On Friday, April 15th, the class went to the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), Print Shop. We took a tour of their faculty and explaining what they do and how the machines they use everyday work.

The first machine we saw was a very large digital printer. It usually refers to professional printing where small-run jobs from desktop publishing and other digital sources are printed using large-format and/or high-volume laser or inkjet printers.This allows for on-demand printing and to modify an image. The printer also allows for high resolution images to be printed out crisp and clean onto a variety of mediums. It was very impressive due to the fact that it allowed the print workers to save time and repeat the process many times without stopping. Next to this printer was an KIP C7800. (below)

The KIP C7800 is a color and black & white high production print system. The system is a comprehensive solution for all types of wide format printing tasks that. The printer makes for high speed printing.

The picture above is of all the rolls of paper they use. This side of their work place was pretty interesting to me because it was kind of amazing to see all the material they use when I thought they used regular sheets of copy paper. It should also how much production they do if they need rolls of all this paper.

Overall the print shop was a great experience to seeing how print production operates. It showed how much work goes it what they do on the daily basis.