Printing and writing materials: their evolution (1901)
Smith, Adele Millicent · Philadelphia, The author · leaf 116
gescrew. After each impression the platen had tobe screwed up again, in order that the printedsheet might be removed and hung up to dry.Only about fifty impressions could be made in anhour. The early presses required two workmen—one to ink the type, and one to pull or to print. The Gutenberg press… … OLD WOODEN PRINTING-PRESS, 1508. [After woodcut by Badius.] HISTORY OF THE PRINTING-PRESS 73 of the fifteenth century to the early part of theseventeenth. About 1620 improvements were made in the The Blaeu old printing-press by William Janson Blaeu of P^ess.Amsterdam. By a device attached to the…
Writing · Printing · Paper industry · Bookbinding
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