Press challenges: behind the scenes of last week’s edition

  • Grace Rangel, left, who has pre-press responsibilities at the printing plant in Taylor; Ory Boney, operations manager; and Janie Mata, inserter, concentrate on getting the Lampasas Dispatch Record and the Boerne Star out the door and back to their respective communities, despite having no electricity at the plant. JIM LOWE | DISPATCH RECORD
    Grace Rangel, left, who has pre-press responsibilities at the printing plant in Taylor; Ory Boney, operations manager; and Janie Mata, inserter, concentrate on getting the Lampasas Dispatch Record and the Boerne Star out the door and back to their respective communities, despite having no electricity at the plant. JIM LOWE | DISPATCH RECORD
  • Mail clerk Jordan Brogan, left, and Daniel Philhower – owner of 10 newspapers, including the Taylor Press – help prepare newspapers for eventual distribution. Not pictured: press foreman Phillip Gutierrez. JIM LOWE | DISPATCH RECORD
    Mail clerk Jordan Brogan, left, and Daniel Philhower – owner of 10 newspapers, including the Taylor Press – help prepare newspapers for eventual distribution. Not pictured: press foreman Phillip Gutierrez. JIM LOWE | DISPATCH RECORD

    After three days of 28-degree temperatures and frozen precipitation last week, we know Lampasans are glad to have the ice gone and the mercury move above the freezing zone. We also think our readers are pleased to have the Dispatch Record return to its usual look. You did notice the “wonky” appearance of Friday’s paper, right? Quite a bit of drama surrounded the printing of the Feb. 3 edition, and…