From the Archive

The Des Plaines Publishing Co. in Des Plaines, Ill. switched operations to a labeling machine in order to deliver their five weekly newspapers on the day of publication. At left, address cards are fed into a Cheshire Model 730 Strip-lister which reproduces addresses on address strips at a speed of 7,500 per hour. At right, address strips are cut and applied to newspapers by a Cheshire Model 523 labeling machine. The machine is capable of labeling 15,000 newspapers per hour. This photo originally appeared in the Jan. 8, 1972 issue of E&P.