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In Reply to: RE: Everybody get this year's new Music Direct catalog? posted by Chris from Lafayette on November 17, 2020 at 10:43:59
It must cost a fortune to send these out.
I just finished looking at my account settings at MD to see if there wasn't a way to ixnay the catalog. I feel kinda guilty them sending it to me as I have less than zero intent to order anything from the catalog. If I buy anything this year it'll be directly from the website.
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Probably printed in China or some asian country. Shipped here by boat. The U.S. printing industry has been - like so many other U.S. industries - undercut by Chinese and other asian countries.
Still some serious printers in the U.S. but nothing like it was 25 years ago.
If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!
I worked at a company that made industrial chillers, and a large part of our customer base was the printing industry. We had a small department that would buy back used equipment and refurbish for other customers, and around '94 we were becoming deluged with offers of used equipment from printers. Idiots running the place expanded that department vs noticing the writing on the wall for new sales.
Things got worse, I left the company mid '95.
Yep, the chillers for large offset litho printing presses were used to cool "dampening fluid" (water mixed with alcohol and minor other chemicals) consumed during the litho printing process.
Roughly, oil and water don't mix, and an ink + water emulsion is created on the printing rollers and applied to the plates as the sheets are printed.
I had 20+ years of blue collar work operating those machines on factory floor, mostly 12 hour shifts, before I moved to estimating and production planning and within a few years then changed careers to become a computer programmer.
The industry was good, quality wise and productivity wise, until they busted the unions and good training ceased to exist. Then it was cheap, poorly trained amateurs operating the machines, with 1/3 of the production
typically going into the dumpsters!
If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!
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