Lone Pine is being printed in Pasadena, CA by Typecraft Wood & Jones Lithography, a print shop that has been in business in Pasadena since 1911. They're awesome. Because I chose a local printer (rather than a printer in Canada or China), I'm able to visit the print shop for press checks. It's been a great pleasure to tour their facilities, look at their equipment and learn about printing.

Yesterday I took some pictures of my press check for Lone Pine.

The book is being printed on a Heidelberg. I believe it can print up to six spot colors.



Aluminum plates are made.



Paper is fed into the Heidelberg.



As paper passes through, each of these towers (not sure of the technical term) prints one color. I'm only printing black and one spot color.



The white you see through the grate is a piece of paper.



Here's the end result.



Once all the pages are printed and cut, the book is sent to a bindery to be put together.

After that, I'll have a nice little blue book to show you, friends.