Early editions of morning dailies did not appear Monday, as workers manning rotary presses across much of Austria stayed home to protest cuts in old-age pension benefits.
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The " Post " was produced sheet by sheet on a flatbed press until 1926, when Guiton oversaw the introduction and operation of the first rotary press.
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They remained widely in use until the invention of offset lithography in the late 19th century led to rotary presses being mostly replaced by the new technology.
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Much of this progress was made possible by the rotary presses that had been designed by Hippolyte Auguste Marinoni in 1866 and installed at the Journal in 1872.
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But fast printing required a rotary press _ basically a cylinder with type fixed to its surface, which rolled against another cylinder as paper passed between the two.
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February 12, 1867 Improvement in Printing Presses, for discharging sheets . " . . . removing of sheets of printed paper from rotary presses and piling them rapidly ."
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This happens because the stamp images are further apart on a rotary press, which makes the individual stamps larger ( typically 1 / 2 mm to 1 mm ).
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This was particularly prevalent in book and newspaper work where rotary presses required type forms to wrap an impression cylinder rather than set in the bed of a press.
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The first rotary press was patented by Richard Hoe in New York in 1846, and the technology quickly found its way into newspapers, which were able to greatly increase their circulations.
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In October, 1966, the Reporter moved out of Warrington Street to Waterside Mill off Whitelands Road, Ashton, where a new high-speed Crabtree Viscount rotary press was installed, which allowed colour printing.
