The American Printer: A Manual of Typography: Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc.MacKellar, Thomas
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The American Printer: A Manual of Typography: Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc.
MacKellar, Thomas
Graphic design (Typography); Printing -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Printing industry -- United States
_Form._—The pages when imposed in a chase.
_Foul proof._—A proof with many faults marked in it.
_Fount._—A complete assortment of type, of the same nick,
body, and face, put up by type-founders in accordance with an
ascertained ratio.
_Fountain._—Reservoir for ink, attached to printing-presses.
_Friar._—A light patch in a printed sheet, caused by defective
rolling.
_Frisket._—An iron frame fastened by a hinge to the upper part
of the tympan, to hold the sheet of paper fast as it goes in
and comes from the press.
_Fudge._—To contrive without proper materials.
_Full press._—When two men work at the press with hand rollers.
_Furniture._—Strips of wood or metal placed around and between
pages to make the proper margin.
_Galley._—A wooden or brass flat oblong tray, with side and
head ledges, for holding type when composed.
_Galley-slaves._—An ancient term of derision applied by
pressmen to compositors.
_Gauge._—A strip of reglet with a notch in it, passed with the
make-up, to denote the length of the pages.
_Gauge-pin._—An instrument to aid in feeding job presses
correctly.
_Get in._—To set close.
_Good colour._—Sheets printed neither too black nor too light.
_Guide._—A strip of metal frequently used to denote the last
line of copy set.
_Gutter-sticks._—Furniture used in imposition to separate the
pages.
_Half press._—When but one person works at the press.
_Half-title._—The title of a book inserted in the upper portion
of the first page of matter.
_Hanging indention._—Where successive lines are set-in an em or
more beyond the first line.
_Head-sticks._—Furniture put at the head of pages in
imposition, to make margin.
_Hell._—The receptacle for broken or battered letters; the
old-metal box; the shoe.
_High-line._—Term applied to a type that ranges above the rest
in a line.
_High (or low) to paper._—Applied to a type cast higher or
lower than the rest of the fount.
_Hollow quadrates._—Metal quadrates mortised for the insertion
of types, &c.
_Horse._—The stage on the bank on which pressmen set the heap
of paper.
_Horsing._—Charging for work before it is executed.
_Imposing._—Arranging and locking up a form of type in a chase.
_Imposing-stone._—The stone on which compositors impose and
correct forms.
_Imprint._—The name of the printer or of the publisher appended
to jobs or title-pages.
_Inferior letters._—Small letters cast near the bottom of the
line.
_Inset._—Same as offcut.
_Jeff._—To throw for the first choice with em quadrates instead
of dice.
_Justifying._—Spacing out lines accurately.
_Keep in._—To crowd in by thin spacing.
_Keep out._—To drive out or expand matter by wide spacing.
_Kerned letter._—Type of which a part of the face hangs over
the body.
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