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| Major Nikon | Aug 2012 | OP | |
| HopeHoops | Aug 2012 | #1 | |
| Major Nikon | Aug 2012 | #2 | |
| HopeHoops | Aug 2012 | #4 | |
| jakeXT | Aug 2012 | #3 | |
| HopeHoops | Aug 2012 | #5 | |
| pinboy3niner | Aug 2012 | #6 | |
| HopeHoops | Aug 2012 | #8 | |
| Phentex | Aug 2012 | #7 |
Response to Major Nikon (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 04:38 PM
HopeHoops (47,675 posts)
1. You might want to consider downsizing that a bit. Photoshop can help.
Response to HopeHoops (Reply #1)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 04:39 PM
Major Nikon (10,092 posts)
2. How do you think I got into this mess?
Response to Major Nikon (Reply #2)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 05:13 PM
HopeHoops (47,675 posts)
4. I'm guessing either pot, booze, prostitutes, or an affiliation with the rMoney campaign.
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Any of those will fuck you up in a MAJOR way.
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Response to Major Nikon (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 04:44 PM
jakeXT (3,368 posts)
3. Does size matter?
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Response to jakeXT (Reply #3)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 05:17 PM
HopeHoops (47,675 posts)
5. That's chicken shit. I've been in newspaper printing press caverns that stretched for miles.
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Okay, okay, not miles - but they LOOKED like they did.
Actually, I was in the Baltimore Sun press room while I was in grade school, back when they still typeset pages. They pressed them into forms (pink shit, unknown material) that were put on the ink drums and used in the paper rollers. Typesetting is where the terms "upper case" and "lower case" come from. They were LITERALLY upper and lower on the racks the typesetters used. I think that was probably about '73. Now it's all digital. |
Response to HopeHoops (Reply #5)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 05:31 PM
pinboy3niner (28,045 posts)
6. There's something romantic about those old Linotypes with the cast-lead slugs
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Slugs with errors were hand-replaced with corrected slugs before the final was justified and locked for the press run.
That's how our HS newspaper was done. Mark-up was done on individual galleys. Much smaller scale and not cavernous at all, but the newspaper production process in the HS print shop was a thing of beauty. |
Response to pinboy3niner (Reply #6)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 06:31 PM
HopeHoops (47,675 posts)
8. Yeah, that's how Benjamin Franklin did it, and up through the '70's it was the same.
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Times have changed. Papers (other the Sunday comics) are all color now. It's all digital. I was in the digital side of the industry for a collective seven years. I've seen a lot of press rooms and a lot of computer rooms full of refrigerator-sized antiques that were still in use.
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Response to Major Nikon (Original post)
Thu Aug 2, 2012, 05:36 PM
Phentex (8,030 posts)
7. Finally a printer that can make a butt look small!
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Did you try it out yet?
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