The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1895, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1895. 11 . SCENE IN THE “CALL’'S” NEW PRESS ROOM. Sketch of the Two Magnificent Hoe Quadruple Perfecting Printing Machines in Operation The Most Efficient on the Pacific Coast. — W77 77 7 / i Zrz7 P ( ) 777 A I, i 4 ~ -y g, R S R. HOE & co. PRIATING PRESS MACHINE AND SAW MANUFACTURERS GRAND. SHERIFF BROOME AND COLUMBIA STS | OFFICE. 504 GRAND ST ‘ NEW.YORK | | (ALSO MANSFIELD STREET BOROUGH ROAD, LONDON New YVork, June 12, 1895. DEAR SIR: In regard to your second Quadruple Press which has: been placed in position order, we have to say: This is one of our latest Improved Machines, embracing all of| | while to note, in passing, that only the in your pressrooms, and is now in running | separate parts folded one in the other. | our patents up to date, and will deliver complete newspapers at the | rate of: 48,000 four, six or eight pages per hour; 24,000 ten, twelve, fourteen or sixteen pages per hour; 12,000 twenty or twenty-four pages per hour; All printed on both sides, cut at the top, pasted, folded and counted. Combined with your present machine, you will be able to print "The Call" at a speed of: 96,000 48,000 24,000 per hour; Which we trust will meet your circulation for the present, although do not hesitate to call upon us should you require another press of even greater capacity. four, six or eight pages per hour; ten, twelve, fourteen or sixteen pages per hour; twenty, twenty-four, twenty-eight or thirty-two pages Yours very truly, To CHAS. M. SHORTRIDGE, Esq., "The Call," San Francisco, Cal. THE GIANT QUADRUPLEX. A Glance at the Great Press That Prints Thirty-Two Pages as One—Its 10,000 Parts. The two fastest running pressesin the United States are in the pressroom of the San Francisco CALL. Any press- man in the City will teil you this is true, no matter where he works. Andif you doubt that authority there is the great firm of Hoe & Co., the maker not only of the Caia’s giant quadruplex presses, but also of most of the best newspaper printing presses in the United States, who will tell you the same thing. In the East and elsewhere some of the great newspapers have printing facilities that are equal to those possessed by the CALL, but this comes rather from the num- ber of the presses kept running than from their speed, which is not equal to the speed of the giant quadruplex presses. west of the Rocky Mountains, and two of them are in the CALL'S pressroom. When it comes to printing fourteen and sixteen page newspapers there is no pressroom west of Chicago with facilities equal to that of the CaLL's pressroom. These are plain statements, and easily disproven if untrue. But they are true, and whoever may doubt them is invited to the test. A year ago these statements would not have been true. What has made them true is the recent acquisition by the CaLy of its second giant quadruplex press, a twin of the press that has printed the CarLy within'the last two years—except it may be stated in passing that the new pressis faster and more expensively finished. It is Hoe's latest and greatest work, a monu- ment of the leacding printing-press firm in the world. All its parts are interchange- able with the other press, but because it is a later piece of work (the other was finished in ’93 and the new one is fresh from the factory) it is more speedy in action and of There are three of these great presses | more durable and arii::ic finish. | Many of the parts are nickel-plated or | finished in polished steel. Most of the | brackets and sockets are finished in solid brass, and those that are not of brass are | nickel-plated. Hoe & Co. never before | turned out such a perfect piece of mechan- | ism. The weight of the press is seventy tons, and in coming across the continent it filled three of the largest freightcars. There are 10,000 parts to the press, and more than 800 oil holders. Hoe & Co. sent out two men to help set up the press, and they were bere several weeks before the task was completed, working in conjunc- | tion with a Jarge force of men under Wil- | liam B. Hinchcliffe, foreman of the CaLr’s | pressroom. The new press has the capacity to print, | pasteand fold 96,000 four-page papers in one hour. Of an eight-page paper, printed, folded and pasted, 48,000 copies an hour may be turned out. Ten, twelve, fourteen, and sixteen page papers are printed, pasted and folded at the rate of 24,000 copies an hour on this one giant press. When it is considered that the Carv'sold press (it is called old by ise it has been in use two years), running side by side with its sister giant, ha almost equal capacity, it seems not such a bold state- ment to make, after all, to say that the | CALl’s printing facilities are unequaled west of Chicago. One of the noticeable features of the CaLL’s pressroom, as it is now equipped, is its facility for turning out a sixteen-page paper in book form—that is to say, with all s bound or pasted together, e, whole and complete ather than a number of Carn's great new press it possesses many useful and ornamental featu that @ not to be found on other machines of its kind. In the alleyways, under and inside the press, all the service rollers are sur- rounded with screen guards of steel wire, This was a device especially ordered by the CaLn for the protection of life and limb. With these guards in their proper place