Processing the film and operating the “big”
camera are jobs handled by Mark Good. With
pictures taken of each page of the paper, he takes
the 18'/4x23 inch negatives and makes plates used
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Brenda Stackler sets the computer in motion to transfer the stories from mini
disks to film for processing.
where the newspaper is given
shape and form.
Kay Gibble and Michele Heller
at the paste-up tables create
display ads to meet the specifics
needs of advertisers.
In the computer room, Terri
Myers and Tara Easterbrook's
fingers fly across the keyboards
of their mini-disk terminals while
they set type from typewritten
pages. Brenda Stackler con
centrates on running the copy she
has just set through the Uni-Setter
hr, a computer which reads the
disks and puts the type on film.
Ellen Wolfe develops the film
produced by the typesetting
computer by running it through
another machine called an
Ektamatic Processor. The copy is
dried and is ready for paste up.
Now, news and advertising
material mesh under the skillful
hands of Tom Otis, printshop /
foreman. Space is alotted for ads.
News headlines and stories are
joined with the proper pictures
and cutlines and together are
pasted onto individual pages
the paper begins to grow. Mark
Good, who does most of the film
processing with some help from
Nancy Kapanka, also runs the big
copy camera (it makes our 35mm
Minoltas look like toys). This
camera takes a picture of the
pasted-up page and produces an
18 by 23 inch negative.
This negative of the page is then
opaqued with a pen to remove any
unsightly blotches from the film.
And through a complex process, a
plate is made from the negative.
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Myers, left, and Tara Ea&erbrook in their task of
getting the ads and news in print.
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These plates, where the letters
in the newsprint are burned out,
will chemically attract the ink as
the paper is rolled out on the
press. This modern cold type
method has replaced the old
linotype method.
From Wednesday until Friday
morning, the process is repeated
perhaps 160 times. As each sec
tion is completed, the plates are
mounted on me press.
It takes three to four hours to
print each section of the paper
and about 11 rolls of paper, each
weighing about 1000 pounds. An
average week sees 22 tons of
paper inked .into the pages of
Lancaster Fanning.
When the final section is printed
on Friday morning, the paper is
ready to be put together in the
order the-sections were printed.
The inserting, labeling, and
bundling of the papers by zip code
for mailing take about eight
hours.
The first sacks of mail con
taining papers that have to travel
the greatest distance are at the
Lancaster Post Office by 3:30 on
Friday afternoon. Four 21-foot
truckloads of papers travel to the
post office, with the last load
arriving there shortly after 8 p.m.
Twenty-two people work like
crazy in at the printing press
every Friday to insure your paper
gets to you as quickly as possible.
They include: George Plowfield,
Paul Stober, Mildred DeWald,
Virginia Bowman, Charles
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around the ads as he pastes up each page of the paper.
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processes the film and spreads it out on the dryer.
The copy, after proofreading, is ready for paste-up.
Each section of Lancaster Farming flies through
the press in about 3Vz hours.
Bowman, Vanessa Buckwalter,
Linda Lee Roth, Pat Weik, Debbie
Plowfield, Pat Colbert, Barbara
Ross, Ruth Wolgemuth, Naomi
Shelly, Ruth Haines, Del Brough,
John Menoskey, Harry Hogen
togler, Todd Miller, Dorothy
Luttman, Debbie Collins, Marion
Shenk, Ann Miller, and Eunice
Hess.
The tour would not be complete
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