Transparent tints were too difficult to control, especially when applied with inking balls (composition rollers did not come into use until well after 1800), and effects were too heavy.
But the inking of the block would obliterate that part of the drawing which has not yet been engraved.
Also, any part of the printing press, such as the inking mechanism, specifically described, should be noted for cross-reference into a subclass of Printing designed to receive the inking mechanism as a part of the printing press.
In inking in these curves also, care must be taken not to draw them too short or too long, as this would impair the appearance very much, as is shown in Figure 187.
The inking in is done in the order of the letters a, b, c, etc.
All lines in pencilling as in inking in should begin at the left hand and be drawn towards the right, or when triangles are used the lines are begun at the bottom and drawn towards the top or away from the operator.
Finally, before inking in, the surface that has been scraped should be condensed again by rubbing some clean, hard substance over it which will prevent the ink from spreading.
Way made a sketch of it in colour, his father damping paper, Whistler inking a plate, the press between them: an interesting document.
I got the paper ready on the press and pulled the proof, he inking and I pulling all the afternoon.
The inking or printing of the covers is done without heat, so, to avoid loss of time, an arrangement is made that the heating box can be cooled immediately by a stream of water passed through it.
The inking apparatus is placed at the back of the press, so that while the workman is placing another cover, the ink roller, by automatic action, inks the block ready for the next impression.
Youth," 23 books by Optic and Alger and 12 magazines for a self-inking printing press.
We have not been able to trace other copies shewing a similar defect, so possibly it is simply due to over-inking or faulty inking of the colour plate.
A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, forinking plates; a dabber.
In Inkingthe Press= be careful to spread the ink evenly over the disk, and apply just enough to make a clear, clean copy.
The inking balls were constructed of a variety of things, and at length the printers used those which were made of sheep’s felt.
The ink was distributed by means of several inking rollers, the last of which was fed by the ink fountain.
Until a comparatively recent period, no better method of inking the type had been devised than Gutenberg’s sheep-skin dabbers, or stamping balls.
Nicholson failed in fixing the types to the cylinder; but had he been able to do this, his plan of inking would not have been practicable, as the gelatine rollers were not then invented.
The inking pen was replaced by a metal wheel or disc, smeared with ink, and rolling on the paper at every dot or dash.
By the end of June, Lalbir Singh had finished the inking of his previous surveys, and was ready for fresh work.
A weak lye, made from dissolved potash, was formerly used extensively for washing type forms and inking rollers, but its use has been superseded by the safer, cleaner, more convenient benzine or gasoline.
Stewart A primer of information about the composition, manufacture, and care of inking rollers.
For this reason it is not satisfactory for frequent washing of type or printing forms, though it is a good wash for inking rollers.
Let us look for a moment at the method of inking the type.
In 1818, Mr. Cowper greatly improved the inking of formes used in the Stanhope and other presses, by the use of a hand roller covered with a composition of glue and treacle, in combination with a distributing table.
The general disposition of his new machine was that of a vertical cylinder 200 inches in circumference, holding on it the type and distributing surfaces, and surrounded alternately by inking rollers and pressing cylinders.
The principle of producing impressions by means of a cylinder, and of inking the types by means of a roller, was not new.
In 1823, Mr. Applegath invented an improvement in theinking apparatus, by placing the distributing rollers at an angle across the distributing table, instead of forcing them endways by other means.
Two of the cylinders revolved in opposite directions, so as to spread the ink, which was then transferred by two other inking cylinders alternately applied to the "forme" by the action of spiral springs.
One of them was made for the University of Cambridge, but it was found too complicated; the inking was defective; and the project was abandoned.
They secured perfect inking and register; and the sheets were printed off more neatly, regularly, and expeditiously; and larger sheets could be printed on both sides, than by any other method.
It also embodied an ingenious arrangement for inking the type.
The inkingwas performed by balls covered with skin pelts; they were blacked with ink, and beaten down on the type by the pressman.
He also contrived an improved press, provided with a moveable carriage, on which the types were placed, with inking rollers, and a new mechanical method of taking off the impression by flat pressure.
Instead of the old-fashioned inking balls, which were beaten on the type by hand labour, several cylinders covered with felt and leather were used, and formed part of the machine itself.
The ink was applied to the type by means of a roller which was fed by an inking apparatus.
The inking system of printing press is very elaborate.
There is an ink reservoir and a set of inking rollers for each cylinder.
The supports of the inking rollers are movable and can be made to approach or recede from the distributing rollers, so as to still further vary the amount of ink taken up by them.
The hand-presses are worked by a plate-printer and one assistant, the printer first inking and polishing the engraved plate over a series of small gas-jets, after which it is placed on the press.
A composition inking roller is made to vibrate between the inking table, where on the ink is thinly and evenly spread, and the iron feeding roller, and thus delivers the requisite quantity of ink on to the table.
Nothing, however, could be effectually done in producing a proper working printing machine until the invention of inking rollers.
These inking rollers supplied an essential want in the working of Printing Machines.
Earl Stanhope had endeavoured in vain to construct inking rollers, for which purpose he tried skins and pelts of various kinds, but the seam proved an obstacle that he could not overcome.
Several other composition rollers are placed across the inking table, with their axes resting in notched bearings, so that as the inking table moves forward and backward, those rollers distribute the ink evenly over it.
An inking roller, charged with an oily ink, is then passed over the stone and inks the drawing, but leaves all the other parts of the stone quite clean.
A large reservoir of ink at the top of the machine supplies the inking tables, from which it is spread evenly over the inking rollers, and, at each revolution of the type cylinder, nine sheets are printed on one side.
A similar composition was some years afterwards cast in the form of rollers, upon a hollow core of wood, by the late Mr. Harrild; and these rollers have proved a far more cleanly and more expeditious mode of inking the types than the balls.
The invention of printing machines was preceded by the manufacture of inking rollers, to supersede the pelt balls for distributing the ink over the types.
Every Wednesday he earned a real quarter by sitting against the wall back of the hand press and inking the forms while his father ran off the edition.
This cylinder with its type was to revolve in gear with another cylinder covered with soft leather (the impression cylinder), and the type received its ink from another cylinder, to which the inking apparatus was applied.
An inking roller is seen on the right, which inks the faces of the type.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
