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I worked in a printing plant in the press and bindery for almost 10 years, it could be a tough job but it never ceased to amaze me.

@Kerry Robb those machines that process are so amazing, I wonder how they're designed and built in order to get the desired result. Do you know anything about it?

@@dagreatgibson7957a lot of machinery and engineering is designed on software called “Autodesk” that’s worth checking out

After working 10 yrs on a printing press between 1990-2005 all I can can say it wasn't fun, the crew I worked with good. It was alot of hard work and very messy, oil, grease & ink everywhere but very well paying job after the press I moved to the warehouse and drove a clamp truck.

Print is dead! Don't waste too much time with it...

hoovesonearth a lot less than back in the days

A lot of them are recycled

Atleast paper is biodegradable

95%

Recycled paper turns into newspaper because it is low quality and can be made from the short fibres of mulched paper. Plus, it's nothing compared to the amount of paper used to wipe noses, and other orifices.

Ikr like damn

He isn’t touching the edge, only the surface of the paper. He’s probably gotten quite a few however

I used to work on such a machine and if you do not touch the sharp edge you will be fine. But again.. you will have many many papercuts.

Is it me or does NY Times look like a giant roll of toilet paper in the video, and doesn't the print looks like a giant skid mark or what?

Newsprint's almost entirely recycled

They probably but it from a paper company, and paper companies are self sustaining cuz if they weren’t, they’d go out of business

they got it from dunder miflin

That hurts to watching it...😬😅

When you work long enough in a print shop your hands basically become immune to papercuts. I worked in one for 6 years, thats how I know this.

@@kjbopper34vv22 i was thinking that. it seems only the privileged get papercuts

@@kjbopper34vv22 yup, cardboard cuts were worse than the paper!

My Dad and uncles worked at the Times on 43rd street for many years

Missing the sound of the printing machine (Harris) at the Philippine Journalists, Inc., publisher of Peoples Journal and Times Journal.

@@paullavery4030 Hi! Fellow New York Times baby, my dad worked the "Old" building too.

@@thelaughingtiger146 my father’s name is Ray and uncle’s name Danny- my brother and I tried getting on the shape list over night but never panned out

search for "farewell etaoin shrdlu". it's about the times' transition from lettertype to phototype

This really cleared my conscious. As satisfying as it was my heart was dying inside by my environmental conscious. But this comment made me feel better. Thank you.

While everything is now available online, print will still occur, just less frequently.

@@Tripps2564 Yes they do, they're called packagings and labels! and thats where the majority of income for most commercial press come from nowadays. Textbooks also account for a large sector of the printing industry.

@@avcomth Will textbooks fade away via ipad use you think?

@@Tripps2564 Yes they will, but not until the next century I guess. Any print media not requiring physical presence (eg. a box package) will ultimately be digitise and accessed via tablets/computers in the future.

You heard that, they were going to be recycled

Absolutely

Looks like you need to practice your English skills too lol 😆

I work at a printing press I can literally send you some😂😂

The Network Times wants to know your location 😂🤠

Hi Ricardo If have any vacant positions of Ctp job please contact me

I heard that people who work in printing presses have to get blood test to check for leukemia all the time because there's an increased risk of it because of the benzine in the ink. Is that still true?

​@@Melissa0774I worked at a printing company for almost 10 years and I've never heard of that.

@@bigsistruck Maybe they don't use benzine, anymore? That stuff is a pretty nasty carcinogen that known to cause leukemia. I was just going off of something I saw someone say in a comment section under a video about Jehovah's Witnesses and how they work for free, sometimes for decades, at their facility in New York, called Bethel. It's the place where they run the whole religion from and print all their books and magazines. It's a facility that's basically like a commune, where the people live there and grow all their own food and try to be as self sufficient as possible and they only get paid like $20 per week for toiletries and outside food and stuff. Some people volunteer there for a few weeks and others may live there for their whole life. The video was about how the religion is a cult and the people are brainwashed. The person in the comment section was saying how you'd have to be brainwashed to work in a printing press for free because of the cancer risk and the need for all the blood test. I don't remember which video it is, or I'd link it.

Or you could just join Tinder.

NYT IS A TOILET PAPER ACTUALLY 🤣. BAISED NEWS PAPER

Good question

Exactly, just watch the News

@Thani Almarzooqi not everyone will switch like baby boomers

Newsprint is a nearly 100% recycled product. Everytime paper is recycled the fibers get shorter and shorter until they can no longer be used, newsprint is the lowest quality paper product meaning that it's one of the only places those short fibers can be used.

