HOE’S NEW PRINTING PRESS.

Evening Star, Issue 3426, 13 February 1874, Page 3

HOE’S NEW PRINTING PRESS.

A new style of steam printing presp, of the f<ist kind, especially intended for daily newspapers, has just been perfected and put in operation iu London, by Messrs Hue and Co,, the well-known press makers of New York city. The new press is designed for the use of the London ‘ Daily Telegraph,’ a two cent paper, srid to have the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in the world. The improved machine, on a recent trial at Lloyd’s paper mill. Bow, actually printed and delivered, in even piles, twenty-two thousand copies of ‘ Lloyd’s Weekly’— a large sheet—in sixty minutes, with the attendance of two men and a boy. The sheets are delivered printed on both aides, and the number of newspaper impressions when the sheet is cut apart by the machine, is forty-four thousand per hour. The machine is built on tho rotary plan like the Bullock, Walter, and other presses, and is said to yield superior printlnfr Tile tos * of each P r « 88 is 1-17,500. The Telegraph’ is to be supplied with ten of them, and thus have the means of printing 220,000 copies of the paper in sixty minutes.