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THE
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I he Leading Trade Journal of the World
IN THE
Printing and Allied Industries.
VOLUME XXXII.
October, 1903, to March, 1904.
CHICAGO, ILL., U. S. A.:
The Inland Printer Company, Publishers.
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INDEX TO THE INLA
VOLUME XXXI
FROM OCTOBER, 1903, TO
c.
,rE”«
page Engraving — Continued.
Colored inserts:
Captive, The . 208 c0
In the Arroyo . . . . 56
Royal Gorge, The, Colorado ..... A , cV.
Spinning a yarn . : . . cfg2c .
Tokimatsu . <888ct
Composing-room :
Accuracy . 265
Carries it in his head . 265
Color-printing job press, A . 892
Composing-room . 265, 427, 578, 892
Following copy . 428
Job composition . . . .85, 236, 402, 553,
709, 860
Keeping special sorts . 427
Lock-up for mortised cuts . 578
Machine folding on broad thirty-two-
page forms . 266
More about general distribution . 427
National foreman’s association . 265
Page cord at “40 cents a mile” . 892
Penotype designs . 89
Preparing of copy, The . 427
Profanity minimizer, A . 578
Proper placing of the job press, The. . . 427
Review of specimens received. . 1 15, 266,
437, 594, 754, 9°7
Spacing of typewriter circulars . 892
Suburban printing . 265
Typewriter ribbon effect in circulars.... 892
Correspondence :
Advantage of system . 549
Against any change . 857
Australian’s complaint, An . 219
British printers improving . 549
Commends the new plan . 549
Correspondence . 59, 219, 393, 549,
7<>5, 856
Disagrees with Mr. Dewey. . 220
Employer-member again, The . 393
Estimating while you wait . 219
Everard Printing House, Bristol, Eng¬ land, The . 221
Foremen’s association needed . 549
Historical type cases . 705
Illegibility of text lettering. The . 856
Labeling type cases . 857
Labels on type cases . 549
Laying the foundation . 857
Legal “square” in California, The.... 549
Linotyper replies, A . 707
Making type cases round-bottomed . 549
No rule but the golden rule . 707
One-sided fonts not wanted . 219
Portfolio of specimens, The . 856
Present method pleases him . 708
Printing the proceedings of Congress. . . . 394
Protest, A . 393
Question of arbitration, The . 59
Recommends the job composition branch. 856
Reply to the “box man’s basis,” A.... 705
Reversing the lines to aid the sight. . . . 708
Romans and Italics . . 708
Round-bottomed type cases . 393
St. Louis idea, The . 60
Stereotyping woodcuts . 393
Successful though inexperienced . 219
System and good workmanship . 549
Typefounders’ labels . 856
Union printers’ home, The . 220
What application and study will do.... 707
Editorial: c cc c C
c Advance' in.- subscription ratese . 843
ApfSrtntScc^liip question. The, . 209
Appropiiaie gifts . 849
Boon for the ambitious pointer,' A . 46
, British and (A me rjcdp/.p rip ring . 848
' ,'Bu^intsk; accuracy thp key to success... 46
Chjtpe^afnd ,fes chairman, The . 206
Demand for competent printers . 847
Drift in the labor movement. The . 204
Editorial . 43, 203, 377, 531, 687, 843
Employers’ organizations . 379
Financial . 43, 203, 377, 531, 687, 843
Getting down to it . 534
Goal of industrial peace, The . 533
How to keep desirable employes . 847
Incorporation of unions . 534
Instruction in accuracy . 206
Labor problem. The . 210
Lowering prices . 382
Manchester’s technical school for print¬ ers . 381
Miller case again, The . 207
Moral influence of the machine . 849
New I. T. U. laws . 384
Newspaper capitalization . 45
Oxidation of type . 690
President Gompers on the militia . 378
Question of technical education, The... 532
Responsibility for spoilage . 849
Rising standard, A . 380
Russian idea, The . 535
Shall it be done openly? . 845
Shorter-work-day movement . 385
Tempter and tempted . 692
Too few competent workmen . 46
Type and paper harmony . 845
Typesetting machines in the G. P. O. . . . 689 Typographical union obligation. The.... 44
Wage question. The . 383
Electrotyping and stereotyping:
Casting thin plates . 734
Double-page advertisements . 734
Electrotyping and stereotyping . 102,
247, 400, 734, 883
Few queries, A . 883
How heat affects type . 883
Interesting contract, An . 884
Matrices blister . 734
Partridge’s improved stereotype casting
apparatus . 247
Regarding depth of etching . 734
Rolling machine paste . 734
Shells fail to stick . 734
Stereotyping . 102, 250, 400
Streaky deposit . 883
Up to the electrotyper . 248
Engraving:
Alcohol in the developer . 728
Arsenic, lenses and lead intensifier. . . . 552
Artist engraver, An . 875
Blue enamel process, A . 728
Brief answers to some queries . 245
British Journal almanac, The . 874
Cereographic engraving . 245
Collodion emulsion for cold climates... 245 Color-sensitive dry plates in half-tone... 875
Combination line and half-tone . 729
Cost of chemicals for processwork . 728
Dragon’s-blood . 729
Editor of “ Le Procede,” The . 84
Editor of the Process Review . 551
Enamel for etching dies . 395
Etching brass .
Focusing three-color negatives .
Fogged negatives .
Gillots of Paris, The .
Half-tone engraving as described in the
twelfth census report .
High art engraving and printing .
Holder for half-tone screen and plate..
Hydroquinone as an intensifier .
Increasing use of color process plates..
“ Kahlbaum ” mirror, The .
Line etching on zinc .
London school of photoengraving, A.... Making photographic plates sensitive to
red . : .
Medium for retouching photographs for
reproduction .
New and old collodion .
New wet collodion process, A .
Opportunities for artists in New York..
Organic wet plate developer .
Parallax stereogram, The .
Penrose’s Pictorial Annual, 1903-1904...
Perchlorid of iron .
Photoengravers’ club, A .
Photoengravers versus electrotypers.... Photoengraving for a small newspaper. . . Photographers’ copyright and the news¬ papers .
Photographing on wood . -
Present status of the three-color patent
litigation .
Process engraving. .. .83, 245, 394, 550;
728,
Processworker’s clock, A .
Quickest way to reverse negatives .
Reversing negatives .
Screen distance, size of stops, and expos¬ ure .
Solution for blackening negatives, A .
“Sweating” of the screen .
Teaching engraving to convicts . 84,
To make gelatin insoluble .
Tri-color filters .
Trouble with the silver bath .
Violet rays injure eyesight .
Wash-out engraving process. The .
Wood engraver and the process plate, The .
I.
Illustrations:
Agricultural dilettante, A .
All coons look alike .
Alpine hospice, An .
Apprehension .
Back to first principles .
Belle of Manila, The .
Blossoms .
Boiling eggs .
Boy with cub .
Bridge of Spain, Manila .
Brown compositype .
Buffalo dance, The .
Burned-wood posters .
Chicago Typothetae banquet .
Chicken for dinner .
Chief’s headquarters, The .
Christmas cake, A .
Church's composing machine of 1822...
Church’s typecaster of 1822 .
City of Interlaken, Switzerland, The... Compositype bar machine .
PAGE
245
396
83
84
246
550 395
874
551
875 730 874
395
551 83
728
396
83
246
730
84 730
395 55°'
552 ■?95
246
874
874
55i
394
246
551
396 394
83
874
245
83
83
55 1
424
201
392
523
37°
529
566
34
547
525 261
548
526 753 199 1 1 1 432
35
35 536
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INDEX.
Illustrations — Continued. page
Contentment . 579
Convalescent, The . 218
Coons . 196
Cooper, The . 886
Corn converters . 878
Country swain, A.. . ns
Cream of the islands, The . 526
Dam at St. Charles, Ill . 729
Difficult passage, A..... . 721
Early visit, An . 890
Editorial rooms of modern Japanese
newspaper . 263
Elaine . 424
Empty stocking, The . 376
Expectation . 523
Fall in millinery. A, and a rise in
lingerie . 401
Figure for liberal arts . 542
Filipino agriculturalist, A . 746
Fire engine wrecked by falling walls,
Baltimore fire . 901
Fireworks display at opening of the
new Brooklyn bridge . 715
Forty-ninth convention of the I. T. U.
in session, The . 75
Friendly criticism, A . 852
Friends . 249
Fruit of toil, The . 872
Fun at the seashore . 98
Gathering storm, The . 395
Genius of liberal arts . 541
Grave of Oliver Goldsmith . 749
Handy darkroom clock, A . 874
Happy hours . 93
Haymaking . 859
“He loves me, he loves me not” . 841
Hog-ma-nie . 97
Home of the brook trout, The . 676
Hostages to fortune . 49
Hunting in Colorado . 212
Idylls of the country, The, No. 3 — The
foes of the rat . 106
Idylls of the country, The, No. 4 —
Ready for Christmas . 244
Importation, An . 95
In Colorado . 51
Interior view of Stationers’ Hall . 696
In the gloaming . 415
In the good old summer time . 116
In the Gorge, Hot Springs, Ark . 274
In winter quarters . 246
I’se grandma . 44°
I. T. U. delegate’s card. An . 226
Johnson composing machine, The . 35
Johnson typecaster . 36
Jungfrau, The, as seen from the Rugen-
hugel, Switzerland . 592
Kiowa squaw and papoose . 581
Lady and rose, The . 736
Lass who waits for a sailor, The . 528
Launching the life-boat . 678
Lauterbrunnen, Staubach, Switzerland.. 576
Linoscope, The . 66
Lock-up for color forms . 578
Long Bayou, Kankakee River . 681
Louisiana woodland . 54
Ma don’t know how tall I’se growed. . . . 560 Master Crew carries his jest too far.... 363
Mill Creek, near Batavia, Ill . 691
Model’s rest, The . 384
Moonshiners’ country, The . 675
Morning glories . 416
Mounts Niesen and Stockhorn at Inter¬ laken, Switzerland . 552
Mouth of the Pasig River, Manila, the
landing place of U. S. troops . 745
Mutual understanding, A . 422
Nation’s wards, The . 577
New customer, A . 400
New factory of the Fuchs & Lang
Mfg. Co . 443
New French press, The “ La Mono-
cylette ” 896
“ None-so-pretty ” . 195
Nonunion feeder, A . 74
Off day in the woods, An. . . , . 61
Illustrations — Continued. page
Office of Council City (Alaska) News. . 423
Old swimming hole, The . 410
On Scotia’s cliffs . 58
On the Hot Springs mountain . 252
Orkney kitchen, An . 704
Ouachita river mill dam. Hot Springs,
Ark, A . 257
Palace of education, St. Louis World’s
Fair . 540
Palace of electricity . 540
Palace of liberal arts . 540
Partridge’s stereotyping apparatus —
closed . 248
Partridge’s stereotyping apparatus —
open . 248
Pavilion entrance of graphic arts sec¬ tion . 540
Pavilion of palace of liberal arts . 540
Physical liberty . 543
“Pick-ups” . 891
Pierrot . 50
Portraits:
Antonson, F. W . 572
Austin, A. C . 551
Avery, Arthur . 572
Barnhart, Henry A . 724
Barnhart, Warren . 743
Barrow, Samuel G . 707
Bay, James L . 413
Beeman, V. H . 399
Blanchard, Isaac H . 885
Bohle, J. C . 64
Calmels, H . 84
Canode, M. L . 399
Cantwell, Hon. M. J . 906
Casey, George . 559
Cathcart, Miss Carrie . 723
Clark, W. W . 903
Cushing, J. Stearns . 751
DeVinne, Theodore L . 269
Duboc, Chas. II . 718
Gillot, Charles . 84
Gillot, Firmin . 84
Gordon, Laura B . 78
Graff, Charles T . 79
Green, William . 436
Greene, F. II . 229
Greene, II. B . 229
Guest, John . 64
Hamm, E. F . 586
Hanafin, W. J . 78
Heath, Franklin W . 588
Hobbs, Miss Emily . 717
Horgan, S. H . 264
Huston, J. A . 77
Jackson, Mrs. Anna . 64
Jenkins, Z. T . 77
Johnson, Joe M . 78
Johnson, Mrs. Joe M . 79
Kennedy, Mrs. Frank A . 78
Kessler, Miss J. M . 399
Koops, F. W . 229
Kurtz, A. 1 . 559
La wry, E. J . 717
Leo XIII . 82
Littlefield, E. N . 717
McCormick, John . 220
McNeese, R. G . 559
MacLane, Mary . 56
Marinoni, M . 907
Marlatt, George E . 559
Melton, W. F . 572
Milton, John . 582
Mintier, J. II . 399
Partridge, C. S . 599
Pears, Harry P . 435
Pelouze, Edward . 591
Pelouze, Lewis . 884
Pope, George A . cco
Pringle, A. W . 64
Ramsey, Capt. W. R . 79
Ray, William A . 572
Raymond, Charles L . 399
Roper, John W . 572
Ruter, II. V . 572
Scott, L. R . 572
iii
Illustrations — Continued. page
Shepard, Mrs. Levi . 598
Shepard, Levi . 598
Shepard, Henry 0 . 412, 686
Shoemaker, 0 . 717
Simmons, Horace . 717
Spencer, Miss Katherine Kidd . 79
Stephens, E. R . 572
Stubbs, Wm. H . 397
Tallman, F. R . 64
Taylor, George H . 592
Taylor, R. D . 229
Thompson, Russell . 572
Thomsen, George . 229
Tyrrell, E. R . 890
Vaughan, D. C . 78
Walther, George J . 572
Wanner, Andrew F . 279
Warnock, Wallace S . 279
Webster, A. A . 91 1
Whitehead, F. N . 77
Prairie Bend, Kankakee River . 684
President’s Thanksgiving turkey. The... 202 Primitive methods in the poultry indus¬ try . 869
Printing-office of Will Poland, Urbana,
Ohio . 273
Progress of manufacture . 546
Puzzle-picture — Overlook Park, Ashe¬ ville, N. C . 197
Quarrel, The . 53
Queen’s pups . 583
Raiding an opium joint, Manila . 564
Receiving copy by telephone . 398
Rising generation, The . ,. . no
Roses and milk . 375
Ruins of great Baltimore fire . 898-900
Schoolroom, machine composition branch,
Inland Printer Technical School . . . 228
Sears direct printer, The . 37
Secret, The . 894
Shieldbearers . 547
Shigley job press . 892
Side-piece for cascades . 545
Silhouette portrait . 837
Speed . 547
Spirit of the Atlantic Ocean . 544
Spirit of the Pacific Ocean . 544
Stained glass windows of Stationers’
Hall, The . 699
Straight question, A . 235
Study in chalk . 33, 192
Study in lighting, A . 62
Swiss mountain scenery . 530
Tea-party, A . 868
Tomb of John Bunyan . 897
Town crier of old Japan, The . 263
Trysting place, The . 846
Typo’s outing on Chesapeake Bay, The. 76
Unique book plate, A . 905
United States troops operating Colt au¬ tomatic gun at Tarlac . 596
Variable mold liner . 560
Venable low-metal alarm . 228
Vertige . 521
Vetenan’s reunion, The . 47
Welcome footsteps . 890
When the wind is in the west — Orkney. 42 Worsell took the manuscript gingerly. . . 835
Young Germany . 113
Young virtuoso, A . 109
Yuletide of the ancient Britons . 361
L.
Lithography:
Aluminum by a new process . 732
Art of color mixing, The . 416
Benefits of technical schools for arti¬ sans . 415
Best works on lithography for students. . 574 Blue for rubbing in tracings on gelatin. . 82
Boiled linseed oil . 877
Book-cover designing in America . 81
Color-printing process, A . 877
“ Combinations ’ in the lithographic in¬ dustry . 251
\
IV
INDEX
Lithography — Continued. page
Composition rollers for lithographic ma¬ chines . 414
Conditions in Russia . 574
Conditions in South Africa . 81
Damping the aluminum plate . 251
Death of the organizer of the L. I. P.
