Will Gutenburg be turning in his grave?

Paid Content have done an excellent analysis of the number of the number of printing presses that have closed in the UK.

It says that

At least 14 major print plants have closed and 1,496 jobs lost since 2005,but adds

That doesn’t tell the full story: many publishers have actually been steadily investing in reorganising and upgrading the presses, despite rising print costs.

Rupert Murdoch amongst them at automated plants in Broxbourne, Knowsley and Glasgow.

As they point out

for the regional titles, it’s the end of a publishing era. Big papers have traditionally been printed on their own presses in rooms near to their editorial creators, but publishers are now admitting this model is uneconomic and many papers are moving printing to rivals’ presses or to their own larger, but centralised presses many miles away. That means cuts to daily editions; evening editions turned in to morning papers to fit the new economy.