@Thani Almarzooqi you clearly don't know about the 50 million tons of e-waste dumped each year. Remove one problem and we are left with another

It's just a matter of keeping the machines calibrated correctly.

The plates are all assigned different colors so the colors are being applied one color at a time not just all at once they also are consistently being monitored by the pressmen to make sure that everything is coming out nicely and if not they make adjustments to the ink to correct the color

So the plates are fat and alcohol based and depending on negative or positive the one color sticks to the palate which then touches the paper

They print color photos and ads using four inks: Cyan (Light Blue) Magenta (Pinkish Red) Yellow and Black. The paper passes between four sets of printing cylinders, one for each color of ink. Control of what is called "register" - the perfect placing of each color on top of the preceding color - is done by controlling paper tension as the web of paper passes between the units, and by micro adjustments of the plate cylinder themselves. The video didn't say so, but the inked image is transferred from the plates they showed us to a second cylinder which is covered tightly with a rubber "blanket". It is the blanket cylinder which presses the ink onto the paper under pressure. Actually, two blanket cylinders press against each other, with the paper passing between, thus printing both sides of the web at the same time. A mild detergent-type solution keeps the non image area of the plate clean, while the ink sticks only to the image. Balancing this "ink and water" combination is another thing that the press crew must control throughout the run. Even with modern digital controls, which enable remote control from a central location (they used to have to chase the adjustments by running up to each individual press unit) it is a highly skilled job. At 80,000 copies an hour, a lot can go wrong in just seconds if the crews are't watching closely. Some really, really modern press rooms have laser cameras installed to constantly monitor the quality, but that is still pretty rare in newspaper work.I respect what they do immensely. (Full disclosure- I am retired from 40 years in commercial printing, mostly sheet fed rather than roll fed presses.)

@@KGSnow2 thanks for the in depth answer! Much appreciated from the perspective of a mechanical engineer that came here looking to learn about the fine detailed plates and how they transfer the image. somewhat similar to the mold steel i design to create features in plastic injection molded parts

the trees used to make papers arent the most lovely trees out there. plus, the lumber companies replant them, because if they don't, they'll be out of business

@@gasun1274 it makes me sad you missed the point so badly.

@@andriipopa23 1 time in 8 years,

some people want nostalgia

I like it though, and it employs so many people

not all people are you, and reading physical newspapers is a phenomenal experience

Because being a slave to your phone is only normal if you allow it to be.

Inertia, people keep reading the newspaper on paper, because that's how they have always done it. Keep in mind, lots of people don't even have smartphones and don't really use internet more than absolutely necessary, that's often people in their 40ies, 50ies not old timers ticking out their last years. If people have done something a certain way for decades they are not going to spontaneously reevaluate and start doing it a different way just because times has moved on by several decades.

Probably best not to comment on subjects you have no knowledge of. Look up FSC

The problem is the aluminium is worth $. No one keeps old plates, they sell them.

Lithography

People just comment on things they have no knowledge of 😂

@@jimbrown4456 ipso facto😎

Yet digital still cannot compete with lithography in terms of speed, quality and cost. Lithography will be here for a long time.

How's it going? I worked in a print shop for 6 years and the place was like a blackmore, they pay you just enough to keep you there and to survive but you never make a real living

Not trying to burst your bubble but if you are young I would strongly advise against it as career choice, traditional print is dying a slow but steady death.

​@@jk-qf3ltthat is completely untrue 😂 print is thriving. Packaging, books etc will always require it.

The employee would disagree

A lot longer than 3 years 😂

They aren’t unfortunately…

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It's the same process as the black. There are separate plates for each color(cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). The plates have images for their part of the complete image(Google 4 color process). The plates are then placed on their own units with the corresponding color of ink. Then, all the units are turned on and the ink is placed on the paper That's the simple, not too technical way it's done.

Black or key plate,cyan ,magenta and yellow plates make up almost all colour printed material

True

he is a very beautiful man like god damn.

he also is my beautiful boyfriend

Im guessing they do, or in some cases they get recycled multiple times before they end up again at the printing presses again.

They can be, anything from new newspaper, toilet paper, paper towels, and eventually once the fibers are too short to have recycled again, it’s biodegradable, and can be used to grow new trees

real _ saaim boomers

That facility prints the NY Times, Newsday and USA Today.

it’s all recycled paper fun fact!

Box Herold I don’t think you did because that doesn’t happen