Journalists

Printing industry

Daily newspapers used to be printed on this old fashioned printing press.

Printing used to be a very manual, skilled job taking years to learn

In 1985, photo-typesetting was developed and it made it possible to automate the printing of newspapers and books.
This is the modern day printing press.

Nowadays, newspapers are written by journalists who use a computer.

The digital layout is then transferred to the printer and newspapers are printed very quickly in their thousands.

Up until the mid 1980s, when letters or reports needed to be typed, a maual typewriter was used.

Each page had to be typed carefully since mistakes were hard to fix - usually the page would have to be typed out again.
There were no formatting features - if you wanted something bold, you had to type over the same words twice

Using a typewriter was a skilled job since there was no room for mistakes.