In 1956, he replaced the paper's flatbed press with a new rotary press that printed 13,000 32-page sections per hour.
M-Press family: high-end flatbed presses, designed to replace traditional equipment for all possible screen printing jobs.
The patent covered the electric pen, used for making the stencil, and the flatbed duplicating press.
It smelled of ink and the sweat of eight slovenly men in leather aprons who operated the antiquated flatbed presses.
Whether a stamp was printed on a rotary press or on a flatbed press may affect market value.
Once the stencil was prepared, it was placed in the flatbed duplicating press with a blank sheet of paper below.
The size of a modern book is based on the printing area of a common flatbed press.
A larger flatbed press, called a No. 1 Meihle, was purchased.
The paper still relied on an old flatbed press, which dated from the turn of the century.
In 1935, the News-Miner purchased two cylinder presses to replace the old flatbed press still in use.