Got a new printer

[Major Nikon]

[HopeHoops]

1. You might want to consider downsizing that a bit. Photoshop can help.

[Major Nikon]

2. How do you think I got into this mess?

[HopeHoops]

4. I'm guessing either pot, booze, prostitutes, or an affiliation with the rMoney campaign.

Any of those will fuck you up in a MAJOR way.

[jakeXT]

3. Does size matter?

[HopeHoops]

5. That's chicken shit. I've been in newspaper printing press caverns that stretched for miles.

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]

6. There's something romantic about those old Linotypes with the cast-lead slugs

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]

8. Yeah, that's how Benjamin Franklin did it, and up through the '70's it was the same.

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]

7. Finally a printer that can make a butt look small!

Did you try it out yet?