The Globe’s Dorchester printing plant goes dark

The Globe’s Dorchester printing plant goes dark | Boston Globe

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7 жыл бұрын

Four stories tall, loud as a locomotive, and with at least as many moving parts, The Boston Globe’s printing presses on Morrissey Boulevard will come to a stop next month.
Since 1958 they’ve kept a tight schedule, pressing ink onto newsprint and churning out daily papers into the wee hours, long after New England has drifted off to sleep.
The seasoned hands who play this finely tuned instrument have done so for decades; some families for generations - skin flecked with ink, senses attuned to the pulse of the machine as it turns out tomorrow’s front pages. Soon this nocturnal symphony will end, at least in Dorchester, as the Globe moves all of its printing to a new facility in Taunton.
Here’s a video tribute to the machines and the people who have kept the news rolling all these years.
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@xerax-6344 9 ай бұрын

ive been in the industry for a year now, 20 years old, really wish i could pick these guys brains theres really nothing like printing/binding its such satisfying work

@darrinscott8639 Жыл бұрын

I even miss the smell of the blanket wash and the ink

@budlewis721 3 жыл бұрын

When I got married in 1972 the priest did a double take when he saw my indelibly stained hands. Back then if you wore gloves and ear protection you were just a poussy. We were idiots.

@muhammadauwalibrahim9044 3 жыл бұрын

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@VictorMartinez-zf6dt 4 жыл бұрын

My dad worked in a printing press until the company went bankrupt in 2007. I remember going into the press and watching the printing process. It was certainly memorizing.

@LarkLoganYourRockinRealtor 3 жыл бұрын

This is absolutely amazing to see how a newspaper comes together. I know the Globe is in a different facility but getting a glimpse of how it all comes together is fascinating. Thank you and best to all in the new building!

@johnfairbairn9912 3 жыл бұрын

Old Morrissey blvd that was a beast of a press driving by. Thankful I went sheetfed

@jeffnewz9891 7 жыл бұрын

This is the BEST video of 'the presses' I've ever seen........I used to ride my bike through the snow to get a Globe & a Traveler! You guys will be around for a while! Good luck in the new place.......!

@muhammadauwalibrahim9044 3 жыл бұрын

@chipispowdercoatingcharles8444 Жыл бұрын

I did 30 years in newspaper web presses.i started out working next to ww2 vets I have amazing memories of it all from cape cod to Detroit to USA today in Norwood.

@jean-sebastienbukvaj3713 2 жыл бұрын

Best job ever!!

@livjaho1983 7 жыл бұрын

Very well done! I'd like to see this become a movie actually...

@jasonrussell3252 3 жыл бұрын

You are right..there should be a documentary on the dieing printing businesses across America. Including the mailrooms.

@gregwyatt8108 2 жыл бұрын

I spent 30 years running presses, they are right how it feels there is nothing like it. I did get out of it when the industry starting falling apart and made the switch to digital at a mail fulfillment center printing med statements and delinquent notices, never did care for it that much for it. Even though, I did get work on a single web roll to roll HPT200 ink jet, if you had a web break, you were up the creek, the web was 450 ft from end to end, it could run 52,000 an hour (every page was different name and color)

@chrislemery8178 Жыл бұрын

I would have liked printing here. Neat old goss.

@bryanscottdugan 7 жыл бұрын

A gorgeous video.

@wawazuzzy2064 7 жыл бұрын

massive respect

@leshopkins45 4 жыл бұрын

Loved printing for 42yrs. Till companies don’t appreciate me anymore!

@resurrectionwaiting9294 Жыл бұрын

I too became obsolete with the Press. Interesting how respect for "The News" has evaporated after The Printing Press was abandoned.

@jamalerrahali4902 2 жыл бұрын

Amazingly, guys

@justinthyme3396 3 жыл бұрын

I started my apprenticeship in 1955 ,worked as a pressman for R Murdoch's Sunday Times W Australia, he inherited this from his dad and said he would never sell, you guessed he sold out to West Australian newspaper, I'm 80 years old now and sorry to see the rapid demise of so many Newspapers around the Globe.

@Mike-.747 3 жыл бұрын

Dark dirty press room, wow I spent many years in these rooms

@OkellaWood 7 жыл бұрын

place is right down the street from me. had to go to youtube to see the inside.