it is almost impossible for a press- man who uses ordinary care in his work to become caught in any part of the machinery. newspaper, Readers of the CaLuappreciate this method of publishing a newspaper, and it is worth | must fit exactly, even to the fraction of a hair's breadth, into its exact position, when the whole machine is set up for use. Asa whole the mechanism is more deli- cate than the mechanism of the highest grade watch and all the parts are set to an exactness which permits the masters of the machine to adjust its running to the thinness of a tissue paper—to so finea point, in fact, as to be imperceptibie to the human eye. As its name implies there are really four printing presses combined in the giant quadruplex, and in the setting of these as delicate a skill is required as would be necessary in setting the hair spring ef a costly timepiece. All four parts must work together—more, all the 10,000 parts must work together. And the product of their almost human work is laid before you each morning in the year. You get the Cari moist from the busy press, bristling with the world’s news, and speaking for the people’s rights. As you sip your breakfast coffee you read it, sometimes carelessly enough, for it costs you less than a nickel, though in its making are consumed the lives of masters in mechanism, and many capable writers. pressroom is capable of turning out such a pape Itis only by the aid of a device recently invented by Mr. Hinchcliffe, chief of the Cary’ ooms, that this feat of binding or pasting sixteen pages of newspaper on one press is possible. The trick is to bring over one sheet of four pages after it comes from the printing beds and make it run into the same folder over which runs the other eight or twelve pages. On a giant quadruplex press the feeding isfrom two separate rolls of paper, and, without the device of Mr. Hinchcliffe, a more detailed description of which would only be in- telligible to the professional pressman, the natural course for these separate sheets is to flow over two separate folding irons. By making both sheets course over the same folder, Mr. Hinchcliffe has solved a hitherto most perplexing problem, and has succeeded in turning out from one print- ing press, at the rate of 24,000 copies an hour, a sixteen-page newspaper that is even more complete than a hand-bound or stitched pamphlet of the same number of pages. Aside from the splendid finishings of the UNRIVALED FACILITIES RESS facilities must be considered as a matter of prime In the field of metropolitan journalism it is not alone necessary to get importance by the modern newspaper. the news of the world and to prepare it in proper form, but it is also required to have the paper printed in such a shape and with sufficient celerity to reach the various parts of the To do this, printing-machines of the highest speed are an absolute country in proper time, which means almost simultaneously. necessity. The usual rule of the world, which provides that every demand must be met with a supply, here comes in play. Inventors and skilled mechanics have worked together with such A most marvelous example of human in- | genuity is this new giant printing press. | Every one of its 10,000 parts must be made | of the finest tempered steel or brass and | lieffect that a completed mechanism has bsen produced. When the | Call”” came into possession of the present management the ‘pressrooms contained but one quadruple press. The increasing I circulation at once called for greater facilities, and a second press | of the latest and most improved design was ordered. It is now in ‘; position, and in conjunction with the magnificent machine hitherto :‘employed is used every day for turning out completed copies of {the «Call.” Each press will print: 48,000 four, six or eight pages per hour; 24,000 ten, twelve, fourteen or sixteen pages per hour ; 12,000 twenty or twenty-four pages per hour. With both presses working together the speed obtainable is: 96,000 four, six or eight pages per hour; 48,000 ten, twelve, fourteen or sixteen pages per hour; 24,000 twenty, twenty-four, twenty-eight or thirty-two pages per hour. When Benjamin Franklin began his printing career in Philadelphia he considered that he was doing quite well if he was | able to pull off a token an hour at his old hand press; that was ten quires, or 240 sheets of two pages each an hour. The present issue of the ¢Call” contains twenty pages, and the combined capacity of the « Call’s’’ two printing-machines amounts to 24,000 of twenty pages each an hour, so that it would take 1000 men like Benjamin Franklin to print as many papers per hour as the “Call’s” machines turn out per hour. In addition to that, each Benjamin Franklin would require a printer’s devil to ink the rollers, and several hundred go-carts would be necessary for the purpose of collecting the sheets and putting them in a position to be properly distributed, for acres of ground would be covered by the old-fashioned hand presses of the ancient time, All such waste of energy has been obviated by the advent of the machines now in the ¢ Call’s ” pressrooms. With the best equipped machinery on the Pacific Coast, and with a well-furnished establishment in every department, the «Call” cordially invites its contemporaries to a continuance of the present generous rivalry that is tending toward the advancement and building up of the City and the State, :