Show Printing Woodcuts Encouraged by the success of the web press in magazine presswork the printers of Tho Century have applied the rotary principle to a new machine for fine illustrations illus-trations but recently pnt to work Sixty four plates of The Century truly bent to tho proper curve are firmly fastened on one cylinder 60 inches long and about 30 inches in diameter sixteen inking rollers supplied with ink from two ink fountains successively ink these sixtyfour plates with a delicacy and yet with a fullness of color never before obtained The shafts of the impression cylinder and the plate cylinders 4 < C inches in diameter do no spring or give under the strongest impression Although rigid in c1 jf ery part inthe hands of an expert pressman press-man it can be made responsive to the slightest overlay This machine is fed by four feeders from single sheets in the usual manner and does tho work of four stop cylinders in superior style The gain in performance is not as great as the gain in quality of presswork but quality was considered more than speed The performance of the machine could have been more tbn doubled by adding to it other cylinders which would print on both sides of the paper but careful experiment exper-iment has proved that the finest woodcuts cannot be properly printed with this rapidity rapid-ity To get the best results the ink on ono I side of the paper must bo dry before it is printed on tho other side Theodore L Da Vinne in Century I |