Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices--Part I. No. 7; Cylinder Printing Machines: Being a Study of the Mechanism and Operation of Principal Types of Cylinder Printing Machines

Language: English

Published by The Committee on Education, United Typothetae of America, Chicago, IL, 1918

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First Edition. Original publisher's gray cloth binding with white lettering on front cover and spine. 5" x 8." Forty-nine pages, complete. Several small black-and-white illustrations, complete. Review Questions and Glossary in back. Nine additional pages in back contain advertisements for other titles in the Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices, Acknowledgment, and a list of Contributors. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning, small occasional marks or stains, and occasional pencil annotations. Covers are clean and intact overall but have darkening, a few small stains, light to moderate rubbing, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. A concise instructional book about how modern cylinder printing presses work. The book includes several small, detailed black-and-white illustrations and diagrams showing parts of modern cylinder printing presses and the printing process. The Preface clarifies that this book is not historical in nature, aims to explain the practical aspects of cylinder printing presses, and focuses only on contemporary printing presses of the time. Contents are titled as follows: "What a Printing Press Is," "Elements of the Printing Press," "The Single-Revolution Press," "Bed Motion," "Two-Revolution Press," "Bed Motions," "Sheet Delivery," "Two-Revolution Perfecting Press," "Two-Revolution Two-Color Press," "Rotary Presses," "Webb Perfecting Rotary Press," "Offset Mechanisms," "Extra Colors," "Cutting the Sheet," "Delivery," "Turning-Bar Folding," "Magazine Folding," "Methods of Delivery," "Other Methods of Folding," "Flat-Bed Newspaper Rotaries," "Webb Perfecting Newspaper Rotaries," "Rotary Color Press," "Fine Process Color Printing," "Conclusion," and "Supplementary Reading.".…

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Title
Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices--Part I. No. 7; Cylinder Printing Machines: Being a Study of the Mechanism and Operation of Principal Types of Cylinder Printing Machines
Author
Baker, Herbert L.
Publisher
The Committee on Education, United Typothetae of America, Chicago, IL
Publication year
1918
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition
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