Press operator Marc Strong walks past a conveyor belt that transports Los Angeles Times newspapers from the press room to where the newspapers are packaged and distributed at the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.
(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
The March 11 edition of the Los Angeles Times print edition will be its last at the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.
The presses have gone silent.
Starting with the March 12 print edition, the paper will be printed in Riverside by the Southern California Newspaper Group, with its circulation numbers remaining the same.
Staff photographer Genaro Molina documented the closure of the storied plant Sunday and the pressmen who made it all happen.
Pressmen check the pages of the Los Angeles Times for corrections on Sunday, the final printing of the paper at the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.
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Ink setter Enrique Romero carries a plate of the Calendar section front on Sunday night, the last night of printing for the Los Angeles Times at the Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.
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The last printing of the Los Angeles Times takes on a ghostly presence as operator John Martin prepares to pull a paper to check for register and color corrections.
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A pressman looks over a paper for possible print corrections while framed by a conveyor belt that transports newspapers from the press room to where they are packaged and distributed at the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles. The last edition of The Times rolled off the presses Sunday.
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Pressman Alex Borjon, center, hugs pressroom shift supervisor Kal Hamalainen goodbye on Sunday, the last day of printing of The Times at the Olympic printing plant.
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First color pressman Daniel Koval stands near a conveyor belt that transports Los Angeles Times newspapers. Koval plans to move to Nevada to work on a printing plant in Las Vegas.
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Here are the face behind the presses. Top row from left, ink setter Enrique Romero, color setter David Oma, press operator Joaquin Velasquez, first color pressman Daniel Koval and color setter specialist Jeron Bostic. Middle row from left, pressman Samuel Pulido, pressman Paul Rogers, operator Marc Strong, pressman Alex Borjon and Roller specialist Emmet Jaime. Bottom row from left, pressman Craig Pesky, pressroom shift supervisor Kal Hamalainen, pressman second color Jonathan De Leon, press operator Raul Aceves and press operator Jimmy Chadwick.
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A pressman, seen from a catwalk, walks past presses where newspapers roll off in the final days before the closure of the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant.
(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
Press operator Raul Aceves waves goodbye to his fellow workers on the last day of his job at the Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.
(Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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