The last press run

The Tacoma News Tribune presses are shutting down after running every night for 45 years. Printing of The News Tribune and Olympian will now take place in Vancouver, Wash.

[@willstearns3603]

Started my printing journey at the Patent Trader Newspaper in Mt Kisco NY.....started at 16 in pre-press. When I turned 18 I joined my father on the press. A 6 unit GOSS METRO.....for 20+ years...from reel-room to the folder and everywhere in between.....I miss the smell....at least now I get to relive the sound! THANKS SOMUCH!!!

[@cherokeelaketennessee7895]

I worked on a press crew for 7 years when I was a young man and still today those were some of the best memories in my life. We ran 24/7 with 8 press crews and each crew was like a family. I've been a real estate broker for 26 years and there is no kind of comradery with the people I work with. The place we worked printed Sunday magazines for different big cities before Parade Magazine took over most and the company we worked for sold out to a large print company. Most of us had a chance to transfer but I couldn't leave the mountains of east Tennessee but several did. After years working on the press, more than half have passed away and others have retired but we still talk to this day. Still something cool about watching a big web offset press come up to speed and hearing the impressions start thumping with lines of books coming out the end of the folder.

[@richardmitchell8213]

I was in the Printing Industry for 27 years, I held every position on press (jogger, roll tender, 2nd man and Pressman) for RRD in Los Angeles. I loved printing, and it is very sad that this once great industry is no more. The guys I worked with over the years were some of the best people I knew in my lifetime. So yeah, my heart goes out to you guys and gals, I know how it feels when it’s over.

[@michaelarmenta8289]

I remember you, you were an Operator on P-94 right? I worked at the Torrance plant too, on P- 86.

[@justinthyme3396]

I was a pressman for Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times in the 60s and 70s, this was the first newspaper inherited from his dad, he said he would never sell, you guessed it he sold out to the West Australian newspaper, now he most of the world's media, I'm 80 and still have ink running through my veins. Hi from Australia

[@Pulsar1001]

I'm also in Australia and I am still printing papers for Rupert Murdoch dunno for how much longer though....

[@ssnoc]

Sad to see this end … people have no idea what they are losing - this machine bonded people, fed families and educated people.

[@fujiapple70]

People don't know the teamwork it takes to pull out a wrap, send up a lead and walk in a bar and get the run started again so you meet deadline. I was operator in Sacramento and that Goss is the same Goss I ran. My heart rate would beat a little faster just getting it up to speed. I do miss the smell of the shop.

[@t.h.8475]

There is definitely a unique smell.

[@nemo227]

Indeed, letterpress or offset, the smell is unique and the sound of a web press running is also something special.

[@erichvonmanstein6876]

Its the paper and the ink that gives you the smell. I worked "down the street" from you in Vacaville, but i did do some time at TC and pennysaver. And i definitely miss it.

[@fujiapple70]

@erichvonmanstein6876 yeah I ran press 1 at TC for a while. Commute was way too much for me.

[@erichvonmanstein6876]

@@fujiapple70 yeah it was the miles of what seemed like nothingness before the causeway. Hated it. Albeit when i had to commute the other way to the city (bay) it wasnt really a "better" trip lol. All that being said id do it all again. Damn i miss printing.😞

[@jamieshows1564]

I run a KBA 162, but never a web press, and definitely never something that huge. That's pretty cool.

[@Slash67]

I worked on a press crew for almost 25 years. No jobs in it anymore. Or very few. Miss those jobs

[@michellacasse9250]

I was a Press Operator For Transcontinnental Printing for 35 yrs...Our last Press run was when Covid-19 first wave hit Quebec...We closed and neverre-opened...

[@ismaelhazen4525]

Really? What plant were you in?

[@lukewise777]

I know what you guys mean. I miss the crews I use to work with. I printed the Yellow Pages on press 75, press 85, press 90 the 3 real stand 5 floor beast, & a Mitsubishi press 45. A 2 man skeleton crew. 6yrs knight shift out of 9yrs.

[@kymup]

I gonna miss all the people who work in production and press department, i worked to last night, was been over a 10 years , 2008-2019, just the best luck for every who worked there. VZ.

[@Pjsev]

This reminds me of the last day of the Anchorage Daily News, where my husband was a lead press operator there for nearly 40 years when they ran their last paper...but the paper is being printed elsewhere now, and he still gets to print it. They are short handed and need press operators really bad....Frontiersman in Wasilla Alaska.

[@madgreek253]

My aunt Elsie Parker who just passed away this last Nov 2018 worked at the TNT for almost 2 decades. I myself worked there in 96-97 putting in the add inserts.

[@bustnsurf]

Looked familiar running bulldog tape to web it up. So much easier with that than running just a tapered lead. We need press operators at the Spokesman Review in Spokane Washington. The paper doesn’t run on a Goss Metro anymore. Went to a Magnum about 3 years ago with folder 1 having a upper balloon a main and a sidewinder and folder 2 just a upper balloon and main.

[@john72ss]

well i worked for that paper in vancouver, its not long for this world either! the newspaper is in a death spiral!

[@rdl4530]

Hmmm my degree was in Newspaper Production Management I had a good run for a short time tho.

[@carlosariasluyando5104]

Es muy triste ver que ya, muchisimas rotativas de diarios están dejando de imprimir, trabajé en con goss utbanite desde 1991 hasta 2020 como técnico .

[@coonfreddy1957]

❤ I hate it the newspaper industry Has shutdown it is dead. The third generation in printing web newspaper myself 40 plus years.😢

[@tomwurz6138]

Did those orange presses come from the L.A. Times, Costa Mesa plant?

[@bbodinefan11]

I lost my job at RR Donnelley/LSC Communications. Best job I ever had.

[@richardmitchell8213]

In LA?

[@pressman1965]

Goss press operator for 50 years 4 months and 8 days when I retired on January 8, 2015

[@biker4890]

Newspaper is dead

[@chipispowdercoatingcharles8444]

People whould be amazed at what it takes to print a news paper. The are huge machines that for all the dangerous places where you could get eaten by the press all and all its a pretty safe job if you keep your watts about you

[@sathishsathishsadanandan5980]

Super