Category: Stereotyping

WILLARD S. WHITMORE, of Washington, D. C., in 1881, in his invention relating to paper molds or martices for casting stereotype plates, proceeded as follows: Instead of making his mat up of alternate layers of unsized paper and sheets of tissue paper pasted together and in order to remedy the drawbacks of pulling in wet […]

An improvement on the wet mat stereotyping process embodying an idea of using dry material was made in 1863 by ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, an English mechanical draughtsman. He was granted a patent for “an improved mode of and apparatus for producing stereotype plates.” His application first describes the prevailing process as consisting of several sheets […]

A man who was prominent in the development of the papier-mache or wet mat method of stereotyping for newspapers was a Swiss printer, JAMES DELLAGANA. He learned stereotyping according to Genoux’s patented process in Paris, and set up a stereotyping shop in London. In the year 1855 he was granted a patent for casting plates […]

Before continuing our compilation of the different steps in the art of stereotyping, a few remarks pertaining to the history of the newspaper will be of interest. A newspaper in its modern acceptation can only be properly dated from the time when in Western Europe the invention of printing made a multiplication of copies a […]

Each and every one of the inventions and processes thus far described was an important step forward in the building up of the art of stereotyping, but none of these methods was practiced to any extent by others than by the men who invented them. The adoption of stereotyping throughout the entire printing world was […]

Thus, in the period between 1828 and 1829 the papier mache or wet mat process of stereotyping was invented. This invention represented a tremendous advance in the art of stereoptyping and up to this present day paper mats have dominated the art. CLAUDE GENOUX, a French printer, is the inventor of the so-called “papier mache” […]

A workman in the employ of Didot, Louis Stephan Herhahn by name, devised a new process of stereotyping upon which he obtained patents in 1798 and 1800. Herhahn worked in conjunction with his employees, Errand and Renouard, under the supervision of Count Schlabrendorf. He had copper type made, in which the letters were sunken, but […]

The invention of stereotyping was one of the advance steps in printing. It, therefore, seems that a few words dealing with the origin and development of the art of printing, before entering upon the data pertaining to stereotyping proper, will be of interest. There are, in the history of human intellect, three fundamental stages, and […]