Printing

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Printing

play. All newspapers and magazines are now 1 to ink the form, and to lower the platen. The
set by machines. For a description of these,! only modern presses, other than hand-presses,
see TYPESETTING MACHINES. " ; retaining the platen device are the small-

The original press was made of wood with ; power jobbing presses, in which the form is
a platen lowered and raised b}* a screw in- placed in a vertical position, the platen at a
of by a lever with mechanical attach- j varying angle. The invention of the cylinder

Signs and Abbreviations.

Delete; take out tnarked type,
word, or sentence.

Eeverse type,

.Insert a space, or more-space.
L Less space.
3 Close up.1

Take out and close up.

1 Move to right,

3 Indent line '

£ New paragraph.

|| Baage lines.

312 Bange letters or lines.

^ Puah down appearing apace.

f Move to left X Chansre broken type.

f., wrong font; tr., transpose; i.e., lower case type or small tetters: «.A,
small capitaMetters; caps,, capital letters; rom., change italic to roman;
itai., change roman toJtalic; stet, retain what is crossed out

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Specimen 'First Proof*

arlvle.

_ for Johnson, I have always considered him
to t«o be*, by nature, one of our &rea£ English
ft ' souls.^A|stron&and|noble,man; [so^uchQef^
; -fa ^^undeveloped in him^ in a lander element what
Mnight he not have been,APoet, Priest, sove* t
reign*palert On the whole, a man musjnot
'pompllin of bis *element,Aof his^time,' or the
I like; it is thriftless work doing- so. His time
Mis badJ well, then, he is thgre to make it

'a youth was poor, isolated, hopeless,
very miserable I indeed, it does not seem
possible that, in any tjiufavpuij,^Ksi. outward
circumstance^ Joonsoijs life could have been
ot^jer than*a 'painful one. The wonl might
have had more of ffij>Q*••fis. work out of
or less/ but his effort against the worl T
could never havs been a light one. [Nature, in
retitrn for his nobleness, had said to him, Jive in
an element of d&eased sorrow. Nay, perhaps
the {nobleness! ^^ theisorrow|were intimately
and even inseparably connected with eacj^ther.
At all events^ poor Jonson had to ^o about gjlg£

itualjpain* Like ajpercules with the burning
Neasus^hirt on him, which shoots in on Mm
dull, incurable misery: the Nessus*-shirt noil
to be strip t og, which is his own natural skint

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Tr.

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Proof-readers* Marks

ments like the later models. About 1800
Lord Stanhope built the first iron press, very
similar to the hand-presses now in use. With
the introduction of steam came the steam
platen press, using power to move the form
backwards and forwards under the platen,

press by Friedrich Konig in 1811-14 revolu-
tionized printing. The platen was replaced by
an iron cylinder, the tympan by packing
fastened around the cylinder. Instead of
sheets being laboriously attached to the tym-
pan, they were seized by metal 'grippers* on