cylinder press

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With the invention of the cylinder press by Frederick König was verified the saying that the art of printing had lent wings to words.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883 by Various

A part of Clarkson's "Life of William Penn" was printed on this press, and was the first book ever printed on a cylinder press.

From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.

Joe bought a rebuilt cylinder press for fifteen hundred dollars and had it installed in the basement.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James

Although as early as 1811 Koenig had made a cylinder press which had proved fairly successful, the better grades of printing could be obtained only by the flat pressure of the hand-presses.

From The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing by Hitchcock, Frederick H.

The cylinder press of Jackson’s design was finished in 1735 and paid for by the income from prolonged sieges of work for printing offices.

From John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Kainen, Jacob