The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-16
THE NEW TYPOGRAPH.
The Machine and What is Claimed
For It.
A REVOLUTION IN PRINTING.
The Big Eastern Dailies That Have Ordered
Supply-It Promises to be
a Signal Success

1t is four hundred and fifty years since
the art of printing from movable types was
invented by Gutenberg or Kostor or both.
Since that time type has been set by hand
almost exclusively, and very few improve
ments save in the styles of type have been
made For hundred years inventors have
tried to get machine to do this. The L. n
don Times is set up on machines made in
the Times office. There are two other ma
chimes in limited use in the United States
which set up the actual type. These do not
effect large saving, as the justification is
difficult But the attention of inven-
tors has recently been turned toward
perfecting machines that should dispense
with type altogether, and instead make
a solid line of type at one operation. The
Merger thaler machine does this, but owing
TO its size and expense it has not come into
general use. The machine which is now
attracting the attention eff the publishing
world is the Rogers typograph, invented by
Prof. John r. Rogers, of Cleveland, O.,
and manufactured by the Rogers Typo
graph company, of the same city. Ma
chimes are now working in the Pulitzer
building in New york city, and have at
tracted publishers from all over the coun-
try. The New York papers gave full de-
scription of the machine and its workings.
DESCRIPTION OF THE MACHINE.
The typograph is wide departure from
all previous attempts at type-setting ma
chimes IN almost every respect. Its size is
four feet by four feet on the ground four
feet six inches high, ana it weighs $50
pounds; the floor space taken up by it
being little more than that occupied by an
ordinary sewing machine. 1t can be run
by foot, hand or machine power, and only
one eighth horse power is required. The
speed of the machine is limited only by the
capability of the operator. On sixteen
EN- plea line, minion machine, setting on
| memorized matter, speed of 1000 ems per
hour has been attained, but this would be
impossible in actual work. The Oldest OPP
orator of the company has set from copy
as high as AGO ems per hour, and it is de-
clared that the average capacity of the Or
binary operator on a daily newspaper
would be from 5000 to $500 ems per hour
The company claims that its machine will,
in the hands of capable operator do the
work of about four men, and at about one
third of the cost.
THE MATRICES.
The typograph is simple in construction,
and the matrices from which the type is
cast slide into their places by gravity The
finished product of the machine is solid
line of type ready to be placed in the form
10 be printed from directly, or to be used
for stereotyping. The lower half of the
typograph contains the receptacle for the
melted type metal, toe cesting-b box and
the machinery for trimming the line of
type. above this, and connected with it.
Is the frame upon which the matrices are
hung. This frame is like q rounded arch,
with a space devoted TO each matrix in a
font of type. The matrices are hung on
steel wire, which run TO the casting box
down an incline Of about forty five degrees
The matrices are released as they are
wanted, and run along the wires into places
when the key responding to tnem
is touched. The keyboard controlling
them is exactly like that of the Rem
lngton typewriter, and works in the same
way When the matrices have been assem-
bled in their place the spacing is done by a
rotary wedge, which makes the words ex-
actly the same distance apart. The ma
cbinery is started, and one revolution of a
wheel forcing melted lead into the casting
box makes the line of type before it solidi-
fies, and sends it between pair of knives
which trim 1t into proper shape. Then the
key board is raised the matrices slide back
to their place by force of gravity, it is low
| cred again and the operation is continued
The casting occupies about three seconds.
during which the operator is ''setting up''
his next line. A circular stand on one side
of the machine contains matrices, which
can be put in rapidly by hand, so that
italics, etc, may be used when necessary.
PRACTICAL USE.
Eight pages of tie New York World of
| September % and parts of vest erday's
| issue were set up on typograph, but proba-
| bly, not numbered of the readers knew it.
| Ii will set any size and style of type, re-
curing display headings and advertise
ments only to be set by hand. About 400
of these machines have been ordered by
newspapers published throughout the
United States and Canada, and orders are
coming i'll every day. The New YORK World
announced yesterday that 1t had ordered
! one hundred of them and expected to in-
crease the size of its paper one half in con :
sequence of the money saved on compost
ton. Among the many papers that have
ordered the machines are:
The World, Sun, Times, Mail and Egpress.
Post and Commercial Advertiser, of New
York: the Chicago Herald, the Press, Times,
| Inquirer, North american, Herald, Ne,cs and
Bulletin, of Philadelphia; The Boston Herald
and the Globe; the Cincinnati Commercial
Gdzette; the St Louis Post Dispatch and the
Republic; Cleveland PLdindettier and the
Press; the Detroit NelUS, Tribune, Times and
sun; the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph
Albany Press and macy others.
OF tie uypograph the World SAYS: s'rhe
advantages which this machine will
work to publishers, to compositors and to
the public at large are almost incaiculable.
The publisher can give his paper d new
dress each day. It is cheaper to have extra
sets OF matrices than to carry extra fonts
of type. 1t is possible to obtain any unex-
pected million ems of composition without
having to wait for type, and TO lock up any
quantity without losing interest on expen-
sive type, and with ability to put the
whole affair in the melting pot when de-
sired thus closing the interest account for
the type metal
There is no book composition so large
that the user of these machines cannot ac-
cept it. Publishers Of directories NAV
keep the matter standing any length of
time at but nominal cost and alter anv one
address line in it any time. Mailing lists.
regular or temporary, of any desired length,
may be kept standing as long as desired
with but trihing outlay.'
DAILIEs IN ALL SMALL TOWNS.
Thousands of small towns which have
been able to support even a weekly news
paper can now boldly enter upon the sup
port of daily, without risk to the pub
fishers. This feature alone will cause an
increase In the amount of composition
done, lar in excess of the increased amouut
over what every compositor can do by
hand; thus paying employment will be
found for every one capable of running the
machine. Compositors and proof readers
will also find the machine work beneficial
to their eyesight, particularly where the
type face is small and in German offices.
Tue public will profit by the ability to have
more local papers. to make the present To-
cal press local in fact as well as in name.
and by being able to print more ''locals;'
and by the mere fact of every paper using
the machine having new dress every day.