[HN Gopher] How a Book Is Made - Ink, Paper and a 200k-Pound Pri...
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       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...
        
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