Trip to National Publishing

 Everything starts with an electronic file which to make a long story short is transferred to a sheet which will be inked and printed from.  A book will have many of these sheets put together.  Each of the vertical rows is considered a "signature".  This sheet shows 2 different signatures with 4 of each on the sheet.

 Here are the huge rolls of paper!  They keep so much on hand and have another warehouse that holds more paper so they don't run out.

 The printer has extra rolls of paper loaded so that it doesn't ever run out during a printing.

 The part in the middle is where the printing occurs.

 Here it's being printed.  The machine will further cut up the pieces and fold them into signatures.

 Signatures are gathered into stacks which will be later combined into the book.  The books are bound and trimmed so that they are uniform before the cover is put on it.

Covers are made in another area.  Then another machine puts the cover and the inside part together into one.

Here are boxes of the completed Bibles.

The machinery used to make the pocket New Testaments is classified and we weren't able to take any pictures.  It was very neat to see all the checks they have in place to makes sure that each book comes out right.  This company has done so much to make this a highly effective production so that people around the world can have God's Word.