The press occupies but a small space on the floor, being 6 feet 1 inch high, 8 feet wide and 15 feet 5 inches long over all. [Illustration: NEWSPAPER AND PAMPHLET PRESS] In 1889 Hoe & Co. constructed a patented perfecting machine in which the plates, or forms, for both sides are placed upon one cylinder, one side of the form of matter being placed upon one end, or half of the cylinder, and the other side upon the opposite portion of the cylinder. One impression cylinder only is used, and the inking apparatus is greatly extended. This machine is remarkable for the great variety of work it will do. At a high rate of speed, sheets of eight, sixteen, twenty-four and so on up to ninety-six or one hundred and twenty-eight pages may be printed and delivered folded in either 12mo, 8vo, 4to or folio sizes, ready for the binder. The press does the work of ten flat-bed cylinder presses and ten hand-feed folding machines. The paper is supplied to the machine from the roll, and after printing passes over the “former” into the folding machine, where the folding and cutting cylinders produce the required number of pages in the form desired. Curved electrotypes are now made successfully and this press was the first to bring the printing of the average book and catalogue within the range of web press work. While in general principles this machine is similar to the large newspaper perfecting presses, though very much smaller in bulk, it has increased facilities for distribution, and finer adjustments throughout. The plates admit of underlays and overlays the same as on a flat-bed press. There are no tapes, the folding being done on rollers and small cylinders without smutting the printing. In the folding apparatus there are knives which cut the sheet into the right size for folding, after which they are automatically delivered counted in lots of fifty each. The speed on a thirty-two page form is about 16,000 copies per hour. This style of machine is probably destined to revolutionize book and pamphlet printing, as it combines the finest construction and facility of operation with the greatest speed. In 1886 a further advance was made toward perfection in the rotary system of printing as adapted to doing fine work, in the construction for Theodore L. De Vinne, the printer of the “Century” Magazine, by Hoe & Co., of a perfecting press to do the plain forms of that periodical. The machine was described in the magazine, in an article written by Mr. De Vinne, here quoted from: (Extract from article published in the “Century” Magazine, November, 1890.)