Printing : a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books (1904)
Jacobi, Charles Thomas · London : G. Bell & Sons · leaf 257
FlG. 131. PORTABLE LYE JAR. ceptional work. For smaller numbers the proportions ofthe overs to a perfect ream should be thrown in; thus, for250 of sheet-work 258 sheets should be given out. Set-off Papers.—Paper saturated with benzine is as good … Fig. 132. lye trough. as, and much cleaner than, oiled paper, to avoid a set-off,when work has to be printed on both sides. Also a sheet ofpaper wet with glycerine and used as a 1 yinpan-slieet willprevent off-setting. CLEANSING TYPE 229 If not detected iu time the set-off of ink will be…