Postcard

The Detroit News Building, The World's Greatest Newspaper Plant

Postcard. Color illustration of the interior of the Detroit News Building showing printing presses. Printed on the recto, "These presses can print, cut, fold and deliver 648,000 16-page papers an hour."
Printed on the verso, "The presses of The Detroit News are 193 feet 20inches long over all, and the 36 units are so synchronized as to be, in reality, one machine. Their capacity is 648,000 complete 16-page papers, printed, cut, folded, counted and delivered to the mailing department every hour. They consume yearly 300,000 miles of paper of a standard width of 70 inches, fed to them in a continuous ribbon from rolls in the basement. Ink used in the printing amounts to 3,300 pounds a day."