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  2. Original Heidelberg Platen Press - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Chandler & Price - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Jobbing press - Wikipedia

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    A jobbing press, job press, or jobber is a variety of printing press used in letterpress printing. [ 1 ] The press is meant to be operated by a pressman working on small jobs , as opposed to long print runs or newspaper work, or jobs that require less than a full-sized sheet of paper, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] though the definition of "small jobs" may vary ...

  5. Letterpress printing - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. A. B. Dick Company - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Offset printing - Wikipedia

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    Offset printing is a common printing technique in which the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier.

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  9. Platen - Wikipedia

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    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 ...