Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-08-16
RAILROAD rIckera
Safeguards Adopted in Printing an,
pairing the Pasteboarda

pairing the Pasteboard.. 70
"See this?" said the foreman n,
Job printing establishment to a reno,.
Eyes" was the reply. What /. y 4
machine doing?"
Printing and numbering raiI,,.
tickets" said the gentleman.
Railroad tickets?"
Eyes, SIR"
"Tell me how it's DONE saia a
scribe.
Certainly. You must bear IN NIL,
however. that this class of priptinsa
purely a specially, and only abou1 \.
out of the various printing estah,,',
ments in this city are prepared to do +
work. In fact the work cannot well l
done with the ordinary printing press
But let's see how it's done.
Every often special kind OF c,.,
board is used in printing the tickss
though the ordinary kind is usnsv
serviceable. All colors are used ~,
many times several impressions are nv.
essary to turn out a complete ticI',
ready for stamping and selling. Ies,
take an ordinary coupon ticket. It %,
orally consists of several parts that M.
be detached. Well, the reading mat
such as the special directions to the 81,
ductor, agent or passenger, is ususi,
printed on an ordinary press, just as a.,
other class of printing is done. If the,
are several colors on ticket so mar,
impressions are necessary. That's Il.
there is in it,"
"How about the numbers?"
ooh, that's the difficult part Of ii
Well explain later ON. Excursion tc.
cts, usually in the form of coupon fiji
cts, are printed in the same way. gal
see this? Here's the peculiar part Of M
work. The printing and numbering n
local, or what are called car tickets M
this machine is a unique process. mi
cardboard is cut into pieces just the sio
of the ticket desired, then they ar
placed in one end of the machine AMI
pass to the press automatically. Sun
pose we are printing round trip ticket
The bits of pasteboard, when the litt,
machine begins to work, pass one bv
one under the press, the form beipr
made up in sections. The first impres
sion prints the number. the form rise
instantly. descending again and printing
the ticket. Again the form rises ami
descends, while the ticket is pushei
along just its length, when another i'm
preston of the form stamps the numbe
on the other end of the ticket
"You see the tickets must be number
ed consecutively, sometimes both the 90
ing and returning ends having til
same number. while quite as often tn
two ends have different numbers, for rea
sons best known to the railroad com
pany. Again, the two ends Of the Ca
ticket may be in different colors, Q
possibly each in two colors, with dill
ferent color running across the face 3
the entire ticket. LII such instances tn
process of printing becomes very il
tricate, but still the little machine doc
it at the rate Of 10000 an hour, or 40
900 if necessary. The numbering is don
at each end of the machine, the form
being cylindrical in shape and pointin
consecutively from one upward until
large number is reached, When ne
forms are put in. Bits of pasteboal
go in at one end of the machine an
come out at the other end complete 'ca
or local tickets, good both going an
coming The printing of single tri
tickets is more simple matter. TIL
machine prints but one size Of ticket
hence everything printed by it is of til
same shape and size"
"How about the printing of 'bools
commuters and so on?'
well, a special machine is used i
printing books, the work being done i
sections-that is, the separate leaves c
the books are printed in one sheet
which is afterward cut in smaller piece.
and the numbers are put on by ser
arate machine. Take Thousand mile
advertising ticket, for instance. TIL
consecutive miles must be numbered O
the little sections Of the leaves of til
book. The number of the book, tn
name or initials of the road and som
Other necessary details have to be print
ed. All but the number of the book
generally printed at one impression, an
hundreds Of books may be printed fror
the same form But each book mus
bear different number, SO differen
form is required. The big sheet is Gu
up into pieces, and the book number
printed on machine especially adapte
to it, and these sheets are cut into small
er ones and the book bound as any othe
book"
What does it cost to make such
book"
About ten cents when many Of tn
same kind are made. To get out sin
gle book would cost from $50 to S75."-
Cincinnati Times-Star.