The practical colorist; a pathfinder for the artist printer - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...using as possible. Coating the cylinder with oil or patent annihilators will also aid in reducing the generation of electricity while printing. In some especially stubborn cases it will be necessary to resort to a combination of all the above methods in order to wholly overcome the difficulty. JOB WORK. HERE are three classes of printing: first, work where everything is sacrificed to cheapness, regardless of quality; second, the everyday run of job work, which must be fairly well done, yet is desired to be rushed and gotten out almost as cheaply as the inferior work; the third kind, is work where cost is considered last, and quality of stock, workmanship, inks, harmony, and effect are the first great considerations. This treatise has nothing in common with the first grade of printing, unless, perchance, by reference to the second grade and a plea for a higher standard all along the line that it may tend to lift cheap work out of its deep rut of carelessness, ignorance, and indifference. It is not cheaper except in quality; it is poorer, simply by neglect, hurry, and habit. The Everv-dav Run Of Job Work is the work which the customer expects to look clean, neat, and tasty; often wants it quickly, and always just as cheaply as some one else did it for the last time; and is, in fact, the work which employs most of the time of the average printer. It is in the interest of this class of work that it is purposed in this book to bring out and combine in practical forms, different suggestions and helps whereby the every-day work shall be produced just as cheaply as at present, and yet much more perfectly and in a more satisfactory manner than in the past. Not one in a hundred realizes why it is that a certain piece of printing is so pleasing to the eye, yet everyon...