& B. A . 251
Difference in tones of black upon the
same transfer . 252
Easy method of printing with the litho¬ graphic roller, An . 82
Etching-ground recipes . 252
Etching the zinc plate . 731
Even temperature in the pressroom.... 731
Exhibition for artists . 877
Experimenting on aluminum . 81
Fine screen tints without a Ben Day
film . 877
Free and liberal-minded union organ, A. 251
Future of lithography, The . 878
Gum gamboge on stone and aluminum.. 731
Hardened gelatin films . -575. 732
High etching on aluminum . 731
How and where . 732
How to preserve zinc plates . 878
Ideal manager, An . 416
Imitating lithographing on celluloid . 81
Improvement in standards . 877
Instructions for engraving on stone . 81
Interesting book for lithographers, An.. 878
Inviting advertisement. An . 81
Lithographic conditions in England . 81
Lithographic printing on hard, rough
paper . 414
Lithographic stone quarries found in
Virginia . 731
Lithographic trade schools in London... 414
Lithography . 81, 251, 414, 574, 731, 877
Lithography in a new field . 877
McBrair substitute for lithographic stone,
The . 251
Melting points ot acid-resisting sub¬ stances . 575
Modern methods of varnish manufac¬ ture . 877
More art required . 81
Negative transfer upon aluminum plate. 415
New composition rollers . 574
New lithographic surface, A . 252
New York trade school . 877
Ownership of samples . 731
Paste for varnished surfaces . 575
Pneumatic lithographic roller, A . 415
Printing without damping the stone . 731
Recipe for making gum rollers, A . 574
Regarding emigrating lithographic work¬ men . 251
Retouching the lithographic transfer im¬ pression . 414
Rise in prices in the lithographic in¬ dustry in France . 81
Shrinking of gelatin . 731
Some samples of lithography . 575
Something new . 732
Source of future development, A . 877
Specialism versus versatility . 574
Specimens of steel and copperplate en¬ gravings . 414
Spots in large surfaces of tousched
solids . 414
Style and taste standards in decorative
art . 253
Substitute for pumice stone . 731
Taxing sources of artistic knowledge.... 877
Three-color work on stone . 878
Tinting of the stone . 251
To make lithographic stone sensitive to
light . 251
Transferring to lithograph stone for
“ colored prints” . 82
Transfers five years old . 877
Traveling designer, The . 877
Trays for process experimenters . 731
Wages of lithographic engravers . 416
Where process is superseding lithography 878
Zinc etch for surface printing . 731
M. PAGE
Machine composition :
Advice from a graduate . 63
Alignment and shearing . 398
American linotypist visits England, An. . 397
Another low-metal alarm . 228
Antipodean graduate, An . 717
Appreciative graduate, An . 226
Average speed . 868
Carrying belts of Simplex machine . 399
Casting borders . 716
Cause of spacebands breaking, The . 65
Cold metal . 718
Composing machines — past and present
35. 196
Defective letters in slugs . . . 398
Did not want the job . 559
Don’t forget . 226, 397, 558, 716, 867
Double-deck Linotype machine, A . 229
Fair day’s work, A . 558
“Freak” attachment, A . 66
Graduate’s troubles, A . 228
High and low letters . 228
Fligh average, A . 718
It is to laugh . 868
Lead poisoning . 399
Linotype fan, A . 64
Linotype matters in London . 228
Linotype metal . . . .• . 560
Linotype scale in England . 559
Lock-up of mold disk . 869
Machine composition. .63, 226, 397, 558,
716, 867
Machine legislation at Washington con¬
vention . 63
Matrices and magazines . 868
Matrix ears battered . 559
Metal . 717
Metal gathers on mold . 64
Monotypes in Australia . 559
New process of mechanical composition,
A . 869
Noteworthy anniversary, A . 598
Operating under difficulties . 229
Overhauling an old plant . 560
Pointers . 718
Prize contest, The . 226
Queries from Arizona . 64
Recent patents on typesetting machinery. 66
Relieving tension on springs . 226
Some expedients . 559
Things you should not forget . 63
Thinks record is high . 65
Typesetting by electricity . 716
Used his finger for a knife-wiper . 64
Vise automatic . 868
Wants first prize . 63
Washing type . 717
Miscellaneous:
Adoption of the Roman letter in Japan.. 413
Advertising . 107, 259, 433, 589
After reading a popular novel . 703
Agricultural note . 426
Amendment to copyright law . 876
American bank notes . 890
American copyright law . 275
American way, The . 855
Amos J. Cummings memorial . 876
Another automatic feeder . 730
Another false alarm . 536
Another Hearst newspaper . 882
Another printers’ home . 589
Apprentice and his work, The . 255
Appropriate heading, An . 277
Arbitration in New Zealand . 262
Arizona kicklets . 271
Art versus printing . 114
Artist’s success, An . 859
Ascertaining cost . 67
Australia will exclude all foreign books. . 91 1
Banquet of employing bookbinders . 895
Berlin notes . 583
Blessed is the kicker; he shall receive.. 903
Bohemianism and ruin . 708
Books and periodicals . 113, 268, 440, 597
Bouquets . 889
Box man’s basis, The . 368
Miscellaneous — Continued. page
Business notices . 117, 278, 442, 600,
758, 913
Carelessness, thoughtlessness and igno¬ rance . ,. 679
Certainly was profane . 904
Charles Keene as an etcher . 855
Christmas dinners for the poor . 432
Circular saws in the hands of printers,
photoengravers and electrotypers. . . 197
College of photoengraving, A . 552
Color in the graphic arts. .260, 429, 564,
746, 893
Competency a prerequisite . 536
Compositype sorts caster, The . 261
Conference of the national publishers’
association and the I. T. U . 21 1
Congratulatory . 597
Copyright reciprocity . 912
Correction, A . 441
Course in the principles of design, A. . . . 37
Cover-papers . 421
Cox multi-mailer, The . 116
Cultivate reserve power . 691
Darkened path, The . 833
Deal with the men . 41
Dirty case, A . 903
Do auxiliaries promote divorces?. . 254
Do conventions pay? . 79
Doubletone inks . 96
During the convention . 744
Echoes from the Baltimore fire . 901
Educational opportunity for printers, An 578
Elaborate luncheon, An . 870
Electrotypers’ banquet . 599
Employers’ organizations . 273
English grammar . 199
English language. The.... 3 74, 524, 680, 840
English printers the best . 870
Entered at Stationers’ Hall . 694
Entertainment of the forty-ninth session of the International Typographical
Union, The . 75
Enthusiasm of conviction, The . 74
Enthusiastic friend, An . 859
Exactions of the Franklin Union of
pressfeeders . 44°
Exhibition of printing, An . 893
Expert’s opinion, An . 62
Export field, The . 66, 262, 424, 584,
744, 905
Fairness the price of peace . 55°
Familiar face, A . 758
Fanny Crosby, hymn writer . 247
Faults of contributors, The . 417
First newspaper in Great Britain . 597
First newspaper to use illustrations . 264
First printer in British America . 700
First web printing press, The . 112
Freight rate on type . 895
From an Australian’s viewpoint . 855
From the Orient . 912
From the reminiscences of “ Eighth
Medium” Bill . 193. 521
“ Genesis of journalism,” The . 682
Good printers in demand . 388
Government printing-office now an
“open” shop, The . 413
Government’s printing plant, The . 428
Graphic arts exhibit, The, at the St.
Louis World’s Fair . 541
Great Baltimore fire, The . 898
Growth of American daily papers . 727
Gustavus F. Swift’s mottoes . 870
Heaps of trouble for the editor . 268
Hints on presswork . 48
His due . 759
His honey was not there . 385
His only teacher . 262
Honored by electrotypers’ association .... 599
How a great “scoop” was lost . 726
How George Ade came to write fables. . 212
How music is printed . 4>7
Hygienic leaf-turner, A . 561
Illustrated press syndicate . 432
Indispensable . 857
Instructive example, An . 592
INDEX.
v
Miscellaneous — Continued. page
Instructor of apprentices, An . 577
Inventor in the graphic arts, An . 744
Inventor of the ruling machine, The.... 719
Iron printer, The — an invention . 386
It was a mistake . 749
Italian exhibition in 1905 . 895
Journalism at the University of Michigan 573
Journalistic romance, A . 727
Knows one that hasn’t . 873
Land of the daily paper, The . 419
Largest Bible publishing house, The .... 396
Lark’s shrewd guess. The . 41
London notes . 580, 748, 896
Lord’s Prayer in Burmese, The . 733
Lubrication of gearing . 268
Man at the window, The... 55, 213, 388,
537. 70i, 853
Management of a small job office, The. . 408
Mending broken castings . 563
Mission of organized labor . 255
Model print-shop, A . 273
Modern bindery needed . 262
Morning with Theodore L. DeVinne, A. . 596
Most northerly newspaper . 423
Mural decoration at the World’s Fair.. 545
Needs the money . 442
New Australian trade paper . 884
New field for the “ follow-up ” system, A 834
New French national printing-office . 748
New Government printing-office too small 254
Newspaper amenities . 845
Newspaper in the arctic circle . 250
Newspaper work.. 98, 230, 419, 567, 724, 880
No more crisp bank-notes . 439
No whiskers there . 222
Object to glazed paper . 253
Old-time printers’ reunion . 759
On the menu . 752
Once a subscriber, always a subscriber. . 865
Open-shop policy, The . 850
Organized capital versus organized labor 241
Our increasing trade . 277
Parisian newspaper freak contests . 573
Partnership in job-printing plants . 839
Patented book, A . 85
Penotype cover designing . 372
Petition for lower freights on type . 439
Photography in colors — the three-color
method . 223
Piecework in lithography . 732
Plea for higher education of the job
compositor, A . 528
Poets at a house party, The . 275
Polyglot newspapers in South Africa. . . 889 Portfolio of specimens of printing. .441, 744
Portrait of Henry O. Shepard . 413
Poultry specializing . 890
Powerful factor, A . 906
Preparations for St. Louis World’s Fair. 879
Press congress of St. Louis, The . 217
Primitive printing . 743
Printer and my lady’s heart, The . 361
Printer and the railroad men go a-fishing,
The . 274
Printer for seventy-two years, A . . 434
Printers and supplymen in England . 836
Printers’ apprentice in Maryland, The. . 418
Printers’ oath, The . 201
Printers’ specimens . 275
Printing display in Newark . 253
Printing in Austria . 271
Printing in Russia . 882
Printing trade in Scandinavia, The . 889
Prison editor asks release . 573
Reading for the blind . 735
Reception by bookbinders . 700
Reminiscences of a stage driver . 547
Remittances of money through the mails. 599
Resourcefulness . 893
Responsive chapel reading for services
following Typothete convention.... 200
Review of accuracy for printers, A . 387
Revolutionizing pictorial printing . 437
Rules regarding stenographers . 437
School for apprentices, A . 838
Selecting trade . 212
Miscellaneous — Continued. page
Session of the “knocker’s” club, A.... 222
Settled by arbitration . 591
Sixteenth century printing in Mexico... 270
Slight difficulty, A . 582
So it is . 904
Softening the blow . 758
Some commercial aspects of photography
33. J94
Some matters of punctuation and other
form . 52
Souvenir of the wholesale druggists’
convention . 254
Stereopticon lectures for apprentices.... 903
Story of a calendar, The . 430
Strike insurance plan abandoned . 536
Systematic face . 673
Tariff decision . 879
Tariff decision on printed books, A . 598
Technical school in Canada, A . 375
Text capitals “I” and “J” . 895
Theory of advertising, The . 676
There’s safety in the counsels of the
moderate . 536
Thrilling tale, A . 566
To commemorate Franklin’s birth . 870
To cultivate Japanese paper plant here.. 594
Too much inflammable poetry . 580
Trade-marks . 897
Trade notes . 114, 276, 442, 599, 757, 91 1
Trade paper advertising . 418
Trade schools . 700
Trade union’s wise decision, A . 865
Training of compositors, The . 719
Treatment of machinery belts . 426
“ Turnover idol,” The . 82
Two things settled . 276
Typographical effect . 579
Typographical tragedy, A . 719
Typothetse . 109, 269, 434, 586, 750, 885
Uncle Sam’s printing — some record
achievements . 548
Unions should encourage schools . 591
Unique library, A . 432
United States import duty on printing... 903 Unusual view of a vexed question, An. . 277
Up to the proofreader . 897
Vacation given night-workers . 891
Valuable to the artist . 402
Value of old books, The . 431
Wages of German bookbinders and type¬ founders . 421
Wall-paper printing . 434
Wants a State printing-office . 857
Wants every portfolio issued . 558
Western authority on printing, A . 910
What causes books to spoil? . 548
Will not be paid for . 897
Working over old newspapers . 573
World’s printing and statistics, The . 592
Would gladly absolve them all . 250
Ye printer’s Yuletide fortune . 525
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Thienes, Peter . 276
Warren, Alexander Ramsey . 276
P.
Foetry :
Dog, The . 757
It goes the other way . 247
Night editor’s criticism, The . 371
One deficiency, The . 566
Our ole swimmin’ hole . 385
Photography . 82
Poem you ought to know, A . 523
Success . 912
Unpleasant thought. An . 373
Wail of a poet . 536
Pressroom :
About a slurring press . 257
American methods of printing liked . 93
Another mailing machine . 562
Another opinion regarding washing roll¬ ers . 94
Attempt at overlaying a half-tone . 723
Background inks for mapwork . 562
Bad screws in ink fountain . 720
Booklet that did not find us, A . 94
Booklets . 720
Christmas number from New Zealand, A 722 Cleaning a felt roller for colorwork. . . . 871
Courts criticism on his presswork . 258
Criticism of a letter-head . 409
Distinguishing difference between three-
color plates, The....... . 409
Few important questions, A . 872
From an Australian apprentice . 562
Gloss finish on labels . 563
Gold lettering on black ink . 872
Golden jubilee number of “ Die Abend-
schule ” . 409
Half-tone cuts on envelopes . 721
Half-tones in newspapers . 873
How to imitate typewritten letters . 256
How to prevent job-press rollers from
jumping . 409
How to print only a part of a cut . 720
Impression screws . 871
Improved job printing-press, An . 266
Indorses the technical school . 409
Just happened that way . 257
“Lay of the booklet, The” . 258
Metallic overlays . 720
Mixing inks to work in cold weather.... 256
Multi-color on flat-bed presses . 721
Neat carton box, A . 256
Neat title-page, A . 871
Newspaper half-tones . 562
“New York city sky line” . 257
Novelty that did not reach us, A . 93
Opinion wanted on a sheet of half-tones. 410
Overlay cutting . 720
Paper splitting . 722
Perforating on platen presses . 562
Praise for the school . 258
Pressroom . 93, 256, 409, 562, 720, 871
Printing done in a State institution . 41 1
Printing in colors from a single plate... 41 1
Printing-ink reducer . 720
Printing on painted or shellacked wood. . 871
Printing on palm-leaf fans . 256, 871
Printing on wood . 256
Producing typewritten effect . 871
Question about column rules, A . 94
Roller bearers not used . 720
Rollers fail to ink form . 872
Scale or method by which inks may be
estimated, A . 257
Sizing for gold leaf . 563
Slurring . 563
Slurring on cylinder press . 721
Slurring on job press . 722
“ Small farmer, The ” . 256
Suggested improvements . 562
“ The Thomas Cat ” . 720
Three-color presswork . 562
To print on aluminum . 93
Two beautifully executed booklets . 257
Two specimens . 563
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Pressroom — Continued.
Uneven-faced brass rules .
Unique sectional steel block, The .
Usual summer complaint with rollers,
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Wants our opinion on packet-size heading
Wants our opinion on presswork .
Wants packing for cylinder press .
Wants to know how to make black ink
stick on enameled paper, etc .
Well-laid-out booklet, A .
What causes breaks in the rules? .
White ink on red gloss paper .
Proofroom:
Abbreviation, An .
Bastard type .
Commas, State names .
Correspondence schools .
Dates . 234,
Dead or alive .
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721
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256
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256
95 258
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422
714
235
576
576
859
Proofroom — Continued. page
Distinctive mark wanted . 576
Double connective . 60
From over sea . 577
Horse on the house . 235
Moot point in punctuation, A . 576
More questions from England . 714
“ None ” . 61, 858
“ None ” again . 422
O’clock . 234
On teaching proofreading . 858
Personal titles . 858
Possessive abbreviation . 714
Pronoun, A . 421
Proofreader, The . 62
Proofroom . 60, 234, 421, 576, 714, 858
Punctuation and abbreviation . 60
Questions . 235
Questions of form . 859
Requirements for proofreading . 235
Secondary quotations . 60
Proofroom — Continued. page
Some more criticism . 235
Unusual words . 576
Various questions . 577
Where is the proofreader? . 422
Women’s names . 576
Words in dispute . 714
T.
