| Show THE OFFSET REVOLUTION The Green Monster refused to print two sheets inrow After struggling mightily until abouta by which time we were knee-deep in crumpled newsprint and having ruined about000 sheets to get 150 through the press we gave up called Russ Innes in American Fork and begged for help We drove our negs up to him and he roused his crew out ata and we printed on his Goss web -and we somehow made thea post office deadline Single sheet production was obviously out of the question for larger publications Printing units linked in tandem to reproduce oncontinuous roll of paper were what was needed to make offsetviable option Suchconcept wasntruly innovative since letterpresses with that capability had come into use way back when the Civil War was ending William Bullock devised suchmachine in 1865 Actually Richard THOUGH IT WASNamong the earliest to installweb offset press the Richfield Reaper did choose one of the most popular units the Goss Community when the move was made in January 1973 Hal Bradley was the first pressman 225 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
