A
corrupt computer file stops the press -- delaying Statesman
and Herald Journal
By Shauna Leavitt
August 31, 2005 | A corrupt computer
file Tuesday night shut down the printing press that
serves northern Utah and eastern Idaho.
The Bear River Publishing Company prints 35,000 newspapers
a night. It takes three hours from the time the pages
are entered in the computer to when the papers are on
the trucks.
“At this pace everything has to run smoothly,”
said Kevin Ashby, general manager of Bear River Publishing.
At 10 p.m. the corrupt file disabled the computer system
that operates the press. It took approximately four
hours for the team to find the problem and resend all
the pages to the computer.
"The Herald Journal's papers are usually off the
press by 2:15 a.m. Today they weren’t off until
6:30 a.m.," said Paul Davis, production manager
for the Herald Journal.
This meant the youth carrier force was unable to deliver
the papers before school. The papers were scheduled
to be delivered Wednesday afternoon after school is
out.
The papers delayed by the computer problem were the
Logan Herald Journal, the USU Statesman,
Pocatello's Idaho Statesman, Rexburg's Standard
Journal and BYU Idaho's newspaper.
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