The Indianapolis times., 1930-05-01
Rolls First Time Today.
eliminating s125,ooo
Progress Program.

Whirling rolls of paper, flashing
cylinders of ink, steady stream OF
printed, folded and counted news
papers passing over a modern con-
veyor to the waiting newsboyS
above.
"TimeS!" the cry on the streets
and today for the first time, editions
of The Times come to readers of
Indianapolis from the new super
speed press recently installed. The
press, largest in the city of Indian
apolis, is in operation.
eliminating a $125,000 expansion
program, The Times with the noon
edition today, sent the two old
presses, nicknamed "cider mills" by
the pressroom crew, into retirement.
In their place, new super-speed
Hoe unit-type press, with six units,
capable of whirling out The Times
at a rate up to 100000 copies hourly,
went into service.
Emphasizes Romance
Not obscuring, but emphasizing
the modern day romance Of the
making of a metropolitan news
paper, the faster equipment Of The
Times makes possible new news
triumphs.
Reporters, eager for scoops" well
coined the new equipment today, for
at times of need the high-speed
press and other new Times equip
ment will make possible rapid serv-
ice which will place important news
on the streets of Indianapolis far
in advance of competition.
To the advertisers of indianapolis
the new press and equipment means
faster service, increased circulation
and better appearing papers and
advertisements.
Equipped with all modern devices,
the new press will improve repro
duction of cuts and type matter.
The new facilities will spur circula-
ton efforts.
Started in 1929
Operation of the press today
brought to a climax an expansion
program undertaken by The Times
following its record-breaking year of
1929, when its circulation gain CX-
ceeded that of any other newspaper
in indianapolis, and when its ad-
vertising gain attracted nationwide
attention.
New stereotype equipment has
been installed. including new elec-
trically-heated metal pot, the first
in the city and the last word in
SteSeotype equipment. New com-
posing room equipment also has
been installed.
The completely modernized news
paper production facilities also in
cludes a new conveyor system, which
takes the printed papers from the
new press and delivers them to the
circulation room. where newsboys
are served by a large staff.
Powered by two 125-horse power
alternating current motors, the new
press will chuTn of 10000 twelve
page papers hourly, 10000 fourteen
and SiXteen-page papers hourly, or
$4,000 eighteen to twenty -four-page
papers hourly.
Scales to 10000
Larger papers of from twenty
eight to thirty-two pages will run
at $4,000 hourly, while thirty-six to
forty-eight-page papers are printed.
folded and counted at rate of
10000 hourly.
Installation of the presses was
completed by crews working under
John H. RuSie, preSsroom Superin-
tendent, and Lewis Mason, r. Hoe
& Co. constructor.
Light of the whitenesS and inten-
sity of daylight is afforded by
Cooper-Hewitt vapor lights.
The press units are mounted in q
pit twenty feet wide, sixty-four feet
long and four feet deep. The press
room is provided with floor space
for duplication of the installation
at a later date.