PRINTING AND MAKING OF BOOKS 



of the tail of the press, out come four entirely different 

 sections of eight pages each. This duplicate delivery 

 shows the product of the press to be at every revolution 

 of the cylinder sixty-four pages, neatly printed, truly 

 cut, and accurately registered and folded, ready for the 

 binder. 



"Two boys are kept fully employed in seizing the 

 folded sections and putting them in box trucks, in 

 which they are rolled out to the elevator, and on these 

 sent to the bindery. This web press is not so fast as 

 the web press of daily newspapers, but it performs more 

 operations and does more accurate work. It is not a 

 large machine, nor is it noisy, nor does it seem to be 

 moving fast, but the paper goes through the cylinders at 

 the rate of nearly two hundred feet a minute. It does 

 ten times as much work as the noisier and more bustling 

 presses by its side." 



The fact that so exacting a master-printer as De Vinne 

 was satisfied with the work of the new rotary press stim- 

 ulated the press manufacturers to produce a rotary press 

 that could be used, not only for the plain parts of maga- 

 zines, but for woodcut and half-tone illustration print- 

 ing. As a result the "Rotary Art" press was put into 

 operation within a few months after the press just de- 

 scribed, turning out as good work of all kinds as can be 

 done by stop cylinder, or hand-press. 



But even this triumph does not close the chapter of 

 progress in printing. In one-color printing, to be sure, 

 there is little left to be done, for speed and quality of 

 the presswork are verging on what we may be allowed 

 to call perfection, judged by modern standards. But 



