Don't Newspapers print their papers in the basement?

[Premature Combustion]

Every newspaper office I've ever been to has there copy and print offices in the basement because they often need to make last minute changes in format, etc...

In Lois and Clark the printers were in the basement.

Where does the SV Daily Planet print their paper?

Plus that was an awful huge building to need to keep interns in the basement.

[Summers]

They should be in the bottom, but I thought Chloe was just going with the phrase and all of working from the bottom up.

[lzpoof]

Originally posted by Premature Combustion
Every newspaper office I've ever been to has there copy and print offices in the basement because they often need to make last minute changes in format, etc...

In Lois and Clark the printers were in the basement.

Where does the SV Daily Planet print their paper?

Plus that was an awful huge building to need to keep interns in the basement.

Umm, I would think that the machines would be in the basement because they weigh tons and emit poisonous fumes ... but that could just be me.

[Premature Combustion]

But we see Chloe in the basement with all those others.

[surfer]

Actually most newspapers now have plants/factories that produce factories* now days. When I did this workshop for the LA Times, they took us to their plant.

It's a wherehouse with thousand tons of paper and huge noisy, machines. The newspaper is sent digitally from the office to the plant.

I think in the past the press was in the basement.

*I really meant newspapers.

Plus the la times has other factories that produce local editions for different counties

[Poetic Chaos]

mass-produced factories in factories. that's awesome.

[Emerald Dragen]

Just a note...

In the Incredible Hulk tv series there was an episode where David Banner ended up in a newspaper building to steal something that was going to be printed, I believe about the Hulk, and the printers were upstairs, in fact they took up two floors on their own.

This is a vivid memory because they replay the show on Sci-fi during the day every now and then.

[username]

The newspaper I work for does not have a print room in the basement, it's a separate building next to news room. I was always under the impression that the basement was always the mail room.

[neo_nate]

i agree with that

[lzpoof]

Originally posted by Poetic Chaos
mass-produced factories in factories. that's awesome.

I think that was in a movie .. Austin Powers maybe ? Factories that produce little miniature factories.

[chrismen]

I once visited the Miami Herald and there the newspapers are printed in a seperate (yet connected) building and it had a very large area, very tall roof, and mass amounts of huge paper rolls.

[Premature Combustion]

Places where real estate is a premium tend to build up rather than spreading out.

It is the digital age so I guess they could be elsewhere.

Upstairs doesn't make sense to me because even with cargo elevators it would be a pain have to bring endless amounts of huge paper rolls upstairs and palettes of printed papers downstairs.