On April 15^th, our class went on a field trip to visit the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) printing facility, which is in Manhattan. The purpose of this trip was for us to learn about printing process and how to design product for print.

The UFT printing facility has so many different printing machines and each has different function. Our tours guide Oscar, who is the manager of printing facility. He introduced to us many different printing machines. The first machines we saw were the ESPON Pro 9800, which is used for large photos or graphic prints. The second one we saw was PRESS C8000, which is used for digital color prints and high quality print like pictures and posters. I thought the most interesting machines were the envelope printer. Oscar said this machine could easily print about millions envelopes for each day. In UFT printing facility, many people order to print for their poster, envelopes, books and so much more. They also have print jobs for school and social. Oscar also said even though they have huge print jobs for each day, but they still would make sure every product is precept. And this is why the printing facility is successful.

Overall this field trip, this was a great experience for me. I learned much information about printer and the daily operation of printing lab. And this would help me design my product for printing in the further.