Newspaper Printing Corporation history

Benjamin Day was an American newspaper publisher who founded The Sun; the first penny press newspaper in the United States, in 1833.

Printed on small, letter-sized pages, The Sun sold for just a penny. It became such a successful and popular newspaper that by the end of 1835 it sold 15,000 copies per day.

Various people worked on this concept, with the first screened photograph appearing in the New York Daily Graphic in 1873.

In 1883 the ‘Leipziger Wochenzeitschrift’ magazine is the first to print a black and white photo processed using this technique.

The concept is picked up by others and in 1886 Reuben H. Donnelley creates the first official Yellow Pages directory.

The Lanston Monotype Machine Company, founded by Tolbert Lanston in Washington D.C. in 1887, builds its first hot metal typesetting machine.

Thomas Edison receives a patent for a printing mechanism that around 1890 will result in the mimeograph or stencil duplicator.

After a few difficult years the Straightline Newspaper Perfecting Press, which debuts in 1892, firmly establishes the company as a leading manufacturer of newspaper presses.

Although color printing seems a modern advancement; the first color comic in an American newspaper made its appearance in 1894.

The first color section appears in 1897, to show off shoes in black, brown, and red.

The company builds flat-bed cylinder presses and from 1921 onward will also produce a series of popular vertical cylinder presses.

Lothar Meggendorfer’s International Circus is a pop-up book that contains six pop-up scenes of circus acts, including acrobats, clowns, and daredevil riders. It is not the first pop-up book to be published but thanks to reproductions, such as the 1979 version shown below, it is still available today.