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Printing (wooden press) Statistic | 600 impressions per day |
Printing (iron press) Statistic | 200-300 impressions per hour |
Developed the Cast Iron Press | Charles Stanhope |
William Ged | Developed stereotyping, popularized by Stanhope |
Stereotyping | Process of perserving pages of type for future reprints |
Cylinder presses | First presses adapted for steam power |
Washington Press | First to adapt the solid cast-iron press frame to be lighter and stronger |
Job Press | Added the foot-treddle inking mechanism to the press |
Friedrich Koenig | Developed the (single) cylinder press |
The Times (of London) | First to use the cylinder press for mass production; and first to use steam power |
Printing (cylinder press) Statistic | 1,100 sheets per hour |
Augustus Applegath & Edward Cowper | Credited with the use of the first four-cylinder press |
R. Hoe & Company | Manufacturer of the first power presses in the United States |
Wiliam Bullock | Creditied with the use of the Rotary Web Press |
Platen | A flat plate of metal that presses the paper onto the form. |
Daniel Treadwell | First to attempt mechanization of printing in the U.S. |
Columbian Press | noteworthy because it used a series of weights and counterweights, making it relatively easy for the printer to increase the force of the impression and raise the platen after each impression |
Albion Press | Had a career of 120 years in the priting industry with models from "Amateur" to "Herculean" |
Phototypesetting | Using film to create negatives and print through the process of resist |
Linotype | Technology that eliminated setting type by hand |