The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-03-09

the corner. He could glance at the
mirror and know the instant a sheet
went wrong, and then he would
reach under and fix it himself. 1t
was a bowling success and the small
boy lost his job.
It Bothered You
Whenever the folding machine
gets out of order, Mr.. Lantis studies
it out and applies a remedy. You
may have noticed that since we beg
gan printing 10 pages month ago,
your paper has not been trimmed
perfectly, and when you went to open
it, it hung at one corner and you
had to tear it. Mr.. Lantis got his
eye on that corner and did some
meditating abo the trimmer, and
when Lantis meditates about ma
chinery, something generally hap
pens. He crawled under the ma
chine with all the wrenches and
screw drivers and little drills in the
house, and after a long time he
crawled out again. He tested the
machine and it was worse. He
crawled under again and when he
came out it was better. If he trim
med too far it cut into the printing.
If he trimmed too little it slipped
off before it reached the corner. A
difference of hairs breadth of the
aim at the intake made difference
OF an inch at the outlet. After
sweating with It for two hours, he
said it would trim properly about
20 to 1. If your paper hangs at the
corner you probably got that one.
Lantis is afraid to touch those set
screws again, much as he wants to
accommodate you.
A Problem for All
Whenever we have deep problem
with machinery we refer it to Mr..
Lantis. A short time ago we gave
him a poser. The problem had sew
eral branches to it, and we will ex-
plain few items so you will appre-
ciate it better.
When a firm with an ordinary
cylinder press tries to print daily
paper, it has to be printed on one
side of the sheet and then turned
over and printed on the other side.
That is where the trouble begins
when they begin the Second run.
When the paper passes thru the
press the first time it becomes
with electricity, and the
sheets cling to everything they touch.
Some days they cling hard and some
days they cling but little, but they
always cling. The veteran pressman
knows he might as well sit down and
wait till the electricity leaves the
paper, for he can't make any progress
feeding it thru again till it quits
clinging. That takes an hour or two
and sometimes it needs to rest till
the next morning. Electricians have
devised many schemes for conducting
the current off into the earth, but
they all seem to fail at times.
Beating Electricity
The way to successfully print |
daily paper is to have perfecting |
press. pronounce it with the accent |
on feet" PerFECTing press.) 1t
prints both sides at once and thus
beats the electric game and saves
time. 1t folds the papers at the same
time and counts them off into
punches of tens and fifties. Such |
press cost $4,000 before the war,
and will probably cost $4,000 by
he time the war closes. In the new
Republican building foundation has
been laid for that kind of a press,
% be installed when the size of the
list and the surplus in
he treasury make it practical
hing to do. When that time comes
We can discard the folding machine
low in use, and then your paper will
,e trimmed and folded perfectly by
press that is called "Perfecting"
Until that time it will be hard to
rim it right when we print 10, IL
,r IA pages. Now that brings us
Up to where you will appreciate the
poser" we put up to Mr.. Lantis.
t was something like this:
Increasing the Load
If we go on doubling our subscrip-
ion list every Is months; If the |
aper folder wears out faster under |
he hard service than it has done I
nder lighter work; if electricians
o not find means of leading the
urrent away from the cylinder press ]
o we can make second runs" with
ut delay; if the price of print paper I