IT CLICKS!

Evening Star, Issue 20653, 28 November 1930, Page 8

IT CLICKS!

Visitors to the Manufacturers’ Exhibition in the Drill Hall have their attention arrested by a rhythmical click-click _of a printing press. These metronomic clicks come from Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie’s automatic platen machine which the makers (Waite arc Saville, Ottley, Yorkshire) claim to lithe fastest platen press in the world It is in„tho Greyhound class, and as n Greyhound is said to be the swiftest thing on four legs—so the Greyhound platen is the speediest and very latest in printing machines. It clicks, and prints as it clicks; it feeds, delivers, and counts as it clicks, and it clicks with unfailing regu larity 4,600 tinms an hour. An ingenious pneumatic device" (patented by th<exhibitor’s engneer, Mr James Clark) ensures perfect feeding and correct registration, with never a miss—evenminute for hours on end seventy-six envelopes, cards, or circulars are printed by this machine, and onlookers have been heard to say that it is almost human.

The Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie exhibit comprises all that is best in the way of printing. Specimens of Lithography, Letterpress, Process Engraving, and Die Stamping typifygood last" and artistic workmanship. Pictorial ar( s demonstrated by a serms of beautiful n'ates of New Zealand native birds i- prodi c d in their natural colours with ■i wonderful degree of perfection I’bese, with the Begonia House i Botanic,, Gardens) and the Maori chief’s head show a high degree of exattained by process of engrav ing and trichromatic printing. Some magnificent examples 'of tin Enainclceu Process (the latest develop ment in the manufacture of Show Cards) meet the eye. Coulls, Somerville, Wilkie have the New Zealand rights for this process, and have installed a special plant in their Dunedin factory. A unique cheque form showing Paradise Lake, Pigeon Island, reproduced in modified tones from an original painting by Marcus King, is also worthy of mention. Outstanding examples of the ability of New Zealand workers to satisfy the most exacting requirements of the modern business man are on view. Yisablex Record Binders, Loose Leaf Ledgers, Invicta Piling System, and other proprietary lines compel the attention of visitors, and demonstrate what can be manufactured in New Zealand by New Zealanders.