An old engraving showing a Hoe’s single large-cylinder, four-roller printing press It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This machine could print large sheets of printed material. 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. Paper was sheet feed from above the rotating drum.
An old engraving showing a Hoe’s single large-cylinder, four-roller printing press It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This machine could print large sheets of printed material. 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 rotary printing press is a printing press in which the images or pages to be printed are curved around a cylinder. Substrates (printing material) was sheet feed from above the rotating drum.
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Location: New York City, USA
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