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COASTAL LIFE
Behind the printing of Our Coast
Flummoxing fog
A routine evening clamming trip runs into a snag
Pouring at the Coast
Taste beers from 40 breweries at this annual Seaside beer festival
THE ARTS
Grabbed by printmaking
Astoria artist Kirsten Horning practices her art at CCC
DINING
Steak Au Poivre
Master the art of deglazing a pan with this simple pan sauce
STEPPING OUT........ .............................................................. 5, 6, 7
POURING AT THE COAST PROGRAM..... ............................ .11 TO 14
CROSSWORD.......... .....................................................................17
CW MARKETPLACE........ ....................................................... 18, 19
GRAB BAG ...... .......................................................................... . 23
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Seaside Brewing Co. co-owner and brewer Vince Berg
holds a pint of the brewery’s local beer. The brewery
and the Seaside Chamber of Commerce will present
Pouring at the Coast, a craft beer festival, this week-
end at the Seaside Convention Center.
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is 45 years old. The compa-
ny’s newest saddle stitcher, the
SP2200, is just one year old.
“Here’s our forest,” Dey
said, as we neared a large room
on the edge of the warehouse. It
housed huge cylinders of paper
— $3 million worth. Each role
is 5 miles long, and one press
can run through a roll in 14
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go through a lot of paper.
But that’s not to say they
aren’t environmentally con-
scious. On the contrary, Dey
said Journal Graphics strives
to minimize its environmental
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allow for more accuracy and
less paper waste; and all scraps
are compressed and hauled to
the nearby recycler.
I left my tour with an armful
of magazines and a great appre-
ciation for all the moving parts
that put together Our Coast.
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brochures and many magazines,
including Hawaiian Luxury,
Alaska Airlines Magazine, Mon-
tana Bride, and the closer-to-
Along with my weekly home Portland Monthly, Seattle
Coast Weekend duties, I’m Monthly and Eugene Magazine.
also in charge of Our Coast,
Ron Dey, vice president of
the annual regional travel sales, was my tour guide. He
magazine published by The showed me the customer ser-
Daily Astorian and Chinook vice and prepress departments.
Observer.
Then we entered the press-
If you’re a regular reader, room. Journal Graphics owns
you’ll have noticed the mag- three presses. Each is a heatset
azine was inserted in both press, which means the ink
papers last week. If not, you on the page dries quickly un-
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restaurants, visitor centers, and
at www.discoverourcoast.com
We print our coastal newspa-
pers on the press in our Astoria
building. But we have Our Coast
magazine printed in Portland by a
company called Journal Graphics.
Recently, I got the chance to
tour Journal Graphics. When I
studied journalism at the Uni-
versity of Oregon, my emphasis
was in magazines — so seeing
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west commercial printer was
fascinating.
Journal Graphics got its start
as the Daily Journal of Com-
merce newspaper in 1925. In
1937, the company entered com-
mercial printing. Today it prints a
wide range of publications: maps,
By Rebecca Sedlak
COAST WEEKEND EDITOR
rsedlak@dailyastorian.com
FEATURE
COAST WEEKEND EDITOR:
REBECCA SEDLAK
NOTES FROM THE EDITOR
coldset, where the ink dries
through ordinary evaporation
and absorption into the paper.
Ink drying so rapidly has the
advantage of providing extra
crisp lines and bright colors.
Each of the presses was
working during my tour. Paper
traveled 30 mph through the
Sunday 2000 press.
We moved on to the bind-
ery department, which oper-
ates on a 24/7 schedule. There
are generally two ways to bind
a magazine. Our Coast has
a perfect binding: Adhesive
is applied to gathered pages,
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angular spine. The other kind
of binding is called the sad-
dle-stitch: Folded pages are
gathered together and wire
staples secure them together,
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Journal Graphics has two
perfect binder machines; one
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