The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-02
The State Journal Today In
stalls the Machine.
The Greatest Piece Of Printing
Mechanism in Kansas.
BUILT TO ORDER.
Prints in Three ColOrs, Black.
Red and Blue.
A,6, 8, 10, -, IA, is, 30, "a, 2s
Page Papers at One Time.

The State Journals new Jumbo. .
twenty y-eight-page, color. perfecting
press was installed today. This is the
largest, most complete and most ex-
pensive piece of printing machinery
in Kansas. There is nothing equal to
it between Kansas City and Denver
The press is what is known as a
three and one-half deck, or story.
web press. 1t was built expressly for
the State Journal, by the Goss Print
ing Press company, of Chicago, build
ers of the largest presses in the world.
This firm built the New York Herald
presses, which are larger than those
used by any other New York news
paper
The press was ordered from the
C4oss company in September last, just
previous to the establishment Of our
Sunday edition. The makers have
been working night and day on the
new deck since that time. The press
arrived early this week and with 1t
came Frank Rippenhagen, the Goss
expert machinist, who erected the
New York Herald presses. to put this
new deck in place on top of the pres
ent press, built for US by the Goss
people three years ago.
This addition gives the State Journal
facilities for printing papers of a. g. 8,
10. 12, H. 16. 20. "A or % pages at time
all complete. printed folded and count
ed. ready for the carriers or the mails,
at the wonderful speed of from 1850
to 25O0O per hour. Fourteen pages or
under are printed at the highest speed.
The press fills the press room full
from the floor to the bottom Of the high
r-a 41.- sea,
chine is thirty tons.
1t viii also print in three colors,
black red and blue.
The complete press with the new
decks. black and color. were tested this
morning and dummy paper printed.
Everything worked smoothly, warrant
ing the printing of tonights paper on
the new. completed press.
Tomorrow morning, barring accidents
or something unforeseen, the additional
colOrs Of red and blue viii be printed on
Sunday mornings comic pages.
This VIII be the first time a Kansas
newspaper has ever been printed on a
color perfecting press. One or two pa
pers in this state are giving colored
supplements, but they are printed out
side of the state and shipped in by
freight or express and inserted by hand
into the regular issue Of the paper.
Tt is possible, of course, that the ad-
justments by tomorrow morning may
not be perfect; new machinery does not
always work well at the very start, bug
everything at present indicates that our
color pages win be creditably printed.
even at the very beginning.
The big press win be running to-
night. about 1880, in the evening, also
at 10 o'clock and later. and can be
seen. from the sidewalk, through tbs
big plate glass windows on the north
side of the State Journal building.
The State Journal has broken SO
many records tins year that it is ha
to keep track of them all. Another
one viii be broken in a few days The
circulation at present is so large that
it is absolutely assured that by the end
of this month the daily average fes
the entire year viii be greater than
that of any previous year in the
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