and you forget the digital sign printers that use inktjet printers. Don't try to compare them to the printer on your desk though. On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:45 PM Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2018-12-14 15:23, Paul Allen wrote: > > Even so, the primary distinction between a jobbing printer and a > newspaper/book printer is not > the equipment used or the size of the operation but the type of output. That > said, jobbing printers > tend to be smaller than newspaper/book printers and the older/smaller jobbing > printers tend to use letterpress rather than offset litho. > > > A better distinction would be that newspaper presses are web-fed (the paper > comes on huge rolls) not sheet-fed. They also have fully automated collation > and other post-press processing. > > Not sure about book printers... Most likely they use sheet-fed presses for > smaller runs, and web-fed for best sellers. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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