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The Detroit News Building, The World's Greatest Newspaper Plant

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Stock #:420286
Type: Postcard
Era: White Border
City: Detroit
State: Michigan (MI)
County: Wayne
Publisher: Curt Teich & Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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These presses can print, cut, fold and deliver 648,000 16-page papers an hour. The presses of The Detroit News are 193 feet 2 inches long over all, and the 36 unites are so synchronized as to be, in reality, one machine. Their capacity is 648,000 complete 16-page papers, printed, cut, folded, counted and delivered to the mailing department every hour. They consume yearly 325,000 miles of paper of a standard width of 70 inches, fed to them in a continuous ribbon from rolls in the basement. Ink used in the printing amounts to 4,100 pounds a day. Presses are being constructed which will increase this printing equipment 25 per cent

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