While we can engrave a plate in a few hours that would occupy a wood-engraver a month, and often do so, yet with the large amount of work constantly on hand and promised, we cannot usually engage to fill an order for a single plate in less than from three to six days; larger orders will, of course, require longer time. CHANGE OF SIZE. In reproducing wood-cut prints, the size can often be considerably reduced; but if the reduction is great, the lines become so fine and close together that they will not print well. Coarse wood-cuts, such as are generally used in Newspapers, may often be reduced to half their linear dimensions, but _fine_ wood-cuts will admit of but little reduction. _Most_ steel plate prints and lithographs will not admit of any reduction, and even when reproduced, the same size in relief, require considerable care in printing. All kinds of prints generally look bad when much enlarged, as the lines become very coarse and ragged on the edges; though we have sometimes made very effective cuts for posters and hand-bills in this way. In all cases of enlargement and reduction the relative proportions remain the same. It must not be forgotten, however, that by redrawing, prints of any kind can be enlarged or reduced to any desired size. PROOFS. We will, whenever desired, furnish tin-type proofs of drawings made by us, for examination and approval, or correction, before engraving. A printed proof is sent with each plate when delivered, which may always be equaled or surpassed in actual work with proper usage. PRICES. It is impossible to give a scale of prices by the square inch for miscellaneous job-work, as sometimes a small cut two or three inches square may require as much work as another one a foot square. We can, however, give an average inch rate to newspaper publishers whose work runs uniformly about the same from week to week, especially when they furnish us with copy already prepared--such as prints and pen-and-ink drawings. In sending for estimates, be careful to send us the copy we are to work from, with full specifications as to size and quality, and remember that it is the same with engraving that it is with everything else; the price will vary greatly with the quality of work ordered. Never, directly or indirectly, ask us to give _you_ better prices than we give our other customers, as we try to treat all alike. The great advantage of our method of engraving enables us to give better work at lower prices than can be given by any other method for the greater part of such work as would be given to wood-engravers, though in very small pieces of the poorer grades of work the advantage is not so great, and in very coarse work such as is usually engraved on mahogany and pine, our process gives us no advantage over the wood-engraver. To estimate properly upon any piece of work, we must understand just what is wanted. We guarantee all our work to be executed in the style agreed upon. TERMS.