PI's 40th--We've Come A Long Way, Baby!

Amazingly Antiquated
THEN--New Products: The Harris-Cottrell rotary offset press, which delivered at "amazing speeds" of up to 750 feet per minute; the Consolidated Jewel offset press, capable of 7,500 impressions per hour; the nuArc Rapid printer—a combination vacuum frame/arc lamp; the NC pasting (automatic tipping) machine, an "ingenious attachment that is easily installed on a Miehle vertical press and automatically pastes multiple forms in sets without hand labor"; and the Mullens dampening process, which used an air doctor blade and water control feature to permit letterpress paper to be printed by offset lithography.