OK, crank it up to four and hit the waters. Now chomp, chomp, chomp like PacMan or the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street adds to the deafening noise as the papers are sliced off, complete at the end of the printing process. Papers pour out of the center of the room faster than a person could count. This machine will crank out 20,000 newspapers an hour. The paper flowing through the press tears and streams to the ceiling uncontrollably.
Someone slams the stop button, a buzzer sounds and the press winds down to a halt.
The room is silent again for a split second until a clipped swear word echoes through the pressroom. Just one tiny tear in the paper sends this precise operation into chaos. They make sure everything lines up just right and caress the paper from the giant rolls at the base of the press, up through the feed toward what are called the blankets. When a newspaper is printed, a picture of the image to appear on the paper is taken. However, only the negative is used.