EDITORIAL
When was the last time you bought any nice paper? No, I can’t remember either – perhaps the last time I had to send a paper CV to someone I was trying to impress, so it’s been a while for me – but it’s something we do here every month when we print the magazine.
The weight and finish of every page is specified by us and then paper to that spec of thickness and glossiness arrives at Warners, our printers in Lincolnshire, on great big rolls that need a forklift to move them around. The paper is loaded into the massive printing machine and, once the printing plates are set in place, the rolls are sliced into large sheets to be printed both sides and then folded, trimmed and added to the other sections of Singletrack as they pass through the printing process. Finally, the thicker cover is glued into place, trimmed, and the finished magazine is left to dry before being boxed for distribution to stockists or bagged for posting to subscribers.