Identifier: printingbookbind00vaugrich (find matches)
Title: Printing and bookbinding for schools
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Vaughn, Samuel Jesse, b. 1877
Subjects: Printing Bookbinding
Publisher: Bloomington, Ill. : Public school pub. co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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\Mien type has been allowed to remain without the inkhavinfj been cleaned off, and the ink has hardened andcemented the type together, it may be loosened and cleanedwith lye. Make a strong solution of lye and saturate themass of type with it. Rub the lye in thoroughly with thescrub brush, leave the lye on the type for two hours andthen rinse in water. Keep repeating this process until thetype is loosened and cleaned. When a form has been used and is no longer needed, itis called dead matter and is ready for distribution. Toprepare the type for distribution, a sponge is saturated withsoapy water and the top of the form thoroughlv wet, sothat the water makes its way down into the small crevicesbetween the type. If the form is put into a gallev, it isplaced in the same position as for tying up. Then theprinter takes upon a slug the last two, three, or four linesand holds them in his left hand as in Fig 28, so that thelines occupy the same position as when in the stick. W^ith 44 PRINTING
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FIG. 28. the right hand, he picks up one or more words from theright end of the top line. Standing before his case in thesame position as when setting type, he spells the words bac.:into the case. It is very important that type be properlydistributed, that the letters, characters, and spaces be putinto their proper boxes. This is interesting work, and be-ginners delight in it; besides, it is a work in which consid-erable skill can quite readily be acquired. The proper time to rescue a letter from the floor orivom a wrong box into which it has been dropped, is imme-diately after it has been so misplaced. Leads, slugs, fur-niture, and rule should l)e put at once in proper positionsinto their respective places. WHAT TO PRINT AND HOW TO PROCEED 45 WHAT TO PRIXT AXD HOW TO PROCEED In discussing the matter of the proper printing for thepubhc schools, let us not forget this general proposition,i. e., that the claim of printing to a place as a school artmust rest upon its force as an educatio

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