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.
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...
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.