Newspaper Printers at the San Francisco Chronicle

Newspaper printers talk about their craft in this promo for our in-progress video. We began filming more than a decade ago in an effort to document the changes that have made this storied craft obsolete. This clip is circa 2000.

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Education

Tags:

• newspapers
• newspaper printers
• printing trade
• history of printers
• newspaper history

[hopdoehop]

thanks for the posting much of the craft is dying job shops and newspaper no Linotype no Ludlow line casters paste up jobs no longer exist dark room work no longer exists press manning has dropped like a rock when i got out i was running a two man press by myself the Joint Operating Agreement in Detroit has busted the Pressman's union local my chapel no longer exists my local no longer exists my international no longer exists

[ejungerman]

Great work, Karen! Three years later that crowded composing room became a cavern of gray wall-to-wall dotted with a few cubicles. Thanks for the memories.

[johncurley]

New Year's Eve, 1999, was a great night for filming, in that we had staffed up for the end of the world as we knew it. But nothing much happened except for a lot of parties. ... The treats in the newsroom were pretty good, too.

This was wonderful to see. I hope you keep working on it.