stacker robot

this was all i could sneak of the press in action while being fairly discreet.




that robot stacks the signatures onto pallets after they come off the folder at the end of the press. used to be a job for a human, but the only way to make a profit in printing is to do more, faster than anyone else (and write off crazy robots for depreciation three years after they're installed...).

anyone who feels sorry for the human stacker that lost his minimum wage job can take comfort in the knowledge that his corporate overlords will probably be out of business within our lifetime, what with the advent of technology like e-paper and the increasing ubiquity of the internet in everything with an electrical circuit...