Chandler & Price

Chandler and Price

Former type	Defunct
Industry	Graphic Arts Equipment
Founded	Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 1881
Founder(s)	Harrison T. Chandler and William H. Price
Defunct	1964
Key people	Harrison T. Chandler and William H. Price, Founders

Chandler and Price was founded in 1881 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Harrison T. Chandler and William H. Price. They manufactured machinery for printers including a series of hand-fed platen jobbing presses, as well as an automatic feeder for these presses (the Rice Feeder), paper cutters, book presses, and assorted equipment. Despite dominating the industry in the 1930s, by the 1950s the offset printing industry had eclipsed the world of movable type printing, and only C & P and Brandtjen and Kluge continued to make open platen (Gordon) presses. C & P ceased production of presses in 1964.

The New Style made by Chandler and Price was such a popular press that The Practice Of Printing: Letterpress and Offset by Ralph Polk, the standard textbook for thousands of high school printing programs in the middle of the 20th century, used the press as its example when teaching students the basics of press operation.

This is a Chandler and Price 10X15 New Style Printing Press.

This is a Chandler and Price 10X15 press being inked up for a job.

External links

• C & P—Pressman's Favorite from the Amalgamated Printers' Association.
• [1] Lookup for new style serial numbers and dates built.
• [2] A complete listing of serial numbers against year of manufacture for both old and new style also includes craftsman.