The field trip to the UFT was an interesting one. The class was sent on a thorough tour of the print station grounds that was located on the lower level of the huge building. There we met the friendly director who, first,showed us various printers that were used for different purposes. The was a HUGE printer that was as long as a teachers’ desk that was used for printing out poster sized images, while there were some smaller ones that were used for creating fliers, and other print resources, The director told us that for every image they had, it was generally a .PDF file since it’s one that’s of universal use. The director also let every student hold a small device that was used to magnify the pixels of a color print.

The director walked us through other corridors that led to machines that did folding work, printed mass addresses and bar-codes on envelopes, showed us their potential speeds and explained the mathematical side of every process, He even allowed me to keep one of their prints that they made a surplus number of.

After some Q&A, the director talked so passionately about how every machine he owned there was like his baby/children to him. You could really tell he loved his work and every last of his machines.