HOW IT’S MADE – NEWSPAPERS
- It is the ________________ who chooses the items and pictures to be published.
- These may come from reporters, photographers and ________________ journalists.
- The pages are grouped together in sets of four when the ________________ is complete.
- A plate is a plastic-coated sheet of aluminium, ________________ -thin.
- The images ________________ scan the plate.
- The coating in the ________________ hardens and then washes away.
- The press operator uses them as a(n) ________________ to correctly position the plates on the printing press.
- The newsprint comes out in rolls which weigh ________________ each.
- Workers feed several rolls into the reeling [1]machine under ________________.
- Double-sided tape connects each roll to the next, ensuring a(n) ________________ and ________________ process.
- Although the printing process starts slowly, it soon reaches ________________ an hour.
- Each line of the press prints a four-page flat and cuts the sheet in half ________________.
- Machines assemble the pages in order and send them off to the ________________ department.
14. Newspapers can report ________________ and are trusted to deliver ________________ reporting.
[1] To reel: to wind on a reel; Enrollar. Reel: a rounded object or cylinder or other device that spins and is used to wind up or let out wire, rope, film, etc. Carrete, Bobina.
KEY
- EDITORS
- FREELANCE
- LAYOUT
- THREE TENTHS OF A MILLIMETRE
- LASER BEAMS
- BLANK AREAS
- GUIDE
- 850 KILOS
- THE PRINTING PRESS
- CONTINUOUS – UNINTERRUPTED
- 40 KMS
- LENGTHWISE
- SHIPPING
- IN-DEPTH – UNBIASED
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