These departments include production administration, advertising services, production services, image center, composing, camera, press, distribution center, and building department. Each page is individually designed new each and every day of the year. After the page is approved for printing, the page is shot, placed on the offset web press in plate form and printed. The printed product is sent to the distribution center which inserts advance printed sections into the main paper plus paid advertising inserts. The papers are assembled into bundles with labels that are handed off to the circulation department.
Circulation distributes the papers to individual carriers, newsrack and newsstands.
This department is responsible for advertising material first entering the production process. This department transforms advertising material into the actual ads that you see in the paper. These folks are the creative part of the advertising system. Preparation of the ads using Macs for proof delivery to advertisers is completed here. They also help with the commercial printing and conversion of electronic ads for output.