An old engraving showing a Hoe’s 10-cylinder, revolving printing press It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. R Hoe & Company was a New York City based printing press manufacturer established in 1805 as Smith, Hoe & Company. Rotary drum printing was invented by Richard March Hoe in 1843. A six-cylinder model was able to produce 166,000 16-page newspapers per hour. A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the images or pages to be printed are curved around a cylinder.
An old engraving showing a Hoe’s 10-cylinder, revolving printing press It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. R Hoe & Company was a New York City based printing press manufacturer established in 1805 as Smith, Hoe & Company. R Hoe & Company helped facilitate the rapid and inexpensive production of newspapers. Rotary drum printing was invented by Richard March Hoe in 1843. A six-cylinder model was able to produce 166,000 16-page newspapers per hour. A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the images or pages to be printed are curved around a cylinder. Substrates (printing material) can be sheet feed (as shown here) or unwound on a continuous roll through the press to be printed. This method of printing quickly became adopted worldwide.
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