cylinder press

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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.

This motor required 5 amperes to drive the shafting, and but 8 amperes or one H. P. to drive the three job presses with the cylinder press off.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 by Various

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

The second-hand engine ceases to snort, the rat printers disperse and the wheezy old cylinder press no longer alarms the neighborhood.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by Brann, William Cowper

The cylinder press has proclaimed universal education, and the dynamo crowned the brow of humanity with a coronet of light.

From The One Woman by Dixon, Thomas