Type and Typefounding:
Century expanded roman and century
expanded italic . 269
Chatham oldstyle series . 242-243
Cheltenham series . 584
John Hancock series . 104-105
Pabst old style . 737-739
Primitive No. 2 . 866
Scotch roman . 425, 585
Typefounders and typefounding in
America . 591, 884
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280 DIFFERENTIATION— INDISCRIMINATION.
di"-a-ton'-ic. Designating the regular tones of a key in music. Melody-Dissonance. di'-a-tribe. An abusive discourse. Approval-Disap¬ proval.
dib'-ble. A gardener’s pointed tool. Domestication- Agriculture, Perforator-Stopper. di-cac'-i-ty. Sauciness. Presumption-Obsequious¬ ness.
dice. Marked cubes used in gaming. Purpose-Luck;
on the dice, Possibility-Impossibility. di'-cer. One who plays dice. Purpose-Luck; false as dicer’s oaths, Truthfulness-Fabrication. di-chot'-o-rnize. To cut in two. Doubling-Halving. di-chot'-o-my. A cutting into two parts. Angularity, Doubling-Halving.
di'-chro-ism. The property of exhibiting different colors when seen in different directions. Variega¬ tion.
dichtung und wahrheit [G. ] (din'-tung unt var'-hait). Fiction and fact. Poetry-Prose, Truthfulness- Falsehood.
dic'-tate. To declare with authority. Advice, Motive- Caprice, Order, Presumption-Obsequiousness, Rule-License, Writing-Printing. dic-ta'-tion. The act of dictating. Order, Rule- License.
dic-ta'-tor. One who dictates. Chief-Underling, Tyranny-Anarchy.
dic"-ta-to'-ri-al. Disposed to dictate. Presumption- Obsequiousness.
dic-ta'-tor-ship. The office of a dictator. Harshness- Mildness, Rule-License, Tyranny-Anarchy. dic'-tion. The choice and use of words. Style. dic'-tion- a-ry. A book containing words arranged in a stated order. Interpretation-Misinterpretation, Word-Neology.
dic'-tum. A positive utterance. Adage-Nonsense, Assertion-Denial, Order. dictum ac factum [L.] (dic'-tum ac fac'-tum). No sooner said than done. Activity-Indolence. dictum de dicto [L.] (dic'-tum di dic'-to). Hearsay report. Evidence-Counterevidence. dictum quod non dictum sit prius , nullum est jam [L . ] (dic'-tum quod non dic'-tum sit prai'-us, nul'-lum est jam). Nothing is said nowadays that has not been said before. Novelty-Antiquity, Recurrence. di-dac'-tic. Pertaining to teaching. Education-Mis- teaching.
did'-der. To shiver. Heat-Cold. did'-dle. To outwit. Truthfulness-Fraud. Did'-dler, Jer'-e-my. A character in James Kenney’s play, entitled Raising the Wind. A term applied to a swindler. Robber.
di-duc'-tion. A separation. Union-Disunion. die. To pass from life; to mold with a die. Begin¬ ning-End, Betterment-Deterioration, Copy- Model, Engraving, Entity-Nonentity, Life- Death; die a violent death, Life-Killing; die and make no sign, Repentance-Obduracy; die away, Discontinuance - Continuance, Increase - De¬ crease; die for, Desire-Distaste; die from the
memory, Remembrance-Forgetfulness; die game, Repentance-Obduracy; die hard, Bigotry-Apos¬ tasy, Reprisal-Resistance ; die in harness, Discon¬ tinuance-Continuance, Persistence-Whim; die in one’s shoes, Recompense-Punition; die in the last ditch, Persistence-Whim; die of a rose in aromatic pain, Sensitiveness-Apathy; die out, Entity-Non¬ entity; die with ennui, Entertainment-Weari¬ ness; die with laughter, Jubilation-Lamentation; hazard of the die, Purpose-Luck; never say die, Per¬ sistence-Whim ; not willingly let die, Conservation ; the die is cast, Certainty-Doubt, Volition-Obliga¬ tion.
dies faustus [L.] (dai'-iz faus'-tus). Lucky day. Suc¬ cess-Failure.
dies inf austus [L.] (dcii-iz in-faus'-tus) . Unlucky day.
Success-Failure.
dies irce, dies ilia [L.] (dai'-iz ai'-ri, dcii-iz il'-la). Day of wrath, that day; the first words of a Latin hymn on the Day of Judgment. Heaven-Hell, Pardon, Vindictiveness.
dies non [L.] (dai'-iz non). Abbreviation of dies non juridicus, a non-judicial day ; a legal holiday. Dura- tion-Neverness, Toil-Relaxation. di'-et. Food; a legislative assembly. Council, Nutri¬ ment-Excretion ; spare diet, Fasting-Gluttony. di'-et-a-ry. A system of diet. Nutriment-Excretion, Remedy-Bane.
di"-e-tet'-ic. Of diet. Nutriment-Excretion. di"-e-tet'-ics. The science of diet. Remedy-Bane. dieu avec nous [F.] (di-u' a-vec' nu). God with us.
Divinity, Presence-Absence. dieu defend le droit [F.] (di-u' de-fan-' le drwa). God defend the right. Attack-Defense, Right-Wrong. dieu est ma fiance , en [F.] (di-u' e ma fi-an's', an-). In God is my trust. Divinity, Sanguineness-Hope- lessness.
dieu et man droit [F.] (di-u' e mon drwa). God and my right. Divinity, Right-Wrong. dieu vous garde [F.] (di-u' vu gard). God guard you. Divinity, Petition-Expostulation, Security-In¬ security.
dif'-fer. To be unlike. Variance-Accord, Variation; differ in opinion, Assent-Dissent; differ toto ccelo, Assent-Dissent, Likeness-Unlikeness, Sameness- Contrast, Variation.
dif'-fer-ence. The quality of being unlike. Equality- Inequality, Likeness-Unlikeness, Number, Va¬ riance-Accord, Variation; difference engine, Num¬ bering; perception of difference, Differentiation- Indiscrimination; split the difference, Composi¬ tion.
dif'-fer-ent. Not the same. Synonym-Antonym, Uni¬ formity-Multiformity, Variation; different time, Time.
dif"-fer-en'-tial. Pertaining to differentials. Number;
differential calculus, Numbering. dif"-fer-en'-ti-a-tion. Act of noting specific differences in things. Differentiation-Indiscrimination. dif'-fer-ent-ly. Not the same way. Variation.
DIFFERENTIATION— INDISCRIMINATION.
Appreciation of difference. The power of clearly understanding the various shades of meaning.
Critique. A careful and thorough analysis ; critical examination. Diagnosis. An accurate examination of facts: determining nature of disease from symptoms.
Differentiation. The act of noting specific differences in things. Diorism. A thorough distinction ; logical difference.
Discernment. The capability of forming true judgments. See Sagacity.
Discrimination. The power to discern accurately, careful scrutiny. Distinction. Noting differences critically.
Estimation. See Mensuration.
Indiscrimination. Lacking the power of discernment or judgment. Indistinction. Want of distinction: indefiniteness; confusion. Indistinctness. The quality of vagueness, lacking clearness. Uncertainty. See Certainty-Doubt.
Indiscrimination — Verbs.
Confound. To mingle; pour together.
Confuse. To confound; intermingle.
Not discriminate. See Discrimination.
Overlook a distinction. See Carefulness-Carelessness.
SPECIMEN OF DICTIONARY COMPOSITION DONE ON THE MONOTYPE.
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Gent 1 emen : —
It is with a feeling of supreme satisfaction that we answer your inquiry of May 27th regarding the use of the Lanston machine. We intro¬ duced four of your machines in our printing house more than two years ago and found them so satisfactory that we were obliged to add two more Key-boards in January of last year, and have had the six constantly employed ever since on the composition of a Thesaurus Dictionary and kindred work, the Thesaurus Dictionary being one of the most compli¬ cated pieces of composition we have ever known. This publication, besides being almost massive in size, is also unique and complex, requiring the use of Eight-point and Six-point upper and lower case, small caps, bold face, accents, and phonetic italic letters, frequently in alternate lines and in almost every paragraph. The composition is so intricate that to complete the whole by hand would require many times more type than is carried ordinarily by the largest printing houses in the world. By the use of your machines we were able to operate and cast an average of ten pages of the Thesaurus per day, the character of the work being most satisfactory in every respect. We consider that no greater test of the efficiency of a type-setting machine can ever be given than that to which the Lanston has been subjected in the compo¬ sition of the great dictionary referred to.
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QUALITY of work is the very best.
QUANTITY greater than can be done on any other make of machinery. These are money-making features. Your cus¬ tomers want the Quality to be unequaled. You want the Quantity as well as the Quality in order to turn out work profitably.
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PATENTEES AND BUILDERS OF
Duplex Trimmer Paper Cutters
Six styles, eight sizes.
Embosser Embossers
Eight styles, nine sizes.
Smashing Machines Backing Machines Bundling Machines Rotary Board Cutters Round Corner Cutters Knife Grinders Signature Presses Hand Stampers
Die Presses
DAYTON. OHIO,
YORK. CHICAGO. ST LOUIS. LONDON. Makers of Machinery for Bookbinders Printers. Lithographers. Paper- Box Makers Etc
THE INLAND PRINTER
THE INLAND PRINTER
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Iron Extension Block
A Few of Those who have Purchased and are Using from
One to Seven Sets.
P. F. Collier & Son, - - - - New York City.
Wm. Green, . - - New York City.
Ives Process Co. . New York City.
Methodist Book Concern, - - New York City.
Reed & Rist, . New York City.
G. Schirmer, . New York City.
Winthrop Press, ----- New York City. John W. Kelly. . New York City.
M. A. Donohue & Co. - - - - Chicago, Ill.
E. F. Harmon & Co. . Chicago, Ill.
Edward Kehoe Printing Co. - - Chicago, Ill.
Melrose Press, . Chicago, III.
Geo. E. Marshall & Co. - - - - Chicago, Ill.
Mayer & Miller, . Chicago, Ill.
University of Chicago Press, - - Chicago, 111.
Castor Bros. Indianapolis, Ind.
Central Printing Co. - - - Indianapolis, Ind. Indiana Printingand Mfg. Co., Indianapolis, Ind. A. B. Farnham & Co. - - Indianapolis, Ind.
C. E. Donnell News Co. - - St. Louis, Mo.
Miller & Flaven, . St. Louis, Mo.
Geo. E. Crosby & Son, - - Boston, Mass.
Griffith-Stillings Press, - - - Boston, Mass.
Copp Clark Co. . Toronto, Can.
W. J. Gage & Co., Ltd. - - - Toronto, Can.
Murray Printing Co. - - - - Toronto, Can.
Loring & Axtell, ----- Springfield, Mass. Phelps Pub. Co. - - - - Springfield, Mass.
Barbee & Smith, - - - - Nashville, Tenn.
Southern Pub. Asso’n. - - Nashville, Tenn. Cumberland Pres. Pub. House, Nashville, Tenn. Weed-Parsons Printing Co. - Albany, N. Y. The New Era Printing Co. - - Lancaster, Pa. Hamilton Autographic Register Co., Hamilton, O.
White & Wyckoff, . Holyoke, Mass.
Report Publishing Co. - - - - Lebanon, Pa.
M. P. McCoy, . London, Eng.
P. Arellano, . Mexico City, Mexico.
Graham Engraving Co. - - Providence, R. I. Danbury Medical Printing Co., Danbury, Conn. State Journal Printing Co. - - Madison, Wis. Hunter-Woodruff Ptg. Co. - Lincoln, Neb. Edward Stern & Co. - - - Philadelphia, Pa. General Electric Co. - - - Schenectady, N. Y. Fred. Wagner, - - - - Stockholm, Sweden. J. I. Hershberger, - - - - Harrisburg, Pa.
Wagner & Co. . Scranton, Pa.
The Dorman Litho. Co. - - New Haven, Conn.
S. E. Cassino, . Salem, Mass.
Deseret News Co. - - - Salt Lake City, Utah.
O. B. Wood, . Worcester, Mass.
Osboldstone & Attkins, Melbourne, Australia. A. Ostwald & Co. - - - Bremen, Germany.
D. G. Vianini & Co. . Milan, Italy.
EXTENSION BLOCK WITH DIFFERENT EXTENSIONS.
|
DIMENSIONS. |
Block without Extensions |
With Cross A |
With Cross B |
With Cross C |
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Outside dimensions of Blocks . . . |
4 x 6 |
4*x6| |
51 x7£ |
6 x 9 |
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Largest Plate, including Bevel . . . |
x |
3 1 x 6^6 |
4 is x |
5| x 8^ |
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Smallest Plate, including Bevel . . . |
21 x4§ |
31 x 51 |
3 b x 61 |
4| x 7| |
DIMENSIONS.
Block
Without
Extensions
With Cross A
With Cross B
With Cross C
Outside Dimensions of Blocks Largest Plate, including Bevel Smallest Plate, including Bevel
Special Size Crosses made to order.
Iron Mahogany
16 EXTENSION Blocks (without Crosses) . $96.00 $48.00
BUY THE CROSSES AS YOU NEED THEM
REGISTER BLOCK WITH DIFFERENT EXTENSIONS.
A. D. FARMER & SON
TYPE FOUNDING CO.
189 Fifth Avenue, 63 & 65 Beekman St.
CHICAGO. NEW YORK
Iron Mahogany
16 REGISTER Blocks (without Crosses) ...... $96.00 $52.00
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EXTENSION CROSSES. |
Iron |
Mahogany |
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16 Cross A . |
$20.00 |
$8.80 |
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16 Cross B ....... |
24.00 |
9.60 |
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16 Cross C ....... |
28.00 |
10.40 |
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Parallel Strips for 16 Blocks .... |
20.00 |
8.80 |
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Cabinet for 16 Blocks, $10.00; for 32 Blocks, $15.00. |
NET PRICES QUOTED ON COMPLETE OR BROKEN SETS.
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THE INLAND PRINTER
THE HEAVIEST, MOST COMPACT AND HANDSOMEST TWO-REVOLUTION. COMPARE THIS ILLUSTRATION WITH THOSE OF ALL OTHER PRESSES.
THE BABCOCK PRINTING PRESS MANUFACTURING CO., NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT
New York Office, 38 Park Row. John Haddon & Co., Agents, London. Miller & Richard, Canadian Agents, Toronto, Ontario
BARNHART BROS. & SPINDLER, WESTERN AGENTS, 183-187 MONROE STREET, CHICAGO
Great Western Type Foundry, Kansas City ; Great Western Type Foundry, Omaha ; Minnesota Type Foundry Co., St. Paul ; St. Louis Printers Supply Co., St. Louis ; Southern Printers Supply Co., Washington; The Texas Printers Supply Co., Dallas; E. C. Palmer & Co., Ltd., New Orleans; Fundicion Mexicana de Tipos, City of Mexico. On the Pacific Coast — The Southwest Printers Supply, Los Angeles ; Pacific Printers Supply House, Seattle; Pacific States Type Foundry, San Francisco.
THE OPTIMUS
THE OPTIMUS
After eight years of use in a pressroom where the work runs heavy, a customer writes the following unsolicited letter:
“Yesterday Mr. Hayes took down our old No. 8 Optimus before in¬ stalling our No. 1 1. As a matter of curiosity I carefully examined the bear¬ ings; and not only myself, but others join in extending you praise for the quality of material furnished for these machines. Take even the small shaft holding the intermediate gear: there is not the slightest trace of wear on that, although this press has been running eight years. The cylinder boxes did not have a single scratch on them. They were perfect.
“I merely write you this little information to show my further appre¬ ciation of the Babcock Optimus; and as the new one coming in, as you are aware, is the sixth one that I have purchased, it still makes me think that we have The Best, as its name implies.”
The strength and durability of a machine depend upon its design, the quality of its material, and the way it is constructed. The Optimus is built to run for years without appreciable wear or loss of register. It is mechanically correct. _ _
SET IN BARNHART BROS. & SPINDLER’S TALISMAN
THE INLAND PRINTER
13
From CHARLES ENEU JOHNSON 6 COMPANY
Philadelphia, Aug. 9, 1902.
Referring to yours of the 6th inst., we find the Peerless Black fully maintaining the superior quality that has charac¬ terized it over other car¬ bon blacks.
CA R Bo
\lk
From FRED. H. LEVEY COMPANY
New York, April 11, 1898. Referring to our conversation, we certainly expect to renew our contract with you for “Peerless Black.” We shall continue to use ‘Peerless” in our half-tone and letterpress inks, as we consider it superior to any other black, especially for fine half-tone work.
isi
From B. WINSTONE
4 SONS, Ltd.
London, Oct. 17, 1902.
It affords us much pleasure in adding our name to the ever-length¬ ening list of printing ink makers who speak well of Peerless Black We have used Peerless Black for more than ten years and consider it by far the most superior we have yet examined for density, luster, smooth working and general excellence. In conclusion, we beg to enclose herewith contract for supply of Peerless Black for 1903.
