Chandler & Price
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Chandler and Price was founded in 1881 in Cleveland, Ohio
, by Harrison T. Chandler and William H. Price. They manufactured machinery for printers including a series of hand-fed platen jobbing presses
, as well as an automatic feeder for these presses (the Rice Feeder), paper cutters, book presses, and assorted equipment. Despite dominating the industry in the 1930s, by the 1950s the offset printing
industry had eclipsed the world of movable type printing, and only C & P and Brandtjen and Kluge
continued to make open platen (Gordon
) presses. C & P ceased production of presses in 1964.
The New Style made by Chandler and Price was such a popular press that The Practice Of Printing: Letterpress and Offset by Ralph Polk, the standard textbook for thousands of high school printing programs in the middle of the 20th century, used the press as its example when teaching students the basics of press operation.
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
, by Harrison T. Chandler and William H. Price. They manufactured machinery for printers including a series of hand-fed platen jobbing presses
Jobbing presses
A Jobbing Press is a printing press common in the 19th and 20th centuries. The press is meant to be operated by a pressman working on small jobs, as opposed to long print runs or newspaper work. A printer with a jobber would most commonly print personal stationery, handbills, or other small...
, as well as an automatic feeder for these presses (the Rice Feeder), paper cutters, book presses, and assorted equipment. Despite dominating the industry in the 1930s, by the 1950s the offset printing
Offset printing
Offset printing is a commonly used printing technique in which the inked image is transferred from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface...
industry had eclipsed the world of movable type printing, and only C & P and Brandtjen and Kluge
Brandtjen and Kluge
Brandtjen and Kluge is manufacturer of both platen and web foil stamping, embossing & diecutting presses, and folder-gluers. They also distribute blanking systems & cutters...
continued to make open platen (Gordon
George Phineas Gordon
George Phineas Gordon was an American inventor, printer and businessman who developed the basic design of the most common printing press ever, the Gordon Letterpress....
) presses. C & P ceased production of presses in 1964.
The New Style made by Chandler and Price was such a popular press that The Practice Of Printing: Letterpress and Offset by Ralph Polk, the standard textbook for thousands of high school printing programs in the middle of the 20th century, used the press as its example when teaching students the basics of press operation.
External links
- C & P—Pressman's Favorite from the Amalgamated Printers' Association.
- http://www.apa-letterpress.com/T%20&%20P%20ARTICLES/Press%20&%20Presswork/Chandler%20&%20Price.html Lookup for new style serial numbers and dates built.
- http://www.press817.com/C&P%20serials.pdf A complete listing of serial numbers against year of manufacture for both old and new style also includes craftsman.