MONTREAL— Transcontinental  has announced the permanent closure of the printing plants Transcontinental de la Capitale (Québec City) and Transcontinental Qualimax (Gatineau), both located in Québec. Following the June  decision by customer  CN2I to not publish during the week , the Coopérative nationale de l’information indépendante . These  two plants  primarily print the  CN2i’s daily newspapers, formerly owned by Groupe Capitales Médias. These closures result in the loss of approximately 30 jobs per plant.  Transcontinental  keeped  these plants running at the request of CN2i, publisher of Le Soleil, Le Droit, Le Nouvelliste, Le Quotidien-Le Progrès, La Tribune and La Voix de l'Est, because of their market proximity. The other  work from these plants, including the Saturday editions of CN2i dailies, will be  transferred to Transcontinental Transmag in Montréal.