A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day (1902)
Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909 · New York : R. Hoe · leaf 64
. Its consumption of white paper is so astounding that even theimagination grows tired and sits down to catch its breath. It is fedfrom three rolls, each being more than five feet wide. When itsettles down to show its best work it will use up in one hour nearlytwenty-six miles of this paper, or to… … D H 6i SEXTUPLE PRESS ninety thousand four-page Heralds in an hour. This is, to themind, which is not versed in the problem of rapid printing, a featwhich makes Aladdins lamp an old womans fable. Ninety thou-sand per hour means fifteen hundred copies per minute, or twenty-five copies for every…
Hoe Printing Press · Printing machinery and supplies
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