@druckerman247 4 жыл бұрын

Sheetfed printer here. I bleed 186. I hear you brothers. I feel the mechanical pulse too. Inky fingers, clean money.

@budlewis721 3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't everyone? Except the ones with Irish blood like me. After 35 years I bleed 347.

@chikkenbonz 3 жыл бұрын

I was 185 till I got on the blood thinners ...almost an 032 nowadays ....weird!

@budlewis721 3 жыл бұрын

@@chikkenbonz If you wanted to give blood, your 032 is more valuable because it's used as a mixing base to make other types.

@chikkenbonz 3 жыл бұрын

@@budlewis721 lol right ...kinda like an AB Negative :-p EDIT: MC & Bud: What did you guys work on? I was all about the web...cept 6 months on a 2-c Miele that was converted into just a UV coater. Worked on Harris M1000B and A, various Hantschos, Royal Zenith , Mitsubishi. Oh and I worked a year or so on Flexos too. Got just under 25 years in till my legs gave out. Drawing disability now...I miss it! Love watching these press vids-helps keep the memories alive.....

@budlewis721 3 жыл бұрын

@@chikkenbonz Mostly Goss Urbanites and News-/Color Kings, with time spent on various sheetfed and roll-to-roll presses. A while ago I wrote a long-winded, incoherent, self indulgent synopsis of my work history, so if you... Naaah, screw that; it's already written, so here it is if you wanna read it. If you have watched a lot of these videos, you may have seen it already in a slightly abridged form: I did this for so long that I remember when the plate burners used those brittle, smoky electrode sticks to burn the plates. I went from flyboy at 18 to operator at 56; from 1972 to 2005; from newspapers to job shops to businesses forms to newspapers, from San Diego and Encinitas to San Luis Obispo/Atascadero/Paso Robles, CA. I worked on and repaired 8- and 12-unit Goss Urbanites, as well as 7-unit Fairchild News Kings and 9-unit Fairchild Color Kings, in addition to Harris and Didde Glaser roll-to-roll web presses. I developed an ability to mix Pantone colors that matched the book exactly, including 6-digit opaque inks. The in-between times were spent on Hamada, Multilith and A.B. Dick sheet fed offset duplicators. A desire to make myself more valuable inspired me to learn how to operate, repair and maintain an SLS 1000 10-station inserting machine, IDAB stackers, and various portable conveyor tables and tying and strapping machines. Because the press work often went later than the people in the composing, camera and plate making departments worked, it was necessary to gain a working knowledge of those processes, too. In one shop I also got to climb around for hours on and explore a non-operational early-20th-century 12 unit, 3-story-high Hoe letterpress that sported brass guard- and handrails, that had been shut down in a labor dispute years before our press was installed. The big ol' Hoe (get your mind outta the gutter) was still webbed, rolls in place, thick-skinned ink still in the fountains. In a time of powerful unions, the press crew shut it down and walked out in the middle of a press run. When I first started printing, it was because I'd just gotten married and had to find work right away quick. I spent big time filling out applications anywhere that didn't require experience. A newspaper/job shop was the first place that called back. I never dreamed it would become a life long trade. My official title was "donkey", in the printing vernacular a warm body with minimal brain function whose purpose was to keep the pressmen from becoming exhausted by doing anything. We were summoned with "Hey! Need a donkey over here!", which meant "I don't care if you're on lunch break! Get your ass over there and shaft some rolls!" All for the generous compensation of $1.40 an hour. I couldn't believe the things those wild, insane bastards did. I mean, the whole trade was like that at the time; every one of the people I worked with either drank too much or couldn't drink anymore. Swing shift would punch out at 23:30 hours, buy a keg and put it on the loading dock, and go home when dayside shift came to work. Drugs (stimulants) were ubiquitous, handed out freely for the 14, 18, 20+ hour shfts, and no one wore ear protection - I didn't for my first 10 or 12 years; I don't know why I can still hear well. We stuck our gloveless hands in flammable solvent for hours, without a thought for what carcinogens were absorbed through our skin. The labor laws in Cali back then allowed for overtime pay after 40 hours, but not after 8. Consequently, it wasn't uncommon to work a shift of 40 hours straight, then get sent home before OT pay began. I'm astonished that no one got flattened. Safety laws and measures were ignored, but nobody cared; that was for ⁋µ🅍ꌦʂ (the intended word wouldn't pass the KZfaq™ Mythical Council of Elders® Code). Boy, were we _stupid._ Did you ever use monkey poles? They were steel poles about 1½" in diameter with 4- or 5-square-inch steps clamped the length of the pole on alternating sides at staggered intervals. We'd climb down the pole holding on with one hand and gripping a 90 lb. steel roll shaft in the other. What idiocy. The terminology was wonderful; outside of the pressroom, if you said to someone, "After we mounted the new blankets, I went up on the balloon to adjust the trolleys so the webs would feed," they would back away slowly and use soothing words to keep you calm until psychiatric help arrived. One day I realized I had become one of those wild, insane bastards when I wasn't looking. I couldn't wait to get away from the stink of ink, but a few years after retiring I found myself wishing I could stand on a 3rd-level, ink-stained, diamond patterned deck plate once again to cut color and register perfectly a 4-color process photo that will appear above the fold in news racks and stands all over the county for everyone (meaning me) to admire; or stand at the console, finger on the go-faster button, as I yell over the roaring silence of the press, "SAVE 'EM!" When I left the trade after uncountable trips up and down those cold steel ladders and poles, my legs were as hard as that steel, but my knees were shot and arthritic. I have titanium wrapped around my spine, too. It's just as well; I didn't have to watch the big, heavy Sunday editions, like those I threw when I was 14, shrink down to the pathetic pamphlets they have become today; or see the presses that created them get cut up and sold for scrap because now the individual papers are all printed at one facility in another city miles away. No one knows how to make those four-cornered paper hats anymore. What a shame. Now I bore disinterested acquaintances with a running critique of the flaws that are invisible to them in some meaningless free coupon shopper as I examine it minutely, page by page. Boy, do I feel old.

