Printing and bookbinding for schools (1914) (14596445387)

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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t with the top of theletter toward this lead. Then with the lead or slug in thestick and the stick in the left hand, the compositor standsupright at the case, picks out the letters and characters oneat a time, and places them, nick out and face up, into thestick, beginning at the lower left hand corner. Fig. 8. Asthe type are put into the stick, they are held there by thethumb of the left hand. The method of holding the stickat the proper angle to prevent the type from falling out andto allow the thumb to do its work properly, is quite an artwhich it takes time to acquire. Justifying lines.—The line of type reads from left toright the same as printed matter but the letters are inverted.It takes the beginner some time to accustom himself to thiscondition, but with practice, it becomes easy and convenient.Each word except the last in the line, is followed by aspace, or a quad. In ordinary solid matter, that is matterwithout leads or slugs between the lines, the three-to-em 16 PRINTING
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FIG. 8. spaces are used between words. But the line must come outevenly at the end without leaving a space or dividing aword improperly. This very seldom occurs in beginningw^ork, so the young printer sets himself to the task of jus-tifying the line, that is re-spacing- it so as to remove thedifficulty. Approved methods of spacing and justificationmay be found in the list of rules of composition on page 25.Great care shoud be observed in getting each line as nearlyperfect as possible before proceeding to the next, for in thisway, mucli trouble and annoyance in correcting proof areavoided. When a line has been thus finished and a lead put inabove to support it, the compositor proceeds with the next TYPE SETTING 17 line exactly as before. It is wise for the beginner to leaveall the work leaded, so as to simplify the operation of re-moving the lines from the stick. If it is desirable, the leadsor slugs may be removed after the type is emptied from thestick. If the last line of a paragrap