The Columbus Dispatch

Good morning. Behold our new press. Not running the best yet, but running at last. The problem of installing it was no small one, that is getting it going and never missing an issue. But the job has at last been accomplished and we are out of some of our troubles at last. But what about the new press, what is it, who made it and what does it do. at least some of you will want to know. Well here is the information.

The press is the latest thing in Cox Duplex Perfecting Presses, built by the Cox Duplex Press Co., of Battle Creek, Michigan. It was ordered way back in the spring, contracted for to be erected and running on September the first. but living, or something like that. At any rate it is here and doing good work at the old stand. It required a great big car to fetch it from the factory and then a whole lot of little Ford trucks were kept busy tons and its logih, but what do you care about its length, height width or depth. It cost a whole lot of money and by the way. the high cost of living is shown here, for the press has gone up about a thousand dollars since we bought it.

It was bought through the local Printers Supply Company, at Atlanta. Their man, Goodwin, drifted in here for several years before he finally sold it and it would not have been bought then save for the demand for a large faster press to accommodate our growing business.

It was made necessary too by the scarcity of help and the loss of time in doing things in the old way. With our old cylinder affair we had to have one man feeding the press and one man feeding the folder and then it was a slow process, with lifting forms and lifting paper and all of those antiquated things. But what will the press do?

It will do a whole lot. To begin with you will observe that the pages are larger. The old paper was 13x18 inches and the new one is seven columns wide, the standard size of all papers now. Then the paper feeds itself The press prints and folds a six page paper. all forms and they ran out at the rate of about four thousand a minute, no that's a terrible fast, at four thousand an hour is what we meant to say. There is no lifting heavy bundles of news to print, no changing of forms, no running of a separate folder, all of this is done by the Cox Duplex Another big advantage is that we can hold the paper to the last minute and then get it on the streets within a few minutes This is a big stunt which counts so much in the daily field The press counts them too, and

the paper is fed from a mammoth roll which weighs half a ton and which would cover several miles, if it were unwound The paper is printed direct from the type forms and this saves expense and time in stereotyping. In all respects it is the most economical perfecting press ever built, and it will take care of The Dispatch circulation for a number of years to come.

The press was erected by Mr. E. G. Kilpatrick of the Dodson Printers Supply Company. and it has required six days for its construction Mr. Kilpatrick made the best job of erection we have ever known in our long years of publishing experience. Come up and see it run.