But
these were only impressions printed on one side of the paper.
The first perfecting press--that is, printing simultaneously the
paper on both sides--was the Walter, the speed of which has been
raised to 12,000, though, if necessary, it can produce excellent
work at the rate of 17,000 complete copies of an eight-page paper
per hour. Then, with the new method of stereotyping--by means of
which the plates can be infinitely multiplied and by the aid of
additional machines, the supply of additional impressions is
absolutely unlimited.
The Walter Press is not a monopoly. It is manufactured at The
Times office, and is supplied to all comers. Among the other
daily papers printed by its means in this country are the Daily
News, the Scotsmam, and the Birmingham Daily Post. The first
Walter Press was sent to America in 1872, where it was employed
to print the Missouri Republican at St. Louis, the leading
newspaper of the Mississippi Valley. An engineer and a skilled
workman from The Times office accompanied the machinery. On
arriving at St. Louis--the materials were unpacked, lowered into
the machine-room, where they were erected and ready for work in
the short space of five days.
The Walter Press was an object of great interest at the
Centennial Exhibition held at Philadelphia in 1876, where it was
shown printing the New Fork Times one of the most influential
journals in America.
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