Editing Printing (section)

===Rotary printing press===
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The steam-powered rotary printing press, invented in 1843 in the United States by [[Richard M. Hoe]],<ref name="meggs147">{{Cite book |last=Meggs |first=Philip B. |title=A History of Graphic Design |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-471-29198-5 |edition=Third |page=147 |author-link=Philip B. Meggs}}</ref> ultimately allowed millions of copies of a page in a single day. Mass production of printed works flourished after the transition to rolled paper, as continuous feed allowed the presses to run at a much faster pace. Hoe's original design operated at up to 2,000 revolutions per hour where each revolution deposited 4 page images, giving the press a throughput of 8,000 pages per hour.<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard March Hoe {{!}} American inventor and manufacturer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-March-Hoe |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en}}</ref> By 1891, The [[New York World]] and Philadelphia Item were operating presses producing either 90,000 4-page sheets per hour or 48,000 8-page sheets.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Peck |first1=Harry Thurston. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9YpRAAAAYAAJ |title=The International Cyclopædia A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Revised with Large Additions · Volume 12 |publisher=Dodd, Mead & Company |year=1895 |page=168 |access-date=28 June 2020}}</ref>

The rotary printing press uses impressions curved around a cylinder to print on long continuous rolls of paper or other substrates. Rotary drum printing was later significantly improved by [[William Bullock (inventor)|William Bullock]]. There are multiple types of rotary printing press technologies that are still used today: sheetfed [[Offset printing|offset]], [[rotogravure]], and [[Flexography|flexographic]] printing.<ref>{{Cite web |title=JMC 107 Design and Graphics- Printing Process (Gravure & Screen) |url=https://www.davuniversity.org/images/files/study-material/JMC%20107%20Design%20and%20Graphics-%20Printing%20Process%20(Gravure%20&%20Screen).pdf |access-date=May 19, 2024 |website=www.davuniversity.org}}</ref>