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Originally Posted by teetwoohsix
Hi Steve,
Thanks for all of the information, this is more what I was looking for, and I appreciate it. It's interesting that you said you have seen a 1910 press in operation printing a sheet that's half as wide as the track. I had asked a few times (in the past) if the "track width" can be adjusted, and this is why I was asking- basically, to find out if they could print multiple sized sheets (or works) on the same press.
I also found during searching around on the web a site about movie posters, and they had some very interesting information-printing huge lithographed posters.
Thanks again for the information-
Sincerely, Clayton
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The more modern press I ran briefly in 1981 could print narrower than the usual 35 inches, but as far as I know our shop never ran it that way. They had two 35s, a 24 and a small one, 12"? Later they bought a 35" two color press.
I was pretty sure the old ones could also run narrower, but hadn't seen any proof of it. The sizes in some ads are shown as maximum stone size, and maximum print size.
Steve B