. A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day . acilities for distribution, andfiner adjustments throughout. The plates admit of underlays andoverlays the same as on a flat-bed press. There are no tapes, thefolding being done on rollers and small cylinders without smuttingthe printing. In the folding apparatus there are knives which cutthe sheet into the right size for folding, after which they are au-tomatically delivered counted in lots of fifty each. The speed on athirty-two page form is about 16,000 co
. A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day . acilities for distribution, andfiner adjustments throughout. The plates admit of underlays andoverlays the same as on a flat-bed press. There are no tapes, thefolding being done on rollers and small cylinders without smuttingthe printing. In the folding apparatus there are knives which cutthe sheet into the right size for folding, after which they are au-tomatically delivered counted in lots of fifty each. The speed on athirty-two page form is about 16,000 copies per hour. This styleof machine is probably destined to revolutionize book and pamph-let printing, as it combines the finest construction and facility ofoperation with the greatest speed. In 1886 a further advance was made toward perfection in therotarysystemof printing as adapted to doing fine work, in the construc-tion for Theodore L. De Vinne, the printer of the Century Maga-zine, by Hoe & Co., of a perfecting press to do the plainforms of that periodical. The machine was described in the 72 NEWSPAPER AND PAMPHLET PRESS. NEWSPAPER AND PAMPHLET PRESS magazine, in an article written by Mr. De Vinne, here quotedfrom: (Extract from article published in the Century Magazine, November, 1890.) At the end of a long row of machinery stands the web press—a massive and compHcated construction, especially built by Hoe &Co. for printing, cutting and folding the plain and advertising pagesof the Century. Web presses tor newspapers are common enough,but this press has distinction as the first, and for three years the only,web press used in this country, for good book work. At one endof the machine is a great roll of paper more than two miles longwhen unwound, and weighing about 750 pounds. As the paper un-winds it passes first over a jet of steam which slightly dampens andsoftens its hard surface and fits it for receiving impressions, withoutleaving it wet or sodden. It passes under
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