2008 Woodie Awards
Behind the Scenes With University Printing, Copy Services
Melissa Roscher/Muleskinner
Issue date: 1/11/07 Section: Features
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You've heard the old joke "What's black and white and read all over?" Well, at Central, it's the printed material printed by University Printing Services.
"We probably print 99 percent of what the University puts out," says Deloris England, an assistant office manger.
That includes printing the red calendars/handbooks to simple forms and business cards used in the University's offices. Everywhere you look, you see Printing and Copy Services' printed materials in the dorms and in the classrooms.
Printing Services is located on the south side of South Street in a nondescript oblong brick building on the north side of the football field. Printing and Copy Services occupies the east end of the building.
At England's desk, there are "job jackets," where Central employees fill out the job request to be done.
"Then the jacket goes to pre-press folks," England said. "They make film and plates for the press. Then, they send the plates out to the press. We have three pressmen, and they print everything, and then there's the bindery person. He binds everything, whether it is stitched or glued. Then it goes out the door."
"We usually work on a three-week turnaround, not because it takes that long, but because we have that many jobs to process. We have a four-color Heidelberg press. Today we are printing calendars for the photo student contest winners," England said.
"Print shops basically smell like a Stanford Magnum 44 marker," Kelly Humphries, a graphics graduate said. The pressroom is tidy, with stacks of work waiting to be either printed, cut, bound or packaged. Occasionally, the bell goes off on the four-color press. Stiff gloves stand up on a knob stained with black ink. The drone of presses shuffling paper is the background noise, along with a radio playing.
A pressman operates the two-color press. He is printing forms today, but also prints letterhead and the inside pages of the Central Contact Guide.
"He can print black and red at the same time," England said.
"We probably print 99 percent of what the University puts out," says Deloris England, an assistant office manger.
That includes printing the red calendars/handbooks to simple forms and business cards used in the University's offices. Everywhere you look, you see Printing and Copy Services' printed materials in the dorms and in the classrooms.
Printing Services is located on the south side of South Street in a nondescript oblong brick building on the north side of the football field. Printing and Copy Services occupies the east end of the building.
At England's desk, there are "job jackets," where Central employees fill out the job request to be done.
"Then the jacket goes to pre-press folks," England said. "They make film and plates for the press. Then, they send the plates out to the press. We have three pressmen, and they print everything, and then there's the bindery person. He binds everything, whether it is stitched or glued. Then it goes out the door."
"We usually work on a three-week turnaround, not because it takes that long, but because we have that many jobs to process. We have a four-color Heidelberg press. Today we are printing calendars for the photo student contest winners," England said.
"Print shops basically smell like a Stanford Magnum 44 marker," Kelly Humphries, a graphics graduate said. The pressroom is tidy, with stacks of work waiting to be either printed, cut, bound or packaged. Occasionally, the bell goes off on the four-color press. Stiff gloves stand up on a knob stained with black ink. The drone of presses shuffling paper is the background noise, along with a radio playing.
A pressman operates the two-color press. He is printing forms today, but also prints letterhead and the inside pages of the Central Contact Guide.
"He can print black and red at the same time," England said.
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