Recycled paper turns into newspaper because it is low quality and can be made from the short fibres of mulched paper. Plus, it's nothing compared to the amount of paper used to wipe noses, and other orifices.
@Kerry Robb those machines that process are so amazing, I wonder how they're designed and built in order to get the desired result. Do you know anything about it?
After working 10 yrs on a printing press between 1990-2005 all I can can say it wasn't fun, the crew I worked with good. It was alot of hard work and very messy, oil, grease & ink everywhere but very well paying job after the press I moved to the warehouse and drove a clamp truck.
I remember the press room of the Times in 1965, I was very young. My Dad was an engineer for the Times. It was a huge room filled with machinery and moving parts, newspapers whirling around huge drums. The clacking and noise was bedlam. I can't describe the noise, it was so loud and terrifying. It definitely was a dangerous place, not like this plant at all! I am here because my memory was jogged about it. I was hoping I could find a video of it during the 60s or further back. When life was much more dangerous.
I am into the printing and publication business. I can tell you that the trees they use for newsprint are planted. And the newspaper are recycled into paperboard and toilet papers we buy from supermarkets. Also, since the age of the internet newspaper circulation have dropped dramatically, and that it won't be much longer before everything goes online.
This really cleared my conscious. As satisfying as it was my heart was dying inside by my environmental conscious. But this comment made me feel better. Thank you.
@@Tripps2564 Yes they do, they're called packagings and labels! and thats where the majority of income for most commercial press come from nowadays. Textbooks also account for a large sector of the printing industry.
@@Tripps2564 Yes they will, but not until the next century I guess. Any print media not requiring physical presence (eg. a box package) will ultimately be digitise and accessed via tablets/computers in the future.
Actual newspaper question - how do they print color images so fast? I can understand black ink stamping the plates and going to the paper but how do they keep the colored images so nice and neat?
The plates are all assigned different colors so the colors are being applied one color at a time not just all at once they also are consistently being monitored by the pressmen to make sure that everything is coming out nicely and if not they make adjustments to the ink to correct the color
They print color photos and ads using four inks: Cyan (Light Blue) Magenta (Pinkish Red) Yellow and Black. The paper passes between four sets of printing cylinders, one for each color of ink. Control of what is called "register" - the perfect placing of each color on top of the preceding color - is done by controlling paper tension as the web of paper passes between the units, and by micro adjustments of the plate cylinder themselves. The video didn't say so, but the inked image is transferred from the plates they showed us to a second cylinder which is covered tightly with a rubber "blanket". It is the blanket cylinder which presses the ink onto the paper under pressure. Actually, two blanket cylinders press against each other, with the paper passing between, thus printing both sides of the web at the same time. A mild detergent-type solution keeps the non image area of the plate clean, while the ink sticks only to the image. Balancing this "ink and water" combination is another thing that the press crew must control throughout the run. Even with modern digital controls, which enable remote control from a central location (they used to have to chase the adjustments by running up to each individual press unit) it is a highly skilled job. At 80,000 copies an hour, a lot can go wrong in just seconds if the crews are't watching closely. Some really, really modern press rooms have laser cameras installed to constantly monitor the quality, but that is still pretty rare in newspaper work.I respect what they do immensely. (Full disclosure- I am retired from 40 years in commercial printing, mostly sheet fed rather than roll fed presses.)
@@KGSnow2 thanks for the in depth answer! Much appreciated from the perspective of a mechanical engineer that came here looking to learn about the fine detailed plates and how they transfer the image. somewhat similar to the mold steel i design to create features in plastic injection molded parts
Your show revealed something that I wanted to know, and that is how the news articles, pictures, and other non-text graphics are arranged. I appreciate modern computer technology and am impressed to see that those elements are done on microcomputers before they are compiled onto boilerplates in another department. That network really amazes me.
I heard that people who work in printing presses have to get blood test to check for leukemia all the time because there's an increased risk of it because of the benzine in the ink. Is that still true?
