The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-19
Goss 'Straightline' Three.deck
Press Used For First Time
Today-Will Print 12-pagc
Papers at the Rate of 25,-
600 an Hour-Paper Now
Better Enabled to Serve It's
Readers

In order to better serve its rapid
ly increasing number of readers, the
Bismarck Tribune has just COM
pleted the installation of the finest
press to be found in
North Dakota west of Fargo and to-
days issue of the Tribune was print
ed thereon. 1t is a Goss "Straight-
line" three-deck press, with tape
less folder, and will print at one
time papers of from four pages up
to "a pages. Installation Of the new
press, which was commenced about
six weeks ago, is in line with the
Tribune's policy Of giving its read
ers the best at all times. The new
press replaces the Duplex flat bed
press which has been in use here
for many years and which had a
capacity of only eight pages.
To give the reader some idea OF
just what this Goss press is and
means in the general development
of the Missouri Slope territory, the
following information is given: The
press has a capacity Of $4,000 four,
six, eight, 10, or 12-page papers an
hour, and 12,500 16, 20 or 24-page
papers an hour.
Uses 30-Horsepower Motor
The weight of the new press is
$4,000 pounds and it is - feet long,
five feet six inches wide and eight
feet six inches high. It is driven
by q 3O-hOrsepower motor equipped
with electric control and all the mod
ern safety appliances. The press is
so constructed that additional decks
may be added when occasion de-
mands.
Three huge rolls Of paper are used
at once while the press is grinding
out r. or 24-page papers, while
three extra rolls are suspended just
back of those in use for quick action
into the press service as the others
are reeled off.
At one end of this marvellous
press white paper spins into rollers
and is printed, folded, cut and count
ed into complete newspapers, which
from the other end of the
machine SO rapidly that there will
be no delay in the mailing and de-
livery departments.
New Stereotyping Equipment
Since the press prints from stereo-
type plates instead Of type forms, as
was the case with the Duplex flat
bed press, its installation also re-
quired the installation of a complete
layout Of stereotyping equipment
which is used in the making of the
mats from which the plates are
made, and the making Of the large
curved plates themselves.
Readers will no doubt notice that
the issues Of the Tribune printed on
the new press are slightly wider and
longer than those Of former days,
and each column on the page is one
twelfth Of an inch wider.
Another change, m de today,
which it is believed will be generally
appreciated by Tribune readers, is
the use Of a larger ty. face. The
type which has been used in the
past for news stories has been
rather small for easy reading, al
though it was necessary to use the
small size because Of space limita-
lions. The type which will be used
in the future will make the paper
much easier to read.
That the Tribune has made no
in its selection Of press is
attested by the fact that such news
papers as the New York Times, the
Chicago Tribune, the Denver Times,
The Memphis Commercial Appeal
and other large papers of the coun-
try are printed on Goss presses.