!*% PRINTS
B^WWIIRSpANY
SOLE AGENTS (For Tift Peerless Carbon Black Co.. Pittsburgh. Pa)
51-53 FULTON ST.. NEW YORK U SA*
From JAENECKE BROS. £ FR. SCHNEEMANN
New York, March 3, 1898. We supply the black ink used by The Inland Printer” for their let¬ terpress and half-tone work, and this ink is made with your Peerless Black, experience having taught us that no other black will give so good a result in fine letterpress and half-tone inks.
We have purchased Peerless Black for many years, and that we continue to use it is a proof that we consider it a black of exceptional merit.
Write
for
Booklet
Do You Know Why
The Carver & Swift Stamping Press
Is in the Lead To=day?
BECAUSE it is able to produce the greatest output at the least cost for production.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW on what ground we make this statement ?
EXPERIENCE — Those who have used other makes with ours say ours is SUPERIOR. Those who have used our presses for several years buy duplicate machines.
BUY one press and more will follow.
MILLER & RICHARD, Canadian Agents,
7 Jordan Street, TORONTO, CAN.
C. R. CARVER CO.
SUCCESSORS TO
The Carver & Swift Stamping Press & Mfg.Co.
N. E. Cor. 15th St. and Lehigh Avenue PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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THE INLAND PRINTER
No. 3
with
direct current motor.
Turning „
this Hand Wheel
automatically adjusts all parts of the
machine for any thickness of Vork.
(1 revelation in case
of operation and quality of Work.
BOSTON WIRE STITCHER CO.
No. 170 SUMMER STREET, BOSTON
Business Established 1867.
Rogers
anb
(Tompanp 6ngrai*. era ant Printers Chicago
“ The Rogers Quality ”
Rogers & Company
Formerly Rogers & Wells
Fine Half-tone Engravings High-grade Printing
OO O
Chicago
PRINTERS INCREASE
MIEHLE PRESS WITH SPRAGUE EQUIPMENT
THEIR PROFITS
by using electric power to drive their presses and other machines. Our motors are especially designed for this class of work, and are used extensively throughout this country and abroad. Our long experience enables us to know what is required and to give proper specifi¬ cations. Write for Bulletin No. 3211.
SPRAGUE ELECTRIC COMPANY
GENERAL OFFICES, 527-531 West 34th Street, NEW YORK
- Branch Offices : -
CHICAGO BOSTON ST. LOUIS BALTIMORE PITTSBURG ATLANTA CINCINNATI
THE INLAND PRINTER
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We Pay the Freight
On all orders for TYPE and BRASS RULE of our manufacture amounting to $20.00 net or over
The Inland Type Foundry
Saint Louis ▼ Chicago - Buffalo Takes pleasure in announcing that it has completed the
Hearst Italic
A companion letter to the popular Hearst Series.
Complete in all sizes from 6 to 72-point
Order this handsome series to-day, and don’t forget that if your order amounts to $20.00 or over
We Pay the Freight
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111 _ /IxiiomcLtic
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Basic Patents in United States and Europe
MEGILL’S
AUTOMATIC
REGISTER
GAUGE
STYLES AND PRICES IN VARIETY
The FIBS T in
^/lll to gauge
tvilh MEGILL’S
PLATEN GUIDES
GAUGE PINS Value beyond
prices.
A T T/"'' XT Cl Experience
VJf z\ V? XL O and quality
WRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE MATTER
the World. BEST and LATEST
EDWARD L, MEGILL, Patentee and Manufacturer, 60 Duane St., NEW YORK
APFY Typographic Numbering Machine
A Al A&Am Machines for Cash Sales Books, i to 50 or 1 to 100 and repeat
Patented March 27, 1900.
Size, V/s x Vi inch. Type High.
Made entirely Irora Steel and fully automatic.
Special machines made to order with drop ciphers, entirely automatic, for printing backward without stopping the press ; also, machines for Harris Automatic Press, or any other special numbering machine or device.
We have made Numbering Machines of various kinds for many years, and having a thorough knowledge of the other machines of this kind, have produced the APEX as the highest point in the art of making this class of goods, and the APEX in the hands of many users has proved to be the best, without exception. References and prices on application.
New York Stencil Works
100 Nassau Street* :: :: NEW YORK CITY
The Lightning Jobber
The Best Low-Priced Job Press in the World
What a Recent Purchaser says of it: Cobden, Ont., June 2, 1902.
Gentlemen , — * * * A? to the press I have nothing but the highest praise for it. When vve got lubricator worked thoroughly into all the moving parts it commenced to run like a sewing machine, and has run smoothly, easily and noiselessly every day. * * * I find it meets every claim made for it. A couple of days since I put oil an eighth-sheet with three wood lines in it. I was a little afraid at first of straining it, but put on the impression and it carried the form without the slightest creaking or jar. I have been considerably surprised at the speed at which it will run. I had thought that one thousand an hour with the treadle would be the maximum, but have turned out stationery at a speed of from 1.200 to 1,500 ever since I put it in. I never saw a Lightning Jobber till mine reached here. I wrote to some of its users whose testimonials are given in your pamphlet and received the very highest recommendations regarding the Lightning Jobber. It took a good many evenings to decide to purchase one, but I did, and now from all appearances, 1 will be everlastingly glad for my decision. Yours sincerely, F. B. ELLIOTT.
Write for Circulars and Descriptive Matter.
Jones Gordon
SJones
Gordon
THE BEST JOB PRESS IN THE WORLD
Distributing Ink Fountain, Ink Roller Throw-off, Self-locking Chase Hook, and other improvements.
FOR
SALE
BY
ALL
DEALERS
ISsIdeal P aper Cutter
Has Time and Labor Saving Devices found on no other cutter.
( Successors to The John M. Jones Co.)
Ideal Cutter
The Jones Gordon Press Works, Palmyra, N. Y.
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amount mbined nd most
of this will be the High grade) tor which we are beco With our increased capacity a
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Whitest, Highest Finish and the Best Printer
The Champion Coated Paper Co.
HAMILTON, OHIO
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TRAD£
THESE INKS ARE THE
STANDARDS
ADOPTED BY THE LEADING PRINTERS OF THE WORLD
The Standard Printing Ink Co.
Mark
Sole manu= facturers of
CROW BLACK
AND OTHER HIGH-GRADE BLACK AND COLORED PRINTING INKS
Chicago Branch 69 = 71 Plymouth Place
Cincinnati, Ohio
It’s a Fact
That some makers of job printing presses make more money from the sale of parts than from the profit on the presses sold. It strikes us that this is a peculiar business policy, and that the printer soon finds this out and buys a press that does not cost him all he makes on the press for repairs. Look at the construction of the PERFECTED PROUTY PRESS and see if you think we are among that class of press-makers. We can prove beyond ques¬ tion that it costs less to keep ten PERFECT ED PROUTY PRESSES in repair than one of any other make. Does this appeal to your pockets ?
The BEST is Always the CHEAPEST in the End.
MANUFACTURED ONLY BY
Boston Printing Press Manufacturing Company
176 FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A.
: FOR SALE BY —
Hadwen Swain Mfg. Co.
Chas. Beck Paper Co.
Boston Printing Press Mfg. Co. Des Moines Printers’ Exchange -
San Francisco, Cal. Philadelphia, Pa.
Chicago, Ill. Des Moines, Iowa
Thomas E. Kennedy & Co.
]. H. SCHROETER & BrO. Toronto Type Founders Co. Gether-Drebert-Perkins Co.
Cincinnati, Ohio Atlanta, Ga. Toronto, Canada - Milwaukee, Yv'is.
Parsons Bros., New York City, South Africa and Australia.
European Agents, Canadian-American Linotype and Machinery Corporation, 109 Fleet Street, E. C., London, England. United States Paper Export Association, Philadelphia, Pa., Agents for Mexico.
THE INLAND PRINTER
1
Confession is Sweet to the Soul
There are difficulties in the Engraving business — we admit it. Perhaps you have been a victim to some of
the inevitable disappointments in delivery or quality.
We have this consolation, however; that the other fellow
has them, too — perhaps more than we.
We have had a large plant for years — perhaps the larg¬
est. To meet the growing demand we have established branches, but still we could not take care of our great volume of business as promptly as some of our customers wanted — nor as well as we wanted.
Now we have made further improvements, introduced new systems, put on more artists, more photographers, more etchers, more finishers — all skilled- — and have in¬ creased our whole equipment.
The air is clearer — and we are trying harder than ever to give perfect service, both as to quality and promptness.
For Designs, Halftones, Wood Cuts and every other kind of printing plate, including Three-color Work, you are sure of good results if they bear the signature of
DESIGNING . ENGRAVING . ADVERTISING
Ask about our new process — called HELIOGRAVURE' — for Frontispieces, Inserts, Etc.
CHICAGO
102 Manz Bldg.
NEW YORK
102 Lupton Bldg.
CLEVELAND
102 Williamson Bldg.
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THE INLAND PRINTER
THE CROSS FEEDER HAS ONLY MECHANICAL DEVICES WHOSE ACTIONS ARE UNVARYING UNDER ALL CONDITIONS
AMERICAN PAPER. FEEDER. COMPANY, 255 Atlantic Ave., Boston, U. S. A.
New York and Philadelphia Agents — H. L. EGBERT & COMPANY, 21-23 New Chambers Street, New York, N. Y.
The CROSS PAPER FEEDERS
SOME DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF CROSS FEEDERS— TWO DISTINCT TYPES
PILE STYLE FEEDER — This feeder carries a load of about five feet of paper.
CONTINUOUS STYLE — This machine takes up no floor space; is loaded while press is running, no time lost in reloading, thereby resulting in a continuous run equal to capacity of press ; no adjustments for weight or quality of paper.
CROSS CONTINUOUS FEEDER
ACME
BINDER No. 6
Patented in Europe and United States
ACME,
Wire Staple BINDERS
“ The Best Automatic W ire -Stapling Devices on the market. ”
Operated by hand or foot power.
Equipped with Automatic Clinching and Anti-clogging Devices.
Full information promptly furnished on application.
ACME STAPLE CO. til
500 N. 12th St., PHILADELPHIA
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THE LATEST
Quadruple 16 Book Folder
Double Thirty-two
All folds are at right angles. All “buckling” is relieved.
MADE BY
BROWN FOLDING MACHINE CO.
ERIE, PA.
: AGENCIES =
NEW YORK— H. L. Egbert & Co., 23 New Chambers Street.
LONDON— W.C. Horne & Sons, 5 Torren Street, City Road.
CHICAGO — Champlin & Smith, 304 Dearborn Street.
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THE INLAND PRINTER
507 TO 515
WASHINGTON ST.,
STRENGTH DEPTH AND
ORIGINALITY*
— .INYOURCUTS-—
THIS IS THE RIND WE MAKE PRICE LOWEST. QUALITY BEST.
^re ELECTRIC CITY ENG RAYING CO.
BUFFALO, N.Y.
THE INLAND PRINTER
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All Sizes
ZB/xmtCAwm.
MACHINE WORKS
Oswego OSWEGO • NY- U S A-
P Makers of nothing but
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All Styles
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Automatic Clamp
Automatic and Hand Clamp Hand Clamp with Treadle Hand Clamp
Small Power
Hand and Power Drive Wheel Cutters Lever Cutters
44-inch Label Cutter.
Ask for detailed description of a Cutter exactly adapted to your needs.
SELLING AGENTS
Van Allens & Boughton, . . 17-23 Rose Street, New York
Southern Printers Supply Co., 304 Tenth St., N.W., Washington, D. C. Thos. E. Kennedy & Co., . . . 337 Main St., Cincinnati
American Type Founders Co., 405 Sansome St., San Francisco
Toronto Type Fdry. Co., Ltd., 70-72 York St., Toronto, Ont. American Type Founders Co., 606-614 Sansom St., Philadelphia
J. M. Ives, . 301 Fisher Building, Chicago
Andrew & Suter, ... 23 Goswell Road, London, Eng.
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THE INLAND PRINTER
OUR SAMPLE SHEET OF
Solid Cover Colors
For printing on dark-colored and antique papers will be mailed to you on applica¬ tion. They are the best made. Try them
Thalmann Printing Ink Company
SAINT LOUIS
CHICAGO KANSAS CITY OMAHA
To whom we refer
Alexander & Cable Litho. Co., Toronto.
Rolph, Smith & Co., Toronto.
Metcalf Stationery Co., Chicago, 2 Machines.
S. D. Childs & Co., Chicago, 5 Machines. Phenix Engraving Company, Chicago.
Western Bank Note Co., Chicago.
Columbia Engraving Company, Boston.
Samuel Ward Company, Boston.
H. G. Alford Co., New York City, 3 Machines. Henry W. Solfleisch, New York City.
Wm. C. Zimmer, New York City.
Co-Operative Company, New York City.
L. C. Childs & Son, Utica, New York.
Fierstine Print. House, Utica, New York.
C. E. Brinkworth, Buffalo.
P>ates & Nurse Co., Buffalo.
Robert Gair, Brooklyn, New York.
Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co., Philadelphia. Meyer & Perkins, St. Paul.
Heywood Mfg. Co., Minneapolis, Minn.
If. Anderson Co., Kansas City, Mo.
Clarke & Courts, Galveston, Tex., 2 Machines. Dorsey Ptg. Co., Dallas, Tex., 2 Machines.
U. S. Envelope Co., Worcester, Mass., 3 Ma¬ chines.
Levey Bros. & Co., Indianapolis, Ind.
RECENTLY INSTALLED:
F. C. Nunemacher, Louisville, Ky., 2 Machines! Dennison Mfg. Co., So. Framingham, Mass. Smith Printing Co., Reedsville, Pa.
John B. Wiggins Co., Chicago.
Dodsworth, Salzman & Hamlin, Pittsburg, Pa. Union Lithograph Co., San Francisco, Cal. Livermore & Knight Co., Providence, R. I. Foster & Webb, Nashville, Tenn.
F. M. Ilowell & Co., Elmira, N. Y.
the: victor
Presses Built m
A Few of Our Custo=
mers
Two Sizes
FULLARD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Inc.
No. 1 — Size of Die, 3x5 inches
No. 2 — Size of Die, 3/4 x 8J4 inches
WRITE FOR SAMPLES AND FULL INFORMATION
WILLIAM FULLARD, Sole Selling Agent
624 and 626 Filbert Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
THE INLAND PRINTER
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ryMONEY
c7WONEY
oMONEY
It Comes with THE WHITLOCK
Are you working for Money? Or are you a Philanthropist?
In the last analysis it is the presswork that differentiates good from bad printing. A high-grade press is a vital factor in every MONEY-MAKING print-shop, for, while a skilled artisan can often turn out good work on an inferior press, the time and material lost in experimentation renders the procedure expensive. Economy counsels the best. The best is none too good for the far-seeing, businesslike, money-making printer.
POINTS TO CONSIDER:
Continuous and Even Distribution Speed
Lightness in Running Rigidity in Impression Labor-saving Devices
Strength in Construction Smoothness in Movement Accuracy in Register Simplicity in Design Durability
THE WHITLOCK LEADS IN THESE PARTICULARS
We WHITLOCK PTG. PRESS MFG. CO., sf Derby, Conn.
AT THE SALES OFFICES BELOW :
121 Times Building, NEW YORK 309 Weld Building, BOSTON
Western Agents — AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS CO.,
Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco.
Southern Agents— MESSRS. J. H. SCHROETER CB. BRO., 44 West Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Ga.
European Agents — MESSRS. T. W. CB. C. B. SHERIDAN, 46 Farringdon Street, London, Eng.
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THE INLAND PRINTER
TATUM’S
Paper Punches
Style “C” Power Machine
MADE IN FOUR STYLES:
AA, Bench Foot Power Machine. Price,
B, with Legs, Foot Power Machine. Price,
C, Pony Power Machine. Price,
D, Standard Power Machine. Price,
$60.00 net 100.00 net 125.00 net 200.00 net
We also furnish tab-cutting frames and blades, round-cornering attachments, label-cutting attachments and special shape punches and dies.
SEND FOR LITERATURE ON SUBJECT INTERESTED
The Sam’l C. Tatum Co.
- MAKERS OF -
Copy Presses, Inkstands, Stationers' Hardware, Loose-Sheet Binders and Holders, Office Punches, etc.
THE INLAND PRINTER
2
THE
Danish Bond
IS THE
Most Popular Bond
ON THE MARKET
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The following parties are sole Agents for their localities : |
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Miller, Sloan & Wright, - New York City Tileston & Livermore, - - - Boston, Mass. Dwight Bros. Paper Company, - Chicago, Ill. A. G. Elliot & Company, - Philadelphia, Pa. Bond & Mentzel Paper Co., - Baltimore, Md. Antietam Paper Co., - - Hagerstown, Md. Hudson Valley Paper Co., - Albany, N. Y. R. H. Thompson Co., - - Buffalo, N. Y. A. G. Elliot Paper Co., - Dallas, Texas Barber & Ellis, Ltd., - - Toronto, Ontario |
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B. D. Rising Paper Co.
