Marin IJ

On a very special October 18th in 1948, The Marin County Press merged with the San Rafael Daily Independent to form what is now the Marin Independent journal. Ever since, the IJ has been writing, printing and delivering papers to all over Marin.
The writers of the IJ have been finding stories for decades and they haven't failed yet. The IJ has writers located all over the county who report to HQ in Novato for processing. Once the stories are written they are all compiled by a few special people, to form newspapers that are compact, yet beautiful. From there the papers are printed using fancy printers based on those of old.
The older printers worked like this. First the paper, typed on type writers, with pictures made with a method that uses technology similar to taking a picture of the picture to be printed, are made in to a long tape concealing all of the paper on a single strip. That strip is fead to a machine that reads it and imprints it into metal sheets. Those metal sheets are used as molds for silicon copies. The silicon copies are playable and thus, are used to bend the shape of the massive wheel that prints, so the silicon is bent and then hardened and used for a metal mold. The now curved metal mold is used to print all the paper by spinning along side another one with paper on ti and a pool of ink below. Once the paper is printed, it is cut packaged and sent for delivery.
The IJ has had over 800 paper boys for delivering papers every day. The paper boys were independent business men who bought papers in bulk from the IJ and then sold the in subscription to citizens. Being a paper boy was at that time considered to be the best business training a young man could get. Also being a paper boy was highly respected and becoming one was not as easy as one might think.
Today the IJ servers over 75,000 customers at a price of 75 cents daily and $1.25 on sunday. If you do not already receive the IJ I highly suggest it. As a customer of the IJ I can ensure you that the quality is high, the content is interesting and up to date, and the business is local, which is always a good thing. If you wish to subscribe to the IJ you can go to there website: www.marinij.com.
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