Accident machine

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As Accidenzmaschine refers to various types of presses for the printing of accidents is used in printing or newspaper printing. Above all, it was used to create individual printed matter, occasional printed matter and business stationery that use so-called accident fonts and are only needed in small editions. The accident machines were particularly small and replaced the hand presses. They were also known as quick presses . For the Accidenzdruck there were specially trained Accidenzdrucker or Accidenzenschriftsetzer. The powerful American high-speed platen press was later introduced for the simple and cheap production of accidents. The offset printing sparked use on Accidenzmaschinen.

Use and how it works

Accident machines were used less in book or newspaper printing themselves, but mainly used for printing for industry, trade and social life. Above all, securities, stocks, invoice forms, tables, price lists, circulars, programs and labels with all kinds of decorative fonts were printed. With the fast and small accident machines, the small business was to be promoted and the slow hand presses replaced.

The functionality is identical to that of the high-speed press . The accident types were produced separately for each print and placed in so-called accident rooms.

For accidents, printing with non-moistened paper is common. One also speaks of dry printing . Quick-drying paint is used.

Manufacturers and models

  • Cylinder high-speed press: The sheet insert standing to the side moves at the same time as the foot lever attached there.
  • The Gally: accident machine named after the inventor
  • The Invictus: name of a kind of accident machine
  • The jobber press [dschob ^]: a kind of accident machine
  • The Liberty [li'b'rti]: Name of a kind of accident machine with a swinging crucible (invented in America in 1857 by Fr. Otto Degener, who was born in Hanover on March 23, 1815).
  • The Uliput: name of a kind of accident machine
  • The bead press: a kind of accident machine. Perl is a font on a cone of 2 quarter pitches.
  • The Bood's accident machine, called "Little Favorite"
  • Wood's accident machine

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wolfgang Beinert www.typolexikon.de, January 8, 2015 , accessed on March 17, 2015
  2. RetroBib - reference works for the end of the 19th century: Meyers Konversationslexikon, Volume 13 p. 332 , Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna, fourth edition, 1885–1892
  3. RetroBib - Reference to the end of the 19th century .: Meyers encyclopedia, Volume 14 P. 585 , publisher of the Bibliographic Institute, Leipzig and Vienna, Fourth Edition, 1885 to 1892
  4. RetroBib - reference works for the end of the 19th century: Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon, Volume 1 p. 91 , FA Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna, 14th edition, 1894–1896
  5. RetroBib - reference works for the end of the 19th century: Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon, Volume 14 p. 564 , FA Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna, 14th edition, 1894–1896
  6. RetroBib - reference works for the end of the 19th century: Meyers Konversationslexikon, Volume 1, p. 78 , Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna, fourth edition, 1885–1892
  7. Schnellpressen ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 17, 2015
  8. ^ Accident dictionary of book printers and type founders , by Linus Irmisch, Braunschweig 1901, self-published by the author, In the bookstore at George Westermann, digitized by Google July 3, 2007 from the original of the University of Michigan
  9. ^ Dry floor dictionary of book printers and type founders , by Linus Irmisch, Braunschweig 1901, self-published by the author, in the bookstore at George Westermann, digitized by Google July 3, 2007 from the original of the University of Michigan
  10. RetroBib - reference works for the end of the 19th century: Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon, Volume 14 p. 564 , FA Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna, 14th edition, 1894–1896
  11. a b c d e f dictionary of book printers and type founders , by Linus Irmisch, Braunschweig 1901, self-published by the author, in the bookstore at George Westermann, digitized by Google July 3, 2007 from the original of the University of Michigan
  12. Archive for Book Trade and Commercial Graphics, p. 151 A. Waldow (limited preview)
  13. Archive for Book Trade and Commercial Graphics, p. 150 A. Waldow (limited preview)

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