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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 1
[printing photographs by gaslight]
The Printers' Register, 7th Feb., says:—At the recent conversazione of the Leeds Philosophical Society there was shown a highly-interesting exposition of photographic methods of book illustration, organized mainly through the exertions of Mr C. H. Bothamley, president of the Yorkshire College Photographic Club. A striking feature of this part of the exhibition was Urie's machine for printing photographs automatically on rapid printing paper by gaslight. The whole process, turning up and cutting off the light, printing upon the paper, and supplying the fresh piece of paper, is done by clockwork. The speed of the printing can be regulated from a second up to three minutes, according to the quality or kind of paper used. The only thing that has to be done by hand is to develop and fix the prints. The advantage of the machine is that as soon as the negative is obtained the process of printing can immediately commence. This machine can turn out prints at the rate of a thousand a day, and one important feature is that it requires little supervision so soon as the clockwork is started.