The Globe’s Dorchester printing plant goes dark | Boston Globe

Four stories tall, loud as a locomotive, and with at least as many moving parts, The Boston Globe’s printing presses on Morrissey Boulevard will come to a stop next month.

Since 1958 they’ve kept a tight schedule, pressing ink onto newsprint and churning out daily papers into the wee hours, long after New England has drifted off to sleep.

The seasoned hands who play this finely tuned instrument have done so for decades; some families for generations — skin flecked with ink, senses attuned to the pulse of the machine as it turns out tomorrow’s front pages. Soon this nocturnal symphony will end, at least in Dorchester, as the Globe moves all of its printing to a new facility in Taunton.

Here’s a video tribute to the machines and the people who have kept the news rolling all these years.

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[xerax-]

ive been in the industry for a year now, 20 years old, really wish i could pick these guys brains theres really nothing like printing/binding its such satisfying work

[darrinscott]

I even miss the smell of the blanket wash and the ink

[LucasGruner]

I'm 25 and I get the Globe delivered every Sunday; I wish print news were still a bigger part of the world.

[LarkLoganYourRockinRealtor]

This is absolutely amazing to see how a newspaper comes together. I know the Globe is in a different facility but getting a glimpse of how it all comes together is fascinating. Thank you and best to all in the new building!

[jeffnewz]

This is the BEST video of 'the presses' I've ever used to ride my bike through the snow to get a Globe & a Traveler! You guys will be around for a while!
Good luck in the new

[johnfairbairn]

Old Morrissey blvd that was a beast of a press driving by. Thankful I went sheetfed

[vectorhacker-r]

My dad worked in a printing press until the company went bankrupt in 2007. I remember going into the press and watching the printing process. It was certainly memorizing.

[chipispowdercoatingcharles]

I did 30 years in newspaper web presses.i started out working next to ww2 vets I have amazing memories of it all from cape cod to Detroit to USA today in Norwood.

[chrislemery]

I would have liked printing here. Neat old goss.

[thekrunkymonkey]

I love the internet but I hate that it has taken newspapers from us. I loved buying the giant weekend broadsheets and reading news for hours over coffee. They just don't exist like this any more and its sad.

[plag]

I love this story I'm going to get a subscription.

[livjaho]

Very well done! I'd like to see this become a movie actually...

[gregwyatt]

I spent 30 years running presses, they are right how it feels there is nothing like it. I did get out of it when the industry starting falling apart and made the switch to digital at a mail fulfillment center printing med statements and delinquent notices, never did care for it that much for it. Even though, I did get work on a single web roll to roll HPT200 ink jet, if you had a web break, you were up the creek, the web was 450 ft from end to end, it could run 52, 000 an hour (every page was different name and color)

[philanderson]

I started on a goss community press in 1985. Owned my printing business for the last decade. It’s almost time to sell the business and ride into the retirement sunset 😊

[budlewis]

When I got married in 1972 the priest did a double take when he saw my indelibly stained hands. Back then if you wore gloves and ear protection you were just a poussy. We were idiots.

[leshopkins]

Loved printing for 42yrs. Till companies don’t appreciate me anymore!

[druckerman]

Sheetfed printer here. I bleed 186. I hear you brothers. I feel the mechanical pulse too. Inky fingers, clean money.

[jackc]

Just saw this video today though it’s 3 years old. Brought back memories for me. Worked at an Rrd gravure plant for 44 1/2 yrs. they shut the plant down destroyed 8 presses I was lucky got my pension I was almost 65, over 350 lost their jobs

[justinthyme]

I started my apprenticeship in 1955, worked as a pressman for R Murdoch's Sunday Times W Australia, he inherited this from his dad and said he would never sell, you guessed he sold out to West Australian newspaper, I'm 80 years old now and sorry to see the rapid demise of so many Newspapers around the Globe.

[Mike-.]

Dark dirty press room, wow I spent many years in these rooms