Show AUSTRIAN T the he imperial printing press at vienna is one of the most extensive in the world and its variety of type and typographic processes have obtained for its great celebrity in regard to its operations it is stated that an engine of twenty horse power moves not less than forty eight printing and twenty four copperplate presses and ten glazing machines there are also thirty six large and twelve small iron hand presses twelve numbering and embossing machines maehl nes and thirty lithographic presses A fresh supply of type is constantly supplied by twelve casting machines and nine ovens and three thousand ewt of type is kept on the premises according to a moderate computation each cwt cat contains about forty thousand types and the three thousand cwt cat consequently make a total of one hundred and twenty millions of types of various sizes and characters five hundred thousand sheets or one thousand reams of paper are daily required for the consumption of the establishment there are offices or departments for letterpress letter press printing for copperplate lithographic and chromo litho oi graphic printing priming ming king punch cutting type founding woodcutting wood cutting bookbinding book binding photography etc there are punches of upwards of one hundred different alphabets from the hieroglyphic hieratic hi cratic and demotic down to the mionia laos shyan Mand shah and formosan the establishment is capable of executing printing in upwards of six hundred different languages |