There, were, however, no feeders and no grippers. The roll of paper was placed at the end of the press, passed around the impression cylinders arranged at one side of the form cylinder, and then turned upside down at the lower part of the machine, thence being carried upwards. The opposite or unprinted side was presented in turn between each impression cylinder and the forms. If four impression cylinders were placed around the central cylinder then at each revolution of the latter four perfect papers were printed. If eight impression cylinders were placed around the central cylinder then eight perfect papers were printed at one revolution of the main or form cylinder. The speed attained by this machine with four impression cylinders was about 12,000 per hour, and from machines with eight impression cylinders 24,000 copies per hour were printed. This press was especially adapted for afternoon papers when the time or expense necessarily involved in stereotyping could not be afforded. The majority of the machines made were provided with four impression cylinders only. In the machines with eight impression cylinders two rolls were used, one at either end of the machine, the paper from each roll passing under the two first impression cylinders on either side, each web then being turned over, and paper passed between the two remaining cylinders on either side to print the opposite sides of the sheets. In this machine a folding apparatus was placed at each end to receive the product of the rolls, but in the machine with four impression cylinders only one folder was placed, at the end of the machine opposite that at which the paper entered. The experience gained in the construction of these fast newspaper machines, and the accumulation of patented devices entering into them, which were numbered by the score, had their influence in the improvements which were made upon presses for the printing of weekly newspapers, periodicals and magazines. [Illustration: THREE PAGE WIDE PRESS] In 1888 was introduced a patented Hoe machine called the “Three-page-wide Press.” It has a capacity of printing, perfecting and delivering two-page papers, with one fold, at the rate of 60,000 per hour; four-page papers, with two folds, at 24,000 per hour, six-page papers at 24,000 per hour; eight-page papers, folded twice, or to carrier size, at 12,000 per hour, and twelve-page papers, folded in the same manner as the eight-page, at the same speed, viz., 12,000 per hour; all the supplement sheets being inset and pasted if desired. The prominent features of this machine are: The outside pages may receive the first or the last impression at will, thus enabling large cuts and other similar work to be printed without offset. Grippers and horizontal folding knives and all tapes but short leaders are done away with in the delivery and folding mechanisms, the movements being all rotary.