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Printing Press Equipment

Practice for Test 8-26-13

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screw pressa screw drives the ram with the platen up and down
formetype arranged in tray
platenflat metal plate pressed against the medium to make an impression
matrixa mold used to cast letters
type casebox that holds the different font faces
Intaglioscratch the artwork on metal, ink fills the scratches
stereotypingwhole page cast into a mold
William Gedinvent stereotyping
vellumhigh quality parchment
rotary printingprinting plate wrapped around a cylinder
Fredrich Koeniginvented a steam powered printing press
1814up to 1100 pages per hour
jobbing presssmall press for small format printing jobs, ie envelopes
Richard Hoeinvented the cylinder press
Lord StanhopeMade a press from Iron
offset printingink transferred from the plate to rubber mat then the paper
The Times of Londonfirst newspaper to use a steam powered press
impressionin printing, the act of placing ink on paper
iron press90% reduction of force required for printing when using an iron press
newspapersspread literacy


Whitley County High School
Williamsburg, KY

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