Headings

A peculiar branch of jobbing work, i.e., the setting of words to be worked in the heads of ruled columns of ledgers, day-books, time-books, &c. The compositor in setting them up does not generally use a stick, but picks up the words in his fingers, and lays them along the bottom ridge of a long galley, to Avhich he affixes the slieet, and spaces out the words so as to fall into their proper positions. The pressman, in working headings, lays his sheet to needles, placed in the tympan, so as to point to a particular line; for in ruling, some sheets maybe a trifle out in the margin, although the lines will be exact; and by laying to the same line at each impression, the headings are sure to fall right. It is now the general custom to print headings at machine, but although tolerably correct, they are bound to vary with the ruling.