The modern newspaper printing process is a cold offset method that uses aluminum plates and rubber rollers to transfer images onto newsprint. This process is gentle on the paper and ensures high print quality. Older heat-dated processes were slow and expensive, leading to the transition to more efficient cold-press methods. Most contemporary newspaper printing machines […]
The British Library’s collection of British and Irish newspapers since 1840 is housed in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, consisting of 660,000 bound volumes and 370,000 reels of microfilm, stored on 20 miles of shelves in a low oxygen environment. The collection includes 7,200 17th-century newspapers and periodicals from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. […]
