Either to quicken presswork or to comply with trade-regulations made in the interest of compositors, in some books of which large numbers were required, e.
Stansby's presswork was uniformly good, and in this respect alone he may be ranked among the best printers of his time.
Some of the founts, especially the larger Roman, are very unevenly and badly cast, but on the whole the presswork was carefully done.
Nor do these books bear out the Bishop of London's statement as to Thomas being ignorant of printing; on the contrary, the presswork was such as could only have been done by a skilled workman.
Even when the printers had learnt how to print two folio pages at the same time the presswork remained very laborious.
They needed good paper and careful presswork, and all over Europe paper and presswork were rapidly deteriorating.
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.
The presswork is as slovenly as the type-founding, but the composition was done with some care and intelligence.
The presswork is unequal: on some vellum copies, the types are clearly and sharply printed; on other copies, they show muddily from excess of ink.
The quality of the presswork of the Speculum has been strangely misrepresented.
Van der Linde says that the presswork of the Speculum does not differ materially from that of many books printed in the Netherlands during the last quarter of the fifteenth century.
Bad presswork and bad ink have materially aggravated the fault; as printed, the lines of the engraver appear thicker than they were cut.
The operation of presswork begins with inking the form on the bed of the press, which, in this illustration, is supposed to contain a form not unlike that of the Speculum, nested in a chase type-high.
As compared with writing, presswork, or the operation of impressing the types on the sheet, is much the quicker and cheaper process; but presswork is not the main branch of the art of printing.
Jackson, a practical engraver on wood, who had large experience in proving wood-cuts, has unwillingly accepted the unauthorized tradition of presswork by friction, but he has candidly stated its difficulties.
The presswork of early prints is coarse and harsh, and could have been done with simple mechanism, with rude applications of the screw or of the lever, that could have been devised by any intelligent workman.
The peculiar appearance of the presswork of this and of other block-books will be most satisfactorily explained by the hypothesis that they were printed on a press.
With half a million circulation, of course, it would be twice as much and no extra cost except for presswork and white paper.
The paper for quarter of a million copies will cost twelve hundred and fifty dollars, the presswork about five hundred dollars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presswork" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bed; press; web