@@bigsistruck Maybe they don't use benzine, anymore? That stuff is a pretty nasty carcinogen that known to cause leukemia. I was just going off of something I saw someone say in a comment section under a video about Jehovah's Witnesses and how they work for free, sometimes for decades, at their facility in New York, called Bethel. It's the place where they run the whole religion from and print all their books and magazines. It's a facility that's basically like a commune, where the people live there and grow all their own food and try to be as self sufficient as possible and they only get paid like $20 per week for toiletries and outside food and stuff. Some people volunteer there for a few weeks and others may live there for their whole life. The video was about how the religion is a cult and the people are brainwashed. The person in the comment section was saying how you'd have to be brainwashed to work in a printing press for free because of the cancer risk and the need for all the blood test. I don't remember which video it is, or I'd link it.
Newsprint is a nearly 100% recycled product. Everytime paper is recycled the fibers get shorter and shorter until they can no longer be used, newsprint is the lowest quality paper product meaning that it's one of the only places those short fibers can be used.
Inertia, people keep reading the newspaper on paper, because that's how they have always done it. Keep in mind, lots of people don't even have smartphones and don't really use internet more than absolutely necessary, that's often people in their 40ies, 50ies not old timers ticking out their last years. If people have done something a certain way for decades they are not going to spontaneously reevaluate and start doing it a different way just because times has moved on by several decades.
My graphic arts teacher used to be the one to get the news and travel to get information and have to have it back in hours to seconds before it was published. He said it was crazy stressful
the trees used to make papers arent the most lovely trees out there. plus, the lumber companies replant them, because if they don't, they'll be out of business
What software are they using for designing the layout, typography, etc? Is it proprietary or has the publishing industry fully transitioned to desktop publishing and using off-the-shelf consumer software?
So many trees cut for a media practically no one under 40 years old reads, while everyone from 0 to 100 years old has TV, or at least another option to get informed than paper.
I helped install new color printers here! Took them out of the Tennessean in Nashville, cleaned them up, sent them to new york, showed up and put them in!
How's it going? I worked in a print shop for 6 years and the place was like a blackmore, they pay you just enough to keep you there and to survive but you never make a real living
Not trying to burst your bubble but if you are young I would strongly advise against it as career choice, traditional print is dying a slow but steady death.
But how does the color ink work? Would they need to have a machine place the ink specifically in the right place? I mean if it's black and white paper it wouldn't be that hard, but I'm interested in how color works
It's the same process as the black. There are separate plates for each color(cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). The plates have images for their part of the complete image(Google 4 color process). The plates are then placed on their own units with the corresponding color of ink. Then, all the units are turned on and the ink is placed on the paper That's the simple, not too technical way it's done.
They can be, anything from new newspaper, toilet paper, paper towels, and eventually once the fibers are too short to have recycled again, it’s biodegradable, and can be used to grow new trees
Meanwhile, multiple clips in the video of the printing happening show copies of NEWSDAY being printed (ex. workers checking pages for errors coming off the press - those pages are Newsday, not the NYT)
Whatever one thinks of “The Times,” watching hundreds of highly skilled people come together with spilt second timing is astonishing. Witnessing a daily fly off a Goss Metroliner is the pinnacle of mechanical things, at least equal to the International Space Station. My opinion.
1:50 see how the only ink on the page is blue? Basically the page will be printed with another plate with the color magenta, then again with yellow, and the layering will mix the colors. Then the text and any black is printed
Imagine printing and pressing papers back in 1800s with manual presses with metal dies that you gotta load with ink and press each artjcle headline and lkcture seperately
Newspapers are dying because 1) You can the news faster on your phone and computer, and 2) You can get more in depth coverage when a well researched book is published. Newspapers are mediocre on both counts.
This ks a crazy feat that this is dkne by hundreds of news papers all over the counntry. My mom and dad own the last news paper that is read every Wednesday by ppl in my city and towns all around. I'm the head sales guy that sells the ad spaces for the paper and we have 120k plus readers thats how many papers are bought every Wednesday. We dont do the printing our self we have a conpany that does it for us.
That’s so much paper every day...makes you think how many of these newspapers go to waste
hoovesonearth a lot less than back in the days
A lot of them are recycled
95%
Recycled paper turns into newspaper because it is low quality and can be made from the short fibres of mulched paper. Plus, it's nothing compared to the amount of paper used to wipe noses, and other orifices.