Manufacturers of Bonti flaper
Housatonic, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
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THE INLAND PRINTER
Sheridan’s New Empire
Hand Clamp, built in sizes 36, 40, Write for particulars, prices
45 and 50 inches, and terms.
T. W. & C. B. SHERIDAN
NEW YORK 56 Duane Street
CHICAGO 413 Dearborn Street
LONDON 46 Farringdon Street
SEND FOR NEW CATALOGUE “PERFECTION IN THREE-COLORS"
ELECTRO -TINT ENGRA V/NG CO
INCORPORATED
Send 20c. for our album of stock cuts in colors, suitable for blotters, inserts, calendars, etc.
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This letter-heading is printed from a Cerotype. All printers know what Cerotypes are. They can be printed with lithographic effect on any typographic press. We are about to issue ten thousand sets of samples, all attractive and up-to-date, and if you don’t get a set please write and tell us about it.
The following is part of a letter from one who knows :
“I recall, with entire satisfaction, the fact of your having made Cerotype plates for us. The last lot of plates for the .... Company gave us splendid results.”
J. CLIFF DANDO.
F. McLEES £r» BROS. - - 216 William Street. New York
COPPERPLATE
STEEL DIE
Engraving and Embossing
FOR THE TRADE
Wedding Invitations Calli ng Cards Masonic Cards Announcements Letter-h eads Envelopes
Booklet Covers, Etc.
E
F interested in this work, write for our latest folder on correct styles of Calling Cards, etc. Sent free upon application. Our folder of Embossed Mono- grammed Stationery, 25 cents.
WM. FREUND & SONS, 174-176 State Street, Chicago
j
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Chas. Hellmuth
MANUFACTURING AGENT FOR
KAST & EHINGER
Awarded Grand Prix and Two Gold Medals at Paris Exposition
Printing and INKS
Lithographic
SPECIALTIES
FINE
HALFTONE
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SOME COMMERCIAL ASPECTS OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
NO. I. - BY W. I. SCANDLIN.
an adjunct to the printing-press and as a factor in the artistic, scientific, educational and commercial develop¬ ment of the world the importance of photography can hardly be overesti¬ mated. The most casual glance through the columns of the daily or weekly press, the monthly magazines, school histories and text-books, works of travel and of scientific research, show plainly how vast a scope it embraces, outside the important field of advertising.
When it is remembered that photography has been known to the world only a little more than sixty years, its advance may be looked upon as nothing short of wonderful. It is interesting, in this connection, to note that photography, in its beginning, was practically con¬ temporary with telegraphy, and that while Professor Morse was working out his problems in electricity for the putting of distant points into communication by written message, Professor John William Draper was delving into the problems of photography.
Professor Morse and Professor Draper were both enthusiasts in the working out of their individual tasks, and each was heartily interested in the work of the other, their investigations being carried on side by side for a number of years. It is, therefore, of great interest to note how closely these two important applications of science, to the use of the world, have kept pace with each other from their start, how each has gone forward steadily, but slowly, without very noticeable bounds or jumps for many years, and how, within the last few years, both have taken on new phases of activity and have developed with astonishing rapidity along many lines.
As Marconi's discoveries in the field of telegraphy have vastly increased its usefulness within the past decade, so with the introduction of the Meisenbach process in the early eighties, a new field of usefulness has opened out before the progressive printer and
engraver, and as the half-tone process has become better known and more fully developed, its importance in the field of illustration has steadily increased. What may still be in store, it is not safe to conjecture, but with the recent advances in three-color printing from photo¬ graphic bases, the vastness of this field is clearly indicated.
It is but a comparatively short time since illustra¬ tion of all kinds was restricted to line-drawing, but the remarkable advance in the quality of half-tone plates and in the proficiency with which they are handled in all classes of printing establishments renders possible to-day the reproduction of almost any kind of picture that can he made by photography, and in a manner, to all intents and purposes, as good as in the photograph itself.
The progressive printer has found, and will continue to find, photography of tremendous assistance to him in increasing the scope of his work. By its aid he is enabled to influence many orders which, without it, would be impossible. It stands him in stead to keep as fully posted as he may in all matters pertaining to photography and its commercial development, at the same time that he posts himself on its practical applica¬ tion to his own printing-presses.
One thing to be borne prominently in mind and to be insisted upon in all cases, is the matter of good photographic copy being supplied the engraver from which to produce the half-tone plates. Time was when all kinds of work were accepted and when even the ubiquitous amateur was pressed into the service and made to contribute copy for this purpose. With the increasing use of half-tone work, however, a better understanding of its power and limitations is being established, and it has come to be realized that photo¬ graphs for half-tone reproduction must be made by one who is specially fitted and equipped for this kind of work. Accordingly there has come to be established in all the larger cities and towns, a class of photographers
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who make a specialty of photography for the printing- press. The work of these men stands in a class by itself, easily recognized by the quality of the finished print.
It is a mistake of the gravest kind for the printer to imagine that a photographic negative may be made by an amateur or inexperienced worker, that will produce results suitable for half-tone reproduction. The sooner this is known and accepted, the better it' will be for all parties concerned.
The engraver or printer who is called upon to produce a catalogue should insist upon it that the pho¬ tographs from which the plates are to be made are of the very best quality obtainable. If practicable, they should be made especially for the job by a professional commercial photographer.
The successful commercial photographer is and must be a man of expedients as well as of experience, and the work he will produce in a given time is often phenomenal. He goes about his task with an intuitive perception of its requirements, turning out’ negatives rich in detail, tone and color values, which, when finished, render themselves suited to the work of the engraver with the least possible amount of handwork. All that remains is to obliterate undesirable features or to vignette the edges of the print. Work of this kind, properly etched, interprets the photographic sentiment of the subject' and enables the careful printer to render it with a feeling that is scarcely second to that of the photograph itself.
It is only from such negatives that the best results are possible, and t'he printer who takes this course will find his work so much more satisfactory to his customer and himself that he will soon insist upon this kind of copy. An important point will have been reached when printers generally take a determined stand of this kind, and insist upon the best photographs that can be made.
In many of the smaller cities and larger manufac¬ turing towns, however, the commercial photographer is not in evidence, and the situation here becomes some¬ what different. In such places the printer may, to advantage, ally himself with the most progressive studio photographer. In rare cases he may find an amateur with wide experience and a willingness to assist in working out his plan.
In either case, a full understanding of the require¬ ments should be arrived at, and the photographer, whether professional or amateur, should be made to realize the importance of obtaining proficiency in the handling of photography commercially, if a successful business is to be developed in reproduction. Almost every subject requires peculiar treatment of its own, and to be successful, the photographer must be fully posted as to the best kind of negative required for the printer’s use and how to obtain it. He should know the possibilities and limitations of flash-light photog¬ raphy ; be prepared to make a successful negative in the dimmest corner of a dark boiler-room, or, under the still more impossible conditions, of bright daylight
streaming into an upper room, lighted by windows on three or four sides ; the advantages of backed or non¬ halation plates should be perfectly familiar to him and he must know how and when to use his swing-back and rising-front. Familiarity with his lens will enable him at once to determine what sort of an instrument to use under varying conditions. A knowledge of how the mirror may be brought into service for the reflection of light on the object being photographed is also impor¬ tant. The kind of paper to use in printing, the depth and tone of the finished print, and a knowledge of all that goes to make a photograph suitable for reproduc¬ tion must' be part of his stock in trade.
If the efforts and energies of two progressive par¬ ties, one representing the camera and the other the printing-press, are combined on some such lines as these, the result must' shortly be to create and develop a lot of new business that would otherwise lie dormant, and the profits of each should be materially increased. If the printer feels confidence in the ability of his pho¬ tographer to do well his part' of the work, he may confidently approach the manufacturer and urge upon him the importance of a booklet or catalogue. He may feel sure in most cases that it will pay him to spend some time and effort in working up an order on these lines. When obtained, it will pay enough profit to make a good thing both for himself and the photog¬ rapher.
Poor photographs, however, will not make good catalogue illustrations — good ones will, and it is only the good ones that interest t'he progressive business man to-day.
In another article we shall present some practical suggestions for the photographer, to aid him in work¬ ing out some of these commercial problems.
(To be continued.)
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COMPOSING MACHINES — PAST AND PRESENT.
NO. XIII. - BY JOHN S. THOMPSON.
THAT individual-type setting machines have a strong hold on the printer’s fancy is attested by the increasing number of these devices. Modern inventors are striving to overcome the necessity of using foundry product and justification by hand, and are directing their efforts to the production of a type¬ casting machine which will cast separate types at a rate of speed equal to the requirements of their composing machines.
The idea of supplying a composing machine with type cast especially for it is as old as the history of
course, was unnecessary, new type being supplied as needed.
In 1897, F. A. Johnson, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, began a series of experiments with a special type¬ casting machine, and patented a composing apparatus
CHURCH'S COMPOSING MACHINE OK 1S22.*
typesetting machinery. Dr. William Church, of Bos¬ ton, Massachusetts, as early as 1822 patented in England a composing machine and a special caster to supply it with type. The caster was arranged to cast a number of type at each operation, the type being deposited in receptacles beneath the machine. The apparatus was driven by hand power. The channels containing the type were removed from the casting machine and placed in position in the composing machine, the operation of a keyboard ejecting the type from the channels on to a horizontal plate, where a pair of rocking arms swept it to the center, when it was thrust downward into a collecting tube and from thence removed and justified by hand. Distribution, of
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THE JOHNSON COMPOSING MACHINE.
temporary ones assembled between the words. The line then moves forward to receive these spaces, which are cut from metal strips stored in a small magazine, the temporary spaces being returned to their proper channel. Experiments were also conducted with a view to casting the size of justifying spaces necessary
church’s typecaster of 1822.*
which he supplied with type made by the caster, the latter being an automatic device and made separate from the composing machine. In casting, a large num¬ ber of each letter of the alphabet was made before switching to the next letter, the machine making all the letters and the points in regular rotation. The type, deposited in tubes, is placed in the upper portion of the composing machine and assembled by operating a key¬ board. The operator, on completing a line, strikes a starting key and the line is automatically measured to determine what size spaces are necessary to replace the
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for each line according to the indication of the measur¬ ing device, and Mr. Johnson has also patented a paper perforating machine for the casting of individual type. The Johnson Typesetter is not in actual use as yet, although possessing several admirable features.
A similar type setting and casting machine was invented by Ernst Wentscher, of Berlin, Germany, in 1886, but the patents have gone into the hands of the Johnson Typesetter Company.
Still another single-type casting machine which the future holds in store for the printing world is that
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patented recently by an English inventor, H. J. S. Gilbert-Stringer. This is an adaptation of either Monoline or Linotype machines to cast individual type, and is accomplished by assembling a line of matrices and spacers in the ordinary manner, but thereafter advancing each letter of the line to the mold, which adjusts itself according to the width of the matrix presented and casts a single type, the spacers, which had previously been driven upward to wedge the line to its full width, being in like manner presented to the mold while held in the position which would cause the proper space to be cast, the product of the machine being a justified line of single type. No attempt has been made to manufacture this machine.
A novel typesetting machine was invented by Lucien A. Brott, of Brooklyn, New York, in 1892. It was called the Composite Type Bar machine and is probably the most compact typesetting machine ever built. It occupies but eight square feet of floor space, weighs 250 pounds and is run by 1-10 horse-power. The machine is provided with a series of molds rep¬ resenting every letter in the alphabet. Metal is cast into these molds and the type deposited directly into the channels of the composing mechanism, keeping them always supplied. The type is made shorter than type-high to allow for the subsequent casting around the base of the line, and is withdrawn from the chan¬ nels by the operation of the keyboard, short steel wedges are brought between the words, these lying at
right angles with the length of the type. When the line is completed it is justified by the wedges and lifted to the metal pot, where molten metal is cast upon the bottom of the type and between the words, form¬ ing a “ composite type bar.” This machine has not been placed in printing-offices as yet.
Several attempts have been made by inventors to produce printed matter without the aid of type or intervening processes. An example of this class of machines is the Sears Direct Printer, the invention of Charles Sears, of Cleveland, Ohio. The nucleus of his invention consists in so constructing a typewriter that the carriage steps at each stroke of the keys only the width of the letter printed, thus permitting typo¬ graphic results with this special typewriter. The paper used is chemically prepared and the printed sheet is placed, face downward, upon a plate of aluminum or zinc, and the ink transferred to the metal plate. The plate is then treated so as to raise the characters on the surface of the plate, and is then ready to be printed from. Justification and correction of the lines printed by this method are possible by cutting and patching the paper after it leaves the typewriter.
COMPOSITE TYPE PAR MACHINE.
Another machine of this class is called the Plane- ograph, recently announced from Washington. It differs from the Sears apparatus in that the first step in the process consists in perforating a strip of paper on the lines followed by the Lanston machine. The perforated strip is then fed through a printing appa¬ ratus which prints the characters on chemicalized paper, the lines being properly justified by a system of computation as in machines of the Lanston and Goodson class. The third step consists in transferring the printed characters to the metal plate, which is then
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A COURSE IN THE PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN.
NO. XVI. — BY E. A. BATCH ELDER.
NATURE does not offer us a storehouse of ready¬ made designs. As design is the orderly expres¬ sion of an idea, the best nature can do is to help us with suggestions. A thoughtful examination of the structure and development of shells, cones, insects, fishes, plant and animal life must make the serious student marvel at the orderliness of all things in nature, the disposition and arrangement of parts, the inter-relation of lines and areas, the perfect balance for which nature strives. The hand of a master designer is everywhere in evidence. But no matter how orderly nature may be, even to the rigid severity of a crystal, or how shapely in line and mass, or how transiently beautiful in tone, it is not within the province of design to utilize these things without the play of human invention and imagination. We are workers in dif¬ ferent materials and under different conditions from those governing nature, and any attempt to reproduce her forms in wood, clay, iron, on cloth, or on paper, is a mistaken effort on the part of the designer. A sketch of a beautiful flower may possess merit in itself, hut it becomes stupidly monotonous when repeated over a surface. An idea is lacking. But by starting with a general scheme in mind and by modifying the sketch, eliminating the accidental features, subordi¬ nating the unimportant things, thus making the whole conform to his idea, the designer may achieve some¬ thing worth while.
The average man, if his interest can be sufficiently aroused to examine the construction of a design, will ask: “What is it? A rose or a poppy?” seeking some familiar element of identification, and, failing to find it, the chances are even that his interest will cease. But the only questions one need ask are : “ Is it orderly as regards lines and masses ? Has it unity from the point of view of tones, measures, shapes ? ” Possessing these qualities it is entirely immaterial whether your work was “ based on the poppy ” or on the rose. Either of these flowers might start a train of ideas leading into line and mass arrangements in which the last vestige of identification becomes lost.
exploited in the past are actually on the market, the field being narrowed down to an intending purchaser to the several being actively advertised and marketed. In the individual-type machines the Simplex is the only one making sales, though the Empire is renewing activity. With the slug machines, the Linotype has a monopoly of the United States, which it shares with the Linotype Junior. The Monotype is the single rep¬ resentative of the type casting and setting machines. In Canada and Europe are found the Monoline and Rogers Typograph — slug machines. In price these machines range from $3,600 for the latest form of Linotype to $1,200 for the Monoline. Each machine is especially adapted for a certain variety of work, no one of them being everything the printer could desire. In the concluding article of this series the writer will endeavor to forecast what the future composing machine will be — what it needs must he to survive the twentieth century.
printed from directly. Justification in this apparatus is satisfactorily accomplished, patching of the paper being necessary, however, in making corrections.
Neither of these inventions are on the market, but they are indicative of the original line of thought being pursued by modern inventors of typesetting machinery.
There are several other composing machines in process — some of the slug-casting variety, some using individual type, and still others making their own type as needed. Very few of the many machines
(To be continued.)
ART APPRECIATION.
Under a “sketchy little thing,” exhibited by Jones, there hangs a printed card which bears the words :
“ Do not touch with canes or umbrellas.”
An appreciative small boy added the following postscript: “ Take A Axe.”- — San Francisco Star.
It is merely necessary to keep in mind the truth, and it will bear repetition for the second or third time, that the closer your design does come to the rose, the more necessary it is that you adhere to the laws of growth found in that flower ; hut the more abstract your design becomes, the less essential it is that you conform to the characteristic features of the rose.
