Anyone Familiar With Newspapers?

[mikecala98]

Picked these up over the weekend. They appear to be some sort of printing plate made of thin plastic from the NY Daily News sports artist Bill Gallo. I held them up to light to get a better picture. They are essentially stencils. Does anyone know the technical use of these?

[315er]

They're likely film negatives used to make printing plates.
Today, most printing plants get the plates with the pages already on them, so negs are no longer used.

[ZappBrannigan]

Originally Posted by 315er

They're likely film negatives used to make printing plates.
Today, most printing plants get the plates with the pages already on them, so negs are no longer used.

^^^
That’s a cool find.

[BlowoutBuzz]

Definitely negatives to make printing plates. If you invert the image in photoshop it looks correct. (This is based off your photo.)

[mikecala98]

Wow, looks great inverted!! Safe to assume these would be the only ones made for each sketch?

[BlowoutBuzz]

Originally Posted by mikecala98

Wow, looks great inverted!! Safe to assume these would be the only ones made for each sketch?

The page folios are showing on some ... but there could have been any number of them made if there were changes of any kind on other pages or that page (parts cut off below cartoon.)

Probably only one saved by whomever grabbed them but could be more than one made.

[njsportscardguy]

Not familiar with that process of imaging/developing.....?

Here's some current [black] plates from "normal", offset printing application that's common in the newspaper industry. These are from this year's NBA Draft/Wemby Night. They store/save a lot better than regular newspaper! And they're pretty cool/unique pieces to get autographed, too!

[Bunny Hop]

Originally Posted by njsportscardguy

Here's some current [black] plates from "normal", offset printing application that's common in the newspaper industry. These are from this year's NBA Draft/Wemby Night. They store/save a lot better than regular newspaper! And they're pretty cool/unique pieces to get autographed, too!

njsportscardguy I think someone hacked your account! haha jk jk jk. Cool pics and thanks for sharing.

[mikecala98]

Originally Posted by njsportscardguy

Not familiar with that process of imaging/developing.....?

Here's some current [black] plates from "normal", offset printing application that's common in the newspaper industry. These are from this year's NBA Draft/Wemby Night. They store/save a lot better than regular newspaper! And they're pretty cool/unique pieces to get autographed, too!

The guy I bought from had a couple of these also but the content wasn’t anything that interested me.

[315er]

Originally Posted by mikecala98

Wow, looks great inverted!! Safe to assume these would be the only ones made for each sketch?

Possibly, the NYDN prints multiple editions so if a page was updated, they'd had to print a new negative to make a new plate, but usually pages like that were probably intended for early copy.

[StlBen]

I'm aware of the concept of newspapers.

[dbackschamp2001]

Ah yes, newspapers. This is how in olden times we learned about the happenings from far off places, and find out which people who recently died. Simpler times for sure.

[njsportscardguy]

Originally Posted by dbackschamp2001

Ah yes, newspapers. This is how in olden times we learned about the happenings from far off places, and find out which people who recently died. Simpler times for sure.

Ahhh,...touche!! Plenty of us "old farts" still haven't completely sold-out to 21st Century, tech!!

*from multiple, NY/NJ/PA publications,...for the Thursday, November 9th edition(s).