Printing a Book, Old School

[mquiroz90]

this was before machines and digitals made books

[janken919]

Looks like a dangerous place to work.

[tlstroup]

The narrator sounds like Ronald Reagan.

[geolazenby]

One of the books being printed is:

Banner by the wayside

Samuel Hopkins Adams

Random house, 1947

[mquiroz90]

@geolazenby now ink is going out and typewriters are gone useing digital books and machines are makeing the books now

[enogael]

"Copper is hard" haha

[NorthamptonCrown]

Jesus Christ my brain hurts.

[Imnothecrazyone]

Why does the narrator sound like he's speaking to a brain-damaged 5-year-old?

[rwason13]

@Imnothecrazyone funny...i was wondering that myself, but i guess thats how all narrators sounded -- bit of a mix of recording devices and style i guess

[poppins1978]

Actually, it goes more like this; This man in an author, he thinks many people will like his book so he shops it around from publisher to publisher absorbing rejection notice after rejection notice. He dies penniless, alone and unfulfilled.

[MultiAdub]

lol nice vid, a bit harder the today

[DigitalFreedoms]

This looks extremely labor intensive but looks as if it would offer a lot of people jobs. However, judging by this difficult process, I bet it wasn't as easy to get a book published.

[pettyfog]

First.. books arent printed and bound that way anymore, havent been for decades.

Second: there was more skill involved than is apparent.

Third: you are a bunch of ADD wusses. Those jobs paid well and time flew.

Fourth: In future the super wusses you raise, if they give you a procreation license will marven that you cut your own food with an unguarded knife.

/rant

[pettyfog]

@pettyfog

marven > marvel

heh...

[saluteforever]

@pettyfog Litho is passion not a common job you have to erase point three

[tobagotb10]

No safety whatsoever! No covers over moving parts or sensors. How many fingers and hands didn't get injured back then, must have been a common recurrence. Wow!

[susantangster]

Watching this and the Espresso Book Machine together really give you a new perspective on book printing. @_@

[TrekGirl42]

yup, the difference is pretty astonishing

[n52nimbus]

Two things come to mind: The precision and complexity of the machinery and the mind-numbing repetitiveness of the labor.

Robotics may have eliminated lots of jobs, but are they really jobs anyone would want???

[Bokai]

If it puts food on the table and clothes on your back, I would say yes!

[n52nimbus]

Sorry, Bokai. . .but for me, a bullet through my cranium would be preferable to this kind of work.

[saluteforever]

@n52nimbus I want to do it I'm only at the start but this is cool I love Litho and so no problem!!

[Lilia1992]

So much work. I'm so glad my graphics design teacher in high school didn't make me watch this video. I nearly fell asleep!

[betteroffsingle]

@Lilia1992

But Lilia, fact is, you didn't fall asleep. Did you?

[hafiezismail]

thanks for sharing.. at last my doubts on how books are created are being solved.. now I will appreciate every book which I am reading after knowing how hard it is to read 1.. thanks again! :)

[blaslamagni]

Amazing video...

[acanthopleura]

thats a lot of work indeed