50 ROTARY SEES THE FUTURE OF


BRITISH INDUSTRY IN A NEW AND MODERN PRINTING WORKS


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select team of


Hornchurch & Upminster Rotarians lead by our highly successful speakers‟ secretary, Ron Geggus, rendezvous-ed at a remote


spot on the banks of the Beam River on the fringes of Havering and Barking on the morning of Friday 12th November 2010 to visit the new Havering Works of Newsfax International Ltd.


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hose of us who, because of our advanced age, had little concept of the impact of new technology on the old fashioned occupation of printing were in for a great surprise. This was above all a very modern newspaper printing firm and those of us who remember our visit some years ago to the works of the Romford Recorder organised by the late


Don Gregson, will remember large presses going to work in a hubbub of activity and noise with printers of all types tending their


machines in this maelstrom. And we felt then how much more activity and noise there must be at one of the great Fleet Street presses churning out thousands of copies of daily news papers.


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ut here, while there was some


noise in the big airy factory, mostly it was due to the vast arc of conveyers taking the already printed sheets to be sampled and then


bound automatically. And printers – yes, there were a few – but these chaps were mainly star- ing attentively at computer screens in calm windowed cubicles to check if the balance of colour and print was correct – for the plates containing the text and photos and colour had already been sent to the printing firm by the newspaper company itself – the editorial and printing functions were now quite separate.


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