2. Printing industry

Daily newspapers used to be printed on this old fashioned printing press.

Printing used to be a very manual, skilled job with a master printer taking years to learn his craft.

Each word had to be created by 'type setting' by hand.

This meant picking each individual letter and creating sentences (backwards).

Once the type setting for the page was created, each page would be printed off in a large batch before the type setting would be changed for the next page.

In 1985, photo-typesetting was developed and it made it possible to automate the printing of newspapers and books.

This is the modern day printing press.

Nowadays, newspapers are written by journalists who use a computer.

The digital layout is then transferred to the printer and newspapers are printed very quickly in their thousands.