The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-07
From the London News.

From the London News
The competition between authority
and roguery-the one striving to pro-
duce a bank note which cannot be imi-
tated, and the other always seeking to
initiate what is produced, has led to
very remarkable invention which Is
now being shown in London and which
seems likely to revolutionize the whole
system of color printing. For the or
igin of the invention one must go TO
Russia. There it was desired to issue
bank notes and bonds by some means
that no forger could copy. Accordingly,
a weaver's engineer was called in with
the idea that he should suggest sort
Of thread that should be an absolute
mark upon paper. He brought an orig
inal mind 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 weav
er thought it possible, and finally de-
signed machine by which the thing
could actually be done. The Russian
notes and bonds are now printed by
it, with success that the Russian gov
eminent seems only too ready to ac-
knowledge. But then a 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 SALISBURY avenue, where criti-
cal company had an opportunity of In
specting 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 its own
color, comes in contact with a compo-
sition roller. where it deposits its col
ors. Each color block, in short, comes
in contact with a transfer roller on the
whole of the picture, no matter how
many colors is on the transfer roller.
Then a 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 way
it may be said one roller, one color.
Each roller takes its special color to q
transfer roller. the transfer roller, when
1t has received the whole of the picture,
transfers it to plate, and the plate
gives the impression to the paper. a
figure and floral illustration in six col
ors was being printed the other day.
The rollers having been truly adjusted,
the layer-on went to work, feeding in
at the rate of about 1000 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." All six col
ors Were done in one machining. the
| labor saving was, therefore. enormous.
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 ma
chinings 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 be-
ing thus spoiled. Beautiful specimens
of work done in Russia for bank note
and bank purposes We're shown. Geo
metrical designs and work in tracery
were especially good. For bank notes,
checks, maps and illustrations the pro-
cess seems peculiarly adapted. Ro-
tary Webb machines are being con-
structed so that the system may be
available in newspaper offices, Will
their great requirements as to speed
1t may be added that the new methoc
is the invention of Ivan Orloff, now
chief engineer and manager of the banl
note printing establishment of the Rus
sian government at St Petersburg.