In a hydraulic press having a bed, stationary plates mounted on said bed, guiding columns linking said stationary plates, a pair of slides mounted for movement between said stationary plates, double-acting hydraulic cylinders for driving each of said slides of said pair of slides, said cylinders having a piston side and a rod side both connected with a pressure pipeline and a return pipeline through hydraulic distributors, an improvement comprising an intermediate slide located between said slides, a double-acting hydraulic cylinder for driving the above intermediate slide, said cylinder having a piston side connected to said pressure pipeline and return pipeline, and a rod side connected directly to said pressure pipeline, a hydraulic distributor installed between the piston side of the above double-acting hydraulic cylinder of said intermediate slide and the pressure pipeline, a pressure regulator, installed between said hydraulic distributor and return pipeline, the rod side of said hydraulic cylinder of one of said slides is connected to said pressure pipeline, and the piston side to said pressure pipeline and return pipeline through an individual hydraulic distributor of said hydraulic distributors.