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  2. Roller printing on textiles - Wikipedia

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    Roller-printed cotton cushion cover panel, 1904, Silver Studio V&A Museum no. CIRC.675–1966 Indigo Blue & White printed cloth, American Printing Company, about 1910. Roller printing, also called cylinder printing or machine printing, on fabrics is a textile printing process patented by Thomas Bell of Scotland in 1783 in an attempt to reduce the cost of the earlier copperplate printing.

  3. Rotary printing press - Wikipedia

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    The rotary press itself is an evolution of the cylinder press, also patented by William Nicholson, invented by Beaucher of France in the 1780s and by Friedrich Koenig in the early 19th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Rotary drum printing was invented by Josiah Warren in 1832, [ 3 ] whose design was later imitated by Richard March Hoe in 1843. [ 4 ]

  4. Composition roller - Wikipedia

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    A composition roller is a tool used in letterpress printing to apply ink to a bed of type in a printing press. It consists of a cylinder made of a substance known as "roller composition" or simply "composition", a mixture of hide glue and sugar (in the form of molasses or treacle ), with various additives such as glycerin depending on the ...

  5. Offset printing - Wikipedia

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    Rubel discovered in 1901—by forgetting to load a sheet—that printing from the rubber roller, instead of the metal, made the printed page clearer and sharper. [5] After further refinement, the Potter Press printing Company in New York produced a press in 1903. [5] By 1907 the Rubel offset press was in use in San Francisco. [6]

  6. Adana Printing Machines - Wikipedia

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    An Adana press. Adana Printing Machines were manufactured from 1922 to 1999 in Twickenham, England. Although most of the printing presses produced by Adana were aimed at hobby printers, they were frequently put to commercial use. Adanas are still to be found throughout the world in the hands of colleges, enthusiasts and professional printers.

  7. Platen - Wikipedia

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    A platen (or platten) is a platform with a variety of roles in printing or manufacturing. It can be a flat metal (or earlier, wooden) plate pressed against a medium (such as paper) to cause an impression in letterpress printing. [1] Platen may also refer to a typewriter roller which friction-feeds paper into position below the typebars or print ...

  8. Original Heidelberg Platen Press - Wikipedia

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    The printing press is most famous for its windmill-like automatic paper feed mechanism. There are two blades that rotate from the paper feed, where it picks up a sheet of paper; to the platen, where the printing impression is made; to the delivery rack, where the paper is released; followed by the blade pointing straight up ready to start the next cycle.

  9. Vandercook - Wikipedia

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    In September 1909, Robert Vandercook founded Vandercook & Sons in Chicago, Illinois. The first press was a “rocker” proof press, made with a geared cylinder. Before the development of this press, all proofs were either made on a roller press, which depended on gravity for impression or on a Washington Hand Press.