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Adrian Peterson/Star Tribune --- Barry Bonds/SF Chronical PRESS PLATES - $80 (Waconia, Mn)
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--------- EACH OF THESE 3 PRESS PLATES ARE $80 ---------
Size is 11.25" x 23" EACH --- Not perfect, very slight dent in each, same place. Bottom left hand corner of the main photo. --- A VERY RARE COLLECTABLE, BASEBALL HISTORY --- $80 EACH
A newspaper plate is a sheet of aluminum that contains the image of a newspaper page on it. Each page of the newspaper requires an individual aluminum plate. Each plate is a unique and lasting piece of the newspaper production process, which makes it collectible to some folks.
Here’s how it works:
A reporter writes a story on a computer and passes it on to an editor, who in turn gives it to a designer. The designer brings the story into a design program with other news stories, photos and ads scheduled to run. The designer fits all the puzzle pieces together, quickly creating the image of a newspaper page.
After each virtual page of the paper is created, it is sent to a typesetter, which in Ben Franklin’s day used to be a person. Today it’s a
Volkswagen-sized machine resembling an oversized laser printer. This machine takes the virtual page and burns the image into a sheet of aluminum the same size as the printed page of your newspaper. Actually, it burns the image into a photo sensitive emulsion, but it appears to have actually engraved the news page into the aluminum plate.
The plate is then wrapped around a large roller on one unit of the printing press, which has multiple units all with their own rollers and plates required to print a section of the paper. When the pressman pushes the button the rollers with the plates attached begin turning, picking up ink where the image was burned and transferring to a sheet of newsprint.