Let us illustrate the matter with a few sketches.
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Plate CX shows a waif of a weed — name unknown — grows in the back yard. Perhaps one would not choose it as being particularly fertile in the way of suggestion ; but it is often better discipline to make the best of things just at hand rather than wander afar in search of a motif. Let us do a little thinking with the pencil and see what may develop during the course of a few hours of persistent work. Of course, no rule of pro-
platp cx
cedure can be given, nor can we record a receipt for making designs, as would be possible for making doughnuts. In fact, if the same experiment were tried with this motif at some other time, it is quite probable that results entirely different in character might be obtained. But here are the results, such as they are, of the present effort ; some acceptable, others uninter¬ esting and less satisfactory.
Let us take Plate CXI as typical of the others. First of all, if unity is desired, it becomes necessary to
seek an orderly construction of lines and masses. By feeling about with the pencil such lines may begin to appear. It may require changes ; it certainly will require patience and possibly several fresh starts, for an idea on paper is worth a dozen ideas unrecorded. As the lines begin to cross or come into contact with one another, areas are formed. The measures and shape
PLATE! C XII
of each of these areas must be carefully watched. Each area is a spot with a certain amount of attractive force. These attractive forces must be in relations of balance and harmony if the interest is to be properly distrib-
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uted. Then having studied the spots as blacks and whites, the question of tone relations assumes impor¬ tance.
And this is what is meant by thinking in tones, measures and shapes, quite a different process from 41 conventionalizing ” a flower ; a process in which the student often overlooks the principles of composition
PLATE CXIII.
in his attention to the truth of representation, fearful that he may lose the identity of the specimen with which he started.
In Plate CXII, another start is made, in a different way, and in Plates CXIII and CXIV an attempt is made to utilize two of the units thus gained in a development over a surface. In these surface repeats the adjustment of blacks and whites demanded various alterations in the units. To make a unit and merely repeat it over a surface would have been a stupid proceeding. In Plate CXIV we have gone back to purely abstract lines and areas ; there is scarcely a suggestion here that would lead one to suspect a development from the little weed in Plate CX. It is entirely immaterial that there should be any apparent relation between the two. A design must stand or fall on its own merits.
In Plate CXV another idea finds expression — sug¬ gesting in its turn Plate CXVI.
In Plate CXVI I several interpretations of the same idea are shown, changes being necessary in each
case in order that the unit may harmonize with the space to be filled. In the last example, Plate CXVIII, the unit readily adapted itself to its position without change.
The experiment might continue indefinitely ; but it is enough to show something of the extensive field the designer may choose in his selection of a motif, from nature on the one hand to abstract lines and areas on the other.
Much still remains to be said on the subject of design. In fact, during the course of these articles little more than a few suggestions in the way of struc¬ tural anatomy have been presented. It has seemed best to keep to the simplest possible demonstrations of fundamental principles, a subject that has received too little attention from would-be designers.
As a brief summary of the work, we may say that designs must be dependent for beauty upon the rela¬ tion of tones, measures and shapes when considered as lines and as areas. The principles of design we recognize as three in number — rhythm, balance and harmony. Hence the problem that confronts the stu¬ dent of design is to bring tones, measures and shapes
PLATE CXIV.
into relations of rhythm, balance and harmony. Each principle manifests itself in a variety of ways. Rhythm may appear as :
Shape Rhythm, in which the eye moves by means of the regular repetition of a unique shape or shapes ; or by means of the inter-relation of lines and areas ; or
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by the regular repetition of these rhythmic lines and areas.
Measure Rhythm, in which the eye moves by the gradation, the regular increase or diminution of meas¬ ures of length or breadth.
T one Rhythm, or the gradation of tones, from light to dark or vice versa, or from color to color, or from intense colors to neutral colors.
PLATE CXV.
With a clear idea of these various types of move¬ ment the designer finds it possible to regulate the action or rhythm in his work, to lead the eye wherever he may choose, to concentrate the interest at one point or to distribute the interest as he may wish. But joint movement should always be associated with a feeling of repose or balance. Here, again, we may resort to several types of balance :
Shape Balance, where the lines or areas are opposed in approximate symmetry- — the most obvious type of balance, because the opposition of equal attrac¬ tions naturally holds the eye at the center of the compo¬ sition.
Measure Balance, in which a careful adjustment of the various attractive forces must be made in order to secure the same sense of repose that is found in symmetry.
Tone Balance, or the selection and arrangement of contrasts in such way that each part of a design may keep its proper place without being unduly emphasized at the expense of other parts.
With all these qualities there still remains harmony, which in turn may appear as :
Shape Harmony, shapes that have some common
character in line or mass ; or, given shapes unlike in character, their differences may be reconciled and brought into harmonious relations by means of rhythm and balance.
Measure Harmony, referring to measures in which there is some common unit of division ; or, lacking- harmony, large measures must be so cut or subdivided that they will hold their proper positions in the design.
Tone Harmony, in which closely related contrasts are chosen ; or, lacking this effect, the contrasts must be so disposed as regards quantity and position that each will keep its proper place in the general scheme.
These are some of the important things to under¬ stand. If you would know something about designing and care to dig below the surface of the subject, it would be well, first of all, to concentrate attention upon these fundamental principles. Nothing worth while can be gained without conscientious study. But there will be little of interest here to the man whose only aim is to produce work just good enough to sell, to whom ideals, study, principles are things to be smiled at, who
is searching for novelties that will please and is in pursuit of every fitful fad and fashion that chances along.
Whatever you do, be an individual ; think for your¬ self, express yourself, simply and directly. Do not be
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DEAL WITH THE MEN.
The success of the employers’ organization should not be measured by the smallness of the wages paid to the men. Even if we consider only the financial aspect of it, we should take into consideration not the wages paid, but the proportion of the profits to the wages paid.
The printing trade requires intelligent workmen, and it is our interest to offer sufficient inducements in competition with other trades to attract and retain them. Their work educates them, and as a consequence their representatives are not to be identified with the thugs, the story of whose extortions has filled columns of the New York press.
One of them, you remember, demanded $2,000 from a large iron manufacturer for the settlement of a strike — threatened to “ lick ” every officer of the company, and when the law was suggested, said: “You pay me — and the men go to work. I don’t care a damn for your laws or your courts ! I’m Blinks ! ” Blinks’ method has made him a great man among his imme¬ diate associates ; as for the contractors, well, Sherlock Holmes would have identified them by the calloused spots showing where their knees knocked together when they saw Blinks coming.
If we are strong enough to do justice and enforce respect, we can bring about an era of confidence, good feeling and mutual prosperity. We want to be in a position to meet the workmen just as we meet our partners and our office men. It should be possible to meet them in an open, friendly manner, and, at the same time, insure their respect, loyalty and obe¬ dience, which are necessary for our common success. We must have their heads and hearts working in accord with their hands.
I believe that we will have all the liberty in the government of our business that we are entitled to. No man, no body of men, and no nation, deserve liberty unless they work for it, cherish it and, if necessary, fight for it. — John H. Eggcrs, to the United Typotlietce, at Atlantic City.
a man of “ tissue paper ideas.” One can find merit in the clumsy expression of a good motif ; one can even tolerate the cleverness of the man without a motif ; but there must invariably come a feeling of disgust at sight of the work of the “ tissue paper designer,” the man who is incapable of thinking for himself, and who appropriates the work of others, passing it on as his own, with all the brazen effrontery of the thief who steals another's purse. Any observant person knows his work upon sight.
And, last of all, if you would make designing an art, rather than a trade, remember that there is no such thing as proficiency in art. The artist is always alive to the need of continued study and work.
( Concluded.)
THE LARK’S SHREWD GUESS.
Some young larks, whose nest was in a field of ripe corn, reported to their dear mother that the owner was calling on his friends and neighbors to come and reap for him. “ We needn’t bother,” said the Mother Lark. Later on they reported that relatives were to be asked. “ It’s still all right,” said the Mother Lark. But later they reported that the owner was going to wait no longer for neighbors or relatives, but would reap himself. Then said the Mother: “It’s all U. P. ; we must move. He’ll put a stop to the larks in this office if he begins to do things a bit for himself.” — The Caxton Magazine.
The key to success is not a night key. — Chicago Record - Herald.
PLATE CXVIII.
WHEN THE WIND IS IN THE WEST — ORKNEY.
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FINANCIAL.
ENERAL financial conditions remain stagnant, relatively, for we compare with the last few years, forgetful of the normal smooth-running currents prior to 1901. It is in contemplation of the boom period that so wise, careful and prudent an observer as Secretary Shaw, in his Chicago speech of Septem¬ ber 1, referred to the heaviness as due to psychological causes, more familiarly to a “ lack of nerve.” The chief of the fiscal system of the country seems to have for¬ gotten that illustration of SEsop that the constant ten¬ don of the bowstring turns the elasticity of the bow 0 permanent stiffness. The Secretary was looking at the conditions from the present viewpoint of insistent
So far there has been
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no suffering on account of the withdrawal of the initi- Harry h. FLiNN.'AeMct^o&c^'ative in business. It is a waiting attitude which has in
it an element of psychology, but it is well to bear in mind that this psychological feeling did not have its origin in the higher financial circles, but came out from the mass of the people. When the speculative forces
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in a final analysis to the crops, for we are still an agri¬ cultural country — forty-seven per cent of our popu¬ lation live by the fertility of the soil, and that fertility is dependent upon an equable climate. The wheat crop has been determined at a lower production than the previous year, but still normal, for last year the crop was a “ bumper.” The corn crop is still within the 2,000,000,000 bushel limit, which, with population and acreage considered, can not be regarded as a bad one, neither is it assurative of great things. Erom the agri¬ cultural point of view the outlook for the coming year is fair. Continued good railroad earnings are indi¬ cated. There is sufficient inducement in the outlook
FOREIGN AGENTS.
M. P. McCoy, Phcenix Works, Phcenix place. Mount Pleasant, London, W. C., England.
W. C. Horne & Sons (Limited), 5 Torrens street, City Road, London,
E. C., England.
John Haddon & Co., Bouverie House, Salisbury Square, Fleet street, London, E. C., England.
Raithby, Lawrence & Co. (Limited), Queen street, Leicester, England, and 1 Imperial buildings, Ludgate Circus, London, E. C., England.
Penrose & Co., 109 Farringdon Road, London, E. C., England.
Jean Van Overstraeten, 17 rue l’Kint, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Societa delle Macchine Grafiche ed Affini, via Castelfidardo, No. 7, Milan, Italy.
Alex. Cowan ’& Sons (Limited), General Agents, Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, Australia, and Dunedin, New Zealand.
F. T. Wimble & Co., 87 Clarence street, Sydney, N. S. W.
G. Hedeler, Niirnbergerstrasse 18, Leipsic, Germany.
H. Calmels, 150 Boulevard du Montparnasse, Paris, France.
John Dickinson & Co. (Limited), Capetown and Johannesburg, South Africa.
James G. Mosson, 6 Glinka street, St. Petersburg, Russia.
for maintenance of manufacturing activity, and this, with the conservative manner in which all business has been carried on, should guarantee stability for another year.
Moneywise we are in a better condition than for three years, if the condition of the New York banks is to be regarded as the index. The West is taking good care of its crop demands ; in this connection there has been an influence at work which has not been speciallv brought out in the discussions over the currency ques¬ tion. The great crops from 1895 to 1900 and the fairly
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good harvest since have enabled the Western farmers to reduce, and, in a majority of instances to liquidate, their mortgages. The retention at home of the interest alone has largely added to the plethora of funds. This feature is emphasized in the statement of commercial note brokers, who say that for a year the banks in the Western cities have been large buyers of such paper. Perhaps a little explanation of this feature of finance will not be out of place. In recent years there has sprung up, in all the large cities, brokers who handle the paper of large manufacturing, wholesale and job¬ bing houses. These establishments, instead of borrow¬ ing direct from banks, give their three and four months’ notes to the brokers, who in turn dispose of them to banks. In Chicago there are three houses which handle each year upward of $50,000,000 of such notes. Banks with surplus funds take this paper because of the ease with which it can be remarketed and the comparative absence of risk.
Until five years ago the business of the brokers was largely confined to the banks in the reserve cities. In the smaller cities money usually found its best invest¬ ment in farm mortgages. The payment of these obli¬ gations has resulted in large accumulation of idle funds in the banks of the Western cities, surpluses in excess of local borrowing demands, and this summer, accord¬ ing to the statement of the note brokers, cities in the grain belt have been taking commercial paper, while the banks in the rural districts have been drawing funds from the reserve cities for harvest needs.
Touching the fall money demand it is significant that the surplus of the New York banks in the middle of September was around $20,000,000; a year ago there was a deficit of $2,000,000 from the twenty-five per cent reserve requirement. In the year the new money issued by the country amounted to $110,000,000, of which $80,000,000 was increased national bank circulation. The government surplus has been increased, which, while an excellent thing for the general financial condition of the government, is hurt¬ ful to the business interests through the locking up of actual cash.
Against the immediate possibility of depletion of cash in the reserve centers, the Secretary of the Treas¬ ury intimates that he will put the Government’s idle funds to use in general circulation. Thus far no Secre¬ tary has dared to place out with the banks any part of the surplus derived from customs receipts, because of the constitutional inhibition that no money in the treasury shall be paid out except on Congressional appropriation. Mr. Shaw’s legal advisers hold that the national banks are part of the treasury system and the deposit of customs receipts therein is not a paying out of such funds as contemplated by the Constitution. No fiscal event in this country will be more important than the settlement of this issue. If customs funds can be deposited in the banks, our treasury system will rank with that of every other nation. Now we have the anomaly of the Government locking up cash in
periods of expansion and activity and curbing normal development, for it is only in the periods of prosperity that the Government piles up surplus. If every busi¬ ness man would take his surplus profits, every wage worker his savings, and lock them up on the Govern¬ ment plan there could not be a long-sustained period of prosperity. Had the $40,000,000 of customs money been redeposited with the banks last year we would never have heard of “ elastic ” currency reform.
P. S. G.
THE TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION OBLIGATION.
T is interesting to note how questions apparently disposed of will come to the front again after the lapse of a few years. It was generally understood by the laity and non-Catholics that when the authorities at Rome nullified Cardinal Taschereau’s mandement against the Knights of Labor, the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church toward labor organizations was settled for some time. But now come several well- intentioned but rather captious and poorly informed Roman Catholic clergymen who raise an old question and object to the obligation taken by members of the Typographical Union, which, they say, “places the union before the church and before the state and impeaches the loyalty and Catholicity of those who take it." They quote as particularly objectionable this clause :
I do hereby solemnly and sincerely swear or affirm that my fidelity to the Typographical Union and my duty to the members thereof shall in no sense be interfered with by any allegiance that I may now or hereafter owe to any other organ¬ ization, social, political or religious.
On the face of the obligation there is ground for criticism ; but if the reverend gentlemen had taken the trouble to inquire as to the intent of the clause or the manner in which it is interpreted and enforced, they would not, even by inference, have assailed the loyalty of all or the Catholicity of Roman Catholic members of the union. In the organization the objectionable sentence is held to mean that members will not allow social, religious or political organizations to control them in trade matters — on questions which are par¬ ticularly within the union’s limited sphere of action. As understood and applied the obligation does not interfere with any member's duty to his church. Nor is it likely to unless the church desires to say how type shall be measured or meddle in some other detail of the printing business. And it is far-fetched, indeed, to insinuate that the Typographical Union interferes with a man’s duty to his country. Too many union printers have served and are serving the people loyally to permit of the idea being seriously entertained.
A few illustrations of what the practices of the union are, when the rights of a citizen are involved, will serve to show that the fullest liberty of action is not only preserved but encouraged. In many of the seven hundred subordinate unions a majority of
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the members are probably “ opposed ” to the militia — some because they deprecate war and all that pertains thereto, others on account of the alleged misuse of this arm of the public service in the interests of great corporations. Yet not one of these unions could suc¬ cessfully discipline a member for being a militiaman, not even if, in the discharge of his duty and acting under orders, he shot down the president of the organ¬ ization. In the Typographical Union it is accepted as a matter of course that those are matters for the law of the land to dispose of. The union has specifically set its face against attempting to do anything which may be accomplished through legal channels to such an extent that it does not allow subordinate bodies to be made debt-collecting agencies, even though the creditor be a member and the debtor a non-member. Had these clergymen known that where a union had participated in a political convention which nominated a candidate for office, an assessment to aid the candi¬ date was declared illegal on the ground that it was subversive of the inalienable rights of a member to compel him to support in the remotest possible way an objectionable candidate or political program, they might not have been so alarmed. Another instance is recalled of where a subordinate union, in Mich¬ igan, was interested in a political campaign, and at a secret meeting decided upon a certain line of action. Several members regarding the scheme as a conspiracy and likely to work harm in the community, prematurely exposed the plan of campaign and pub¬ licly denounced the union for its act. Passions are usually inflamed at such times and they were in this instance, but those dissidents were not disciplined, for it was generally recognized the International Union would protect them in their rights as citizens, which the local union had no power to abridge in the slightest degree.