@jackc8758 4 жыл бұрын

Just saw this video today though it’s 3 years old. Brought back memories for me. Worked at an Rrd gravure plant for 44 1/2 yrs. they shut the plant down destroyed 8 presses I was lucky got my pension I was almost 65, over 350 lost their jobs

@muhammadauwalibrahim9044 3 жыл бұрын

@bbodinefan11 2 жыл бұрын

Which RRD gravure plant. I worked in lynchburg. We had 8 presses.

@ghoulpn 2 жыл бұрын

28 yrs RRD Portland here. Was let go during downsize in 2013. N9000, M1000, Hantscho webs.

@redrobbo1896 11 ай бұрын

RR Donnelly? Lancaster pa.

@roried Жыл бұрын

They should have left the printing in Dorchester. The Globe's a mess today print-wise, and at $3.50 a copy......definitely not worth it!

@ethanhays9275 3 жыл бұрын

I’m 15 and order the newspaper 😂

@muhammadauwalibrahim9044 3 жыл бұрын

@thekrunkymonkey 2 ай бұрын

I love the internet but I hate that it has taken newspapers from us. I loved buying the giant weekend broadsheets and reading news for hours over coffee. They just don't exist like this any more and its sad.

@plag5411 10 ай бұрын

I love this story I'm going to get a subscription.

@vincenttorres7234 5 ай бұрын

I spent 21 yrs in Printing an loved it till the Plant closed

@philanderson1200 2 ай бұрын

I started on a goss community press in 1985. Owned my printing business for the last decade. It’s almost time to sell the business and ride into the retirement sunset 😊

@peternorthrup6274 5 жыл бұрын

Gee i want to work on that crew.

@robertcaves3797 Жыл бұрын

Remember having to clean the press, the ink ! THE SMELL! unit 5 she was always bad.take a bath in ink and rotten water, still that was 15 years ago now, love to do it again.

@coonfreddy1957 9 ай бұрын

I am part of the third generation in printing newspaper personally I have 40 plus years worked in Several states I enjoyed it very much The sad thing is newspaper is dead...😢

@grayphotojournal 7 жыл бұрын

the grandeur of it all

@chipispowdercoatingcharles8444 Жыл бұрын

You can't be afraid to get dirty in this job. The ink will go through any clothing imagine ink on your weiner yup. These were very good high paying skilled jobs.

@coonfreddy1957 5 ай бұрын

" LOVE IT " I am the third generation and I have been in it for 40 plus years....