The letter-press printer: a complete guide to the art of printing ; containing practical instructions for learners at case, press, and machine. Embracing the whole practice of book-work, with diagram and complete schemes of impositions; job work, with examples; news-work, colour work, to make coloured inks, to work press and machine, to make rollers, instructions in stereotyping, and other valuable information (1881)
Gould, Joseph · London : Farrington and Co. · leaf 170
.Underlay.—A piece of paper or card liiaced under types or cuts to im- iirove the impression.Wayz-goose.—A term given to the anniiul dinner customary among printers during the summer months.White line —A line of quadrats.Whip. — A quick com;iosilor— one who can set his galley (5000 letters) in two… … l»8 IHE LKTTEIt-PRESS PRINTER. COMPOSITORS WAGES IN LONDON. ADVANCES FKOM 1785.Previous to the year 1785, wages in the printing businestappear to have been paid as in most other trades, at a statedweekly sum, piece-worii not having been introduced. No regular scale of prices for composition was…
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