PRINTER'S INK.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 232, 9 February 1910, Page 5

PRINTER'S INK.

Sinoe Caxton first invented the printing press no radical change in the method of producing the printed sheet has taken place. The Linotype and the Simplex type-setting machine have revolutionised hand-setting, and enable the operator to rapidly produce the set type necessary in printing the newspaper or book. Now a further stage in the development of the art of printing is announced. A device has been patented at Home which utilises an electrical current for producing the printed impression. No in.ls whoever is vised- cuiT=ni: is applied to the forme and the platen, and the result is a clear black impression of the type upon the paper. A further wonderful feature is that the three-colour process of printing is capable of being used by this method, and those who have seen the product of the new invention declare it to be a typographically perfect production. If it were only because it swept away the old, old nuisance of "making ready" and washing the I$M after use, it would lie ' Vweicome inppyauorJ." But 'it promises to relieve in some measure the steady increase in the cost of paper, too. Wood pulp is becoming scarcer every year. Forests are vanishing at a rapid rate in America and Europe. The problem of providing paper at commercial rates will soon be an acute one. With the new invention, however, the paper once used may be used again and again. It is capable of being pulped and made into new paper after being treated chemically. Ordinary printed paner cannot be so used. The ink insuperable bar. That 'the new meth- | cd, will' reach' New Zealand at an early date seems certain. It will probacy ' be used first by the la'vge newspapeioffices aj; Hoine, and then by the city offices in New Zealand. even the smaller centres may get the benefits of the new process.