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Litho plates being burned

26 Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead SL6, UK

A field recording by Felicity Ford made in Maidenhead, United Kingdom on 2 October 2014, in the afternoon. Soundscape: wind and construction & industry.

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Litho plates being burned
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In this recording, the production manager at Williams Press - Mo - talks through how the Litho-plates are created for the Litho-printing process. She explains that there are four plates per 2-page spread in every book: one for each layer of ink. The sounds you can hear are mostly of the lasers inside the machine burning the impressions for each ink layer, but at the end there is a wondrous metallic sound of the freshly burned plates emerging from the machine with a slight wobble...

Written by Felicity Ford on radio aporee ::: maps.

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Maidenhead is a town of about 70,374 people in England, United Kingdom. OttoAnna lists 12 field recordings from here.

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