I don't ever remember seeing a printer for broadcast sheets inside the Van Nuys Assembly Plant. By the time I worked in computer operations, the 3rd generation F-car was in production and scheduling called the documents "manifests," which were printed on a Xerox 9700 laser printer, which could print bar codes. There was only room in the computer center for one Xerox 9700 and we constantly had problems as I believe each vehicle had 35 or 36 manifest documents. Whenever there was a change in production, scheduling would remove the manifests at each work station, which was a tedious task. Sometimes, scheduling would have to request new manifests due to the number of changes, which was risky as there was only about a 4 day lead time from when the manifests were printed and then distributed out to the assembly plant. We even had paper shortages and were told that we had to use Xerox paper and had to borrow some from another company in Van Nuys!
