Category: Stereotyping

A perfect dry mat must have the following properties or characteristics: (1) It must always be of the same thickness. This means that not only must all the mats in any given lot be uniform in thickness but that from lot to lot, the mats must be the same. And it is particularly essential that […]

It is interesting to follow the development of the dry mat method of stereotyping in America. In 1901 FERDINAND WESEL of New York, veteran manufacturer of stereotyping machinery, was in London, where he found newspapers using a German dry mat quite successfully. Wesel went to Germany and there secured the sole sales agency for America […]

Altho both Eastwood’s and Schimansky’s inventions were not satisfactory in a commercial sense, they certainly influenced a large number of paper makers to experiment with dry mat manufacturing and finally led to the excellent present day product. Several German firms (Claus, Nietzsche, Benesch, Rosenthal, Geissler, etc.) took up manufacturing of dry mats as a side […]

In 1900 FRIEDRICH SCHREINER, manufacturer of Stereotyping Supplies in Plainfield, New Jersey, offered matrix paper for “cold type stereotyping”. To quote his prospectus: “Our Patent Cold Process Matrix Paper consists of a Plastic Face Sheet and a gummed Back Sheet. In making a Matrix the back of the Face sheet should be rendered moist with […]

An advance step in the making of stereotype dry mats was made in 1895 by HERMANN SCHIMANSKY of Berlin, Germany. He contended that dry mats made in accordance with the specifications of prior inventors were so constituted that the free spaces were to remain white in the printing were filled up at the back of […]

The honor of inventing the first entirely dry mat and making a new product which constituted the basis of all later dry mats, belongs to GEORGE EASTWOOD, of Kingston, England. There has been some controversy as to whether the Englishman Eastwood or the German Schimansky was the original inventor of the dry mat cold process […]

In 1863 the idea of using dry pulp appeared for the first time. This method of manufacture was not practicable, too difficult and these mats could not be made on a commercial scale. The first attempt to use a dry cold process and to mold by rolling a mat only once was made by GEORGE […]

The next step towards the invention of printing was the impressing of plates made out of one single block of wood upon which was engraved in relief the matter one proposed to print. In our days this would be designated as a wood-cut. Towards the end of the fourteenth century, the wood of the linden […]

Just as the deficiencies and shortcomings of the plaster of Paris process led to the invention of the papier-mache process of stereotyping, thus in due time the drawbacks of the latter made the invention of a better method a necessity. The quality of the work done by means of the wet mat method could hardly […]

The first printing in America was done in the year 1540 by the Jesuits in Mexico, the first book being a religious work entitled “A Manual for Adults.” The first printing press in the United States was erected and operated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1638, under the charge of STEPHEN DAYE, and the first book […]