Ok boomer
I just started my new job as a printing press operator apprentice... I’ve never had more interest and fun with a job in my entire life.
I worked in a printing plant in the press and bindery for almost 10 years, it could be a tough job but it never ceased to amaze me.
@Kerry Robb those machines that process are so amazing, I wonder how they're designed and built in order to get the desired result. Do you know anything about it?
@@dagreatgibson7957a lot of machinery and engineering is designed on software called “Autodesk” that’s worth checking out
After working 10 yrs on a printing press between 1990-2005 all I can can say it wasn't fun, the crew I worked with good.
It was alot of hard work and very messy, oil, grease & ink everywhere but very well paying job after the press I moved to the warehouse and drove a clamp truck.
Print is dead! Don't waste too much time with it...
All we need to know is where they got the papers from and do they have their own plantation to plant their own trees?
Is it me or does NY Times look like a giant roll of toilet paper in the video, and doesn't the print looks like a giant skid mark or what?
Newsprint's almost entirely recycled
They probably but it from a paper company, and paper companies are self sustaining cuz if they weren’t, they’d go out of business
they got it from dunder miflin
I worked 20 years for them, we would go out at night and randomly cut down trees everywhere. Had to cut everyday to get the paper out.
0:20 how did he not get a paper cut
Ikr like damn
He isn’t touching the edge, only the surface of the paper. He’s probably gotten quite a few however
I used to work on such a machine and if you do not touch the sharp edge you will be fine. But again.. you will have many many papercuts.
0:22 daym that would be the most legendary papercut if he slips. He be playing with the devil at this point.
That hurts to watching it...😬😅
When you work long enough in a print shop your hands basically become immune to papercuts. I worked in one for 6 years, thats how I know this.
@@kjbopper34vv22 i was thinking that. it seems only the privileged get papercuts
@@kjbopper34vv22 yup, cardboard cuts were worse than the paper!
I remember the press room of the Times in 1965, I was very young. My Dad was an engineer for the Times. It was a huge room filled with machinery and moving parts, newspapers whirling around huge drums. The clacking and noise was bedlam. I can't describe the noise, it was so loud and terrifying. It definitely was a dangerous place, not like this plant at all! I am here because my memory was jogged about it. I was hoping I could find a video of it during the 60s or further back. When life was much more dangerous.
My Dad and uncles worked at the Times on 43rd street for many years
Missing the sound of the printing machine (Harris) at the Philippine Journalists, Inc., publisher of Peoples Journal and Times Journal.
@@paullavery4030 Hi! Fellow New York Times baby, my dad worked the "Old" building too.
@@thelaughingtiger146 my father’s name is Ray and uncle’s name Danny- my brother and I tried getting on the shape list over night but never panned out
search for "farewell etaoin shrdlu". it's about the times' transition from lettertype to phototype
As a former paperboy who delivered the "Daily News" as a teenager living on Staten Island,I can appreciate this. Thanks. 😎✌
I can appreciate how much work goes into this.
I am into the printing and publication business. I can tell you that the trees they use for newsprint are planted. And the newspaper are recycled into paperboard and toilet papers we buy from supermarkets. Also, since the age of the internet newspaper circulation have dropped dramatically, and that it won't be much longer before everything goes online.
This really cleared my conscious. As satisfying as it was my heart was dying inside by my environmental conscious. But this comment made me feel better. Thank you.
While everything is now available online, print will still occur, just less frequently.
@@Tripps2564 Yes they do, they're called packagings and labels! and thats where the majority of income for most commercial press come from nowadays. Textbooks also account for a large sector of the printing industry.
@@avcomth Will textbooks fade away via ipad use you think?
@@Tripps2564 Yes they will, but not until the next century I guess. Any print media not requiring physical presence (eg. a box package) will ultimately be digitise and accessed via tablets/computers in the future.
I want that damage part of the roll for practising maths
You heard that, they were going to be recycled
Absolutely
Looks like you need to practice your English skills too lol 😆
I work at a printing press I can literally send you some😂😂
The Network Times wants to know your location 😂🤠
I need a roll of toilet paper like that!
