Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-19
TO BAFFLE CoUNrERFEITERs.
Russian Inventors Device That Prints
Six Colors az One Time.

! The competition between authority
and roguery-tae one striving to pro-
duce bank note which cannot be imi-
tated and the other always seeking to
| initiate what is produced-has led to
a very remarkable invention which is
now being shown in London and
which seems likely to revolutionize
| the whole system of color printing.
For the origin of the invention one
must so to Russia. There it was de-
sired to issue bank notes and bonds by
some means that no forger could copy.
Accordingly weayer's engineer was
called in, with the idea that he should
suggest a sort of thread that should be
an absolute mark to bear upon the
subject and innocently asked why they
could not find a printing machine that
would do What was wanted. Why not?
the skeptic was disposed to ask. The
weaver thought it possible, and finally
designed a machine by which the thing
could actually be done. The Russian
notes and bonds are now printed by it,
with a success that the Russian gov
eminent seems only too ready to ac-
knowledge. But then machine that
will print an unlimited number of col
ors at once cannot, in these days of
illustrated papers, be hid Hence it
has been brought to London and set
UP at 119 Shaftesbury avenue. where
a critical company had an opportunity
OF inspecting it in full operation.
1t is not very large machine, and,
like many other things Of great utility.
its principle is simple. A large color
block, after being rolled by it's own
color, comes in contact with a compost
ton roller where it deposits it's colors.
Each color block, in short, comes in
contact with roller on the whole
OF the picture, no matter how many
colors are on the transfer roller. Then
retransfer Of the whole picture is
made to the printing plate, the print
ing plate goes to the paper. and the
picture is printed. But in another wav
it may be said one roller, one color.
Each roller takes it's special color to a
transfer roller, the transfer roller
when it has received the whole of the
picture transfers it to a plate, and the
plate gives the impression to the paper
figure and floral illustration in six
colors was being printed the other day.
The rollers having been duly adjusted,
the layer-on went to work, feeding in
at the rate of about l 200 per hour, and
the copies came out simply perfect.
Every printer knows that with six
colors there should, under the old sys-
tenn, be six "machinings" Ali six
colOrs were done in one machining.
The laborsaving was therefore enor-
mous. But beyond that there was
no waste. Six machinings may lead to
bad Register" which, to the non
technical, means that in one or more
of the machinings the colors may not
meet or may overlap and the printing
be thus spoiled. The new machine will
print at one time in any number of
colOrs and without the possibility of
work being spoiled. Beautiful speci-
mems of work done in Russia for bank
note and bank purposes were shown.
Geometrical designs and work in
tracery were specially good. For bank
notes. checks, maps and Illustrations
the process seems peculiarly adapted.
Rotary webb machines are being con-
structed, so that the system may be
available in newspaper offices, with
their great requirements as to speed.
1t may be added that the new method
is the invention of Ivan OrlOff, now
chief engineer and manager of the
bank note printing establishment of
the Russian government at st. Peters,
burg.-London News