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Originally Posted by t206hound
Thanks Steve. If we assume the track was 19" wide (with a 17+" print width)... What was the maximum length?
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It would depend on the diameter of the press cylinder. Modern ones are usually fed with the long side towards the press, so the maximim size would be 19x less than 19.
The pictures of the presses of the era look like the cylinder is rather large, so they could have done it differently. 19x24 is a traditional paper size.
If you can stand toread through it there's a good look at paper standardization here
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volat...papersizes.pdf
Looks like the sizes weren't standardized much until after WWI and serious standardization not till after WWII.
Steve B