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THE CHINA MAIL'S WINDSOR HO SUPPLEMENT, APRIL 21, 1941..

A NEW PRINTING PRESS 5,000 To 6,000 An Hour

It would be false mod- esty were this souvenir, marking the completion, by the opening of the main shop of the Dairy Farm, of the present-day Windsor House, permitted to appear without some" reference to the "China Mail" and The News- paper Enterprise, Ltd.

Part of the building was designed specifically to meet the special needs of the printing plant of The Newspaper Enterprise, Lid.. and we werg, in fact, the first occupants of the building, the transfer from Wyndham Street taking place July, long before the greater part of the building was completed.

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The transfer itself was no smidl feat in organisation for it had to be effected over a week-end in such a way that the minimal pr duction of the "Sunday Heraid" and the "China Mail?" was internugdprt for a single edition.

The problem was not an easy one, but it was tackled energeti- cally and it is no small tribute to Messrs. Linotype and Machin- ery Limited, who accepied res- ponsibility for transfer of the ma- chinery, that linotype machines which at 3 a.m. on Sunday were setting type for the "Sunday Herald" were, by midnight the same day. already in operation, preparing "copy" for the follow- ing day's "China Mail,"

· The change-over was, of course, tremendously facilitated by the fact that a new printing press, already the Duplex Rotary, had been installed in Windsor House, to come into operative use for the first time when the transfer' took

The Duplex Rotary Press at the end of a day's run.

5,000 to 6,000 copies

the necessity

per

hour of any

place.

The

without Duplex Flat-Bed Rotary

stereotyping. Press has been specially designed for the printing of a newspaper Papers are delivered folded to half or quarter-page and the which calculates its circulation in

change from half-page to quar- thousands.

ter-page can be made while the press is running,

The papers are printed direct from type formes, from a con- tinuous paper reel, thus permit- of from ling a running speed

For the "China Mail" tabloid size a special device is attached

to the machine, providing a clean cut at the top of the page, and enables a complete issue of the out "China Mail" to be turned by the machine, ready immed- lutely for the street, in a single operation.

The printing of this machine, the first of its kind in a Europ- ean printing establishment in Hong

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