How Paper Boxes Are Made / A practical and instructive book telling how the beginner may manufacture all kinds of paper boxes, with special chapters on the printing department for paper box plants, embossing, gold-leafing, label work, etc.

by Robert F. Salade

THE HARTFORD PRINTING PRESS

The Hartford platen printing press, made by the National Machine Company, of Hartford, Conn., is one of the best machines of its kind in the world, being built expressly for the finest class of half tone and color printing. By reason of its powerful construction, the Hartford Press, in addition to doing printing, is also capable of doing cutting and creasing. It may also be used for embossing. It should be understood by the reader that the National Company are making three different kinds of presses—printing presses, cutting and creasing presses, and embossing presses. The proper press should be used for each particular class of work, but just the same, the Hartford printing press is strong enough to do light cutting and creasing, and also embossing, in addition to printing.

The Hartford printing press is well adapted to spacious forms of type or plates for cartons, wrappers and labels. Often, on this machine, two or more wrappers, cartons or labels can be printed together on one sheet of stock. On fine color work, pictures, designs, etc., for art wrappers, the Hartford is especially useful. This machine is also adapted to close-register color printing on cardboard, as used for “set-in” forms for holiday boxes, necktie boxes and suspender boxes. The “set-in” forms, after being printed, can also be cut out to the required shape on the Hartford Printing Press.