The American Printer: a Manual of Typography, Containing Complete Instructions for Beginners, As Well As Practical Directions for Managing Every Department of a Printing Office

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The American Printer: a Manual of Typography, Containing Complete Instructions for Beginners, As Well As Practical Directions for Managing Every Department of a Printing Office
Thomas Mackellar
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The pressman, therefore, will ascertain which side has too much or too little white, and, unlocking the form, will take out or put in as many leads or reglets as will make good register.
PULLING, In taking a sheet off the heap, the pressman places himself almost straight before the near side of the tympan, but nimbly twists the upper part of his body a little backward toward the heap, the better to see that he takes but one sheet off. This he loosens from the rest of the heap by drawing the bac
...k of the nail of his right thumb quickly over the bottom part of the heap, and, receiving the near end of the sheet with his lefl- Digitized by Google 282 PULLING.
hand fingers and thumb, catches it by the farther edge with his right hand, about four inches from the upper comer of the sheet, and brings it swiftly to the tympan : having the sheet thus in both his hands, he lays the farther side and two ex- treme comers of the sheet down even upon the farther side and extreme farther corners of the tympim-sheet^ In the reiteration, care should be taken to draw the thumb on the margin, or between the gutters, to avoid smearing the sheet.


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