Or you could just join Tinder.
NYT IS A TOILET PAPER ACTUALLY 🤣. BAISED NEWS PAPER
The New York Times is just a giant toilet paper roll.
Actual newspaper question - how do they print color images so fast? I can understand black ink stamping the plates and going to the paper but how do they keep the colored images so nice and neat?
It's just a matter of keeping the machines calibrated correctly.
The plates are all assigned different colors so the colors are being applied one color at a time not just all at once they also are consistently being monitored by the pressmen to make sure that everything is coming out nicely and if not they make adjustments to the ink to correct the color
So the plates are fat and alcohol based and depending on negative or positive the one color sticks to the palate which then touches the paper
They print color photos and ads using four inks: Cyan (Light Blue) Magenta (Pinkish Red) Yellow and Black. The paper passes between four sets of printing cylinders, one for each color of ink. Control of what is called "register" - the perfect placing of each color on top of the preceding color - is done by controlling paper tension as the web of paper passes between the units, and by micro adjustments of the plate cylinder themselves. The video didn't say so, but the inked image is transferred from the plates they showed us to a second cylinder which is covered tightly with a rubber "blanket". It is the blanket cylinder which presses the ink onto the paper under pressure. Actually, two blanket cylinders press against each other, with the paper passing between, thus printing both sides of the web at the same time. A mild detergent-type solution keeps the non image area of the plate clean, while the ink sticks only to the image. Balancing this "ink and water" combination is another thing that the press crew must control throughout the run. Even with modern digital controls, which enable remote control from a central location (they used to have to chase the adjustments by running up to each individual press unit) it is a highly skilled job. At 80,000 copies an hour, a lot can go wrong in just seconds if the crews are't watching closely. Some really, really modern press rooms have laser cameras installed to constantly monitor the quality, but that is still pretty rare in newspaper work.I respect what they do immensely. (Full disclosure- I am retired from 40 years in commercial printing, mostly sheet fed rather than roll fed presses.)
@@KGSnow2 thanks for the in depth answer! Much appreciated from the perspective of a mechanical engineer that came here looking to learn about the fine detailed plates and how they transfer the image. somewhat similar to the mold steel i design to create features in plastic injection molded parts
Your show revealed something that I wanted to know, and that is how the news articles, pictures, and other non-text graphics are arranged. I appreciate modern computer technology and am impressed to see that those elements are done on microcomputers before they are compiled onto boilerplates in another department. That network really amazes me.
I also work at a printing plant and I must say there is a lot more to it than a person would ever guess,an awesome job honestly.😁
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I heard that people who work in printing presses have to get blood test to check for leukemia all the time because there's an increased risk of it because of the benzine in the ink. Is that still true?
@@Melissa0774I worked at a printing company for almost 10 years and I've never heard of that.
@@bigsistruck Maybe they don't use benzine, anymore? That stuff is a pretty nasty carcinogen that known to cause leukemia. I was just going off of something I saw someone say in a comment section under a video about Jehovah's Witnesses and how they work for free, sometimes for decades, at their facility in New York, called Bethel. It's the place where they run the whole religion from and print all their books and magazines. It's a facility that's basically like a commune, where the people live there and grow all their own food and try to be as self sufficient as possible and they only get paid like $20 per week for toiletries and outside food and stuff. Some people volunteer there for a few weeks and others may live there for their whole life. The video was about how the religion is a cult and the people are brainwashed. The person in the comment section was saying how you'd have to be brainwashed to work in a printing press for free because of the cancer risk and the need for all the blood test. I don't remember which video it is, or I'd link it.
Why cutting thousands of trees for a 10 minute newspaper reading?
Good question
Exactly, just watch the News
@Thani Almarzooqi not everyone will switch like baby boomers
Newsprint is a nearly 100% recycled product. Everytime paper is recycled the fibers get shorter and shorter until they can no longer be used, newsprint is the lowest quality paper product meaning that it's one of the only places those short fibers can be used.
There’s 3 trillion trees on the planet buddy.
why is this still a thing u can read the news as it happens on your phone
some people want nostalgia
I like it though, and it employs so many people
not all people are you, and reading physical newspapers is a phenomenal experience
Because being a slave to your phone is only normal if you allow it to be.
