[HN Gopher] How a Book Is Made - Ink, Paper and a 200k-Pound Pri... ___________________________________________________________________ How a Book Is Made - Ink, Paper and a 200k-Pound Printer Author : pseudolus Score : 57 points Date : 2022-02-20 16:51 UTC (6 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com) | russellbeattie wrote: | Heh. In the early 90s I studied journalism and graphic design at | college, and interned at a small town newspaper in the summers. | It was a great learning opportunity - I did everything from | writing stories to selling ads to helping run the giant press, | including plating, inking and manhandling the 800lb rolls of | newsprint onto the machine. | | Then I went into tech, specifically the web, and literally | haven't seen a press in person or stepped into a newsroom since | then. If I could, I would go back in time and transfer to UIUC in | 1992 instead and go help Marc and Eric develop Mosaic, but what | can you do? | | Anyways, as someone who has done the dirty job (The ink! The ink! | Everywhere!) of printing, I really have no illusions about the | long lost art of book making going away. It's an inefficient, | dirty, dangerous, wasteful business that is, honestly at this | point, simply making more landfill. | mastazi wrote: | > wasteful business that is, honestly at this point, simply | making more landfill. | | I'm pretty sure that, on average, web pages rot much faster | than the time it takes a book to reach the landfill. I have | lots of books that I got used, many of them for free. There is | probably a book exchange in your city as well, look it up. | neonate wrote: | https://archive.is/DDeA1 | lai-yin wrote: | My aunt, recently retired from the printing industry, has regaled | me with many tales of the intricacies and complications she went | through to print everything from Harry Potter to Jocko Willink. | Kindles were also banned from entering her home. | TuLithu wrote: | While I appreciate you sharing this article, my free reads on New | York Times have long been used up, and I don't plan to buy a | subscription. But I've been to a book "factory" at Anadolu | University in Eskisehir, Turkey. The printers ARE huge! | elorant wrote: | Just delete the cookies | dylan604 wrote: | shhh, it's a secret!!! | gordon_freeman wrote: | check out if your local library allows a 1 or 3-day passes of | NYTimes digital, for example LAPL [1] and Berkley PL [2] allows | something like this: | | [1] https://www.lapl.org/new-york-times-digital | | [2] | https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/explore/elibrary/new-y... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-20 23:00 UTC)