Identify this press?? details anyone??

Hi all machine lovers- Can any one give me more details on this J.VOIRIN paris press format Raisin, Jesus, double carré - the owner says its for manufacture cylinders, but I think it’s a typo press- Thanks…

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Wow a quick search- google translate from french-

This Voirin cylinder press is of the cylinder stop type. It is a white machine: it prints only one side of the sheet. It belongs to the plan against cylinder system: the shape (metal frame now the composition) is flat but the sheet of paper is rolled up on a cylinder. The horizontal marble is mobile, making a round trip under the cylinder: placed on a three-axle bogie rolling on two rails, it is driven by a rod-crank system and by cogwheels with racks. The form is inked automatically: the rubber pick-up roller takes the ink from that of the inkwell, placed at the end of the machine, and deposits it on the inking table. It is taken there by two ink rollers, at least one placed at an angle, and transmitted to the composition when it passes below. The group of three rubber rollers at the front of the cylinder has the role of equalizing the ink on the form. Placed on the margin table, the sheet is presented in front of the cylinder by a worker (the feeder) and is fixed there using pliers. It is pressed against the form and then led to the back using wires. It is then deposited by wooden rods (mechanical racket racket) on the reception table, where wooden cleats animated by reciprocating movements regulate the pile that forms. During the return of the marble, the cylinder comes to a standstill (hence the name cylinder stop press) and is lifted so as not to come into contact with it. The printable area is 95 x 57 cm, allowing printing in maximum double square format (90 x 56 cm). This type of press is used for printing newspapers and posters. there is a youtube of a bigger one in Nante https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHxDnmm5U4

Check out the website of the Musée de l’Imprimerie in Lyon, France. Their documentation is excellent.
http://www.imprimerie.lyon.fr/imprimerie/sections/fr/documentation/exmac...

we have this exact one. unfortunately still in storage