Printing apparatus for the use of amateurs. Containing full and practical instructions for the use of Cowper's parlour printing press. Also the description of larger presses on the same principle, and various other aaparatus for the amateur typographer ... The pamphlet contains, likewise, numerous specimens of plain and ornamental types, brass rules, checks, borders, ornaments, corners, arms, &, &.

  • Holtzapffel & Co.
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Printing apparatus for the use of amateurs. Containing full and practical instructions for the use of Cowper's parlour printing press. Also the description of larger presses on the same principle, and various other aaparatus for the amateur typographer ... The pamphlet contains, likewise, numerous specimens of plain and ornamental types, brass rules, checks, borders, ornaments, corners, arms, &, &. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SPACE LINE LEADS ; FURNITURE AND REGI.ET. page of printed matter is never estimated in inches, but as 80, 40, or 100 ems wide or long. In fact the printer has no profes¬ sional acquaintance with feet and inches in his craft, but employs as his unit of measure the cm pica, of which about seventy-one are equal to one foot of ordinary measure. To return from this digression, it is to be observed as of irn- portance that the length of the leads should be exactly equal to that-of the line of ty])e, or the width of the j^age or column; because if the leads were a trifle too short, it would be found very difficplt to make the last types of each line keep their proper positions, and if the leads were too long it would be ne¬ cessary to fill out the length with spaces or quadrats placed at the end. Three inches is the length of the majority of the space line leads in the type case, that being found the most useful size, some six inch leads are also included in the case, and two of the three inch leads may be placed end to end to make six inches, but should an intermediate length be required it would be advis- al)le to have space line leads of the appropriate size. In addition to the types and space line leads above mentioned, the type case contains the following articles :—A supply of wooden furniture,—brass rules,—a box of printing ink,—an inking roller, —and a zinc tray to serve as an inking tablet; these also require some few words in the way of description. Wooden furniture^ may be considered to include all the pieces of wood used for securing the type in the chase^ or the rectan¬ gular frame in which the types arc set up ready to be printed from, and these several pieces of wood are known as reglet, fur¬ niture, side sticks, foot sticks, and quoins. Reglets, are parallel pieces of wood of the same thickness and height as the quadrats, but are generally cut to the same length as the space line leads, and are used in the same manner, for separating such lines of type as are wished to stand wide apart; the reglets are also sometimes used to make up the length of the page. Furniture^ are pieces of wood thicker than the reglet, and are used for the same purposes, but chiefly for extending the mass of types to the full length of a page, or so nearly to fill up the space between the type and the chase, that the side sticks and quoins may be brought into use. Furniture is also frecpiently used to separate two pages of type from each other, so as to form the margin between the pages, when printed and folded.