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. The center proceses all the photos and art material for the paper and on-line services.
All art material is scanned and sent to be processed by production services.
Composing Composing prepares the pages to combine the ads and editorial content on to a page. The final pages are given the okay to print at this point. Press prints the daily newspaper and many commercial printing jobs on a seven-unit Goss Urbanite Offset press. The high speed press can print newspapers at an average of 40,000 copies per hour depending on product configuration. Distribution Center processes papers output from the press department by inserting advanced sections and advertising insert material into the main newspaper.