[ale] I need one of these

[Jim]

I lived for a time in Manhattan on E 63 and Second Ave.  I woke up in 
the middle of the night to the sound of trucks rumbling by. I looked out 
the window from the 13th floor and could see both directions on 2nd. 
semi rigs with large rolls of paper that looked to be about 8 feet by 10 
feet. The flatbed trailers were completely full of these rolls.  Found 
out later they were headed to Queens to be used by the New York Times.  
They hold about 10 miles of paper per roll.  The convoy stretched out as 
far as I could see to the North and about 5 blocks to the south.  They 
rolled by for at least another 10 minutes.  I wonder how many acres of 
trees it took?

Jim.

On 9/22/20 12:21 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> I once saw a commercial credit card statement printing rig. Throughput 
> was measured in linear feet per second and that number had almost 3 
> digits. Wide carriage dot matrix that was a head the full width of the 
> paper path so no movement required except by the paper. Paper 
> delivered by forklift.
> At around 90 feet per second the refold was by air jets.
> I was asked to fix the serial port connection feeding one of these. 
> Testing wasted at least a tree. Finally found rodent damage in a wall. 
> The other printers were next to fail. Reran new wires through a 3" 
> steel conduit in the wall and capped off. Swapped over each end and 
> got paid. Got called back when they switched to ethernet from serial. 
> They were super happy I had run cat 5 as the change was new ends plus 
> a switch.