The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-02-12
The Only Press In
Stark County That
Prints From StereO=
typed Plates===Ca=
pacity, 10000 Eight
PagePapers an Hour
-=-HOw Type Is Set
By Machines.
l Splendid Assortment
OfNew Type, Borders
and Rules, Direct
From the Keystone
Type Foundry, Pur=
chased by the News
Democrat For the
Benefit of Patrons.

The News-Democrat, in this issue,
presents to its readers a picture of IT.;
new $4,000 Goss perfecting press, the
only perfecting press using stereo.
. typed plates in Stark county.
Since the News-Democrat passed in.
to the hands of the present manage.
ment, the growth in the circulation
of the paper has been phenomenal
1t was found impracticable to continue
to print the paper on the old cylinder
press, as its capacity was not great
enough to enable the publishers to
get out the entire edition in time for
to regular subscribers.
The old cylinder press on which the
News-Democrat was printed before
the Goss perfeeting press was installed
had capacity of 1,500 eight page
papers an hour.
The new perfecting press prints and
folds 10000 eight-page papers an hour.
IT does more than this, 1t counts every
paper as 1t is struck off the press. and
thus enables one to ascertain at any
time just how many papers have been
printed.
THE OLD PRESS.
The press used in the News-Demo.
crat Office before the new one was in.
stalled was what is known as a fat.
bed cylinder. 1t was called flat
bed" because the paper was printed
from the forms containing the type,
which were laid on the bed of the
press. just as they were when they
left the composing room. Each form
contained the type for page of the
paper. and four forms could be placed
on the press at time. Thus, only
one side of the paper could be printed
when each sheet was fed into the press
by hand.
After four pages had been printed,
the pressman gathered up the bundle
of unfolded, half printed papers and
again placed them upon the platform
above the cylinder The other four
forms were then substituted the first
four being removed from the bed of
the press and sent back to the com
posing room. The pressman then re-
peated the operation of running the
papers through to print the four out
side pages.
It was a tedious, SLOW out-of-date
process, entirely unsuited to the needs
of progressive, metropolitan news.
paper with large circulation.
THE NEW PRESS.
The new Goss perfecting press prints
the entire eight page paper with one
revolution of the cylinders, and the
paper is not fed into the machine by
hand. Instead of feeding square
sheets of paper into the new press, the
paper is fed in from large roll This
roll contains about three and one-half
miles of paper in the shape of a wide
ribbon, or web, as it is called by news
paper men. AS the press is started
in motion. the large roll of white pa
per begins to revolve, the ribbon pass
ing into the press and taking the i'm.
preston from the stereotyped plates
instead of from the fiat forms of type,
as in the old process.
There are two cylinders in the new
perfecting press owned by the News
Democrat. Each cylinder carries four
stereotyped plates. AS the white rib
bon passes into the press it comes in
contact with the rapidly revolving up
per cylinder, from which four pages
of the paper are printed. The long
white ribbon, travelling at the speed
of an express train, then passes be-
meath the other cylinder and the other
four pages are printed.
The ribbon continues on it's way to
the rear end of the press where it is
cut and folded. Beneath the folder the
papers are stacked and ready for de-
livery to the circulation department,
where they are counted out to the
newsboys.
The progress of the ribbon of white
paper through the mammoth press is
. go rapid that 1t is almost impossible for
the eye to follow it,
& MAKING STEREOTYPED PLATES
The process of making stereotyped
plates is interesting and mysterious to
the un-initiated. The form contain.
ing the type for a page in the paper
4s made In the composing room, on the
second floor of the News-Democrat
building. 1t Is then hustled into an
eleyator and sent down to the stere.
otyping room. Here 1t is taken in
charge by the stereotyper.> who loos
ems the bars in the form and hammers
. down the type with block and mallet
. 20 make sure. that there Is not a sim
+ 0)e line of type projecting above the
Z lace of the form, which Is then tight
i, &ned up and locked. 1t Is now ready
/ 70 receive the matrix.
q The matrix Is composed of several
<1hoets of soft paper with prepared
w1xture, resembling paste, sandwiched
&otWoen. This matrix, before 1t is
1nood upon the forms. resembles q
~ blotter. 1t Is laid upon the form
severed with blankets. The form
k96 placed upon the steam table.
matrix Is pressed down upon the
ii making a deep impression In the
b1otter. II is then allowed to re-
~ the steam table for several
- 70 pounds Of steam beneath
r'n lseaftng the hatrix, thus bak-
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