An old engraving of Hoe’s web perfecting printing machine of 1871. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the type and images to be printed are curved around a cylinder. Printing presses that use continuous rolls are sometimes referred to as ‘web’ presses. Richard March Hoe (1812 –1886) was an American inventor from New York City who designed rotary printing presses, including the ‘Hoe web perfecting press’ in 1871, that used a continuous roll of paper and revolutionised newspaper publishing.
An old engraving of Hoe’s web perfecting printing machine of 1871. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. A rotary printing press is a printing press in which the type and images to be printed are curved around a cylinder. Printing presses that use continuous rolls are sometimes referred to as ‘web’ presses. William Nicholson filed a 1790 patent for a rotary press. Richard March Hoe (1812 –1886) was an American inventor from New York City who designed a rotary printing press and related advancements, including the ‘Hoe web perfecting press’ in 1871, that used a continuous roll of paper and revolutionised newspaper publishing. He is most well-known for his invention in 1843 of a rotary printing press: type was placed on a revolving cylinder, a design that could print much faster than the old flatbed printing press. Arunah Shepherdson Abell, publisher of The Sun in Baltimore, was among the first to buy it and put it into use. In 1870 Hoe developed a rotary press that printed both sides of a page in a single operation, what he called the ‘Hoe web perfecting press’. Hoe's press used a continuous roll of paper five miles long, which was put through the machine at the rate of 800 feet (240 m) a minute. As the roll emerged, it passed over a knife which cut pages apart; they were next run through an apparatus which folded the pages for the mail or for carriers. These completely printed and folded newspapers were delivered at a rate of 18,000 per an hour and was used the first time by the New York Tribune.
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