Equipment installed included a four-roller airspring drum cylinder press powered by an upright donkey engine, a paper cutter, a book trimmer, and some new type.
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In 1898, the magazine began in-house publication in a building on cylinder presses, one of which was an Optimus cylinder used principally for printing illustrated pages.
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Some equipment, such as an ancient Babcock cylinder press, might end up with a historical society wanting to amaze youngsters about how Kansans got their news before CNN.
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Other improvements followed : automated printing from continuous rolls of paper; four-cylinder presses capable of printing on both sides of the paper simultaneously; high-speed lithography, and folding and cutting machines.
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An original printing press for the Penny Black, the " D " cylinder press invented by Jacob Perkins and patented in 1819, is on display at the British Library in London.
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At the age of four, he got into a bucket of ink behind the family's flatbed cylinder press, and not even a gasoline bath could get all the printer's ink out of him.
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In later improvements the well-known cylinder press was employed; the plate was inked mechanically and cleaned off by passing under a sharp blade of steel; and the cloth, instead of being laid on the plate, was passed round the pressure cylinder.
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Leather rollers ( or " skin rollers " ) were attempted, and were used on the earliest steam-powered cylinder presses, yet these did not work as well as the ink balls, and the stitching seam would appear on the printed type.
