Besides the great advantages obtained from uniform sets of the
plates, which might be printed on different machines at the rate
of 50,000 impressions an hour, or such additional number as might
be required, there is this other great advantage, that there is
no wear and tear of type in the curved chases by obstructive
friction; and that the fount, instead of wearing out in two
years, might last for twenty; for the plates, after doing their
work for one day, are melted down into a new impression for the
next day's printing. At the same time, the original type-page,
safe from injury, can be made to yield any number of copies that
may be required by the exigencies of the circulation. It will be
sufficiently obvious that by the multiplication of stereotype
plates and printing machines, there is practically no limit to
the number of copies of a newspaper that may be printed within
the time which the process now usually occupies.
This new method of newspaper stereotyping was originally employed
on the cylinders of the Applegath and Hoe Presses. But it is
equally applicable to those of the Walter Press, a brief
description of which we now subjoin. As the construction of the
first steam newspaper machine was due to the enterprise of the
late Mr. Walter, so the construction of this last and most
improved machine is due in like manner to the enterprise of his
son.
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