in a way to be capable of printing 4 newspapers at the same time with its 4 folding, the Facility is capable of producing 180 thousand newspapers in an hour. The facility has 3 automatic inserting machines which were installed in 2007. The Facility has an installed transformer capacity of 4.500 KVA and an existing generator output of 4.500 KVA. Daily average paper use of the facility in 2019 was 15 tons. Share of DPC Ankara Facility within the total print is 17%. In 2018, we launched the mould width narrowing project in DPC Ankara Facility with our own means to make saving from mould costs. In August 2018, narrow-size moulds were put into use step by step. With this practice, mould used in Ankara region were downsized by 4.32%.

DPC Adana

Having been constructed on a land of approximately 11.000 m², DPC Adana Facility makes production in a closed area of 5.800 m² in total. The Facility has an installed transformer capacity of 2.500 KVA and it has two generators, being 1.600 KVA and 2.000 KVA DPC Adana Facility has 3 Tensor printing machines, having a maximum printing capacity of 35 thousand prints in an hour. From among these machines, the first line can print a newspaper with a total of 40 pages, 28 of which are colored, the second line can print a total of 36 pages, 28 of which are colored, and the third line can print a total of 40 pages, 32 of which are colored. Daily average paper use of the facility in 2019 was 8 tons. Share of DPC Adana Facility within the total print is 9.2%. In 2019, narrow-size moulds were put into use step by step. With this practice, mould used in Adana region were downsized by 4.32%.


DPC Trabzon
Being the first facility constructed during DPC’s organization, DPC Trabzon Facility carries on business on a land of approximately 15.000 m², with a closed area of 3.500 m² in total. The Facility has a transformer capacity of 2.000 KVA and an existing generator output of 1.054 KVA. 1 Goss Community printing machine is capable of printing a newspaper of 40 pages in total, 32 of which are colored. 2 Goss Community printing machines are capable of printing a newspaper of 40 pages in total, 28 of which are colored. The Facility is capable of producing up to 70 thousand newspapers.

As of the end of 2012, installation of 4 CTPs (computer to plate) has been completed. Daily average paper use of the facility in 2019 was 4 tons. Share of DPC Trabzon Facility within the total print is 4.7%.In 2018, we launched the mould width narrowing project with our own means to make saving from mould costs. In July 2018, narrow-size moulds were put into use step by step. With this practice, mould used in Trabzon region were downsized by 4.30%.