Roller textile printing machine and associated parts and accessories, manufactured by Wood's Engineers Ltd, Ramsbottom, about 1950 and used at the Shirley Institute, Didsbury for printing research and development work.

This three roller printing machine is a small-scale example used in printing research and development work at the Shirley Institute in Didsbury from the 1970s. The Shirley Institute was a research centre set up in Manchester in 1920 as the British Cotton Industry Research Association, and was dedicated to research and development in textiles technology.

This machine was used to investigate two important aspects of roller printing, namely definition and registration. Definition refers to being able to achieve an even density of dye across all of the fabric being printed with a pattern, whilst registration relates to the proper alignment of a pattern that is printed using multiple rollers to produce different parts of the pattern. Errors with either density or registration affect the quality of cloth that is produced, so this research was important to the textile finishing industry.