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X. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES OF SWEDEN.
machines have come into extensive use and year by year increase in
number need hardly be mentioned.
For the printing of newspapers ordinary stop cylindér presses were a
long time in use; in the sixties and seventies, when the issues began to
increase, they were, however, succeeded by French double-presses (from
Marinoni or Alauzet). But the newspaper editions continued to increase,
and in 1881 the first rotary press was introduced, which since has
been followed by several, so that the number of them now amounts
to 30.
The first composing-machine, Linotype, was imported from America.
At present, 58 type-setting machines are at work, of which 26 Linotypes
from America or England, 23 Typographs from Germany, and 3 Lanston
monotypes from America. Both the latter kinds are used for book or
newspaper composing, the others only for newspapers.
The largest printing-house of Sweden is the Government printing-office
(Kungl. Boktryckeriet, P. A. Norstedt & Söner) of Stockholm, where this
book has been printed. It is in the possession of a joint-stock company,
P. A. Norstedt & Söner, which at the same time is the largest
publishing-house of Sweden, for which reason the printing-office, besides official
print, chiefly attends to the publications of the house itself. The firm,
founded in 1823 and reorganized into a company in 1878, gives
occupation to 500 workers and makes use of 26 printing-machines, of which
one rotary one. Next in size comes the Central printing-office
(Centraltryckeriet). founded in 1874. The production value amounts at the
Government printing-office to about l’a million kronor, of which *.«
millions are working expenses, and at the Central printing-office to about
650,000 kronor. The latter occupies 42 printing-presses.
Among the Newspaper printing-offices, the size of which is chiefly
dependent on that of the respective editions, the first places are due to
those of the Stockholms-Tidningen and the Aftonbladet.
Of type-foundries, the first in Sweden was established already in
1739, but at present they are of comparatively little note. Generally
they form part of the printing-offices and mostly comprise the make of
stereotypes and electrotypes besides.
At the very first appearance of the photographic methods of
reproduction their great significance was understood in Sweden, and
institutions were founded for the utilization of them. To begin with, the
result did not prove altogether a success, but by perseverance the work
has now advanced so far that oliohés made here must be considered
of a high standard.
Lithographic institutions and phototype printeries. For the
fabrication of plates, particularly for scientific purposes, lithographic
institutions were founded quite early, and the number of them was
steadily increasing till the end of the eighties, when the competition
of the printing-offices began to make itself felt. In 1900, there existed
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