How Jigsaw Puzzles Are Made? (Mega Factories Video)
How Jigsaw Puzzles Are Made? (Mega Factories Video)
A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often oddly shaped interlocking and mosaiced pieces. Typically, each individual piece has a portion of a picture; when assembled, the jigsaw puzzle produces a complete picture.
Most modern jigsaw puzzles are made out of paperboard since they are easier and cheaper to mass-produce than the original wooden models. An enlarged photograph or printed reproduction of a painting or other two-dimensional artwork is glued onto the cardboard before cutting. This board is then fed into a press. The press forces a set of hardened steel blades of the desired shape through the board until it is fully cut. This procedure is similar to making shaped cookies with a cookie cutter. The forces involved, however, are tremendously greater and a typical 1000-piece puzzle requires a press that can generate upwards of 700 tons of force to push the knives of the puzzle die through the board. A puzzle die is a flat board, often made from plywood, which has slots cut or burned in the same shape as the knives that are used. These knives are set into the slots and covered in a compressible material, typically foam rubber, which serves to eject the cut puzzle pieces.
New technology has enabled laser-cutting of wooden or acrylic jigsaw puzzles. The advantage of cutting with a laser is that the puzzle can be custom cut into any size, any shape, with any size (or any number) of pieces. Many museums have laser cut acrylic puzzles made of some of their more important pieces of art so that children visiting the museum can see the original piece and then assemble a jigsaw puzzle of the image that is also in the same shape as the piece of art. Acrylic is used because the pieces are very durable, waterproof, and can withstand continued use without the image fading, or the pieces wearing out, or becoming frayed. Also, because the print and cut patterns are computer-based, lost pieces can be manufactured without remaking the entire puzzle.
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nice but how were they made 75 years ago
I like puzzles
I’d like to tackle that huge puzzle & see how long it takes to finish working at least 6-8 hrs daily, or more…I love puzzles & seeing how fast I can finish them…more challenging, the better…
It’s a DIE, not "dice"!
I don’t want to brag but I finished a puzzle in a week and the box said 6 to 12 years.
It seems as though modern jigsaw puzzles are kinda lame compared to older ones. The older ones had very unique, differently shaped pieces…the challenge was to find the right shape plus the right color when looking for a puzzle piece. Now the pieces are all the same size & shape. I know, the colors still have to be in the proper place, but somehow it seems as though a small but fascinating element of the puzzle is gone…
somebody needs to look at the written explanation – it’s full of grammatical and other mistakes, run-on sentences etc
i think it’s time i make my own puzzle
Sad we no long need companies like this, with the internet just order a Pizzle and it is sent to you home.
Up until today, I only bought 2 puzzels full price…new…cuz they are expensive. Now I can appreciate their expense.
You’d have to really hate life to waste time doing a puzzle.
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The only interesting part is how the die for cutting is made and used… The rest is no different than any other printing job. And that one interesting part was skipped through in about 15 seconds.
nice music
Does the same die cut many different puzzles? IOW, could you end up with Snow White and Bambi together if you bought both puzzles and started at opposite ends?
You left out the part where they take out the last puzzle part and throw it away.
I figured theyβd probably move to some kind of laser cutter instead of making a master die for such things
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I wanted to see who spends the time bending the blades to cut those puzzles.π€―
I would love to see how the puzzles are broken apart before they are bagged.
Somebody should write a novel about all the lost pieces of puzzles in the world being gathered together to miraculously compose a gigantic, clumsy , misshaped ,odd numbered, cursed Frankenstein-like puzzle that’s impossible to finish for everybody apart from the Chosen One who will be able to complete and reveal ” The Image ” (obviously without a box or any other clue)
Every step was shown except how the die cuts themselves are made. I would like to see that.
Were puzzles ever featured on the program "How It’s Made"?
Jigsaw puzzles nowadays come with an instruction manual?
Where is my missing piece?
Imagine dropping that puzzle
Never had a puzzle with an assembly guide. Usually just something about the company and other products.
How was it done before computers?
Only white people work at the puzzle factory. Hm.
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I.,am a grandma and i spend 2 hours everyday
To make jigsaw puzzles . Thank’s a lot.
Instruction Manual:
Step 1: Attach two adjacent pieces together.
Step 2: If unattached pieces remain, repeat Step #1.
how do you, determine, the size of each piece of puzzle?! & how do you know what type of pictures you’ll use?? πβοΈπππ€
I missed the machine that removes one piece from each package and hides it
Still sometimes you get some pieces stuck together!
You have no time to make a machine that completely separates all piece?
I like the one time? She drew in the thing?
Life of Germans like a puzzle. Make simple things complicated.
Do people even make any of the new Disney movies posters?
do you make larger pieces for 5 and 6 year old.
nice but how were they made 75 years ago
I love Ravensburger’s quality and fitment but Buffalo has more fun pictures. I would buy more Ravensburgers if they had more fun pictures. 1,000 piece.
I just wanted to hear, "Elves in trees." This was disappointing.
Try the US made Dowdle Costco 1000 piece puzzle.
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*I use both my laser cutter and Cricut Maker 3 for making my puzzles.*
The last jigsaw puzzle I did was quite certainly just a photograph that had been digitized into a painting, the details were too specific for it to be an artist’s rendition. My guess is there’s a lot less effort going into jigsaw puzzles than they pretend here. I also suspect it wasn’t printed in a special manner with somebody pretending he can measure a difference in quality with a just magnifying glass, and the factory it was made in wouldn’t have had such a high ratio of white folk.
Not to mention the tooling likely wasn’t unique, there’s many thousands of jigsaw puzzles all cut with the same tooling, as demonstrated by artist Tim Klein from Vancouver, Washington who has been able to mix and match pieces of jigsaw puzzles cut from the same die for his artwork.
I paused it on accident just as the word quality was disappearing. It made it so the y was really small. I thought it was smart little joke until I was re-watched it. 1:35
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This is all very good but how do those diemakers get those dies? Do they just go down to Walmart and buy them?? Probably not.
For crying out loud they are not "dice". They are dies.
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