The Concord Monitor has written a
paean of sorts to its soon-to-be-retired flexomatic press, a source of pride to
the paper when the press made its debut decades ago.
“With this
issue, the Monitor introduces a high-tech printing press with some
down-to-earth advantages,” said a staff-written article in the March 5, 1990,
edition of the paper. Along with the article came a half-page illustration of
the path that newsprint follows as it goes through the press and a picture of
the new machine.
“We have to
use a roll of tape to keep the pressure on … and keep the ink in,” said Roger
Sullivan, distribution director, in the article by the Monitor’s David Brooks.
Despite this, the press still runs pretty well, according to one pressman.
The press
has produced more than 10,500 editions of the Monitor at up to 18,000 copies an hour,
along with tens of thousands of editions of other papers, advertising inserts
and numerous commercial jobs, the paper said.
It’s not
yet set when the press will retire. It’s still in use for occasional
supplemental runs. The machine will probably be sold for scrap metal, the story
said.
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