Inertia, people keep reading the newspaper on paper, because that's how they have always done it. Keep in mind, lots of people don't even have smartphones and don't really use internet more than absolutely necessary, that's often people in their 40ies, 50ies not old timers ticking out their last years. If people have done something a certain way for decades they are not going to spontaneously reevaluate and start doing it a different way just because times has moved on by several decades.
I'm a retired pressman after 47 years Pittsburgh Press, Dallas Times Herald, Los Angeles Times and more. Kind of sad to see so many papers die.
Worked on a Goss Metro Liner at the Chicago Tribune late 80's. They had 10, 10 unit presses.
Imagine how many paper cuts you can get there
@@sebastiantookthis 1 time in 8 years,
not me watching a ton of videos of newspaper factories so i can recreate one accurately in minecraft
Great video! 🏆
Thanks.
My graphic arts teacher used to be the one to get the news and travel to get information and have to have it back in hours to seconds before it was published. He said it was crazy stressful
thank you for providing us such incredible informations through all your amazing efforts. God protect y'all
Lovely piece of doc!
"Lovely trees turned into information... about nothing." ~ Alan Watts, 1971
the trees used to make papers arent the most lovely trees out there. plus, the lumber companies replant them, because if they don't, they'll be out of business
@@gasun1274 it makes me sad you missed the point so badly.
Irony is: this video was not uploaded by the new york times
What software are they’re using to create the articles at 1:32
Someone should make a documentary about this paper company...….
What software are they using for designing the layout, typography, etc? Is it proprietary or has the publishing industry fully transitioned to desktop publishing and using off-the-shelf consumer software?
how to they get the paper into the plastic bag for home delivery? By machine? Or does someone have to put each paper into a bag?
So many trees cut for a media practically no one under 40 years old reads, while everyone from 0 to 100 years old has TV, or at least another option to get informed than paper.
Probably best not to comment on subjects you have no knowledge of. Look up FSC
Interesting stuff
wow that 's amazing
how did you do it can you share with me , thank you
Just gonna write early to make people aware of my earliness :))
I helped install new color printers here! Took them out of the Tennessean in Nashville, cleaned them up, sent them to new york, showed up and put them in!
Gonna start working in one of these companies this Saturday, looking forward to the experience :D
How's it going? I worked in a print shop for 6 years and the place was like a blackmore, they pay you just enough to keep you there and to survive but you never make a real living
Not trying to burst your bubble but if you are young I would strongly advise against it as career choice, traditional print is dying a slow but steady death.
@@jk-qf3ltthat is completely untrue 😂 print is thriving. Packaging, books etc will always require it.
But how does the color ink work? Would they need to have a machine place the ink specifically in the right place? I mean if it's black and white paper it wouldn't be that hard, but I'm interested in how color works
It's the same process as the black. There are separate plates for each color(cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). The plates have images for their part of the complete image(Google 4 color process). The plates are then placed on their own units with the corresponding color of ink. Then, all the units are turned on and the ink is placed on the paper
That's the simple, not too technical way it's done.
Black or key plate,cyan ,magenta and yellow plates make up almost all colour printed material
Why am I asked to save paper when newspaper and junk fliers waste so much more than I can in a billion lifetimes
I wonder what they do with those aluminum plates, could be a thriving collector market for plates with famous events and stuff
The problem is the aluminium is worth $. No one keeps old plates, they sell them.
I always wondered where toilet paper came from - now i know! 👍
What happens to to old newspapers that get recycled? Do they get into new papers??
Im guessing they do, or in some cases they get recycled multiple times before they end up again at the printing presses again.
They can be, anything from new newspaper, toilet paper, paper towels, and eventually once the fibers are too short to have recycled again, it’s biodegradable, and can be used to grow new trees
Ohh, omg that's how people imagine CVS receipts rolls are like😭
"So many trees wasted" say the folks who think cobalt battery cars are the renewable future. 🙄
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0:20 the most painful paper cut
The Paper Print industry is dying because of Digital media. I will show it to my granddaughter in the museum.
