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Read the text carefully. Then answer the questions that follow.
The newspaper production process has come a long way from the old days when the paper was written,
edited, typeset and ultimately printed in one building with the joumalists working on the upper
floors and the printing presses going on the ground floor. These days the editor, sub-editors and
joumalists who put the paper together are likely to find themselves in a totally different
building or maybe even in a different city. This is the situation, which now prevails in Sydney.
The daily paper is compiled at the editorial headquarters [known as the prepress center] in the
heart of the city, but printed far away in the suburbs at the printing center. Here human beings
are in the minority, as much of the work is done by automated machines controlled by computers.
Once the finished newspaper has been created for the next moming's edition, all the pages are
transmitted electronically from the prepress center to the printing center. The system of
transmission is an update on the sophisticated page facsimile system already in use on many other
newspapers. An imagesetter at the printing center delivers the pages as film. Each page takes less
than a minute to produce, although for color pages four versions, once each for black, cyan,
magenta and yellow, are sent. The pages are then processed into photographic negatives and the film
is used to produce aluminum printing plates ready for the presses. A procession of automated
vehicles is busy at the new printing center where the Sydney Moming
