Arizona republican., 1908-05-16

CTS. bookcases, telephones, filing cases, morgue, etc, etc. It 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 oe 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 greatNques- 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 in this write-up, this press is only later model of the one the paper has had for 10 years and has found too satisfactory a 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 a 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 a stere- otyping plant and this fact also will be a great saving in time. The term 1 web perfecting" as applied to the press, means that the paper used is 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 to enable the pressman to obtain ac- 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., 1G, and 12-page paper, according as requirements demand, and has a capa- city 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 l 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 pany. 1t stands seven and half feet above the foundation, and is nearly as wide as it is high.
 VARIETY Og 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 the maximum speed being possible when eight pages are printed, but with all three decks working on 12-page paper, the hourly production is little less than with only eight forms on the press. It can print a poster 17-22 in ches fin size, with reading matter or one or both sides. or it will print 12- page metropolitan newspaper. Every thing in between can be printed as 8 matter of course. It will print from a roll of 121z inches wide or 70 inches ir 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.
 The double color may not be con- stantiy used as it involves extra work where more than eight pages are printed, but it is available when de- d 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 lmitted to the driving pulleys by leather belting, and as the power is applied from brand new General Electric Alternating current motor, all of the thousands of separate parts respond in perfect harmony to the revolution; of the master wheels. To print Il or 12-page paper two separate rolls ara required, each unwinding at diff ferent ends of the press. At one enc of the press the big roll weighing Iron