Stop the Presses - literally - in Charlottesville

Damn.

 

Not the first MG paper to go this route -- a bunch of the North Carolina papers do this -- and I bet this won't be the last ...

 

The story says print quality will improve. But will the deadlines? Oh ... you want to know what happened last night?

 

My MG shop just built a $27 million press, so I'm assuming we won't be going this route any time soon.

 

Yeah, but you're in BFE.

 

man, that was one of my dream jobs growing up...had my first byline with the DP... :'(

 

Yeah ... I worked in an MG shop that printed off-site, and we had to fight and beg for an 11:30 p.m. deadline to get the Friday night high school football games in ... since I left, they switched this paper's printing to another MG paper, and they now have a drop-dead, no-exceptions 11 p.m. deadline (and it wouldn't surprise me if that gets moved up soon) ...

 

Here's a practical question: Who will read the Progress after it comes off the T-D presses to check for errors in registration or typos or other issues? Will it be a T-D employee?
Another thing because I'm clueless: What is the technology that allows the pages to be transferred to the satellite printing site?

 

Cry me a flippin' river. When I worked for MG in Marianna, Fla., we printed 45 minutes up the road in Dothan, Ala. Deadline was 9:30 Central time.

 

In college, we used an FTP server to move PDFs of pages to our print site, then they burned the plates there. And, no, we had no one checking pages for us there. Once it left our building, it was out of our hands.

 

We do something similar to that at my shop now. Though some of the people there have caught mistakes in folios and whatnot.