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Chandler & Price was founded in 1881 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Harrison T. Chandler and William H. Price. They manufactured machinery for printers including a series of hand-fed platen jobbing presses , as well as an automatic feeder for these presses (the Rice Feeder), paper cutters, book presses, and assorted equipment.
The printing press is most famous for its windmill-like automatic paper feed mechanism. There are two blades that rotate from the paper feed, where it picks up a sheet of paper; to the platen, where the printing impression is made; to the delivery rack, where the paper is released; followed by the blade pointing straight up ready to start the next cycle.
The company was founded in 1883 [1] in Chicago as a lumber company by Albert Blake Dick (1856 – 1934). It soon expanded into office supplies and, after licensing key autographic printing patents from Thomas Edison, became the world's largest manufacturer of mimeograph equipment (Albert Dick coined the word "mimeograph"). [3]
Rotary letterpress machines are still used on a wide scale for printing self-adhesive and non-self-adhesive labels, tube laminate, cup stock, etc. The printing quality achieved by a modern letterpress machine with UV curing is on par with flexo presses. It is more convenient and user friendly than a flexo press.
The plates, called stereotypes, are coated with ink, then pressed against a continuous roll of paper. Rotary letterpress printing was used in the mid-twentieth century to print most major newspapers. In offset lithography, the image is chemically applied to a plate, generally through exposure of photosensitive layers on the plate material.
A platen (or platten) is a platform with a variety of roles in printing or manufacturing. It can be a flat metal (or earlier, wooden) plate pressed against a medium (such as paper) to cause an impression in letterpress printing. [1] Platen may also refer to a typewriter roller which friction-feeds paper into position below the typebars or print ...
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Graphotype Class 6380 Graphotype Model 6383 plate. Graphotype was a brand name used by the Addressograph-Multigraph Company for its range of metal plate embossing machines. [1] The machines were originally used to create address plates for the Addressograph system and mark military style identity tags and other industrial nameplates.