To print a report of a hundred folio pages in the course of a day or during a night, or of a thousand pages in a week, was no uncommon occurrence.

From his gigantic establishment were turned out not fewer than 725,000 printed sheets, or equal to 30,000 volumes a week.

Nearly 45,000 pounds of paper were printed weekly.

The quantity printed on both sides per week, if laid down in a path of 22 1/4 inches broad, would extend 263 miles in length.
About the year 1840, a Polish inventor brought out a composing machine, and submitted it to Mr.Clowes for approval.

But Mr.Clowes was getting too old to take up and push any new invention.
He was also averse to doing anything to injure the compositors, having once been a member of the craft.