PRINTING CARTONS

Printing fibre and corrugated paper boxes is a special branch of the paper box industry, and there are several printing presses of different makes designed particularly for this class of work. Many large buyers of fibre and corrugated paper boxes have advertising matter printed on the outside of the boxes, and in numerous instances, the printing is done in two or more different colors. The advantages of having advertising matter printed on the shipping containers are recognized by large manufacturers. For example, many of the corrugated containers used for holding tins and glass jars of smoking tobacco have attractive advertising matter printed on all four sides.

Langston Multi-color Printing Press for Shipping Containers.

Among the most efficient printing presses which are now in general service for printing fibre and corrugated shipping containers are the F. X. Hooper fibre printing press, made by the F. X. Hooper Co., Inc., of Glenarm, Md., and the Langston multi-color printing press, made by Samuel M. Langston Co., of Camden, N. J. Both of these machines are rotary presses and are capable of producing great quantities of work at high speed. The printing is done from electrotype plates which are attached to the printing cylinder of the press.

Any of the paper box machinery concerns mentioned in this series of articles will send catalogues and detailed information covering their machines upon request.

Transcriber’s Note

The cover image was created by transcriber and placed in the public domain.

Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation such as “box-maker”/“box maker” and “strawboard”/“straw-board” have been maintained.

Minor punctuation and spelling errors have been silently corrected and, except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

  1. [Page 25]: “Attached to the machine is a receptable” changed to “Attached to the machine is a receptacle”.
  2. [Page 27]: “The bettter class of set-up boxes” changed to “The better class of set-up boxes”.
  3. [Page 41]: “The stock used for the partititions” changed to “The stock used for the partitions”.
  4. [Page 94]: “the ends of the ribon” changed to “the ends of the ribbon”.
  5. [Page 118]: “and you’re just bound to succeeed” changed to “and you’re just bound to succeed”.
  6. [Page 159]: “keeping their plants in first class phyical” changed to “keeping their plants in first class physical”.
  7. [Page 165]: “It would be impossible to specifiy” changed to “It would be impossible to specify”.
  8. [Page 169]: “in additon to doing printing” changed to “in addition to doing printing”.
  9. [Page 195]: “resinous compound which adhers” changed to “resinous compound which adheres”.
  10. [Page 201]: “equipment necessary for a memium-size” changed to “equipment necessary for a medium-size”.