Dow Jones to close plant

Editor & Publisher reports Dow Jones announced it plans to close its Orlando, Fla. plant by next year and transfer the printing of The Wall Street Journal and Barron's "to an unidentified contract printer in central Florida." According to Operations Vice President Larry Hoffman, Dow Jones is moving the printing operation to a contract printer "to take advantage of spare press capacity in the central Florida area." 

Hoffman [said] the Orlando operation has always been well run and "consistently scored high in print quality." The plant was the first in the company to transmit full pages by sattelite. It also was the site of Dow Jones's first electronic pagination system - one of the industry's earliest such efforts.

The move is expected to happen just after Jan 1. 

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