While the rules governing punctuation are now generally adopted, there are a few cases where printers and proof-readers disagree.
Double signatures are sometimes placed upon stereotype plates, to enable printers to impose them either as octavos or duodecimos.
Printers impose in half sheets or sheets, according to their convenience.
The other printers lived in the little side alleys between the rows of type-cases.
My printers told me of friends whom they believed to have been shot for failing to take part in the hoax, and for seriously giving up the contest.
The Messieurs Didot are printers to the Institute, so naturally they referred the question to that learned body.
I remember being told in America that whenever Margaret Fuller wrote an essay upon Emerson the printershad always to send out to borrow some additional capital ‘I’s,’ and I feel it right to accept this transatlantic warning.
As the seventeenth century wore on and we enter upon the early years of the eighteenth century--the days of Queen Anne--the chintz-printers became more prosperous.
The ill-feeling between the printers and weavers was of long duration, and eventually took the form of open riots and street demonstrations similar to those of to-day.
The precedent soon became popular, and in succeeding sessions printers were constantly fined whenever they mentioned, even by accident, the name of a peer.
The printersonce more appealed to the House, which on the first day of the session went into the whole case.
Shorter sentences of imprisonment were imposed on his printersand publishers, Messrs.
He sent letters to the "Enterprise" that made even the printers afraid.
The whole "Enterprise" force was like one family; proprietors, editor, and printers were social equals.
Either, then, the printers made the same confusion in both places, or by was used in the sense of for.
The errors of transcribers and printers are Omission, Addition, Transposition, Substitution.
Such is the reading of the folio--a convincing proof of how little the old printers are to be relied on.
It does not seem to have been observed that printers will actually insert words, for the sake of sense or metre, when they have made a mistake.
I may here add that printers have a wonderful propensity to add or omit--the former much more frequently--the letter s at the end of words.
Even at the present day printers confound these words.
Seven different printers plied their craft in New Spain in the sixteenth century.
My father knew something of it, and that friend of mine among the printerswas already reading it and trying to speak it.
Printers in the old-time offices were always spouting Shakespeare more or less, and I suppose I could not have kept away from him much longer in the nature of things.
In that day there were few salaried editors in the country outside of New York, and the only hope we could have was of some place as printers in an office which we might finally buy.
The printersof bank-notes do not make such mistakes.
Quite an easy and simple mistake, and one that might often be made, only the printers are very careful men.
It is mainly for the convenience of printers that the request is made, because sometimes ten or a dozen printers are setting the type for an article at the same time.
Mr. Charles Lewis, availing himself of the existence of the anachronism, moved that the printers of the Times and the Daily News be summoned to the Bar, charged with breach of privilege.
And whereas by an Act and inhibition of your Lordships The Liberty of Printing being one of the Kirks Priviledges confirmed by Parliament is restrained, Therefore we intreat that the inhibition upon the Printers may be taken off.
This very common error, failure to include the "end quotes," is a source of great annoyance to printers and proof-readers.
A small metal tray holding approximately two inches of type, used byprinters in setting type by hand.
Associated with Pope and Ashley, he followed up his work on telegraph printers with marked success.
It was at this period that his real work on stock printers commenced, first individually, and later as a co-worker with F.
Edison's inventive work on stock printers has left its mark upon the art as it exists at the present time.
When I missed understanding a word, there was no time to think what it was, so I made an illegible one to fill in, trusting to the printers to sense it.
But since then I have come to the conclusion that the printerswere right.
It goes along with the fixed belief of printers that to be a Rationalist is the same thing as to be a Nationalist.
The cotton in the bazars, through which one can walk under cover for between two and three miles, is of the best quality, owing to the successful measures taken by the calico printers to defeat the roguery of the cheating manufacturers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "printers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
