Methodist Book Concern · New York [etc.] Methodist Book Concern · leaf 19
o as the second side is printed. The printedsheets, when the ink is dry, are sent to the Bindery,where they are folded. Having received the flat sheets, printed on bothsides, from the Press Room, the first operation inthe binding of a book is the folding of the sheetsinto signatures, or sections.… … THE MAKING OF A BOOK sheets will fold in thirty-two-page signatures.Practically all the folding is now done by the aidof folding machines. These are built to foldsheets as small as two and one-half inches wideand three and three-quarters inches high up to asheet the size of a large Bible with a…
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