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What an incredible industrial process. So many people involved, and that was just the type-setting and printing. Incredible pressure too where if the product do

by scoot 4y ago

What an incredible industrial process. So many people involved, and that was just the type-setting and printing. Incredible pressure too where if the product doesn't make it to market in time, the key morning sales window is missed, and the product becomes obsolete. I wonder what happened to all this machinery in the end? It was mentioned that it would be auctioned, but I can't imagine the buyer continued to operate this process for much longer. It would be nice to think that they're still operational in a museum somewhere, albeit without the scale and pressure of deadlines.

mold_aid 4y ago
The Columbus Dispatch's lino was in their building, still, as of last year, looking for a museum home. A bunch are in museums - the problem with this machinery and stuff like Heidelbergs and C&Ps is that they were all made around the turn of the century in cast iron and weigh a ton. In the 2000s there was a huge craze to refurbish the old machines and a lot are in cozy print shops, their sizes really useful for greeting cards and wedding invitations. But they're hard to move, maintain, provide adequate ventilation for, get parts for...
acadapter 4y ago
>I wonder what happened to all this machinery in the end? Perhaps it was exported to countries that couldn't afford the latest technology? There is for example a coal mine in Bosnia that is known among train enthusiasts, because it uses steam locomotives from WWII.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  > a coal mine in Bosnia that is known among train enthusiasts https://www.farrail.com/pages/touren-engl/bosnia-kriegslok-steam-2010.php https://www.farrail.com/pages/touren-engl/bosnia-kriegslok-s... > Perhaps it was exported to countries that couldn't afford the latest technology? In 1978 that could been happened. By the '90s nobody would bother, though.

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What an incredible industrial process. So many people involved, and that was just the type-setting and printing. Incredible pressure too where if the product do

by scoot 4y ago

mold_aid 4y ago
The Columbus Dispatch's lino was in their building, still, as of last year, looking for a museum home. A bunch are in museums - the problem with this machinery and stuff like Heidelbergs and C&Ps is that they were all made around the turn of the century in cast iron and weigh a ton. In the 2000s there was a huge craze to refurbish the old machines and a lot are in cozy print shops, their sizes really useful for greeting cards and wedding invitations. But they're hard to move, maintain, provide adequate ventilation for, get parts for...
acadapter 4y ago
>I wonder what happened to all this machinery in the end? Perhaps it was exported to countries that couldn't afford the latest technology? There is for example a coal mine in Bosnia that is known among train enthusiasts, because it uses steam locomotives from WWII.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  > a coal mine in Bosnia that is known among train enthusiasts https://www.farrail.com/pages/touren-engl/bosnia-kriegslok-steam-2010.php https://www.farrail.com/pages/touren-engl/bosnia-kriegslok-s... > Perhaps it was exported to countries that couldn't afford the latest technology? In 1978 that could been happened. By the '90s nobody would bother, though.