The fact that complaint should come from Roman Catholic clergymen is not without its humorous side. Members of that faith have ever been among the most earnest advocates of the present form of obligation. It has had a rather checkered career, and a sketch of its elimination and revival may not be entirely out of place. In the early eighties it was denounced by mem¬ bers of the French-Canadian hierarchy, though it is not recorded that the English-speaking clergy inter¬ posed any objection. However, there being no desire then — nor is there at this time — to provoke the slightest note of discord between members and their church, the entire obligation was eliminated, thereby allowing subordinate unions to frame oaths that would be agreeable to local, legal and ecclesiastical authorities — especially the latter. Then came the Knights of Labor dispute, and as Rome refused to condemn an obligation of the same tenor, but couched in much stronger terms, the old clause began to make its appear¬ ance in union obligations. And as the sequel shows, certainly not for the purpose of impairing the standing of Catholic members. When it was first made a part of
the International law, a Roman Catholic was its fore¬ most supporter. He held that men were forgetting their duty to the union, some making it secondary considera¬ tion to political clubs to which they belonged ; while others, owing to their allegiance to secret societies which Catholics could not join, incidentally but effectively discriminated against Catholics in giving out work and in voting for officers. To quote this gentleman, now dead : “ Unless you were a member of some
secret order you were frozen out.” Several gentlemen of the Roman Catholic faith are responsible for the present obligation, and foremost among them one who was the guest of a priest while he was attending a con¬ vention and urging the measure, who is reputed to be a devout Catholic, and, if the writer be not mistaken, has several brothers, priests, one of whom is attached to the Papal household.
So far as known the clerical critics have not been unfair or unduly denunciatory. They think those who framed the obligation may not have realized the full force of the words they used. They suggest that every patriotic man and consistent Catholic “ demand that the clause be cut out.” While the writer knows that, when viewed in the light of intent and as it has been enforced, the provision can not be made to bear the burden which the clergy place on it, yet it should be repealed. Its phrasing is not happy, but is misleading and a formid¬ able indictment can be framed on the terminology alone ; it is also immaterial and irrelevant, as the lawyers would say, and if the criticisms had appeared a few weeks earlier — before the convention adjourned — doubtless what is a fair target for the enemy to shoot at would have been removed ere this. W. B. P.
NEWSPAPER CAPITALIZATION.
NUMBER of years ago the American Press Association issued a “ style ” book for the con¬ venience of its patrons. There possibly has been a more recent edition, but if so it is doubtful if it has been carefully distributed ; sure it is that the old book is being followed, at least as regards capitalization, by some of the Press Association’s plate users.
No one will question but that the “ style ” book first referred to was edited by wise men, and, generally speaking, was a good thing, but from the ordinarily intelligent newspaper reader’s point of view, the cap¬ italization after the rule set forth in the book must look peculiar.
Here is what is printed regarding
CAPITALIZATION.
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Corporations, Societies, Etc. — When the word railway, railroad, company, society, association, union, club, bank, the¬ ater, academy, school, depot, church or hotel follows the name, do not capitalize it. For example, the Northwestern railway, the New York Central railroad, the Chicago Meat company, Young Men’s Christian association, Women’s Christian Tem¬ perance union, the Trainmen’s Benefit society, the Union club, the First National bank, the Fifth Avenue hotel (this does not
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carry the word House when it means a hotel, as Hoffman House, Astor House, etc.), the Fifth Avenue theater (this does not carry the words Opera House when they mean a the¬ ater, as Grand Opera House, Taylor’s Opera House, etc.), the St. James academy, the Grand Central depot, the Dutch Reformed church.
The writer does not believe this rule was ever very generally observed. It would seem just about as sensible to print “ Adam H. brown ” as to print “ Chicago Meat company,” for if Brown sells meat, either is the name of a concern dealing in meats, and the “ Company ” is just as much a part of one name as “ Brown ” is of the other. Another example shown is “ Young Men’s Christian association ” ; yet a paper following the styles set forth in the book abbreviates this “ Y. M. C. A.” About as well make the “ A ” lower-case in one as the other. Most of the other examples are of the same class.
While too many capitals may be poor taste, not enough is worse. E. B. D.
A BOON FOR THE AMBITIOUS PRINTER.
AS I met him I saluted — a gray-haired printer, . one of the veterans of the craft, now a foreman. Scarce a dozen steps away, we turned as with one accord, each to ask the other if he could lend a first- class printer or could say where one might be obtained. Failing this, a printer of ordinary skill was sought, but with the same result. In parting, he said :
“ No, there are no printers to be had. They are not making printers now, and the few good ones are caught and retained in the big cities. Nor can we blame them for declining to go where the scale is less, even though cost of living is also less. But what we shall do when we all get busy in these smaller cities I do not know.”
Nor could I say. But when I reached my desk and opened Ti-ie Inland Printer at the advertisement of the Inland Printer Technical School, it seemed that there was something which went far toward solving the problem — a boon, aye, a necessity to the ambitious youth and to the anxious employer alike. For here will be given careful and thorough instruction in the triple strand which makes the perfect cord of finished printing- — -machine composition, job composition, presswork. And further, this instruction will be given by those best fitted to instruct, given under conditions ideal as to material and environment and all that makes for perfection of production, and given to those who bv past effort and by present effort and apprecia¬ tion prove worthy to begin and to continue.
R. C. M.
TOO FEW COMPETENT WORKMEN.
EVER and anon goes up from the ranks of labor i a cry that there exists an overplus of workmen, causing scarcity of work and depression of wages. The easiest remedy, apparently, is restriction of out¬ put — the making of fewer printers. Hence, increase
in proportion of journeymen to each apprentice. So far, well. But, on the other hand, comes the plaint of the employers that there exists a real scarcity of workmen who are fully competent, capable, reliable. Of workmen who are indifferent there is usually abundance — yet not always. But they are tolerated and paid the scale in despair of obtaining those that are better — those comparative few, yet superlative few, who are willingly given the scale and more and who are sought in every city in the land.
Now, the fact that these men are paid large advances on the established scale does not argue that the scale is too low. In the vast majority of cases it is fair to both employer and employe. That one man is worth and is paid the scale and another is paid ten per cent more is simply a means of saying that the latter can do ten per cent more work, or ten per cent better work. And if the inferior or indifferent workman desires to obtain this bonus, he must first place himself in position to demand it — he must make himself worth it. If he does this, his worth will surely be recognized ; if not by his present employer, by another.
But that the common workman should thus raise himself above the level of his fellows there must be native ability, willingness, eagerness to learn, reten¬ tiveness of memory, and an observing and studious mind. With these, properly applied and correctly directed, will come the desired reward. R. C. M.
[BUSINESS ACCURACY THE KEY TO SUCCESS.
SOME few months ago there appeared in the Caslon Circular, the quarterly gotten out by the Caslon Letter Foundry, of London, a brief article dealing with certain phases of the printing trade situation in Amer¬ ica. A portion of it, touching on a topic of consider¬ able current interest, follows :
A MENACE TO LEGITIMATE PRINTING.
I can not say if similar conditions prevail in Britain — I hope they do not. But in America there is beginning a new menace to the prosperity of legitimate printing-shops, and I fear that it is only the beginning. A boy fancies that he would like to be a printer, usually because he is dull at school or because one of his companions is learning the trade. He enters a shop. In due course of time he has so far mastered the lay of the case and the intricacies of the alphabet as to be able to differentiate “ d ” and “ q ” three out of five times, and may even occasionally distinguish “ I ” and “1.” Or, he may be able to tell offhand whether a certain make of press carries two or three or four rollers, and whether the fly-wheel should turn toward him or from him. Then he secures a place as two-thirder, sometimes even as journeyman, in a manufactory operating its own printing-works. His foreman usually knows a little more than he does, but has neither time nor inclination to give instruction, were he never so compe¬ tent. A brief service here, and the youth deems himself a master and proceeds to invest a few dollars in type and press to “do printing.” Need I add that be “does” it?
True, he can not succeed; true, he affects but slightly the general state of trade ; yet, like the vision that passed before Macbeth, the line of this one and his fellows appears to “ stretch out till the crack o’ doom.” And the constant
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dropping of their ignorant and foolish price-quotations wears rapidly the by-no-means adamantine rock of current prices. Lasting injury is done to the printer with capital invested and a pay-roll to meet, and no one is benefited, not even the consumer.
The remedy? Until users of printing can be educated to a point where they will refuse to accept the miserable work turned out by these would-be “ printers,” I know of nothing- more effectual than that the unions should exercise over these factory printing-shops the same degree of care and watchful¬ ness that is applied to the ordinary commercial printery. This may not wholly solve the problem, but it will, I am sure, be of
next step is easy — to take in outside work. Some¬ times prices are lowered, sometimes business relations are “ worked ” for their printing, sometimes solicitors are employed. Frequently a class of work is turned out that is creditable in all respects. The printer who does nothing but print finds that his trade is slipping away from him, nor is it always possible to say just why it goes or how it may be won back.
But I think that one of the ways in which the printer who has a printing-office may make himself
Courtesy F. L. Steenrod, Durango, Colorado.
THE VETERANS’ REUNION.
decided benefit, provided always that the union does its duty fully and truly. And unless it can do that, why should there be a union?
But this is, by no means, all. From such competi¬ tion as this there is comparatively little to fear, on the part of the printer operating floor after floor filled with modern machinery. For him there is a menace of different sort. More than a few of the manufacturing plants of the land are putting in printing equipments for their own work. Their time-cards and cost-cards are kept with all the accuracy and detail of the suc¬ cessful business man, and it is soon found that the printing department can be operated at a profit, if placed in the hands of a competent foreman. The
able to meet this competition from the printer who has a manufacturing plant is this: Let him study the conditions and surroundings of his own business as closely and with as much intentness as the manu¬ facturer studies the details of his entire investment. Let him specialize his office, declining the jobs where no profit is, and handling to greater advantage those that yield satisfactory returns. This, beyond question, he can do, if he will. He has a plant and a force of workmen chosen and trained to the economical produc¬ tion of certain classes of printing. He is at decided advantage as compared with his friend the manufac¬ turer, who can give this department no more than divided attention at best. R. C. M.
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Written for The Inland Printer.
HINTS ON PRESSWORK.*
V NO. II. — BY ERNEST ANDREWS.
BLURRING is an often-present and sometimes stub¬ born imperfection to contend with, and so many conditions are conducive of it that it is sometimes diffi¬ cult to locate the trouble. Attention is here drawn to some of the causes and how they may be remedied. A solid tympan and top sheet is important. Avoid wrinkles in it or a puffy surface near the grippers. Chases and forms should be without any spring, and plates and other matter should lie flat on their bases before and after, as well as during the impression. A small amount of powdered resin or chalk spread along the bed bearers, which should be kept dry, is practicable. On some classes of work it is expedient to tie one or more cords to the cross-bar in front of the cylinder just above the bed, passing the other end under the cylinder and fastening it to the under side of the feedboard, allowing them to be tight during the impression, thus holding the sheet from sagging, watching, however, that no type is injured by their use. A rigid and clear impression can not be obtained if the cylinder journals are much worn. They should be looked after by a competent machinist.
The pulling or peeling of stock is usually due to inferior paper, low temperature, high speed or too solid ink. Pressrooms should be very warm. Cut forms should hot be run at a high rate of speed, and ink should be no solider than will allow a free distri¬ bution and a perfect working condition. However, ink in this day and age is, for the most part, run just as prepared by the makers, so proficient have ink manu¬ facturers become in its production. In fact, there is less to learn about inks than formerly, unless it be in color-printing*. But if a reducer is desired, use any of the following with a little drier : Boiled oil, vaselin, varnish or lard. The exact proportion can only be learned by experience with existing conditions.
When the ink fountain is too cold to work properly, it should be warmed by placing two or more lamps (when gas can not be had) near the floor, several inches in front of the blade. Avoid warming it too rapidly. With small forms of long runs on large presses, it is best to collect and retain the ink in a space about as wide as the form, instead of allowing the ink to remain the whole length of the fountain, which would necessitate screwing it up too tight and cause its rapid wearing away. Wet rags rolled up and squeezed close to the iron roller and blade will meet requirements. Take some or all of the angle Out of the angle rollers, and in this way avoid the ink flooding toward the ends. A little lard or oil in the empty por¬ tion of the fountain will keep the otherwise dry ends of the rollers in good condition.
Rollers remaining in a press over night should not be washed up until morning, a little oil being run over
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them to prevent them from drying. For the preser¬ vation of rollers, they should not be washed altogether with benzine, but rather with some of the better prepa¬ rations on the market. New or unused rollers should be gone over occasionally with coal oil and should be kept in dry atmosphere, near the ceiling, if possible, and in a dark room, the action of light and moisture being detrimental .to them. Rollers in use should be closely watched on damp, hot days, that they do not melt. Should a roller be found to be nearly at melting point, too soft, perhaps, to retain its shape if placed aside, it should be laid flat upon the floor and rolled back and forth until it has cooled sufficiently to be placed in the cabinet. Angle rollers should not be allowed to whirl so freely that they will lie still in motion when the inking table is on its return to the fountain, as this results in unnecessary tear near the ends. Keeping the sockets supplied with soap proves very successful at such times, if rollers persist in tear¬ ing near the ends, wash them and rub on a little oil. Never set angle rollers so low that they jump when the ink table strikes them.
The presence of electricity in stock offers to the pressman, to say nothing of the feeder, another ele¬ ment in his long list of trials and tribulations, nor can he always do away with it entirely, but, like other diffi¬ culties, it may be guarded against considerably. It is quite important that stock be taken out of boxes and wrappers and piled in the pressroom for as long a time as is convenient before running, that it may become warmed and adapted to the temperature of the room, as electricity is invariably generated in stock warmed too rapidly. Electricity generated while the sheet is passing through the machine can be wholly or partially overcome by rubbing over the tympan a preparation of glycerin, alcohol and machine oil at the end of each lift. Occasionally rub this sparingly over the shoo- flies, fly-sticks, fingers and tapes. Some shops are so equipped that steam rises in front of the cylinder, so that the delivered sheet coming in contact with it is relieved of all electricity. Print-stock may be run free from this difficulty by dampening it before running.
If sheets bother about catching on the fingers, try picking up the tympan between the shoo-flies with a sharp knife, not enough, however, to allow the picked- up portion to gather any ink. The delivery of sheets is often materially aided by pasting strips of paper about half an inch wide around the shoo-flies, giving them a better chance to start the sheet over the fingers. Adjust fingers about two thicknesses of ordinary stock from the cylinder when it is just about to deliver a sheet. Quite often sheets about to be delivered bend up and go down between the cylinder and fingers, causing no end of trouble. This may be done away with by pasting one or more strips of paper six inches wide around the guide bar, leaving the other end free, extending it nearly to the fly-sticks. Should sheets catch on fly while running out, twist the delivery tapes
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several times. Sheets continually turning upon the flv can be held down in this way : Stop the press with a sheet on the fly. See that one fly-stick extends just outside the end of the sheet. Tie one end of a string to the bottom of the fly about two inches inside the end of the sheet and the other end at the top of the fly- stick just outside the end of the sheet. Now adjust a stiff piece of strawboard about two inches high between the fly at the bottom and the string, the whole resembling a violin neck, string and bridge. Thus, the gripper edge of the sheet will get under the string before it has a chance to curl up. Of course, the speed of the press has everything to do with the stock being delivered properly.
Corners of stock turning over on feedboard is also very disagreeable, and there are so many tricks for preventing it that one person can hardly expect to be familiar with them all, yet it should be a pressman’s aim to send his work to the bindery in as nice shape
impression. Blotting-paper, cut in narrow strips and inserted at the places in the form which trouble, nearly always proves effective. If there were no yield in the bed of a press during the impression stroke and if the whole form lay perfectly solid upon its base no such thing as a work-up would occur. On such presses, then, the make-ready should be as even as possible, that the squeeze may be placed at a minimum, doing away with a great deal of give in the bed, which would otherwise be present.
Only with experience and a thorough knowledge of paper and ink can a form of half-tones be run with¬ out slip-sheeting. If slip-sheets are used, see that they are made up of rough stock, that the ink will not stick to their surface. When ink, in drying, sticks to the sheets, roll the stock, thus freeing the sheets without damage.
