New Presses Speed Up the Work

The new factory allowed the brothers to use better and more-effective printing equipment. They switched from the old, slow presses to the M.A.N. converted rotary offset press from Brooklyn. It served for over five years but then was replaced by a four-color press in May 1989. An identical press was installed the following year. In 1990 monthly production reached almost 800,000 copies of the two magazines in Swedish and Norwegian. Inge Olofsson, factory overseer and member of the Branch Committee, says:

“Our first press, a foot-operated, hand-fed Diegel from the 1940’s, stands in a corner at the new branch like a museum piece as a reminder of the wonderful development of the work we have witnessed throughout the years. It reminds us of what Jesus said: ‘The things impossible with men are possible with God.’”​—Luke 18:27.

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New press replaces older M.A.N. rotary press. New press prints Bible publications in full color