Out with the old and in with the new. Our venerable Miller two-color press is moving out. This machine has served the University well, printing the thousands of University Finals programs for many years. It was a powerful machine in its day, capable of printing both sides of a sheet simultaneously. (We call a press like this a "perfecting press".) It was built in Germany in 1987 and is now being replaced with bigger and better equipment. The new Heidelberg Speedmaster 8-color press will also be capable of printing on both sides of the sheet, but in full color! This ability will make UVAPrint competitive with any printing company in Virginia! But first, the Miller has to go. And moving it out is no easy task. The press weighs fifteen tons, far too much for the very heavy-duty Hyster forklift to manage. So our equipment riggers first broke the press down into two portions, each just over seven tons. Once the press is off the floor, we will have the room we need to start the new installation. This will not be an easy task, the first step is to gouge a a five-foot by fifty-foot hole in the floor and fill it with several feet of concrete to form a solid, sturdy base. Join us back here over the next several weeks to watch the exciting process of installing the new press! What will happen to the Miller? A press like this still has a lot of life in it, in this case it will be sold overseas where it will help a businesss in a developing country expand.