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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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[62] [63] These estimates have sometimes been exceeded: in 2008, plate number 6 brought $675,000 at auction, [64] [65] and in 2018, plate number 20 fetched $410,000 at auction. [64] [66] Bids have come from around the world, even though only drivers with Delaware licenses and residency can legally own the plates. [64]