‘Punching the Clock’ - Sun Printing, Inc.
NORWICH – For the final installment in our 'Punching the Clock' series in honor of Manufacturers Week, I stopped in to Sun Printing to take a look at the behind the scenes process of how our newspapers go from a file on our computers to a tangible paper that circulates around Chenango County.
I learned that there are several steps in place in order to get our paper printed, and The Evening Sun is only one of the many publications that Sun Printing is responsible for producing.
On a weekly basis, Sun Printing prints nine different Pennysavers, two outside newspapers, as well as The Evening Sun. The largest of these publications is the Norwich Pennysaver with a circulation of about 17,000. The Evening Sun is printed in about 3,700 copies daily, Monday through Friday. Circulation and Pressroom Coordinator Marty Conklin estimates that there are 75 employees responsible for delivering the paper and Pennysavers on a daily basis.
I visited Sun Printing on Thursday, and The Evening Sun was the only thing being printed at the time. I found that the first step in printing the paper is to transmit the day's paper from the computer to the plate processor, which then takes all the images from the computer and burns them onto an aluminum plate. The plates are then put on the cylinders of the printing press itself.
There are four different color plates in the process: a red ink plate, a blue ink plate, a yellow ink plate, and a black ink plate. The black ink plate is for all the words and black and white pictures, and the other three colored plates are capable of mixing together to create any color that needs to be printed.
The images that are burnt onto the plates, be it text or pictures, are transferred to a cylinder covered with a rubber 'blanket,' which then transfers the words and images to the paper. The paper then goes through the folder of the press where it is folded and cut to make whichever issue of the Pennysaver or newspaper that they are printing at that time.
Marty says that the press on average prints about 12,000 copies per hour, so if they are printing the Norwich Pennysaver which is a 17,000 run and has three sections, it's about a six hour process to get the entire publication put together.
Every step in the printing process was like clock-work for the employees at Sun Printing. It was clear to me that they were certainly not strangers to the entire process and they had no problem answering any question that I might have throughout it all.
I want to thank Marty Conklin and everybody at Sun Printing for having me and for all the work they do to get our newspaper, as well as the other publications, produced in the flesh and circulated around the region.
Whitney Gross Photo
I learned that there are several steps in place in order to get our paper printed, and The Evening Sun is only one of the many publications that Sun Printing is responsible for producing.
On a weekly basis, Sun Printing prints nine different Pennysavers, two outside newspapers, as well as The Evening Sun. The largest of these publications is the Norwich Pennysaver with a circulation of about 17,000. The Evening Sun is printed in about 3,700 copies daily, Monday through Friday. Circulation and Pressroom Coordinator Marty Conklin estimates that there are 75 employees responsible for delivering the paper and Pennysavers on a daily basis.
I visited Sun Printing on Thursday, and The Evening Sun was the only thing being printed at the time. I found that the first step in printing the paper is to transmit the day's paper from the computer to the plate processor, which then takes all the images from the computer and burns them onto an aluminum plate. The plates are then put on the cylinders of the printing press itself.
There are four different color plates in the process: a red ink plate, a blue ink plate, a yellow ink plate, and a black ink plate. The black ink plate is for all the words and black and white pictures, and the other three colored plates are capable of mixing together to create any color that needs to be printed.
The images that are burnt onto the plates, be it text or pictures, are transferred to a cylinder covered with a rubber 'blanket,' which then transfers the words and images to the paper. The paper then goes through the folder of the press where it is folded and cut to make whichever issue of the Pennysaver or newspaper that they are printing at that time.
Marty says that the press on average prints about 12,000 copies per hour, so if they are printing the Norwich Pennysaver which is a 17,000 run and has three sections, it's about a six hour process to get the entire publication put together.
Every step in the printing process was like clock-work for the employees at Sun Printing. It was clear to me that they were certainly not strangers to the entire process and they had no problem answering any question that I might have throughout it all.
I want to thank Marty Conklin and everybody at Sun Printing for having me and for all the work they do to get our newspaper, as well as the other publications, produced in the flesh and circulated around the region.
Whitney Gross Photo
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