A welcome change from the recent underground military shenanigans, we hit a very recently closed printing factory. I don't think anyone's actually done this one yet, whee, hence posting in the non-indexed bit.
Unfortunately, the whole damn thing still appeared to be at least partially operational, with security active throughout, CCTV, and people using the massive storage facilities. Also, we got locked in, leading to a vaguely entertaining series of attempts to get around high barbed fences, guards, alarmed doors, and Polish truck drivers.
All this led to us seeing only part of the equation, as we had to save the big machine facilities for another day. We'll be back with more. In the meanwhile, here for your entertainment some really shiny, brand new toys from one of the big printing facilities on the premises.
Not one of the more visually spectacular places I've visited (although all the shiny shit was pretty nifty) but mind-boggling by being so...so...new.
There are four very very large print lines, with hundreds upon hundreds of enormous, shiny spindles, giant laser printers, and all sorts of other electrical and mechanical gymcrackery. I didn't bother taking so many pics of the surrounding buildings, as it was pretty much your standard bleak 1970s auxiliary factory office and support buildings - hopefully that will all change when we do trip #2 for the even larger machine halls.
Unfortunately, the whole damn thing still appeared to be at least partially operational, with security active throughout, CCTV, and people using the massive storage facilities. Also, we got locked in, leading to a vaguely entertaining series of attempts to get around high barbed fences, guards, alarmed doors, and Polish truck drivers.
All this led to us seeing only part of the equation, as we had to save the big machine facilities for another day. We'll be back with more. In the meanwhile, here for your entertainment some really shiny, brand new toys from one of the big printing facilities on the premises.
Not one of the more visually spectacular places I've visited (although all the shiny shit was pretty nifty) but mind-boggling by being so...so...new.
There are four very very large print lines, with hundreds upon hundreds of enormous, shiny spindles, giant laser printers, and all sorts of other electrical and mechanical gymcrackery. I didn't bother taking so many pics of the surrounding buildings, as it was pretty much your standard bleak 1970s auxiliary factory office and support buildings - hopefully that will all change when we do trip #2 for the even larger machine halls.
More, as usual, at kosmograd dot net.
