When Bob Townsend sat down at the desk in his small print shop in the
mid-1950s to sketch out the plans for the first T-51, he had one
goal in mind: To solve the typical problems of two-pass, two-color
printing on a small format offset press.
His solution: A totally independent,
self-contained printing unit that easily attaches to almost any offset
press.
A unit that has its own plate cylinder and its own ink and dampening system.
A unit that transfers the image from its plate onto the blanket in close
register with the image from the offset's plate. Simultaneously, both
images are then transferred onto the paper. Two-color printing in just one pass. Two-color work in half the time!
The T-51, or "T-Head",
was quickly recognized by nearly every major offset duplicator manufacturer
as a vital option to their presses.