Presswork

At my first admission into this printing-house I took to working at press, imagining I felt a want of the bodily exercise I had been us'd to in America, where presswork is mix'd with composing. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

The more impressive the presswork, the more legitimate we assume the source to be. ❋ Unknown (1989)

Who cut the blocks -- that is exactly what Chinaman -- we do not know, nor do we know who handled the presswork, but it is logical to assume that the whole process took place under the supervision of the fathers of San Gabriel, Juan Cobo if work had begun before 1592, and certainly ❋ Anonymous (1951)

It is fitting, then, that the same publishers should issue the book now under our hand, a fine specimen of the printer's art in paper, presswork, binding, and illustrations. ❋ Various (N/A)

In external beauty, in paper, type, presswork, and binding, and all that belongs to solid and elegant book-making, the volume is a fine specimen of German skill, good taste, and thoroughness. ❋ Various (N/A)

In closing this Foreword, the printer desires to emphasize the fact that the typesetting and presswork of this book are entirely his own work. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)

The typesetting is all done by hand, and the type distributed immediately upon completion of presswork. ❋ Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (N/A)

In this way it would be possible to secure classes of from 60 to 100 boys each for such trades as composition and presswork. ❋ Rufus Rolla Lutz (N/A)

It is, therefore, not possible to copyright a book which has been put into type and electrotyped in England and sent here for the presswork and binding. ❋ Various (N/A)

[Footnote 1: The word "typographer" is used to differentiate between the compositor and the printer, the latter being the one who does the presswork.] ❋ Various (N/A)

A knowledge of platen presswork does not qualify a man to run a cylinder press, and as a rule the platen pressman who wants to change must serve some time as a cylinder pressfeeder and cylinder pressman's assistant. ❋ Rufus Rolla Lutz (N/A)

It compelled me to hire presswork, mailing, etc., done by the job, and high charges for extra work nearly ate me up. ❋ DeAlva Stanwood Alexander (N/A)

The battered type, wood-pulp paper, and poor presswork, now so commonly used in the cheap editions of books and periodicals, are often injurious to the eyesight. ❋ Albert F. Blaisdell (N/A)

The presswork and ink are always proportionately better in these copies, and the price of them is enhanced according to their beauty and rarity .... ❋ Henry H. Harper (N/A)

Instead, as quietly and matter-of-factly as she had filled her dead mother's place in the home while her brothers and sisters were growing up, Rose stepped into her father's business, took over the editorship and with a boy to do the typesetting and presswork, continued the paper without missing an issue. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Bradford had not been bred to it, and was very illiterate; and Keimer, tho’ something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork. ❋ Unknown (1909)

At my first admission into this printing-house I took to working at press, imagining I felt a want of the bodily exercise I had been us’d to in America, where presswork is mix’d with composing. ❋ Unknown (1909)