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(47,675 posts)Major Nikon
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(47,675 posts)Any of those will fuck you up in a MAJOR way.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)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.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)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.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)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.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)Did you try it out yet?