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Typesetting a daily run of the People's Daily in 1972, a short visual thread:
A worker at the typesetting department cleans and prepares the fonts https://chinareading.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/typesetter-arranging-fonts-at-the-peoples-daily-beijing-1972/
The master typesetter arranges the fonts https://chinareading.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/master-typesetter-preparing-fonts-for-the-print-at-the-peoples-daily-beijing-1972/
A first print is checked by the master typesetter https://chinareading.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/master-typesetter-checking-the-print-at-the-peoples-daily-beijing-1972/
Final proofing of the print of the day https://chinareading.wordpress.com/2020/07/22/final-proofing-of-the-print-at-the-peoples-daily-beijing-1972/
And the newspaper is all ready to be read — in the case shown in the photos, it is the People's Daily from 29 January 1972, although the group photograph did not make it into the final cut:
For more photos from China involving people reading/interacting with newspapers, see the 'newspapers' category on the China Reading blog: https://chinareading.wordpress.com/category/newspapers/
