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py of The Times is an Epic of Service! OVER 6000 copies of The Times, similar in every detail to the one you are now reading, came off the press this afternoon. We will endeavour in this article to show our readers, in as interesting and concise a' manner as.possible, how your copy of The Times is prepared---from the moment the day's news is received in our office until the paper is finally printed. 'A NEWSMAN'S WORK IS NEVER DONE The working day in a newspaper is 24 hours long. From midnight to midnight someone is always on the job prepar- ing for the next issue. Somewhere on the earth's broad surface a news story of absorbing interest may "break." THE CREED AUTOMATIC PRINTER Take for example any one of a number of the first page news despatches in to-day's issue which were received over our leased wire to-day. These despatches were sent to us direct from the headquarters of the Canadian Press in Tor- onto. It is there punched out on the tape and the tape inserted in a transmitter which operates the Creed Automatic Printer in our office. This ingenious machine, which some- what resembles a typewriter, prints the copy on sheets which are read and checked by the editorial staff and then rushed to the composing room, : MODERN TYPESETTING EQUIPMENT Here the copy is speedily set in type by skilled operators on "one of our battery of typesetting machines. These machines, the most modern typesetting equipment in existence, are au- "tomatic in operation and almost human in their responsiveness -. They do a score of operations at once but their mechanism 'is so intricate that we won't even attempt to explain it here, After leaving the typesetting machines we find the whole Tw This fllustration shows the "Duplex Tubular" press which is capable of turning out $0,000 finiehed newspapers per hour. This press was manufactured by the Dup. lex Printing Press Company of Battle Creek, Michigan, and represents the last word in modern newspaper printing equipment. first page of the issue of The Times, still in type, setin a "chase" and a previously prepared sheet of what looks like a damp piece of heavy soft cardboard set on top of the type. THE "MAT" This sheet, or matrix, is next rolled by the mat roller, at a pressure of thirty tons to the square inch, which leaves an exact impression of the type and illustrations in the mat. . The mat is then hardened by heat and curved to the size required to make the plate. From the "scorcher' in which the mat has been dried and curved, it is adjusted in the "casting box" and molten stereotype metal pumped into it, making a cylindrical plate eon the outside of which the printing surface stands out in relief. This plate is fastened to a cylinder on the big press, on the opposite half of which another plate has been affixed. This particular cylinder is now ready for the press to start. THE PRESS When each of the four units is ready the press is slowly started by, a 5 horse-power motor and, when a certain speed is reached, the small mo- tor automatically stops and the work is taken over by a powerful 50 horsepower motor. 'At the rear of the press four rolls of paper, weighing between 600 and 700 pounds, are fed to their proper units, pressed against the plated cylinder and then reversed in direction so that the second set of cylinders of each unit may print the impression on the reverse side. : From there the long ribbons of paper travel forward to the front of the press where the most fascinating operation of all, to the layman's eye, is performed. See AN INTERESTING FINALE iThe paper is here gathered together by rollers and fed into the folder, or shaper, which gives it the first, or lengthwise fold. The folder then cuts the sheets into proper length, gives them a second fald and delivers the printed papers neatly piled and counted in sets of 25. The paper is now ready; for delivery. 'As you glance through this issue of The Times, and read the news; as you laugh at the comics and thrill at the outcome of a closely, contested sporting event, give a thought to the vast amount of expense and labor entailed in producing this paper. : iThat front page news item -- the announcement which you are now reading--requires in one way or another, the services of over four score people in The Times personnel alone, hefore you set eyes on it! a ie A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City he ARR PE DS aR 4 J a o i : i ay. Ss . "AN INVITATION | Realizing how inadequate the printed word is to fully describe the complex and extensive equipment and processes required in the printing of a modern daily newspaper, The Times invites all its readers to visit the plant and see their newspaper in the process of produce tion. . Visitors will'be welcomed at all times, but, to see the full process, including the turning of papers from the modern, high-speed press, the ideal time for a visit is between dhe hounmof Jpnd 4.30 pan... .. - JHOO.t -