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This is a machine used for letterpress; the maximum size of paper it can print is size 4.

This printing machine belongs to the era after the 1950s, a working machine of Dadi Printing Company. Called "flat-plate rotary press", it consists of a planar table and a circular pressing barrel. It is a high-table-type rotary press with papers fed from above the pressing barrel. Its inking device is of cylindrical type, very popular in Germany and rare in Taiwan. Visitors can compare it with the flat-table-type rotary press commonly used in Taiwan. This collected item is produced in Italy, echoing today’s digital printers. From it, visitors can observe the wisdom underlying the mechanisms of paper feeding, ink applying and transferring.

L:206.00 cm X W:123.00 cm X H:174.00 cm

Movable type printing