Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1847-01-28

/ IMpovEMENTs IN PRINTISG.-There is no
/ business i'll which Improvements have been
more surprising and extensive than in the art
of printing. the time is in the recollection Of
many of the older printers Of this city and OF
/ the Union, when the Rama9e double pull
press was considered the ne pllts ultra Of per-
fectlon-when sharp,iaced and ill-shaped type
We're the only kind used-and the raw sheep
skin, kneaded by the foot, constituted the sole
| linking apparatus. The operation OF printing
a daily newspaper was exceedingly labarIousi
and token an hour ESQ copies) was consld-
cred fair work for two expert pTesSmen. The
Ramage press was superseded by others,
which embraced the whole form at single
pull, and composition rollers, took the place OF
( the sheepskin ball. These Improvements d.
minished labor and facilitated progress. But
/ invention did not stop here. The Napier Cy-
/ Under Printing Machine, and Adams Press,
and other apparatus succeeded, until we have
/ arrived at our present state OF perfection. Io
/ the ingenuity OF Messrs. Hos s Co.. of New
/ York, printers and the public are greatly in.
debted for the extraordinary speed with which
/ newspapers, handbills, sc. can now be prln-
! ted.
! The large machine upon which the Clipper
I is printed is of their manufacture; and, ia its
]
/ labor as machinery can be brought. II grasps
1 the sheet Of paper in lis fingers, carries It un.
/ der the machine, and when printed takes il
from the press and lays ii in its destined place
nor does ii ask assistance in distributing ink
upon lis rollers. or upon the form to be prin-
ted. 1t can be worked by hand or BY steam,
and win work as fast as the hand of man can
arrange the paper for lis use. We are happy
to say that our printing Machine is now m
complete order, and that we have no fear that
this paper will not appear in future as hand
somely printed as any other paper in the United
States.
But Messrs. HoE s. Co. have not been con-
tent with their great improvements upon news
paper printing Machnes-,hey have also ex-
tended them to those used for job work. From
the great amount Of this kind of work which
we have to perform, we have been compelled
TO procure one of these machines. II is the
most perfect and beautiful piece Of mechanism
that we have ever examined and is perform
ance is most extraordinary and gratifying
Without putting the Machine in more than or
binary speed without the application OF steam,
we can throw off from fifteen hundred TO two
thousand copies IN an hour, with clear and
distinct impression. Without its use we should
hare found il utterly impossible TO comply
with the numerous orders for printing which
we have received for on some occasions we
have had 10 furnish some seven or eigh hun
dred bills within the course OF few hours.
We have also added to our establishment an
exceedingly useful Patent Machine for cutting
paper, when not only facilitates the operation,
but performs il with the utmost neatneSs and
exactness thus removing the objection 10
rough and uneven edges. II is valuable adj
dition to the job printing department Of our Of
fee.
ANY person conversant with the former slow
progress IN printing, and with the appearance
of the type, cannot fail to be struck with aston
ishmenl at the greatly improved condition Of
the ar, ofprnting. In the type casting depart
Inent, as well as in printing machines the Inn
has been wonderful. Let any one |
the type now cast at the Baltimore
Type Foundry, owned by Il. Lucas, Jr., Esq,
with that which was used some twenty or thir- !
" years ago, and the greater beauty Of the for
nIer viii be apparent The type upon which
this paper is printed is specimen Of Mr.. LII
cAs's Foundry. and we think that il viii sue