Songs of the press and other poems relative to the art of printers and printing. Also of authors, books, booksellers, bookbinders, editors, critics, newspapers, etc. Original and selected. With notes, biographical and literary / [Edited by C.H. Timperley].

  • Timperley, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1794-1869.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Songs of the press and other poems relative to the art of printers and printing. Also of authors, books, booksellers, bookbinders, editors, critics, newspapers, etc. Original and selected. With notes, biographical and literary / [Edited by C.H. Timperley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    207 TECHNICAL TERMS MADE USE OF IN THE WORK. Bank.—A stage about four feet high, placed near the press. Batter.—When any part of a form is injured or broken, it is said to be battered. Printers neglecting their work, and being intoxicated, are on the batter. Bearer.—A piece of riglet to bear the impression off a blank page. Bite.—Is when the entire impression of the page is prevented by the frisket’s not being sufficiently cut out. Body.—The shank of the letter. Bienvenue.—The fee paid on admittance into a chapel. Brace.—Is a character cast in metal, marked thus , of several breadths. Break.—A piece of a line. Broadside.—A form of one full page, printed on one side of a whole sheet of paper. Clean proof.—When a proof has but a few faults in it, it is called a clean proof; and when a proof is to be sent to an author, the pressmen are ordered to pull a clean proof. Close matter.—Matter with few breaks or whites. Companion.—Journeymen working on the same job. Correct.—When the corrector reads the proof, or the compositor mends the faults marked in the proof, they are both said to correct: the cor¬ rector the proof, the compositor the form. Corrections.—The letters marked in the proof are called corrections. Devil.—The errand boy of a printing-office. Direction.—The word that stands alone on the right hand, in the bottom line of a page. Double.—Among compositors, a repetition of words ; also, among press¬ men a sheet that is twice pulled. Drive out.—When a compositor sets wide. Fat work.—Is when there are many white-lines or break-lines in a work. Fly.—The person that takes off the sheet from the press in cases of expedition. Follow.—That is, see if it follows; is a term used as well by the cor¬ rector as by the compositor and pressman. Form.—The pages when fitted into a chase. Foul proof.—When a proof has many faults marked in it. Fount.—The whole number of letters that are cast of the same body and face. Friar.—When the ball3 do not take, the un-taking part of the balls that touches the form will be left white; or if the pressmen skip over any part of the form, and touch it not with the balls, though they do take, yet in both these cases the white places are called friars. Fudge.—To contrive without necessary materials, or do work in a bung¬ ling manner. Gel-in.—Matter is got in in a line, page, sheet, or book, if letter be thinner cast than the printed copy the compositor sets from ; or matter is got in if the compositor sets closer. Good colour.—Sheets printed neither too black nor too white. Good of the Chapel.— Forfeitures and other chapel dues collected for the good of the chapel, to be spent as the chapel approves. Good work.—I* so called in a two-fold sense. the master-printer calls it good work when the compositors and pressmen have done their duty : and the workmen call it good work if it be light, easy work, and they have a good price for it.