In letterpress line printing space strip thin type used wood
16 Aug What do you wood typists use for spacing material with wood type? Thus far, I've only used single words on a line or maybe a couple words letters and numbers and have some potential plans to print something that Can I go out to the shed and rip some mahogany blocks into thin strips for leading, then.
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Description:Be careful in your use of leads: Thus 7 and 11, and 8 and 12 exchange places. Fourth forme of the 24 mo imposition containing four quires with signatures K L M. MS Common abbreviation for 'manuscript'. OVERLAY Packing the tympan sheet very selectively with torn pieces of paper to increase pressure in selected areas of the printing surface in order to improve the quality of printing.
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