In backing up illustrated work which is not thor¬ oughly dry, or which, for lack of enough varnish,
HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE.
Photo by Hans Hildenbrand, Stuttgart.
as possible. Try wadding a sheet up and putting it under the delivered stock about eight inches from the corner, or try putting two strips of furniture under delivered stock, each about eight inches from the end. Bend strawboards so that the sheet turning over will be caught and forced back to its place. Nail a strip of leather about eight inches long to the bottom of the fly so that when the sheet has been delivered the free end of the leather will fall upon the corner of the sheet, holding it down. Fix high strips of strawboards all around the jogger or edge of the stock. Lay wet rags upon the delivery board near the edges of the stock. Occasionally rub a little glycerin over the fly-sticks. Some of the foregoing suggestions ought to prove satisfactory.
Work-ups on some mixed forms are ofttimes a con¬ tinual bother. But experience, method and theory will at length produce a way to avoid the difficulty. Always aim to get all the printing matter flat on the bed, that there will be no rocking motion of the bases during the 1-4
offsets, it is advisable to take off the manila top-sheet and place in its stead a required number of sheets of print-stock. Oil frequently and keep the ink accumu¬ lating from offsetting well washed off the tympan. Sandpaper, pasted on fly-sticks, is always advisable on rear-delivery presses. Before the sandpaper is cut into strips, thoroughly saturate a sheet of it with water, and then peel the whole surface off the back, which renders the remaining half more pliable and less liable to fall off the sticks on to the form, or otherwise do damage.
The subject of register is, indeed, an important one. Surely no branch of the business demands of the press¬ man a greater knowledge of machinery.
To begin with, stock which is about to be run in colors should not be allowed to remain in the boxes or wrappers which it has been shipped in until the hour it is to be worked, but should be taken out several days before. Neither should it be piled in one solid pile to gather dampness and swell, only to dry and
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shrink as soon as the air has access to it, and perhaps after one color has been printed ; bnt place it in lots of thirty or forty sheets each on racks built of laths about a quarter of an inch apart, allowing the stock thoroughly to season. Endeavor to have the press¬ room of uniform temperature all day and night, and remember steam heat is the best for retaining even atmospheric condition and renders a room less sus¬ ceptible to changes outside. Tf steam heat can not be
Photo by Hildenbrand, Stuttgart.
PIERROT.
had, keep a small pail of water on the stove. Allow the warmth of a room to come into contact with the stock equally from all directions, that is, do not on a cold day, leave the stock with one edge close to a window, while the other edge is warm, nor one side hot from the heat of a radiator or stove and the other side cooler. The reason for this is obvious, as it can be seen that, should these conditions change between the time of running two colors, the dimensions of the sheet are necessarily changed, too ; enough so, at least, to spoil an accurate register. Always run colorwork on trays, with two or three hundred sheets on a tray, and keep the top and bottom sheets covered. All this concerning the handling of stock may seem unneces¬
sary and foolish, and many may say they have worked in excellent color houses where these precautions were disregarded. That may be, but those same color houses have trouble with register.
Other most important considerations are the proper adjustment of the presswork and correct handling of the form, etc.
Avoid too much gripper hold, not alone on regis¬ ter forms, but on all other classes of work. Some pressmen carelessly overlook this condition, with the result that before the sheet has been grasped by the grippers its edge has been hit by the closing gripper and pushed out of position. It is practicable to lock a chase on the sides as well as at the front and back. Have all quoins lock toward the center of the chase, always beginning to tighten at the bottom corner quoin, using reason and judgment about how much to squeeze one quoin before tightening the next. Be sure the form is so locked up and planed down that there will be no springing during the impression. Also use hard packing.
Make the form partly ready before seeing too much about the register, as a perfect register when the impression is weak or uneven does not imply that it will be satisfactory when all is made ready.
Let the compositor make any necessary change now, still allowing the make-ready to progress. When the position is finally O. K., the pressman should see to the lock-up himself, locking it as uniformly as pos¬ sible all around. If nothing better can be procured, slip a strip of thin cardboard between the quoins to prevent them from slipping. With a piece of chalk, strike across each set of quoins, for the reason that if it afterward becomes necessary to unlock the form, it can be locked up again exactly as before, by bringing the marks in line.
Now see to the register. Run in three or four sheets twice. Very likely the register will be poor. If so, go about investigating where the inaccuracy exists. Again run in one sheet and miss two impres¬ sions on the top-sheet (the top-sheet, of course, should be reeled up tight). Should these impressions fail to register, it is most evident that something is wrong with the working condition between the bed and cyl¬ inder. What has been previously said about bearers and impression screws should be especially attended to at this time. Should the press be without a continuous register rack it is quite probable that a slight shifting of the segment in the proper direction would assist the register considerably. Thoroughly wipe all bearers and teeth of both cylinder and bed segments. With a piece of chalk mark heavily on each side of the four teeth on the cylinder segment. Trip the press, run in one sheet, trip again and stop. Notice any traces the chalk marks have left upon the segment teeth on the bed. On whichever side the traces are plainest it is in the opposite direction that the segment should be moved. Before loosening the bed segment, make a
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straight mark from one of the teeth on to the bearer, so that if the segment unavoidably slips too far, it can be brought to its original position again. A thickness of a folio is usually far enough to move a segment.
If, after all this adjusting, the register between bed and cylinder is still inaccurate, even at a low rate of speed, further efforts on the part of the pressman is well nigh futile. However, should the mechanical working be thus far perfect, then the operator may continue with hopes of success.
Next look to the stability of the feedboard. A great many feedboards on old presses are in such a worn condition that they can be pulled and pushed sidewise to such an extent as would render an accu¬ rate register impossible. Such a fault should be over¬ come at once by screwing or nailing a short strip of wood furniture at each side of the feedboard on the stationary part, letting the free end of lap down against the movable portion of the board.
Set the friction bands, when the job is made ready, with the press just about to take the impression and the cylinder down. Aim to have the bands come at the margins, so that, if necessary, they may be set closer to the cylinder without smearing the sheet, which has already been run in one or more colors, and have them normally near enough to the cylinder so they will just hold a strip of the job’s own stock, when placed between them and the packing. Should a color job be run on several presses, one or more of which have a continuous register rack while the others have not, it is usually advisable to set the bands tighter on the first- mentioned machines to make up partially for the “ slip,” which usually prevails during the impression stroke on the latter. The impression on the latter, too, should be as slight as satisfactory results will warrant.
Be sure the grippers are all tight. To attend to this properly, loosen all the grippers except the one at the end where the spring connects with the gripper rod. Beginning at the other end, again proceed to set each gripper by pressing it rigidly upon the packing with the thumb, and with the other hand tighten it with a wrench. Avoid bearing upon the gripper bar or any¬ thing that will tend to bear it down. On much-worn presses there is usually a certain almost imperceptible sidewise motion to the grippers as they close upon a sheet, thus drawing it slightly away from its intended position. The evil effects of this condition of affairs can be almost wholly obliterated by securely pasting small squares of sandpaper on the tympan where the grippers shut down, thus doing away with any slipping of the sheet; the same aids not a little in the delivery of a sheet where the gripper hold is scant.
Bend the tongues down as far as possible and still allow the printed sheet to pass under them without touching. This sometimes necessitates care on the part of the feeder not to put down a sheet until the last one has passed out of the way, avoiding any smear which might otherwise result. This is especially true of con¬
tinuous revolution front-delivery presses, unless it is a few of the more modern style.
Avoid having grippers too close to tongues, which invariably causes a “ hump.”
Adjust the guide carefully and nicely upon the tongues, and have them raise exactly at the right time, just as the grippers shut down upon the sheet. Do not undervalue the importance of this.
Reduce the quiver of a press to a minimum by regu¬ lating the speed, adjusting the air cushions, etc. Use “ grasshoppers ” on shaky presses, if obtainable.
Do not continue to run stock which “ rolls ” at the gripper edge, but either bend it so it lies fiat or else fasten a wire to the guide bar and extend it above the tongues close down to the sheet. A better register can be obtained from stock which turns up at the gripper edge than from stock which turns down, on account of the fact that the sheet is displaced less by the closing of the grippers. If possible, arrange the delivery of the printed sheet so that the breeze resulting from it will not blow up the edge of the sheet just put down as the grippers close upon it. If this can not be arranged for otherwise, fasten a strip of cardboard the width of the press long and about eight or ten inches high in front of the guide bar and just above where the printed sheet passes. Watch that no breeze approaches from open doors or windows or running presses in the rear.
Always have the guides on all presses running dif¬ ferent colors of the same job touch the sheet at exactly the same place, and, of course, have “ lifts ” taken up the long way of the stock.
In registering a color into a form already being run, a desired result mav sometimes be attained bv
Photo by li. M. Keeting.
IN COLORADO.
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unlocking one-half of the form and tightening the other half a little more, thus throwing a certain portion as required.
In cases where several small plates are fastened on one large base, with the result that one or more do not register into another color already run, they may be shifted to the required position by placing the end of a piece of furniture against their edge and tapping in the right direction. If necessary, a certain portion of a large electrotype may be moved by being split with a chisel and tapped as stated above.
All plates should have a few additional nails driven into them, otherwise the constant drag during the impression will eventually cause them to slip very per¬ ceptibly.
Care should be taken that color inks on solid forms are not run stiff, on cold mornings especially. The grippers on many presses can not be made to hold a sheet firm enough to prevent a sheet from slipping at such times.
The standard size press for colorwork is fifty-four inches. Larger presses are not built in proportion, hence less rigidity and poorer register.
Written for The Inland Printer.
SOME MATTERS OF PUNCTUATION AND OTHER FORM.
BY F. HORACE TEALL.
THERE is no reason for supposing that all people will ever agree in the use of marks of punctua¬ tion, in the use of capital letters, or on any of a number of other questions of form in writing and print. Only one strong demand suggests itself in support of a plea for absolute agreement. Undoubtedly, all workers in printing-offices would be much better satisfied, and much better work would be done, if each one could know exactly what would be its final form. As far as the reading public is concerned, it makes really very little difference whether some words are spelled one way or another, whether some words are capitalized or not, or how sentences are punctuated, unless the punctuation is misleading. In printing-office economy, on the contrary, every little point in practice is impor¬ tant, since each one has its effect on the degree of facility acquirable by the workmen.
More and more it is becoming necessary for each office to have a style-sheet, and it is with reference par¬ ticularly to the making of rules for such use that this is written. Undoubtedly every employer would prefer to have every rule of practice such that every worker can understand it and apply it. It is not likely that perfect clearness can be attained, for that would mean impossibility of misunderstanding by any one. No style-sheet has ever been seen by the writer, however, which did not contain some rules so worded as to be sure to effect variation in practice, through differences of meaning in different minds.
In various style-sheets — evidently all copied from
a particular one — is this rule of punctuation : “ Do not use a comma before ‘ and,’ ‘ or,’ etc., when used to connect three or more nouns, as ‘ John, James and Henry have left town.’ But when these conjunctions are used so as to add emphasis to the clause which they connect, or where the meaning of the sentence will be altered by the omission of the comma, insert it.”
Now, the rule here quoted accords with what is done in most of our newspapers and in many books ; but the exception is not in keeping with any common practice, and it is not possible that it should be. In the first place, it seems unlikely that any use of one of the conjunctions could be shown to add emphasis; and, in the second place, the whole statement of the excep¬ tion is subject far more to various application in various minds than it is likely of similar construction in any two minds. Could we have before us a number of the sentences thought of by the framer of the rule, so that they might be set by different compositors and given to different men to read in proof, no doubt we should find evidence that these workers would not agree in their application of the exception.
If, on the contrary, the rule placed before these workers said only, “ Always use a comma before the conjunction connecting three or more nouns or clauses,” with no exception, where would any person find an excuse for understanding it differently from any other person? This consideration alone should be enough to make every employing printer not only adopt the rule, but fight for it, against customers' obstinacy, as far as business considerations would allow. Some writers, as well as some printers, think that omission of the comma is right, and those who think so may not be convinced otherwise by any reason¬ ing. Among the best writers and printers, the use of this comma is far more common than its omission. This is open to proof, and is another strong argument in favor of the adoption of such sensible punctuation.
Another rule is, “ Capitalize Church when a particu¬ lar church society is mentioned, as First Methodist Church (lower-case when referring to a building).” This shows ambiguity or something worse. If it means what it naturally should from its connection, the church building of that particular society is to be the First Methodist church ; but the name should have the same form both for the society and for its building, for the name in the latter use really is elliptical, and Church ultimately means the people in both uses. The parenthesis may possibly have been intended to apply to the one word alone, but if that is so it should be said, and made to apply to both uses. No possible dis¬ tinction that may be meant by the rule is reasonable.
Ambiguity appears again in the rule : “ Capitalize President when referring to the President of the United States. Titles of nobility, etc., when referring to specific persons, such as Earl of Surrey, Prince of Wales, King of England, etc.” We are left uncertain whether the United States is the only country entitled to a capital initial in the title of its chief officer, or
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whether other republics should have it also. Probably the maker of the rule would also have President of Mexico, etc., but intending it is not sufficient ; it should be said. We are not told whether the President of the Senate should have the capital or not, and have no direction about official titles in societies, etc. Lan¬ guage analogy prescribes the capital just as plainly for one kind of official title as for another, but it would be hard to find a newspaper where this plain analogy is applied consistently, although the New York Sun had it nearly so some years ago. How is the second sentence of the rule to be applied? “When referring
It should take in all analogous names, as brunswick black, indian arrowroot, paris red, paris white, paris yellow, and innumerable others. Now, as a matter of etymological fact, a few proper names in English have become indisputably common nouns or adjectives, as china, boycott, roman and italic (in uses that have no association with Rome or Italy). But most of those instanced with the rule are the proper names them¬ selves, and such forms as paris green, brussels carpet, Prussian blue, and Venice turpentine are no more sensible than Chicago magazine, new york journalist, etc. Why any person ever imagined such a vain thing
Photo by Hartung, Brownwood, Texas.
to specific persons ” seems clear for only one meaning, which can hardly be the one intended. Specific persons should mean persons specified, and the literal applica¬ tion might easily lead some compositors to set “ the earl of Surrey,” or “ the prince of Wales,” because no special one had been named ; and those compositors would probably have to change these titles in the metal, although they would have followed the rule.
Pretty nearly the most senseless instruction, in his estimation, that the present writer has ever seen, is this : “ Lower-case — Words of common usage derived from proper names, such as india-rubber, macadamized road, brussels carpet, oriental rug, paris green, Prus¬ sian blue, Venetian red, Venetian blinds, Venice turpen¬ tine, etc.” How much is this “ etc.” intended to cover?
as writing proper names with a small initial is one point on which the writer would gladly welcome information. However, it seems only fair to suggest that all workers should be considered entitled to a full list in place of “ etc.,” at the hands of one who can deliberately adopt any such practice.
One might fill a very large book with such criticism of style-sheets, and probably make no impression from a language point of view. Those who have gathered their strongest ideas from literature that exemplifies certain methods will still think those methods best, and hold to their opinion as the most reasonable.
The intention here has been merely to suggest the advisability of making rules clear, when they are made at all.
Photo by Daker, Chicago.
LOUISIANA WOODLAND,
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BY THOMAS WOOD STEVENS.
BROADLY speaking, it is taken for granted that the finer points in the art of printing do not appeal to the average publisher — certainly not to the average advertiser. Mat¬ ters of tradition or of artistic conception that are of vital importance to the makers of classical (not to say de luxe ) editions, become, to the hurried man of commerce, mere tech¬ nicalities. The artist may spend days in deciding upon the precise arrangement of type and rules on a simple page. The commercial man covers it all in his specifications, which may have been compiled by his clerk from the publications of his competitors.
While anything tending toward a higher level of general craftsmanship is to be desired, nobody expects to change this condition. Ail such things are gradually accomplished by a natural process; which is merely a matter of following and occasionally surpassing the leading competitor, whereupon the whole line moves up a peg, either in effectiveness or artistic quality — it depends on the style for the moment.
But there are certain points in which even the most heedless compiler of specifications may raise the standard of his printer’s product. In spite of his conservatism, the printer will welcome the advance.
When books are under consideration, the publisher regards as fitting the quality most in use for the class of work to be published; thus if the story is of the romantic or historical class, he probably uses illustrations — a chance for the pictur¬ esque, even though the reader may already know by heart all the costumes in the illustrator’s locker; and if the tale is psychological, it will probably be printed in the plainest man¬ ner, the only effort being to increase the apparent size of the book. But even in these cases, he might attend to some of the details which please the critical, and perhaps are