Stop the Presses - literally - in Charlottesville

[Moderator1]

Moved printing operations to Richmond, press room people out of work in C-ville.

http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/daily_progress_moves_printing_to_richmond_facility/24475/

 

[imjustagirl]

Damn.

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

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 ...

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

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

 

[Cosmo]

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

 

[imjustagirl]

Yeah, but you're in BFE. :D

 

[lesboulez]

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

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

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

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) ...

 

[tapintoamerica]

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?

 

[dixiehack]

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

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) ...

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.

 

[Sean Smyth]

Another thing because I'm clueless: What is the technology that allows the pages to be transferred to the satellite printing site?

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.

 

[forever_town]

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.

 

[Sean Smyth]

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.

I was wrong on my previous comment about the print guys totally being hands-off -- they usually did check over the folios pretty well, and they were adept at doing whatever surgery was needed on the page to get a good folio on there. But that (and making sure the registration wasn't off a ton) was the extent of it.

 

[imjustagirl]

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

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) ...

Dude, I work in RICHMOND and our deadline is 11:30 p.m.

 

[forever_town]

I guess I'm lucky. I've had guys change refers when I've forgotten to (such as "See XXXX page 12" to "See XXXX page 16").

I thanked the guy for doing that. He was shocked.

 

[Tarheel316]

I'm at an NYT shop and we send our pages via FTP server. We approve them online. As far as checking copies fresh off the press for errors, that isn't an option anymore. That went away when we moved from a PM to AM cycle and the press was sold. We do, however, have a 2 a.m. deadline.

 

[Herky_Jerky]

Wow, I've only been the business for about 4.5 years, but this is already my second former paper that has stopped printing on site.

This sucks. I got out of Charlottesville just in time. Things have been going downhill there all year long.

What's interesting is that we used to print the Waynesboro paper at our site as well. Their deadline was something like 10:40 and ours was 11:15 or something (I don't quite remember).

I can only imagine what will happen to those deadlines now.

All I can say is that I'm glad I'm not with MG anymore and I feel sorry for those who still are.

 

[shotglass]

We print five miles off-site, and never see the actual newspaper before leaving.

We've done certain things to try to alleviate the problems that come from that. Not only do we proof our sports pages, we have somebody on the news copy desk look at them before we release them, too.

And we have a news editor at the press site each night whose job is to catch things as the plates arrive.

 

[SportsGuyBCK]

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

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) ...

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.

What's the use in putting out a paper (especially one with a sports section) with a deadline that early?

 

[shotglass]

Well, there are a lot of people in glass offices who believe that if you've got the news of the day in place, you've got yourself a newspaper. That you can live without late sports results.

Sad, but true.