A broken $15 part in The Daily Herald printing press kept the Provo-based newspaper from hitting Utah County porches for the first time in its 122-year existence.
"We couldn't get electrical power to the motor that turns the dampener rollers," said managing editor Paul Richards. "Without those dampener rollers turning, we can't print."Richards said electricians went through the circuitry of 26-year-old press all day Wednesday and early Thursday. They determined the source of the problem was a $15 part.
But the malfunction of that part will cost the paper $30,000 in lost advertising revenue, overtime and costs to get Thursday's edition printed elsewhere. The Newspaper Agency Corp. - which prints the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune - agreed to print Thursday's Daily Herald.