Union-Tribune joins 21st Century

Last major daily to paste-up pages moves to computerized pagination in November.

http://www.newsandtech.com/issues/2009/Sept/09-09_uniontribune-pagination.htm

 

This will, of course, probably mean the loss of more production people's jobs...

It's the human price of technology/advancement.

 

Wow, it's been 14 years since I last worked there, and I assumed they had already done away with the paste-up. Even my current 20,000 circulation shop hasn't had paste-up for years.

I feel bad for any production people that lose their jobs over this, but they had to know this was coming sooner or later.

 

Wow... I had no idea. Most of the papers made this switch at least a decade ago.

 

This actually saddens me, to be honest. I spent a lot of great, and stressful, times in composing rooms.

 

SFE:

Me, too. Armed with a trusty pica pole and the light blue felt pen whose ink wouldn't show up in the photographic process. Ah, yes. Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end.

 

It truly is the end of an era.

Do recent grads even know what a pica pole is? Have they ever used one?

 

Those light blue pens were like gold. You had to hold on to them at our place, because someone would steal them.

 

Border tape.

 

I still have the first pica pole I ever used sitting in my desk drawer. I pull it out at least once a night to use it - as a back scratcher.

 

Pica pole use at my place is solely for cutting cake.