Hoe press
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The Hoe press was a high speed printing press in the late 19th century that made possible large circulation newspapers and magazines at low cost. It was invented by American Richard Hoe in 1860. Combined with the Mergenthaler Linotype which enabled very fast setting of type, and the use of wood pulp for newsprint, the result was lost cost printing of hundreds of thousands of sheets a day.
Further reading
- Comparato, Frank E. Chronicles of Genius and Folly: R. Hoe and Company and the Printing Press as a Service to Democracy. Culver City, Calif.: Labyrinthos, 1979. 846 pp.