Arizona republican., 1908-05-17

{ CTS, bookcases, telephones, filing cases, morgue, etc, etc. 1t is the workshop into which drifts the flotsam and jet sam of local happenings. street rumors and verified reports. To this depart ment comes the tangled threads Of human incident, the pathetic and the humorous, the sad and the joyful, the regrettable and the jubilant, affairs of public and private dishonor as well of municipal pride and civic glory. And responsive to the reverberant de- mands from the copy eaters below, from here emerge those effusions that the following morning brings the yer dict of the people on the great ques- tion, "is there anything in the paper?" THE LOWER FLOOR.
 Passing to the lower floor the visitor finds himself in the workshop proper, the mechanical department. Here there is much to interest and part of it will be spoken of later, but the chief attraction at this time, the big elephant of the show, is the new print ing press. It is a duplex perfecting press equipped to print any number of pages up to twelve. direct from the type, bound together, and with color attachment, any eight page section of which can be printed in two colors Of ink, and as many additional pages as are required by adding other sections, and is manufactured by the Duplex Printing Press Company of Battle Creek, Mich, which company ranks among the foremost makers of print ing machinery.
 As mentioned in greater detail in The Republicans story" later on Tn this write-up. this press is only later model of the one the paper has had for 10 years and has found too satisfactory machine to discard, for something with a less notable record. The old press is now apparently as good as ever but there have been improve ments that are now desirable and the new one is also larger, prints more pages and is better equipped for pres ent day needs. But it supplants machine of historic record for it was the first but one. on the Pacific coast.
 NO sTEREoTYPING.
 The Duplex is the only perfecting press which does not require stere- otyping plant and this fact also will be a great saving in time. The term web perfecting" as applied to the press, means that the paper used is a continuous web of paper, fed from | huge roll, five miles in length. A per | feet paper is made in a single opera tion, thus the term ''perfecting.' The press is a solid, substantial machine weighing 10000 pounds, and rests upon concrete foundation to avoid vibra- | tion, with a pit under it deep enough I fn oh Qf nR
 cess to all parts for cleaning, oiling and attendance.
 The Duplex is a marvel of mechan ical ingenuity, and has been admired by hundreds who called at The Re publican office to see the first 12-page printing press ever installed in an of flee in Arizona. It can print 4, 6, s. 10, and 12-page paper, according as lrequirements demand, and has capa- icity of about 7,200 copies an hour It is essentially a twentieth century press. and has all modern improve ments that have been made in recent years. Installed in the ground floor of The Republican plant the huge ma chine embodies all the very latest ideas, and is the finest type of ma chine ever made by the Duplex com lpany. It stands seven and half feet above the foundation, and is nearly as wide as it is high. VARIETY OF WORK.
 | The variety of the finished work
 which this machine can turn out is almost infinite, and the capacity, as said before, is 7,200 copies an hour tthe maximum speed being possible when eight pages are printed, but with lall three decks working on 12-page
 paper, the hourly production is little
 less than with only eight forms on the
 press. It can print poster 17-22 in
 ches in size, with reading matter on
 one or both sides, or it will print a 12-
 page metropolitan newspaper. Every
 thing in between can be printed as a matter of course. It will print from a
 roll of 126 inches wide or 70 inches in
 width. Two pages or ten, it is all the
 same to this nearly human creature,
 only that up to eight pages the mon
 ster will print 500 more copies any hour than it will if the paper has more
 pages.
 l The double color may not be con- Istantly used as it involves extra work
 where more than eight pages are
 printed, but it is available when de-
 sired and in large papers and special
 issues it will be employed as a special
 feature of attraction.
 FIFTEEN HORSE POWER.
 The power of fifteen horses is trans
 mitted to the driving pulleys by leather
 belting, and as the power is applied Ifrom brand new General Electric
 Alternating current motor, all of the
 thousands of separate parts respond
 in perfect harmony to the revolutions of the master wheels. To print a 10
 or 12-page paper two separate rolls
 are required, each unwinding at diff ferent ends of the press. At one end
 of the press the big roll weighing from