SINCE October 1957 your copy of TIME has been printed in one of seven cities--four in the U.S., three overseas. The U.S. and Canadian editions are printed by plants in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Washington, overseas editions in Paris, Tokyo and Havana. This week TIME rolled off presses in an eighth plant: Williams Press Inc. in Albany, N.Y.

For Williams Press and TIME, the press run marks the renewal of an old friendship. It was Williams, then in New York City, who in February 1923 printed the first issue of a bold journalistic pioneer, TIME, the Weekly Newsmagazine. Later that year when Williams moved to Albany, TIME was unwilling to risk slowing deliveries to readers by printing outside New York City, and the association was suspended. In the years since, both Williams and TIME have grown, and a measure of the growth is shown in the size of fledgling TIME'S first print order: a modest 25,000. This week Williams started a press run of 250,000 copies of TIME to be distributed to New England and eastern New York alone (see map). Williams' contribution, ten times the number of TIME'S first total run, is still only one-tenth of the total 2,500,000 copies of TIME printed every Monday in the five U.S. plants. (Chicago and the three foreign plants print 555,000 copies of TIME'S four international editions.)

TIME'S biggest weekly print order goes to the Chicago plant of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., which turns out 1,200,000 copies each week and also prints all TIME'S color and engraves all pictures and composes all pages. From Donnelley, duplicates of the assembled pages in the form of complete plates, mats, Vinylite molds or film positives are flown to the seven other domestic and overseas printing and binding plants. Bound copies are then shipped by rail, truck and plane to readers.

In October, a ninth printing plant will be added to the list. To speed up distribution to our growing readership in Australia and New Zealand, and to reflect our increasing interest in those significant areas, 35,000 copies of TIME'S Pacific edition, now printed in Tokyo, will be printed each week in Australia.

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