Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-12-05 | Page 2 | Telegram Installs Great Printing Press Machine of Vast Capacity in Operation

Telegram Installs Gre Great t Printing Press iI 1 Machine of Vast Capacity in in Operation H HERE ERE is the reason The Telegram will reach its readers on time every day in the week every week in the year It is the big hig new Goss press which has just been installed It is absolutely the latest thing in the line another instance of The Telegrams Telegram's service to its readers c v vw w S r- r 5 c P p 4 1 I I S V I High Speed Sextuple Erected in New Building to Meet Demands J Of Papers Paper s Mo ting HEREAFTER H beginning with to today's ays ay's isue issue e The Salt La Lake Tale il gram will rea reach Jh its readers fresh r a new 60 00 G Goss ss high speed sextuple press V 77 r V f r The new press installed in a new brick b erect erected a for fori its special housing is the last word in n modern modem high speed newspaper the presses presses the very latest product of the genius of the worlds world's greatest great great- est printing pr press ss builders It will enable The T Telegram legram to print and fold copies of a twelve-page twelve newspaper every hour 36 twenty page papers every hour or f page eight I every hour The size of the J monster mst r press may be I I gathered from the statement that it took tool two large f freight cars to transport transport trans trans- port it from Chicago to Salt SaIt Lake Lale It weighs po rounds pounds rids and occupies pies the greater portion of the foot building building build build- I ing erected adjacent The Telegram stereotyping building It measures 30 feet long lone 19 feet wide and 15 feet et 2 inches in height I I took tool a crew of six mechanics three weeks to erect the giant press The most interesting features of the big press are its wonderful speed its almost human oper operation tion and its modera modern modern mod mod- ern era safety devices devices' and controls that will make it possible to stop the press almost instantly from any position at which a pressman may be stationed CAPACITY OF PRESS It will print two complete twenty- twenty four page papers at the same operation operation operation opera opera- tion using approximately 2500 pounds of stereotype metal loaded upon the press cylinders in hi the form of half cylinder page plat plates s. s Its controls permit permit permit per per- mit the maximum of fast and efficient efficient efficient effi effi- work a complete extra edition being delivered to the newsboys within with with- in a few minutes from the time an Important Important important Im im- Im- Im news Item is written in the editorial rooms and copy hand handed d to the tIle type setting machines The new press is operated by electric electric elec dee power and is controlled by automatic automatic automatic auto auto- matic switchboards It prints from three rolls rons of white print paper simultaneously each roll roil measuring from 33 to 66 inches inches' in width about 3 feet in diameter and to 1000 pounds each The paper in each eich roll measures ap approximately approximately approximately ap- ap proximately fourteen miles long the three rolls placed upon the press at i once reaching a distance of two forty-two miles FITTINGLY HOUSED The new building erected erected by The Telegram to house th the big Goss press j lis Is representative of the most modern I construction ideas as applied to newspaper news- news I I paper press work No detail has been overlooked that might add to the comfort comfort comfort com- com fort or safety of e to the speedy operation of the pressroom or orto orto orto to the tho general efficiency of 01 The Telegram Telegram Telegram Tele Tele- gram as a newspaper It Immediately adjoins the stereotyping department where the plates that tha go upon the press are made and in electrical equipment far tar exceeds anything hitherto attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted in Intermountain newspaper circles In erecting the monster press press S the Goss company sent Its most experienced experienced experienced mechanics who In cooperation with The Telegram pressmen and mechanics mechanics mechanics me me- have Installed the various features features fea tea tures of equipment and modern day I printing p press ess devices as to make The Telegram press the very acme of pressroom efficiency