SMC228H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kerning, Pilcrow, Proofreading
26 Oct 2015
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The common press: distinctive because it was made of wood, hand-powered screw press, has to be manually pulled, two moving parts. The carriage assembly, bed moves back and forth. The impression assembly, moves up and down: even pressure must be applied along the entire platen so that the ink will apply evenly. Casting type: relief punch start with a piece of lead, le that lead down until you have the size and shape of letter that you want. Composing: taking movable type, take the script and place type in a composing stick, the compositor worked from a copy, place a slug (long piece of metal to put the letter on) in the composing stick. Inner forme printed rst while outer forme was printed second (one side of the sheet) First sheet printed=a gathering, second sheet printed=b gathering. A2 signi es 2nd leaf in a gathering spellings.
