Recent content by Medric

OK. Here's the big question. What got you into printing ? Was it a childhood dream? Was it all the unemployment office had left to send you to? Let's face it. The printing environment is brutally fast paced. Multi tasking was invented by pressmen and carried to the insane limits. It takes a very...

Re: Which is more important, Stock conditioning or Pressroom Conditions? In my thirty three years in the trade I've heard many times from many pressmen and even more book binders that conditioning the stock is the best thing you can do to improve paper performance on the press. Having a...

Re: Heidelberg GTO pros'n'cons Thanks Vince. That's just what it was too. Survival. The digital computer stripping technology wasn't that great in the beginning. Many times we had to start over and do it the "old" way just to get plates out to the press room. It was frustrating and lots of us...

Re: 25 Skills Every Man Should Know: Man skills. . . hmmmm. There are many grasshopper. But anyway, sort of along this topic. Did you know that statistics have finally been analyzed that reveal the last words of over 93% of men killed accidentally are "hold my beer and watch this".

Re: Greatest Rock Album of All Times Pressmen arguing about rock music and bitching at each other about nothing. Wow! I've never heard that. And what was that about Nazi's? Since ,originally, the German National Socialists were all for Germany for Germans I would have to say that , in this...

Re: The Future of Printing I think we'll see really big printing factories. The little shops will , very likely, fall by the wayside in the near future. Out here in Montana it's a little market way off the beaten path. The die off of the little shops will reach us later but it will. The...

Re: Printing/Typesetting Nostalgia Site I'm Medric Magann in little bitty Billings Montana. I started in printing in 1974. I ran a hand fed platen, a Miehle Vertical and I melted lead for the Linotype operators. I still have my completion of apprenticeship certificate from the International...

Re: Heidelberg GTO pros'n'cons I've been a one trick pony forever. 99% of my print shop experience is as a stripper. Now I'm working in a small 10 man outfit and I got thrown onto a Heidelberg GTO. It's a 13 X 18 size. Is that what you guys are talking about here? I like it so far. I think it...