Identifier: specimensoftypeb00amer (find matches)
Title: Specimens of type, borders, ornaments, brass rules and cuts, etc. : catalogue of printing machinery and materials, wood goods, etc
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: American Type Founders Company
Subjects: Type and type-founding Printing Printing machinery and supplies
Publisher: Chicago : American Type Founders
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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any, Cleveland, O.: We consider the Harris Automatic Press to be inevery way a profitable investment. We have been using one since November, 1895, and it isall and more than you claimed for it. . . . Any intelligent feed-girl can run it, after form ismade ready. We have printed 20.000 stamped envelopes at a speed of 7500 impressions ormore per hour, spoiling but one envelope, and that because it was imperfectly made. We haveprinted over 800,000 candidate cards in lots of 5000 to 25,000 of a kind at one time. The A. H. Pugh Printing Company, Cincinnati, O.: It is very easy to make-ready,and the work we have been able to get out of it is simply astonishing. Albert Datz, Jersey City, N. J.: It is a big money-saver, doing the work previouslydone by four ordinary presses. James Kempster Printing Co., N. V.: Capable of running over 50,000 impressions aday with little or no spoilage. General Selling Agents, AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS COMPANY. 855 AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS CO. GALLY UNIVERSAL PRESS.
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Excels all other types of platen presses because : (i) The bed andframe are cast in one piece, securing rigidity and keeping all shafts inline in spite of irregularities in floor or foundation. (2) The platenmoves up squarely against the type form, giving a perfectly square im-pression. (3) The platen has nine supports, and is extra heavy, and isthe only platen capable of sustaining the powerful impression neces-sary to secure the best results on large forms of cuts. (4) The impres-sion can be thrown off instantly, the throw-off being controlled by abar directly behind the platen. (5) The impression can be changedinstantly all over the platen, varying froin the imperceptible to aneighth of an inch. (6) The platen opens out widely, making it easy tofeed paper into it. (7) The ink fountain is as efficient as the fountains onthe highest grade cylinder presses. It is the most perfect fountain fora platen press evermade. (8) The operations of ink distribution andinking the form are distinc

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