If only they put this much effort into the content
I still have no idea how this works.
Lithography
It's been years since I used a printing press that used printing plates. Our printing has gone fully digital plateless for the last 15 yearsl
Yet digital still cannot compete with lithography in terms of speed, quality and cost. Lithography will be here for a long time.
amazing
They need to get updated, build an app and send all your info thru it and safe all that time and paper.
Wrongly respected newspaper
4:01 newsday?
That's a high quality newspaper wow
NYT is respected and reputed ,
FT , TIMES , WASHINGTON POST LEFT THE CHAT
Imagine how bad of a papercut that can give you at 0:21
Good morning
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In 10 years the newspaper will stop producing
Imagine the paper cut.
What is a newspaper?
Meanwhile, multiple clips in the video of the printing happening show copies of NEWSDAY being printed (ex. workers checking pages for errors coming off the press - those pages are Newsday, not the NYT)
That facility prints the NY Times, Newsday and USA Today.
@ 1:04 Catch that type bleeding off the bottom of the page ? 😆
Watching this made me think it’s better to subscribe to the digital copy only !
The employee would disagree
Write Save trees in that
it’s all recycled paper fun fact!
Super video nice to
Watching Insider feels equivalent to watching Mr. Rogers as a kid but now it's on steroids, Great coverage!
0:20
That would be a brutal paper cut
"respected"?? Good one, lol!
I thought that the NYT...was an online news page....
Soo this is where team trees money is going? 😂
I havent read newspapers for a while now... i thought everybody already move on to digital world but look like paper industries still going strong...
They aren’t unfortunately…
Why could I just smell the news paper
Ahh 3 years ago, when we still had some semblance of faith in our media.
A lot longer than 3 years 😂
Whatever one thinks of “The Times,” watching hundreds of highly skilled people come together with spilt second timing is astonishing. Witnessing a daily fly off a Goss Metroliner is the pinnacle of mechanical things, at least equal to the International Space Station. My opinion.
But do they add color if they are using plates?
1:50 see how the only ink on the page is blue? Basically the page will be printed with another plate with the color magenta, then again with yellow, and the layering will mix the colors. Then the text and any black is printed
ok so how can i get my comic printed on newsprint? lol
And I thought that replacing receipt paper was annoying
I found a typo
an old box with mark maypo
batman in soho
Imagine printing and pressing papers back in 1800s with manual presses with metal dies that you gotta load with ink and press each artjcle headline and lkcture seperately
How much tree they need per day?
Single run of the Sunday New York Times, 75,000 trees must be cut down!
Am I the only one who saw the title and thought it was a giant roll of toilet paper
Shouldn't the plate system produce monochrome prints? How do you achieve full-colour print with a single plate in the same time?
I am late but they usually go though 4 different plates per page, one for black, cyan, magenta and yellow.
I love the white sweatshirt guy. He is so handsome.
True
he is a very beautiful man like god damn.
he also is my beautiful boyfriend
So many trees wasted for bird cage linings!🧐
People just comment on things they have no knowledge of 😂
@@jimbrown4456 ipso facto😎
Respected 😂 good one
Newspapers are dying because 1) You can the news faster on your phone and computer, and 2) You can get more in depth coverage when a well researched book is published. Newspapers are mediocre on both counts.
who reads the news papers in 2019
real _ saaim boomers
i think i missed the part where the Clintons tell them what to say
Box Herold I don’t think you did because that doesn’t happen
This is why you should go digital..
This ks a crazy feat that this is dkne by hundreds of news papers all over the counntry. My mom and dad own the last news paper that is read every Wednesday by ppl in my city and towns all around. I'm the head sales guy that sells the ad spaces for the paper and we have 120k plus readers thats how many papers are bought every Wednesday. We dont do the printing our self we have a conpany that does it for us.
What’s a news paper
Print is still the best
Too much work for such a politician and governments lies 😂💔 who still reading those shits in these days ?
News source before internet 😂😂😂
Am I the only one who got a New York Times commercial before this video?
Newspapers source before internet , and now this seems so many trees wasted.💰
"One of the most respected journalistic publications in the world" LMAO
This seems stressful