Hints on Imposition [Microform]

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Les details da cat may be bibliographically unique, which may altar any axemplaire qui sont peut4tre uniques du point de vue of the images in the reproduction, or which tmy bibliographique. qui pauvimt modifier une image The significantly change the usual method of filming, are reproduita. ou qui peuvant exiger une modification pos oft checked below. dans la mithode normale da filmage sont indiqufa film ci-dessous. 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Whenever possible, n these have Title page of iitsue been omitted from filming/ Page de titre de la livraison II se peut que certaines pages blanches ajouttes lors d'une restauration apparaissent dans le texte, Caption of issue/ mals, cela lorsque etait possible, ces pages n'ont Titre de dedepart de la livraison pas ete f ilmtes. Masthead/ D Generique (periodiques) de la livraison Additional comments:/ n Commentaires supplementaires: This item is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est f ilme au taux de rMuction indiqui ci-dessous mx MX 18X 22X 26X 30X J 12X 16X 20X 24X 28X 32 X The copy filmed here has been reproduced thanks L'exemplaire film* fut reproduit grice A la to the generosity of: g^nArositi de: National Library of Canada Bibliothdque il nationale du Canada t r vu« The images appearing here are the best quality Les images suivantes ont iti reproduites avec le possible considering the condition m and legibility plus grand soin, compte tenu de la condition at of the original copy and in keeping with the de la nettet« de l'exemplaire fiimA, et en filming contract specifications. conformitA avec les conditions du contrat de filmage. Original copies in printed paper covers are filmed Les exempl<tires originaux dont la couverture en beginning with the front cover and ending on papier est imprimde sont film6s en commenpant last the page with a printed or iSiustrated impres- par le premier plat et en terminant soit par la sion, or the back cover when appropriate. All derniire page qui comporte une empreinte original other copies are filmed beginning on the d'impression ou d'illustration, soit par le second first page with a printed or illustrated impres- plat, selon le cas. Tous les autres exemplaires sion, and ending on the last page with a printed originaux sont filmfo en commenpant par la or illustrated impression. premiere page qui comrorte une empreinte d'impression ou d'illust ation et en terminant par la derniAre page qui comporte une telle empreinte. The last recorded frame on each microfiche Un des symboles suivants apparaitra sur la shall contain the symbol -^ (meaning "CON- derniire image de cheque microfiche, selon le TINUED"), or the symbol V (meaning "END"), cas: le symbols —»• signifie "A SUIVRE ", le whichever applies. symbols V signifie "FIN". l\/laps, plates, charts, etc., may be filmed at Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre different reduction ratios. Those too large to be filmis A des taux de rMuction diffirents. entirely included in one exposure are filmed Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre beginning in left the upper hand corner, left to reproduit en un seul cliche, il est film6 d partir right and top to bottom, as many frames as de Tangle supirieur gauche, de gauche d droite, required. The following diagrams illustrate the et de haut en bas, en prenant le nombre method: d'images n^cessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m^thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 n 4 5 6 32 X : HINTS ON IMPOSITION AN 5LLUSTRATED GUIDE FOR PRINTER AND PRESS- MAN IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BOOK FORMS, ALSO OTHER MATTERS PERTAINING TO LETTERPRESS PRINTING. BY T. B.WILLIAMS. TORONTO The Pooi.h Printing Co., Ltd. "895. • ! Entered according to Act of Parliament of Oanada, in * the year 1895, by T. B. Williams, at the Department ' Agriculture. ff INTRODUCTION. printers AMONG no subject ao much needs consider- ation as the Imposition of book forms, including I tariffs, folders, books of tables, ?nd lar^re and •mall pamphlets of every description. hi these days of projrress, when printers may have placed in their hands monthly issues of Journals of hlffh artistic merit devoted exclusively to the art of prating, it is not intended to criticise the merits of wlous modes of imposition, but rather to place before tlie reade/s such Hints on Imposition as may make this book a reliable guide to the workman in the often ardu- ous taak of imposing book forms. Thooe who have had considerable experience in the eompoabig room, in t o making up of pages, and imposing of forms for the press, if they have l>een studious. Iiave ooBduded that there is a mode of imposition which, if thoroughly understood, makes the matter of "sending a form to press" a pleasure, rather than the irksome duty it so often proves alike to the advanced printer and the novioe. Perhaps the chief cause of the unrest of an apprentice, When about to enter upon the art as a Journeyman, is that one of the first duties which will devolve upon him may b« the imposition of a form, and this anxiety may •coount to some extent for the hesitancy of many boys to rtep out into the world as journeymen printers, able to take care of themselves not only at the case as composi- tors, but at the stone. The quesUon of the ability of a printer to become proflctent in the artistic arrangement of types will not be dealt with, as It is regarded by the writer as occupying •n entirely separate province, not to be identified with the PUrpoee of this book. Although there are no "depart- mente, it is the ' design of the writer to present in a simple manner the best methods of "imposition," and "tocktog up" of book forms. Iv INTRODKCnOM. It it a fact that many printers who are highly pro- Anient in other branches of the traHe pertaining to the type room, and who have been in a composing room for many years where type and plate forms of almost endless variety have been prepared for the press, cannot with any degree of certainty lay out the pages of a form and place the correct margins in a folio. A "make-up" having a thorough knowledge of imposition is seldom seen at the stone with a sheet of paper in his hand, as the relation of the folded sheet to the type fonn is beforehand clearly defined in his mind. It is a pleasure to see the profloient workman laying the pages side by side without any help* save his knowledge of their relative positions, and placing ^n the margins with as little difficulty as though he were preparing a form for a treadle press. It is not the desire merely to present a method for the making up and imposition of iKwk forms, but to render this work more easy all the way through. Henoe not only is the manner of laying out the pages dealt with, but also that of folding the sheet ; the reason for so the form, and folding ; the relation of the sheet to type of the latter to the pressman and binder. It is not intended to endeavor to transform present methods of imposition, or the positions in which the printer now places his pages, hut to explain as accurately as possible to Journeyman and apprentice why they are so placed, and to give concise illustrations of the work in hand. The author has, therefore, pleasure in presenting to the craft, these directions, in the hope that they may serve to lighten the burdens which so many printers bear because pressrooms and binderies are to the compositor inacces- sible departments of the printing indiistry, although so closely allied. He trusts that as these results of years of study of the subject have often proved a light to him they will be found to repay the careful perusal and con- sideration of the reader.

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