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Re: Padding materials (was Re: FS: 8880 Super Car, $135 shipped in the US
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lugnet.market.shipping
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:49:42 GMT
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Troy Cefaratti <MNEMENTH@NACS.NETihatespam>
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Of course, your larger papers would have this equipment. :) My experience
is with small weekly newspapers though, which tend to get printed on
whatever press will take them! ;)
Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:Fo39IE.HC8@lugnet.com...
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> Troy Cefaratti wrote in message ...
> > They WILL have them, because it's cheaper for them to waste the end of • the
> > roll then to have to stop and start the press in the middle of a run to
> > change the roll (as this would cause them to waste paper on ALL the rolls
> > since it takes a while to get the presses up to speed and putting out • clean
> > copies).
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> Although many newspapers glue a new roll onto the old while the press is
> running (I think it was when I toured the Boston Globe, and we got a • little
> extra detailed tour of the pressroom because my sister, who had worked on
> some automated paper handling for newspapers, was with us, that they told • us
> about the special glues they had to come up with to dry fast enough to • take
> the force applied by the press in pulling the paper). Sometimes you get • the
> paper which was printed on the seam, though those are generally supposed • to
> be discarded. The presses usually have a spindle with 3 rolls of paper (in
> use, on deck, being changed [obviously not the correct technical terms]).
>
> At our newspaper, you can get shredded newspaper (I think they sell it).
> They sell a lot of it for mulch and lining animal stalls (they changed to • an
> organic ink within the past 10 years to make this type of use safer). I • once
> picked up a van load of paper for a friend, and it was almost a year • before
> I stopped finding strips of paper in the van.
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> Frank
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